Hello Jameson, Thank you for your thoughtful response. I REALLY like "first step" actions. May I post this on aGREATER.US as its own unique policy?
Cheers Jon you wrote... << For me, the universal rule I would start from is: the right to vote and to have that vote counted if possible. This right is not explicitly enumerated in the constitution; the closest it comes is "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government". In an Luther v Borden, an 1840 case in which reformers in Rhode Island were arrested for trying to organize a state constitutional convention (!), this clause was held to be outside the purview of the courts — which puts it directly under the purview of the legislative branch. This interpretation was upheld during Reconstruction and after. Congress could therefore pass a law saying "Each citizen has a right to vote, to have that vote counted, to have the voting process be free of fraud; and that the public has a right to verify these rights are upheld. Voting rules which circumscribe one of these rights are acceptable only if they proportionally increase another of them." >> Sent from my iPhone On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Jameson Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > For me, the universal rule I would start from is: the right to vote and to > have that vote counted if possible. > > This right is not explicitly enumerated in the constitution; the closest it > comes is "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a > Republican Form of Government". In an Luther v Borden, an 1840 case in which > reformers in Rhode Island were arrested for trying to organize a state > constitutional convention (!), this clause was held to be outside the purview > of the courts — which puts it directly under the purview of the legislative > branch. This interpretation was upheld during Reconstruction and after. > > Congress could therefore pass a law saying "Each citizen has a right to vote, > to have that vote counted, to have the voting process be free of fraud; and > that the public has a right to verify these rights are upheld. Voting rules > which circumscribe one of these rights are acceptable only if they > proportionally increase another of them."
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