Friday, February 18, 2011

Don't Dilute My Vote!

I think that it is time to make a short list of immediate conservative demands. Of course, there are a lot of things that we would like as conservatives: a balanced budget, tight borders, repeal of birthright citizenship as it currently is interpreted, ending government unions, etc., but each of these is a big fight and some, like balanced budgets, can't (IMHO) be solved by simply passing a law since there are already laws on the books that are ignored by our lawless leaders - for these we need better elections. I propose that we make a "short list" of things that need to be fixed "right now!" which could be achieved if we organized.

The first one that I would propose (which I believe would strongly affect the other ones) is Voter Verification. In other words, prove you are who you say you are when you vote or GO HOME. My vote should be worth enough to me to cause me to bring my ID. Sure, there are fake ID's, but right now the big problem is that we have a blatantly transparent attempt to institutionalize voter fraud by prohibiting verification at the polls (especially here in California). The reform I propose would have two steps: (1) immediately go back to forcing voters to prove their identity at the polling place with a legal picture ID, and (2) a big movement to purge the voter rolls of duplicates and outright fakes, with prosecution of fraud wherever it is found.

This is crucial - no election can be considered valid when fraud is institutionalized in the system, on purpose. I believe it is self-evident that more people are being disenfranchised by ineligible and fake voters than would be "disenfranchised" by having to provide ID at the polling place. Not only are we moving further and further from this, right now in California we are seeing legislation put forward by a Democrat to make all voting in California be done by mail. At that point, I believe democracy in California will be OVER - fraud will be so rampant that there will be no more reason to even have elections (that's my opinion at least). There is no more time to do this, we must strike now!

If we bring this up as a movement, there will be the "usual suspects" running around yelling "racism" and "disenfranchisement". That is to be expected. I think, though, that this is such a self-evident issue that if the general population was asked about it (outside MSM fake-polling) that they would answer "of course we should do that - duh!". Frankly, when it comes down to it, if someone doesn't consider it worth their time to bring ID to the polls, then I don't really care if they are turned away. The time is right - what should the rallying cry be? "How much is your vote worth to you?", "One citizen, one vote!", "Don't dilute my vote!"...

What do you think? I think we need to make this a nationwide movement while there is momentum in the House of Representatives and in so many states. If the tea parties took this up as a cry, the institutional left would be swept out of the way and the 2012 elections might actually be fair. This strikes me as an achievable (and necessary) goal.

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