Government Overreach In Florida

[icenine]

How come when it is a Republican none of the right wingers get upset? Imagine if this was a Democrat governor targeting GOP voters. To be honest,
whether you are a Republican or a Democrat what is going on in Florida is sickening. Oh yeah I guess if you collect voter registration forms and do not deliver them to the appropriate office within 48 hours it is a felony charge.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/naked...ter-purge.html

Yeah all the crap about fraud, etc, just a bunch of baloney. I guess some senior citizens, veterans of World War II, are SOL even thought they fought for our nation.

Voter registration is so hard in Florida now that the League of Women Voters will not try to operate there. I guess if it is done at the State level governmental overreach is fine. States have rights right? Of course back in college my liberal American History professor would say states don't have rights only people do.

[bobabode]

The governor of Florida has the Bush / Gore election in mind doing this.
This time we should turn Holder loose on this POS state. I read that when the present governor ordered his purge of the voter rolls his secretary of state resigned along with a good portion of his staff.

Global warming can't come soon enough for this wretched state. I hope the Army Corps of Engineers is pulled out of the state of Florida entirely. Then tasked to build a fence across their entire northern border. I hear Cuba will accept refugees as long as they swim there.

[piece-itpete]

You mean, most illegal aliens are foreigners? The racist horror! Agreed though they should follow law.

Have you ever suggested to your professor he might want to read our founding document?

Pete

[icenine]

My professor (if he is still alive) was an ex-Marine who taught both Civil War and Military History at college quite near you. A Korean War era veteran most likely.

[piece-itpete]

I of course respect that, but if people have rights, isn't one of them the ability to draw binding contracts?

Btw, it shows liberal bias in higher education :elbowrib:

Pete

[icenine]

I do not get your point...arbitrarily dislodging citizens from voting rosters based on perhaps erroneous databanks (in a not too transparent effort at enhancing the Tea Party/GOP vote) does not seem like a legal contract to me.

With the exception of people espousing gun rights, most advocates of state rights are individuals usually trying to take a way the rights of a minority faction within a state, the example of Jim Crow being probably being the best to illustrate my point. That is why we have the 14th amendment plus why our system of government is a federal one with many layers of shared power....an effort to prevent the tyranny of the majority over minorities.

There are many conservative professors by the way.

[whell]

Let's take first thing first. Does it not bother anyone that non-citizens somehow ended up classified as eligible voters in the first place? And, is your position that those ineligible voters, if purged, would have been solid Democrat votes? Hmmm..... How could that be?

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I of course respect that, but if people have rights, isn't one of them the ability to draw binding contracts?

Btw, it shows liberal bias in higher education :elbowrib:

Pete

Yeah but that's because we can't find many conservatives in higher education.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by whell

Let's take first thing first. Does it not bother anyone that non-citizens somehow ended up classified as eligible voters in the first place? And, is your position that those ineligible voters, if purged, would have been solid Democrat votes? Hmmm..... How could that be?

It's crap that FL is doing this. That said, this is democracy for you. Always has been.

Weather it be Kennedy's dad sending bags of cash down south to buy an election or a brother "fixing" a state to decide an election that is our great democracy that we are constantly trying to export.

[barbara]

there are municipalities in the united states that allow non citizens that are here legally to vote, justified by the fact that they share the social burdens so they should have a say in the politics behind them.
Not that I'm advocating for that....just saying...........