Motor Voters do a "drive by" on Elections

Just when I thought that my headache would subside, I read "How to steal an Election" and I just had to open a new MS Word document and start pounding the keys. This topic has been reverberating off of the inside of my skull for the past ten plus years and I finally have a forum and the energy to take it on, so here goes.

The “Right to Vote” in these here United States of America has radically changed, mostly for the better, since the ratification of our Constitution. In addition to the original white male landowners, the voter rolls now legally include black men, women of all color, and with few exceptions any other legal citizen of the United States who is not currently in jail or is a convicted felon.

As a formality, the officials what be do require that you register to vote in the county or parish in which your normal, full time residence (read that also to mean your abode, your apartment, your place, your crib, your teepee, your hovel, your cabin, your shack, your hut, your home, your condo, your mansion et.al.) might be located. I’m not quite sure what you do if you live on a boat on the ocean, in a motor home, or in some other form of mobile home that hasn’t been recently destroyed or relocated by a tornado. (In Georgia, seeAbsentee Ballot)

In 1993, during the first full distinguished year of the Clinton administration, before the Republican uprising/Newt Gingrich congressional takeover, the congress passed
The National Voter Registration Act (the Motor Voter Act) which was supposed to substantially improve the ability of minorities and people with disabilities to attain voter registration. Like most laws, it sounded good on paper and in the news headlines—hurray for justice and the American way.

Here is what really happened. The new law made it a requirement that the individual States allow you to register to vote when applying for a state issued driver’s license. Sounds good to me--the burden of proof is fairly high during that process.

Further voter registration must be provided:

“to each applicant for services, service renewal or address change through all offices that provide public assistance and all offices that provide state-funded programs primarily engaged in providing services to persons with disabilities; applicants must be provided with a voter registration form, a declination form, assistance in completing the forms and forwarding the completed applications to the appropriate state official) (42 U.S.C. 1973gg-5)”

For those challenged in the interpretation of legalese, this paragraph basically means that when you sign up for social security benefits, public housing, welfare, WIC, or disability payments, that you can also register to vote (in an obvious effort to increase your benefits and/or keep them coming for eternity.)

Finally, the states were also required to develop a standardized form which could be submitted by mail. Can you say RED FLAG?

My immediate response to this legislation ten years ago was that voter registration was going to end up working something like those annoying car dealer TV/Radio sales ads…

”TUESDAY…TUESDAY…TUESDAY…Come one, Come all, come on down and register NOW (excuse the unintended pun, all of you feminists) to exercise your right to V-O-T-E. No I.D., no documentation, no credit, no problem…All applications will be accepted…Hey mom, we got free pony rides and free hot dogs. Y’all bring grandma and the children; trade in that fake green card for a US voter registration card…Hable usted de espanola.”

I have had a driver’s license for the past 29 years and I haven’t applied for any of the government support programs like welfare, disability, or unemployment, but I did recently have occasion to change my voter registration from Cobb County Georgia to Glynn County Georgia—by mail.

My experience began by coming in contact with a somewhat surly senior citizen at the local public library here on the island. I forgot that I had other registration options and besides, you used to have to go to the library in person to register. He (the senior citizen) grumpily handed me two registration forms, basically treating me like I had spent the past hour naked, talking loudly, and viewing pornography web sites on the public internet terminal.

I took the forms home and found that my own registration task simply required writing in the address of my past and present residences and the addition of a $.37 stamp to the integral envelope--I was in business in five minutes. My significant other’s form required a copy of her drivers license in addition to the afore mentioned data since she hadn’t been registered in the State of Georgia previously. Still, it was too easy. I somehow favor showing up and filing such an important document in person as a form of validation, even if the attendant has the personality of a prison guard.

It’s this idea of signing up people at the public assistance offices that bothers me the most. Yes, I want people to be able to exercise their right to vote. No, I don’t want to go out dragging the rivers and streams for every form of blood sucking lowlife that doesn’t have the desire and faculties to get off of their rear end and actively seek the registration process as I just did. Isn’t it just a little too covenant to hand out voter registration forms at the welfare office? I’m fairly certain that you would get an entirely different population of voters if you handed out voter registration forms at the IRS audit office.

Further, what is the burden of proof of residence and citizenship that is being applied at these offices? It seems to me that the public assistance funds are pouring through the government offices in a flood toward non-residents and non-citizens. See what happened to the city of Lewiston, Maine? The opportunity for fraud and abuse is a bit too available here to make me real comfortable with the quality of the results.

While Mr. sKerry and the Democrats are busy playing the “Race Card,” talking about disenfranchising black and other minority voters, I just wonder how many other illegal voters have been energised, empowered, enfranchised, enlisted, employed, or are otherwise enacting a silent war on the most valuable of our rights as American Citizens?

Think about it on November 2nd...