WANT TO IMPROVE ELECTION INTEGRITY? LOCK UP VOTE SUPPRESSORS

[Uncle Joe]

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In addition, a second set of laws should be passed. There is no dispute that in-person voter fraud (or other types of voter fraud) should be punished severely. And the penalties in these rare cases are quite harsh. Voter fraud in a federal election carries a prison sentence of up to five years and a $10,000 fine.

After all, if somebody commits a felony and gets five years in the slammer for trying to cast an illegal vote, shouldn’t the penalty for preventing a legal vote be just as harsh?

So, if you intimidate a voter, or give him/her misleading information on when and where to vote, you get up to five years. And let’s go further. If you lobby for a law that would disenfranchise voters and is later deemed illegal, you should also face five years in jail.

And finally, the same penalty should apply to state and federal lawmakers or other officials if there is evidence that they passed a law or instituted a measure that knowingly denied a certain group of people the right to vote.

https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/05/14/want-improve-election-integrity-lock-vote-suppressors/

[NotASurfer]

1. And enforce the part of Amendment XIV about voter suppression n/t

[Varaddem]

2. That's what I'm talking about!

Knowledge of one name on a caging west it’s supposed to be two years. Every voter you take off the rolls without good reason you are violating their civil rights. Two years Justice department should have a rained down on Florida in 2000.It is law they do not enforce it

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Voting rights should be held as one of most sacred rights in a democracy and not to be messed up or

taken away. There should be a national voting database, where voters register one time, and then go vote one time no matter where they live, e.g., they live in NY state, vote once, and then the national db (database) is tagged w/ vote. Then they move from NY state to Missouri, vote, and then the national db is tagged again. Etc.

States have abused the rights of voters by periodically removing them. I can understand that purges do need to happen, e.g., people do die, etc., but there needs to be a more comprehensive, more inspired voting process in place and respected.

No more purges, nothing of the like.

[YOHABLO]

4. Citizens of the U.S. that have served their time for criminal offenses, should be allowed to vote.

[Scarsdale]

6. Exactly.

If committing a crime leads to revocation of voting rights, how many in government would be allowed to vote? Look how many have been sanctioned, yet still appear on TV as "experts". A person does not lose their citizenship for a jail term. EVERY vote counts, and every citizen should have the right to vote.

[Duppers]

5. Amen.

[world wide wally]

7. We need some fucking power!

[yurbud]

8. I approve this message