Voting Rights

SCOTUS eliminated the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (which was a 1965 response to state laws at the time that restricted voting and made it harder for minorities to vote).

Since the SCOTUS decision, many red states have returned to passing laws that have made it harder for certain people to vote than they have enjoyed in the past.

This year, 17 such states have passed 22 more such restrictions, with 61 more currently moving through state legislatures. Much of it was in response to Trump’s claims of election fraud and its failure to gain traction in recounts and court filings.

The DNC-led House passed a massive voting reform bill, called the For the People Act, that outlaws many of these restrictions, expands voting access, puts in automatic voter registration, outlaws gerrymandering, and enacts campaign finance reform.

49 Senators also backed this bill, all Democrats. Joe Manchin was the lone Democrat who did not.

However, Manchin proposed a slimmed down version that eventually gained the backing of all 50 Democrats.

The Manchin bill was blocked with a Republican filibuster this week.

Calls for the elimination of the filibuster, which requires 50 votes, have intensified as a result, but Manchin and Krysten Sinema, another Democrat, have both gone on record against that solution.

Now what?

In my opinion they ought to have some type of limits on voting. So the people who are eligible to vote include actual citizens of that country or state or town. In other words it’s unethical for a person to travel from another country state or town to participate in an election that is not geared towards that person.


They should be alive. It is unethical to take an absentee ballot from dead grandmother and fill it out on her behalf and turn it in to be counted in an election.


They should be allowed to vote only one time for that election. It is unethical for a person to revisit a voting area and re-cast a ballot to load the ballots.

What's the fun in that?

Around here we have "Booth Crawl" contests.
We start at 7:30am, chug a beer, vote, and move on to the next district - chug a beer, vote and so on until the last man standing!

I'm usually out by about Noon and around 8 or 9 votes. Some die-hards have made it until the polls close - but then they are pretty far away from home.

Unethical.

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in st. louis over years, people are dead, other people, will go to cermenarties copy dozen of headstone names to vote. in the last election, people trying to vote twice with the regular ballot and asbtee vote at the same time and place. voting regulation should be enfore, some should be questable, either consider or not.

if this so called bill can control lazy people to vote right, giving voting phot id and resigeration in the right way. this some way can control mintories from cheating way to vote. i could go a long with it.

people get off the butts, calling vote registriction or walk in to the vote place or a library to sign up. what the big deal, beside be lazy.