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Constitutional Amendment Making Voting A Right

Would you support a voting rights amendment?


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I think we should go back to having our state delegates pick the President
 
Don't see the need, it is already strongly implied in existing Cons't and Amendments.
 
One problem - while you are correct that the Bill of Rights exists as a document that tells government what they cannot do as opposed to what people can do, voting is a government institution, which means that it's not applicable to infinite privilege. If you believe that voting is a right that "cannot be infringed", then that means you endorse 5 year olds, felons, and the mentally ill owning firearms without limitation.

Parameters exist for a reason - to enforce the bare minimums of security.


if you had bothered to check other posts I made, and you are under no compunction to do so, you would have read I'm AGAINST felons regaining the right to vote.

And congress is not restrained from infringing on voter rights. :)
 
if you had bothered to check other posts I made, and you are under no compunction to do so, you would have read I'm AGAINST felons regaining the right to vote.

And congress is not restrained from infringing on voter rights. :)

I came into the thread late and was distracted by the Nat Pagle and ugly ass boots.
 
Can you back up that fact?

sure

William Howard Taft Lecture-University of Cincinnati Law School circa 2001 or 2002. Former NAACP counsel and far left legal scholar Pamela Karlan spoke about reenfranchising convicted felons. She noted if felons could vote, Gore would have won easily because most felons-when they can and do vote vote for Dems. Why do you think the Dem party was funding her effort to reenfranchise felons?
 
I came into the thread late and was distracted by the Nat Pagle and ugly ass boots.

The boots are coonass reboks.

White rubber shrimpers boots. :)
 
I'm in favor of bringing back corporal punishment, stocks, and public hanging!

Country club prisons don't seem to be much of a deterrent to criminals.

Cruel and unusual?

Ok, let's take a lesson from earlier epochs, and TRANSPORT criminals so they AREN"T enjoying the society they abused!
Now, where is a good remote harsh unpopulated land mass. Seems only Antarctica is left. Send them there! Dressed in a thong!

Country club prisons have created an environment where prisoners **** each other in the ass, lift weights and sell drugs. Prisoners need to be worked so hard each day that they're too tired to commit crimes in prisons.
 
If I'm in high school, you're still in diapers, jr.

Aaaand the thread has gone full retard. Time to close shop.
 
I don't think voting should be a right, I think it should be a requirement. I think anyone who isn't recorded at a polling place should be fined.
 
Voting rights are protected by five different amendments--more than any other right. I don't think that we need a sixth, so I voted No on the poll.
 
Voting rights are protected by five different amendments--more than any other right. I don't think that we need a sixth, so I voted No on the poll.

I'm genuinely curious how felony disenfranchisement can be allowed under so many amendments protecting the right to vote.
 
I don't live in Missouri. Never have, hopefully never will.
I was just supporting my claim. I don't care if you live in Somalia or Seattle.

We have more than enough people down here like you, so I'm hoping the same thing.
 
I don't think voting should be a right, I think it should be a requirement. I think anyone who isn't recorded at a polling place should be fined.

That would be a horrible idea. Its bad enough we got the politically ignorant voting, why on earth would you want more of these people voting? Forcing someone to the poll is not going to make them informed about the candidates and ballot issues.
 
I'm genuinely curious how felony disenfranchisement can be allowed under so many amendments protecting the right to vote.

The same way politicians **** all over the 2nd amendment and any other right. They use the horse **** lie its a living document nonsense to blatantly misinterpret the constitution.
 
That would be a horrible idea. Its bad enough we got the politically ignorant voting, why on earth would you want more of these people voting? Forcing someone to the poll is not going to make them informed about the candidates and ballot issues.

Agree 100%. The last thing we need is to increase the uninformed vote. I would love it if we had 100% participation if every citizen was politically informed, but I don't think that is at all realistic.
 
I don't think voting should be a right, I think it should be a requirement. I think anyone who isn't recorded at a polling place should be fined.

Are you crazy? The wealth leeching communists often garner more than 50% of the votes already. Get the rest of the crack smoking population involved and all you will hear is this giant sucking sound as they rob the people who create the wealth and make this country great and then take that money and spend it on their crack habit. You're going the wrong way. What we really need now is an authoritarian corporatocracy that knows how to protect and create wealth or we will end up like Russia did. Bankrupt and poor.
 
Agree 100%. The last thing we need is to increase the uninformed vote. I would love it if we had 100% participation if every citizen was politically informed, but I don't think that is at all realistic.

So inform them. Tell 'em what you think they need to know. Criminy, it's 'way too easy to get elected now, in a lot of cases. It doesn't really matter what colour underwear the fawning scam artist who finally gets the most votes is wearing- we can at least make the bastard work a little harder for it.
 
Are you crazy? The wealth leeching communists often garner more than 50% of the votes already. Get the rest of the crack smoking population involved and all you will hear is this giant sucking sound as they rob the people who create the wealth and make this country great and then take that money and spend it on their crack habit. You're going the wrong way. What we really need now is an authoritarian corporatocracy that knows how to protect and create wealth or we will end up like Russia did. Bankrupt and poor.

If anyone tells you they can create wealth, run, don't walk, 'till you can't hear them anymore.
And if you can't sell your version to the great unwashed, step aside for a better salesman.
 
I don't think voting should be a right, I think it should be a requirement. I think anyone who isn't recorded at a polling place should be fined.


Not as long as we have a Two Party system that suppresses the formatin of other Parties and places strigent requirements against a non-Party canidate. Also I would require some sort of voting system that would allow an order of prefrences for the top 3 prefered canidates as well as one who is not acceptable or somthing similar to determine who is the canidate with the greatest support.
 
So inform them. Tell 'em what you think they need to know.

Spoon feeding them won't work. They would have to be motivated to listen and participate in the process.

C
riminy, it's 'way too easy to get elected now, in a lot of cases.

Yes in One Party States in which one Party has control of the government. The favored canidate of that Party for an office would have a easy time getting elected. There are elections in which an office is up for grabs.

It doesn't really matter what colour underwear the fawning scam artist who finally gets the most votes is wearing- we can at least make the bastard work a little harder for it.

The attitude that ALL canidates are scam artists insted of people who have particular well thought political points of view are one of the reasons of low voter turnout. What I dislike is when they lie about their true point of view and this also lowers voter turnout.
 
I don't think voting should be a right, I think it should be a requirement. I think anyone who isn't recorded at a polling place should be fined.

Going back to this. I think that it would be acceptable provided it only applied to people who have regerstered political affiliation. This way only those who are serious about the party that they are affiliated with would regester and select their canidate. I would still require that there must exist mulitible parties though for political expression.
 
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