The Vote
The assertion that the citizens’ right to vote to determine the leadership policies of their Nation is the definitional dynamic and exists as the existential hallmark of a democracy, requires little in the way of argument. As it happens, the United States election procedures are elucidated in Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Historically, the 18th Amendment justly awarded the right to vote to African Americans (1870), and the 19th finally, to Women (1920), extending the franchise to all citizens of legal age.
It would appear that the Constitution assigns primary responsibility for the administration of federal elections to the States, with specific oversight, reserved to the Federal Government.
Unfortunately, in recent years, it appears that States have put, various and sundry barriers at the ballot box. The media reports the State’s imposition of strict voter ID laws, its tactical limitation of voting times, restrictive registration, purging of voter rolls, and the imposition of unreasonable burdens on racial minorities the poor, and elderly citizens. Additionally, it appears that certain State Legislatures have pushed to restrict voting and undermine faith in the electoral process. As we can perceive, the geographical divide of past years, relative to universal equality, seems to disappointingly, endure, with some states attempting to provide more liberal voting legislation, while the (predictable) others persist in their policies of restriction.
Thus, after much consideration, we would take the liberty to suggest certain critically needed alterations to the process of the American voting system to ensure its fairness and efficacy.
Given the contemporary, plethora of instances of voter interference, claims of election fraud, and election rigging, we would suggest that new legislation be proposed, providing that, regarding all federal elections, hereafter conducted, voter registration be pursuant to Federal law and under Federal oversight. The same would, appropriately and constitutionally, ensure Constitutional propriety by providing, one, uniform, standard, and egalitarian system of voting and, as well, the spurious claims, relative to the counting of votes. It would tend to avoid the conspiracy claims of voter fraud as well as actual instances of the same. One just and ubiquitous procedure of voting and logistics of vote counting, would reliably, tend to be fair and be recognized as such.
The citizen (redux)
We have, in prior writings, strongly urged the existential importance of the responsible vetting, by an appropriately, selected body, of any and all aspirants seeking nomination to run for the Presidency of the United States; so that we may avoid the cataclysmic, experience enjoyed by the Nation, under the former President. In support of the basic necessity and pragmatism of the same, we have emphatically and ironically, observed, that it is mandatory and normal practice to thoroughly interview applicants, perforce, for mundane, unskilled, entry employment.
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