The US Supreme Court is making a lot of lethal legal mistakes in relation to elections, including, Citizen's United. The Supreme Court is correct, money/corporations is a citizen and the more spent the more influence is racked up to win elections.
The entire money/corporation thing is influence peddling. Corporations leverage against citizens with monies earned in profit. There is more money being spent than there is actual citizens in the USA. The entire concept is flawed and fraud. Money has no birth certificate and neither does a corporation.
If the USA is to grant corporations are people, too, then where does that leave cloning? Why not clone enough people to guarantee an election? Why not be sure corporations have enough money to guarantee an election?
This occurred in Texas. One case of one vote does not make the argument for voter ID.
June 7, 2015
By Mitch Mitchell
...Woodard, (click here) a 2011 Democratic precinct chair candidate, had admitted to having her son vote on behalf of his father on June 18, 2011. Voter fraud allegations arose after the boy’s father showed up to cast his own ballot later that same day.
Woodward was sentenced to two years of deferred adjudication probation on her initial plea, but Judge Ruben Gonzales did not make it official because of her medical issues.
Woodard was back in the courtroom Friday, when Gonzales gave her an opportunity to withdraw her guilty plea and have a jury trial, saying he had a “strong concern” that she did not admit to her crime.
Woodard then readmitted her guilt and took the probation offer....
There has to be INFLUENCE in accepting the fact one fraudulent vote threw the election. That has never occurred. What has occurred is the purging of thousands of traditionally Democratic voters in Florida in 2000.
June 10, 2014
By Brendan Nyhan
The Government Accountability Office studied
the effect that voter-ID laws have on turnout in the 17 states that
require voters to show government-issued ID at the polls. Driver's
licenses and state-issued IDs are the two most common forms of
identification, and they don't run cheap. An inexpensive driver's
license will set you back just under $15, but some states' cost almost
$60.
Sixteen of the 17 states in the study offer a free alternative to driver's licenses or state IDs for residents. But even these free IDs aren't really free: to get one, residents must prove their identity and usually have to pay to obtain a separate identification document. Getting a birth certificate, one of the most common kinds of documents applicants use, can cost as much as $25....
The United States coins itself as the quintessential authority on freedom and democracy. It is time that myth become reality.
The entire money/corporation thing is influence peddling. Corporations leverage against citizens with monies earned in profit. There is more money being spent than there is actual citizens in the USA. The entire concept is flawed and fraud. Money has no birth certificate and neither does a corporation.
If the USA is to grant corporations are people, too, then where does that leave cloning? Why not clone enough people to guarantee an election? Why not be sure corporations have enough money to guarantee an election?
This occurred in Texas. One case of one vote does not make the argument for voter ID.
June 7, 2015
By Mitch Mitchell
...Woodard, (click here) a 2011 Democratic precinct chair candidate, had admitted to having her son vote on behalf of his father on June 18, 2011. Voter fraud allegations arose after the boy’s father showed up to cast his own ballot later that same day.
Woodward was sentenced to two years of deferred adjudication probation on her initial plea, but Judge Ruben Gonzales did not make it official because of her medical issues.
Woodard was back in the courtroom Friday, when Gonzales gave her an opportunity to withdraw her guilty plea and have a jury trial, saying he had a “strong concern” that she did not admit to her crime.
Woodard then readmitted her guilt and took the probation offer....
There has to be INFLUENCE in accepting the fact one fraudulent vote threw the election. That has never occurred. What has occurred is the purging of thousands of traditionally Democratic voters in Florida in 2000.
June 10, 2014
By Brendan Nyhan
Is vote fraud common in American politics? (click here) Not according to United States
District Judge Lynn Adelman, who examined the evidence from Wisconsin
and ruled in late April
that “virtually no voter impersonation occurs” in the state and that
“no evidence suggests that voter-impersonation fraud will become a
problem at any time in the foreseeable future.”
Strikingly, however, a Marquette Law School poll
conducted in Wisconsin just a few weeks later showed that many voters
there believed voter impersonation and other kinds of vote fraud were
widespread — the likely result of a yearslong campaign
by conservative groups to raise concerns about the practice.
Thirty-nine percent of Wisconsin voters believe that vote fraud affects a
few thousand votes or more each election. One in five believe that this
level of fraud exists for each of the three types of fraud that
individuals could commit: in-person voter impersonation, submitting
absentee ballots in someone else’s name, and voting by people who are
not citizens or Wisconsin residents....
There needs to be voter registration with candidates and perhaps even copies of absentee ballots. There also has to be a fact sheet to hand out to voters that state clearly the numbers of voter fraud in the USA vs the voter schemes instituted through the pretense of Voter ID. Voters have to understand the reality of actual Voter Fraud incidents. They never impact the outcomes of an election.
By Keveh Waddell
...The cost of obtaining an ID (click here) affects voter participation, and can
disproportionately drive down turnout among African-American voters and
18-to-23-year-olds.
Sixteen of the 17 states in the study offer a free alternative to driver's licenses or state IDs for residents. But even these free IDs aren't really free: to get one, residents must prove their identity and usually have to pay to obtain a separate identification document. Getting a birth certificate, one of the most common kinds of documents applicants use, can cost as much as $25....
These costs are small to many people, but, to the working poor these costs are out of the question. The Working Poor are those that need to vote to represent their interests and bring change to legislatures. They need to vote in federal and government elections.
Additionally, there are democracies in this world whereby Election Day is a National Holiday so people can vote. The except would be essential services. Some ideas about Election Day include mandatory voting laws while others introduce this day over time appearing first at national presidential elections.
The United States coins itself as the quintessential authority on freedom and democracy. It is time that myth become reality.
