{"id":5459,"date":"2010-01-18T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2010-01-18T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:10:44","slug":"universal-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"Universal Voter Registration&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of freedom?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/democrats-plan-for-election-2010-cheat\/\">http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/democrats-plan-for-election-2010-cheat\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couragetosee.com\/?p=823\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">universal voter registration bill<\/span><\/a>. This bill would be a federal mandate that gives the federal government power over the state governments\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 election processes. <a href=\"http:\/\/conversations.blackvoices.com\/top-news\/4f0620e551114a3da130c144bc705f43\/can-falsified-registrations-become-votes\/ec8dc6a6c0784873841a0a5bfc9df133?sn=0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">According to John Fund<\/span><\/a> of the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The feds will tell the states: Take everyone on every list of welfare recipients, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, all driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s license holders, and register them to vote, regardless of whether they want to be.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Proponents of this bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/schumer.senate.gov\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chuck Schumer<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/frank\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Barney Frank<\/span><\/a>, are not at all concerned with the felons or illegals on these lists, or the duplicate voter registrations that will be created for those on several lists&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Much of what the universal voter registration bill will contain has been outlined in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/content\/resource\/universal_voter_registration_draft_summary\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Brennan Center for Justice\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/page\/-\/publications\/VRM.Proposal.2008.pdf\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Voter Registration Modernization Policy Summary<\/span><\/em><\/a>. This summary calls for states to be required to enact <em>permanent<\/em> statewide voter registration. The center suggests a federal voter registration modernization act where, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153once a voter is on the rolls, she would be permanently registered within the state and able to vote without re-registering even if she moved within the state or changed her name.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Unnoted in the summary is that such a system would crown married women the lucky winners of two votes each per election&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {=-{&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of freedom? http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/democrats-plan-for-election-2010-cheat\/ &#8220;&#8230;universal voter registration bill. This bill would be a federal mandate that gives the federal government power over the state governments\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 election processes. According to John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The feds will tell the states: Take everyone on every list of welfare recipients, take everyone on every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}