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Election Reform

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Stevepol

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Sun Nov 8, 2015, 07:12 AM Nov 2015

CLEARLY NON-CITIZENS SHOULD NOT VOTE [View all]

but the burden has to be on the state to prove that the person IS NOT a citizen. If the person has a local address, membership in any civic org, etc., etc., etc. ANY OF THESE or multiple IDs can be given IF NECESSARY as proof of citizenship. But they should be assumed to be citizens unless there is GOOD REASON TO SUSPECT OTHERWISE.

If a non-citizen is found to have voted, knowing that it was illegal to do so, he or she should be punished with jail time.

But if a politician or state official PREVENTS even one citizen from voting that he knew or should have known was qualified to vote, that politician or state official SHOULD RECEIVE A JAIL TERM AS WELL and the amount of jail time should be in accord with how many legal voters he actually prevented from voting. Some time in the slammer would do wonders for their patriotism and their commitment to democracy. A lifetime in jail for the likes of Kris Kobach of KS does not seem to me to be an unreasonable sentence. If anything deserves a mandatory minimum it's preventing legal voters from voting.

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