On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT), f.barnes wrote:
> On Jun 10, 12:01 pm, Don Gabacho wrote:
>> [And Mexican Government functionaries allowed to go unpunished for
>> registering voters for U.S elections in, at least, Georgia?]
>>
>> Will Noncitizens Be Allowed to Vote in Georgia?
>> Written by Kurt Hyde
>> Monday, 08 June 2009 15:15
>
> Well, duhh! Who's going to stop them, and how? The illegals own the
> politicians therefore they own this country....
It's not the "illegals."
It's flesh and blood Mexican Government functionaries and that government's
proxies stateside.
> We non-Hispanic
> Americans are 2nd or 3rd class citizens in our own country.
The news which followed was the SCOTUS refusal to accept the appeal which
favors the State of Georgia.
One way or the other it must be quite a relief to Obama's administration.
Mexican Government functionaries had brazenly involved themselves with the
very registering of voters for U.S. elections a la Bill Richardson's
"Moving America Forward" "Latino Voter Registration Drives"---the
investigation(s) of which have not been made public ---for reasons unknown
considering all involved in the investigations hold public, not private,
positions of trust in U.S. government..
>> Karen Handel, Georgia secretary of stateKaren Handel, Georgia secretary of
>> state, issued a scathing press release following a decision by the U.S.
>> Department of Justice to deny preclearance for Georgia's (already
>> implemented) plan to verify the legitimacy of its voter-registration lists,
>> including verifying whether or not applicants are U.S. citizens. Because
>> Georgia, like many other southern states, must pre-clear its voting
>> procedures with the U.S. Department of Justice, denial of preclearance
>> equates to denial of permission to do it.
>>
>> Before the 2008 elections, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education
>> Fund (MALDEF) and the ACLU sued Georgia to stop the state from verifying
>> the citizenship status of people registering to vote. On October 16, 2008,
>> U.S. District Court Judge Jack Camp ruled that not only was Georgia allowed
>> to verify citizenship, but that it was required to do so to comply with the
>> Help America Vote Act.
>>
>> But Camp's decision was disregarded by the Obama Justice Department and the
>> voter verification shortcircuited through federal maneuvering. Secretary
>> Handel berated the U.S. Justice Department for opening the door to
>> fraudulent voting: "DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations
>> such as ACORN to register noncitizens to vote in Georgia's elections." She
>> also provided evidence that vote fraud was already happening. The results
>> of a mailing prior to the November 2008 general election to 4,771
>> voter-registration applicants whose records indicated they were not U.S.
>> citizens indicated that as of March 2009, 2,148 of these applicants have
>> still not resolved the question regarding their U.S. citizenship.
>>
>> And contrary to claims by the ACLU, the voter-verification process did not
>> result in citizens being unable to vote: "It is important to underscore
>> that not a single person has come forward to say he or she could not vote
>> because of the verification process."
>>
>> Secretary Handel vowed to continue the fight for verification of
>> citizenship of voter registrations. She said she will consider every
>> option available to the state including the possibility of legal action.
>>
>> If the state of Georgia does decide to pursue legal action to defend its
>> right to verify citizenship on voter-registration applications, they will
>> find support in the United States Constitution. In Article I, Section 4,
>> the Constitution says, "The times, places and manner of holding elections,
>> for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the
>> Legislature thereof, but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter
>> such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators." The
>> federal power described in this provision — to "make or alter" regulations
>> pertaining to "the times, places and manner of holding elections," was
>> clearly delegated to Congress, not to the president. (The DOJ is a
>> cabinet-level position that answers to the president.)
>>
>> Moreover, this power was to be used only in extraordinary circumstances
>> necessary to the safety of the federal government, and not in a mode of
>> prior restraint. This provision in the U.S. Constitution was troubling to
>> many people at the initial founding of our Republic. The anti-Federalists
>> (those people against ratifying the Constitution, fearing that it would
>> give the national government too much power) even proposed an amendment
>> curbing such authority unless the state in question was neglectful or was
>> disabled by invasion or rebellion (The Anti-Federalist Papers by Ralph
>> Ketchum, page 224). This proposed amendment was never passed; it was deemed
>> unnecessary because of the intent of Article I, Section 4, which was
>> explained in The Federalist Papers, notably Federalist Paper #59 authored
>> by Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton explained that this provision in the U.S.
>> Constitution "reserved to the national authority a right to interpose
>> whatever extraordinary circumstances might render that interposition
>> necessary to its safety." Hamilton added further, "Suppose an article had
>> been introduced into the Constitution empowering the United States to
>> regulate the elections for the particular States, would any man have
>> hesitated to condemn it, both as an unwarrantable transposition of power
>> and as a premeditated engine for the destruction of the State governments?"
>>
>> The 14th Amendment, which federal courts have cited to rationalize rulings
>> expanding federal powers over the states, provides: "No state shall make or
>> enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of
>> citizens of the United States." (Emphasis added.) Of course, "noncitizens"
>> are not "citizens," and the states cannot possibly "abridge the privileges
>> or immunities of citizens of the United States" by taking precautions to
>> prevent noncitizens from voting.
>>
>> The states have the right to verify voter registrations, not only as they
>> are submitted but also to verify them at any time to eliminate honest
>> mistakes as well fraud. Purging fraudulent voter registrations has played a
>> key role in American history in toppling corrupt politicians such as Boss
>> Tweed of Tammany Hall infamy. If we want to protect ourselves from corrupt
>> politicians and/or dishonest elections, we must jealously guard the right
>> of the states to verify voter registrations.
>>
>> http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/1207
>>
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