As one of those bleeding heart liberals that you’ve heard tell about—-the type who buys into the whole global warming thing and wants to allow illegal aliens to overrun the borders so they can falsely vote for that un-American Muslim terrorist Obama—-I’ve found the GOP’s recent drive to protect the sacred voting system to be quite interesting. Why? Because it’s yet another example of just where their priorities are.
It’s worth noting that back in 1790, only white male property owners were able to vote. In 1855 and 1857, Connecticut and Massachusetts implemented literacy requirements for voting. On the surface, not an unreasonable notion: you should be able to read the name of whom you’re voting for. But the main reason was to limit the participation of Irish-Catholic immigrants. In 1890, Mississippi did the same thing in order to counter the voting rights of black slaves given the vote by the 15th Amendment. Since then (and until recently) there has been a relentless drive to widen, not narrow, the right to vote, culminating in a ban on literacy tests in 1975 from the Supreme Court, with Justice Hugo Black citing “the long history of the discriminatory use of literacy tests to disenfranchise voters on account of their race.” (The foregoing information courtesy of infoplease.com).
Yet interestingly there isn’t anything specific in the Constitution that actually guarantees a right to vote. Reasons as to why certain people can’t or at least shouldn’t be discriminated against, yes, but nothing that says flat out, “People have a right to vote.” It’s not enumerated as such. Instead that’s left in the respective hands of the states.
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