Serious question - should persons who prevent others from registering to vote

[malaise]

be tried for criminality?

[TexasProgresive]

1. yes, even if they are Democrats.

The right to vote is sacred.

[malaise]

8. +1,000

and all involved should be expelled from party. The right to vote is law.

[dchill]

2. Obviously.

[Orrex]

3. "prevent others from registering to vote" how?

By preventing them from registering during the legally established registration period? Or by some other means of coercion, deception, subterfuge or the like?

If the latter, then yes. If the former, no.

[malaise]

5. One scenario - elected persons change laws to limit registration of any group

to prevent them from voting - is that a crime?

It should be

[SickOfTheOnePct]

7. If they actually change the law

then by definition it's not a crime.

Doesn't make it right though.

Has this happened somewhere in the U.S., or is this just rhetorical?

[malaise]

9. Their law should never trump the constitutional right to vote

Their law is about their right to win not the right to vote guaranteed to citizens.

The Judicial Branch has been abysmal.

[Orrex]

11. Out of curiosity...

Is the right to vote in a particular party's primary guaranteed to citizens? Or are the parties permitted to establish rules for their own primaries?

Certainly no one of voting age should be excluded from the general election, but I don't see why I should get to vote in a closed Republican primary, for instance, without registering as a Republican (or without having a lobotomy).

[malaise]

14. Good point re primaries

My post was really about local. state and federal elections but you raise a valid point. The parties should have strict rules that are actually enforced and not encouraged by 'interests' within and without.

[Orrex]

15. I agree with all of that.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

12. Has this actually happened somewhere? n/t

[meow2u3]

4. Absolutely

Preventing citizens from registering to vote is election fraud, plain and simple. And that also goes for voter suppression legislative acts.

[malaise]

6. That's my view as well

[Stuart G]

10. I agree too...nt

[Maedhros]

13. Not at all!

All those people trying to register as Democrats are just trying to steal our precious bodily fluids.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

16. I'm still trying to figure out

what group of people have been prevented from registering to vote.

Anyone?