A Senate Quid Pro Quo
Submitted by CarolinaDem77 on Sun, 05/21/2006 - 11:05am
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Much debate has been focused this week on the state of immigration in the United States. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives spent much of the week hammering out the finer points of this pressing issue, going as far to introduce English as a national language to the mix.
I have an idea for Democrats. Vote for the English as a national language amendment in exchange for Republican support for Same Day Voting Registration across the entire United States. Democrats have some muscle to earn support for sweeping changes to our electoral process in this debate. The English as a national language would alter the Voting Rights Act and by doing so, Democrats should insist upon making the electoral process more Democratic for all.
Couldn't we just vote to shove the
English as a national language up the hind ends of the Republicans, call them completely and utterly ignorant and be done with it? I mean...they are. I'm not sure I can wait for 2008. It needs to be done now.
Same day voting registration sounds nice, but what are the safe guards. Just had a situation in Charlotte where a Democrat helped a bunch of homeless people register to vote. They used the shelter's address and that isn't allowed. Soooo those votes were disallowed. Same day registration could potentially create a huge mess. So....what are the safeguards? I'm not challenging the idea...I just don't have time to do the research on this one.
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