It looks likes its going to wrong way: elections grow increasingly corrupt, and whatever remains of respect for politicians, the political system, and our government is gone. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
if politicians want to be taken seriously, they need to start taking election integrity seriously
we can argue about just how much democracy is even desirable in a republic where the rights of the individual are supposed to stand paramount to the whims of the demos and that most oppressive of forms of governance “tyranny of the majority,” but i suspect just about all of us can agree to a basic issue:
if we are to have democracy, counting the votes is vital and, as a subset of such, determining which votes are valid and who is allowed to cast them is critical.
if one person can simply grab 10,000 mail in ballots, fill them out by machine, and drop them in mailboxes, that’s not democracy, that’s fraud.
if people who are not US citizens are eligible to vote, that too is fraud.
this seems a pretty uncontroversial set of ideas, but the obviousness and ethics of such seem to stand increasingly in opposition to the actual black letter law.
consider arizona, whose bizarre two tier voter registration provides a poignant example.
in order to vote in state or local elections, you must submit “valid proof of citizenship” which includes several options like passports and birth certificates or an AZ driver’s license (which requires same to get it).
however, astonishingly, no such stricture applies to federal elections. you can register to vote for the house, the senate, the president by simply filling out a form (link conveniently provided) that has no verification requirements whatsoever.
it’s the electoral equivalent of a liar loan.
Pingback: democracy dies in adulterated voter rolls, by el gato malo | STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC – Additional survival tricks
You can haez more ballot with…fortified democracy!
Now with mob rule and for no extra charge anarcho-tyranny!
Yes we can!