It never ceases to amaze me how eager Democrats
appear to be in their continuing effort to subvert the one right that is so
important to the survival of our nation, that being, of course, our right to
vote. They constantly claim how it is
that those of us on the right are working to disenfranchise certain segments of
our population. But we do no such thing,
all we ask is that a person prove who it is that they say they are when showing
up to cast your vote. How is that
disenfranchising anyone? Democrats, on
the other hand, couldn’t care less who you are when showing up to, or even
about how many times you have cast your vote.
What’s most important to them is that every time you did show up you
cast your vote for a Democrat. Their
desire to reduce the importance of voting, to trivialize the entire process of
voting.
Which brings me to Keith Ellison, Muslim sympathizer
and moron extraordinaire. You see, it
was earlier this month while speaking at something called the U.S. Vote
Foundation's Voting and Elections Summit that this flaming imbecile said
"We need to make voting easier," and "I've often asked myself
why you should have to register to vote." In his remarks in the opening keynote
address, Ellison said, "Now I also think we need to make voting easier. It
should be easier. In other countries it's easier. Why should voting be so
difficult? Tuesday? Who thought that up? I mean the fact is, is that there's
wide variation in when people can vote. You can't necessarily register to vote
on Election Day. I've often asked myself why you should have to register to
vote. Why shouldn't it be automatic."
Seriously? How stupid is that?
As is the case with most Democrats, especially with ones
such as our esteemed Mr. Ellison, one who so very obviously emerged from what
can only be one of the very shallowest of gene pools imaginable, there is a
willful ignorance when it comes to the history that surrounds why it is that we
vote when we do. So since Mr. Ellison seems
not to possess the necessary motivation required to seek out the answer to his
own question, it was in my attempt to assist Mr. Ellison, while also wanting to
refresh my own memory, that I went in search of finding out why Congress, in
1845, selected the first Tuesday in November as Election Day. And I found what was a pretty terrific response
to his question at, of all places, the web site of the Federal Election
Commission.
Here's how they explain it:
".
. . For much of our history, America was a predominantly agrarian society. Law
makers therefore took into account that November was perhaps the most
convenient month for farmers and rural workers to be able to travel to the
polls. The fall harvest was over, (remember that spring was planting time and
summer was taken up with working the fields and tending the crops) but in the
majority of the nation the weather was still mild enough to permit travel over
unimproved roads.
Why
Tuesday? Since most residents of rural America had to travel a significant
distance to the county seat in order to vote, Monday was not considered
reasonable since many people would need to begin travel on Sunday. This would,
of course, have conflicted with Church services and Sunday worship.
Why
the first Tuesday after the first Monday? Lawmakers wanted to prevent election
day from falling on the first of November for two reasons. First, November 1st
is All Saints Day, a Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics. Second, most
merchants were in the habit of doing their books from the preceding month on
the 1st. Apparently, Congress was worried that the economic success or failure
of the previous month might prove an undue influence on the vote!" So there you go Mr.
Ellison.
It was also in his address that Ellison called for
"greater enfranchisement" of voters in the US. He said, "We have to protect voting
rights. We need to make voting easy as possible, and we need to fix our broken
campaign finance laws." But I would
argue that we have already carried the notion of ‘greater enfranchisement’ to
such an extreme as to have resulted in making a mockery of the entire concept of
voting. Let’s face it, we have now gotten
to the point where dead people routinely vote, we have pets and even cartoon
characters voting, as well as people who show up at multiple polling places to
cast their votes. I’m not sure how it is
that Mr. Ellison would have us make the process any easier than it already is. Instead we need to instill in people that
voting is uniquely important and not the equivalent of taking a dump.
And it was this event that also presented Mr. Ellison
with an opportunity that he was only too happy to take advantage of. He get on what has become the standard Democrat
soapbox and commenced to criticize conservatives for what he called, trying to
restrict the right to vote through voter I.D. laws. He said, "Conservatives know that the
data doesn't support the need for these restrictive laws, and I remember way
back as a Minnesota state legislator making the case that there's no voter
impersonation going on, why do we need those photo I.D. laws? Well, I was missing the point. The point was
they wanted to restrict the right to vote." On the contrary, what the vast majority of
data tell us is that with each successive election the problem of voter fraud gets
a little worse. Hence the need for voter
I.D. laws.
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