For the last 8-10 months, the U.S. Senate has been sitting on the SAVE America Act, to stop the passage of a bill that would make it safer for legal Citizens residing all across the Country to vote, and harder for others to cheat in elections. This was just the next in a series of protests by Democrats, across the Country, to make sure that our elections are not secure and “controlled” to assure election integrity. The argument is always lead by “Voting should convenient, easy and for everyone to participate”. I have to disagree and said so in an article written 2016, and I think this is more true today than then.
Originally posted February 2, 2016-
SHOULD EVERYBODY VOTE?
I was listening to my friend Herman Cain’s show (available on-line at www.wsbradio.com from 9:00 AM till Noon, Mon-Fri) on the radio the other morning and a very nice lady called in and said, “Herman, it’s critical that we get everybody off the couch and out to the polls to vote in this election this year.” This is a subject that I think we need to address. In my opinion there is a simple one-word answer to these questions, “NO!”
As we have watched the whole concept of Election Day erode away, I’m more convinced that we also watch our government drift. The whole foundation of our Republic is the democratic process. Or is it? I would contend that the true foundation of our Republic is contained in Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution- “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”
The only required elections in the Constitution are for the US House of Representatives, and following the 17th Amendment, the US Senate, and the requirement that the Electors, as members of the Electoral College, to gather every four years and appoint the President and Vice-President Nowhere else does the US National Government have ANY say in elections. Anything else that the National Government has done in intervening in the election process has been done outside of the Constitution except for saying that IF a State chooses to hold elections; they cannot discriminate against any Citizen from participating on the basis of their race or gender as long as they have achieved the age of majority. Outside of this, elections are designed to be under the exclusive dominion of the States.
Do you believe that the Founders would have approved of the national government “controlling” every operational aspect of every State’s elections? If so, don’t you think they would have specified such in the Constitution? Or, do you believe that the Founders believed that elections were a 10th Amendment issue, as they did most everything in the governance of the Citizens? As a student of our history, I believe there is abundant evidence of the latter. We The People, in the form of our States, need to tell the National Government to “Butt Out” in the set-up and operations of our elections, period.
Does anybody believe that the Founders would agree that politicians should be able to use government largess to buy votes? I believe this again should be a State’s decision. Since the Founders never believed that the National Government was to be a vessel of charity through the confiscation and distribution of Citizens’ assets, I can’t believe they would abide this. If those in a State chose to allow their STATE Government to confiscate and redistribute the assets of themselves and their fellow Citizens, who live in that State, so be it. But understand that every Citizen has the unrestricted right to move to another State. I believe this would “self-correct” this situation pretty quickly. Shouldn’t a State also preclude anyone whose only financial subsistence is through government largesse from voting? I would say a loud “YES!”
Does anybody really believe that our Founders thought that elections would have become what they have today? I cannot believe that our Founders would have believed most of what the government, and the Citizens, designed by their Divinely-Inspired Constitution has evolved into today. They would look at how the National Government has encroached on the States and be startled, and deeply saddened. And the fact we have lost control of the main implement they gave US to correct the Republic when it ran off its track, the ballot box, would, I’m sure, cause them to be repulsed.
Getting back to the original question, “Should everybody vote?” I’ll stand by “NO!”
