President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters, a move that is sure to draw legal challenges as the president continues to demand further restrictions on voting ahead of this year's midterm elections.
Snowden released the information showing that the government was logging everyone’s text messages and logging the phone numbers everyone called. Then it was revealed that the government already has a profile that connects each person to their facebook, their phone number, their email- they know who everyone is. I guess this is really about ALLOWING people to be citizens and ALLOWING people to vote. It gives them control to create their own definitions and rules.
It also means that you, as a voter, have zero LOCAL recourse to get yourself added back on to the allowed list, should you have been kicked off it. And that is by design.
In most (all? I don’t know) states, if there is any problem with your registration or ID at the polling place you are allowed to submit a provisional ballot, which is then counted after the problem is resolved, or discarded if it is not.
But with a federal – physically controlled in Washington, DC – list of allowed voters they can kick whoever they want off the voter rolls, whenever they want, for any reason they want or even no reason at all, and have that be the final word.
EVERYONE is on the disallowed voter list until and unless specifically added, by unnamed operators, in some completely opaque process, answerable to either no one at all, or just to some rubber-stamping kangaroo court in DC.
By contrast, the framers of the Constitution very specifically and deliberately left all election matters to the states, because they never wanted that concentration of power in the federal. Coming out of a very out of touch and physically distant monarchy they wanted people to never be too far from the mechanics of their own elections, so they very carefully wrote it the way they did.
And here we are.
They royaly fucked up by creating the EC and not including votes of no confidence.
Although maybe they intended for the people to forcibly remove bad presidents.
They did intend the people to have both the right and the power to forcibly remove bad presidents: it’s been written into Article I since the beginning.
My personal take is that the framers of the Constitution never expected Congress to legislate themselves out of power, which is why many of the checks on executive power lie in their hands. But that is exactly what they’ve done.
I don’t think these majority Face Eating Party members have actually considered the fact that they’ve fucked themselves as much as they’ve fucked anyone else. But they’ll figure it out too, once they realize a king can appoint his own Congress: he doesn’t actually need them anymore either.
By people I meant the general population, not elected representatives.