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ProfessionalLeftist

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14. It's beyond time
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 09:03 AM
Sep 2012

It is BEYOND time for federal laws that protect the national vote. Election law should be FEDERAL, not given to states to do as they please.

Ballots should be STANDARDIZED nationwide and PAPER.

Election Day should be a required PAID HOLIDAY across the nation.

Citizens should be compelled to vote lest they lose their citizenship (with mail-in and excuses allowed for illness, physical disability, other hardship).

NO OTHER LOCAL ELECTIONS or REFERENDUMS should be on the ballot in any General Election ie: for President and VP. Presidential elections should be for President and VP ONLY. Nothing and no one else. The Ballots should come from Washington to the states and be ONE page, standard format all across the country.

All the states and localities should be tasked with doing is COUNTING the ballots - BY HAND and in public with witnesses. Ballot counters may not be affiliated with any party, they may not vote and they may not display any partiality whatsoever with or monetarily contribute to any political party. Rules of the job.

ANYONE caught trying to keep anyone else from voting in any way should be charged with a FELONY and imprisoned.

Citizens United MUST be overturned.

The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution MUST be ratified (otherwise women's human rights will continue to be battered and stolen in elections) - they must be UNTOUCHABLE as any other rights ie: First or Second Amendments.

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