The popularity of politicians is at an all time low. The polls also show the majority of the legislation congress is passing doesn’t have the approval of the voters. We know the people in congress require our votes to be reelected, so why would they be taking the politically suicidal path of passing laws that we don’t want? Could it be they have discovered a way to be reelected to office even if their favorability ratings are abysmal? It would appear that is the case.

Senator Shummer and Representative Barney Frank have proposed that “Universal Voter Registration” be enacted into law nationwide. With the passage of this legislation, “State voter laws” would be swept away and replaced with these new “Federal voter laws”. Under the guise of giving everyone the right to vote, Shummer and Frank would introduce a voter registration system that would be fraught with opportunities for fraud. The new system would require individual states to submit various lists, including: welfare recipients, the unemployed, property owners, driver’s license holders, convicted felons, and others. These lists would be used to automatically register them to vote, whether they wanted to be registered or not. To the democrats this would be a dream come true! No longer would some of their biggest supporters be hindered from voting. Under the new mandate “illegal residents” who hold a driver’s license would automatically become registered voters. People whose names that would appear on more than one of these lists could potentially vote more than once.

This new law is so flawed it would make a sham of our entire electoral process. There will be no way to verify if someone is voting more than once or if they are legal citizens. The federal government needs to leave election laws to the states. It is imperative the states have the right to validate a voter’s credentials. If you truly want reform and accountability in our elections, maybe it is time we institute a “political literacy test” to verify if people actually know the candidates and the issues, rather than have voters who are nothing more than pawns for the progressive democrats and their fraudulent schemes.

If you want fair elections call your elected members of Congress and tell them to vote against this legislation and when you go to the polls this August and November vote for people who will protect your rights.

(Submitted for publication to the Dewitt/Bath Review & The Clinton County News, The St. Johns/DeWitt Informer, The Laingsburg Independent, The Owosso Independent, & The Perry Independent on June 12, 2010 )

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