Absentee Voting Lawsuit

[togor]

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/04/29/voters-sue-in-san-antonio-court-to-overturn-age-restrictions-for-mail-in-ballots

It turns out some states put an age restriction on absentee voting, including Texas. Seems like an obvious call given the text of the 26th Amendment:

The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

As one might expect, Republicans are fighting it, because only old people should vote....absentee...and then only if Republican.

[rayg]

ZZZZZZ

[togor]

Thanks for the "like", Ray!

We'll see where this one goes. Not every day we get the plain text of a Constitutional Amendment front and center in a court case. If the document still means anything, this will be a good measure.

[rayg]

What! did you say some thing,,Sorry I was sleeping...Lol

[dogtag]

I doubt 18 year olds could read the ballot, but putting an X somewhere, they might manage that..
If they have to sign that'll make two Xs

[Major Tom]

I doubt 18 year olds could read the ballot, but putting an X somewhere, they might manage that..
If they have to sign that'll make two Xs

Especially the 18 year old democrats!

[lyman]

I doubt 18 year olds could read the ballot, but putting an X somewhere, they might manage that..
If they have to sign that'll make two Xs

is there a phone app for that?

[RED]

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/...ail-in-ballots

It turns out some states put an age restriction on absentee voting, including Texas. Seems like an obvious call given the text of the 26th Amendment:



As one might expect, Republicans are fighting it, because only old people should vote....absentee...and then only if Republican.

The 26th is an out right joke and a scam perpetrated by the Democrats to make the voting rights law they passed in 1970, constitutional. The Democrats felt sorry for themselves because they were drafting 18 year olds that couldn't vote and sending them off to die in Vietnam. So to make things right the 1970 act, then the 26th Amendment, was adopted. It was OK that the 18 years olds to be drafted and go to war in WWI, WWII, and Korea. The Voting rights act of 1970 was unconstitutional and therefore the Amendment was required. The Republicans knew that if they voted against it, it would pass regardless and they would never get another 18-21 year old vote.

To top it off the Democrats also ended the draft, making the Amendment pointless while assuring them the young voters support in perpetuity.

[togor]

Say what you will Red, the 26th Amendment is on the books, and the meaning is pretty plain. So if judges choose to find some absurdly twisted reasoning whereby letting seniors vote absentee but not young/middle aged people is not an age-based abridgement, then I would say: the Constitution is a sham. Any judge can make any part of it read however they want.

Now I know some feel that too much of this has happened already, and I agree. And plain language interpretation is supposed to be our last best ticket out of the woods. Let's hope.

[barretcreek]

The question about absentee ballots is are they for people who have a legitimate inability to vote in person or are the ballots for people's convenience and where is the line?

Hard to vote from an offshore rig or some country which considers copper wiring as a unit of currency.

[togor]

The question about absentee ballots is are they for people who have a legitimate inability to vote in person or are the ballots for people's convenience and where is the line?

Hard to vote from an offshore rig or some country which considers copper wiring as a unit of currency.

Or voting in a pandemic where shuttling people past elderly poll workers, in and out of small voting booths, standing indoors in packed lines, etc. is generally perceived as a health risk.

It should be noted that in the recent Wisconsin case (their 4/7 primary, which the governor wanted to modify to limit exposure risks, including greater use of absentee balloting), the judges who shot down the governor's proposal all met electronically, and had all voted absentee.

The 26th Amendment isn't about absentee balloting specifically. Consequently states can regulate who votes absentee or not, so long as they're not doing it by age.

[bruce]

If life can be defined according to convenience or inconvenience, i.e., abortion is legal w/o any restrictions ... all based on the twisted tortured logic of five SC justices who invent the right to abort as grounded in the right of privacy ... then it is entirely logical, reasonable, rational, understandable and laudable that absentee voting should be restricted based on age, ... or any other basis. After all, it would merely be following the same procedure applied by an earlier court when the right to kill was legalized as long as the victim was an innocent baby. Sincerely. bruce.