U.S. Senator Ben Cardin’s bill to expand voting rights in federal elections for ex-felons is described on the Senator’s web page here. The text of his bill, S2017, is still not available on the Library of Congress’s web page, but the bill is fully described at the link. The bill is co-sponsored by Senators Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).
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Edited By Richard Winger
Any Fed power over the definition of Elector ENDED when each new State became a State.
— Regardless of any SCOTUS made up piece of JUNK.
Folks should read the The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 by Max Farrand or even the less difficult 1787-1788 Federalist.
Each sovereign State would define its Electors for the largest house of its State legislature–
Same definition to be used for U.S.A. Reps. Art. I, Sec. 2 and the later 17th Amdt. for U.S.A. Senators.
This ain’t atomic physics — except to the robot party hack MORONS in SCOTUS with their party hack robot agendas.
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That being written —
Const Amdt –
Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the U.S.A. (i.e. even for Dumb City and the occupied colonies)
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Equal ballot access laws.
@ Demo Rep
Just so we’re clear, I largely agree with you. I just chuckle to myself a little bit when I read “party hack” or “moron”.
Keep fighting the good fight, friend.
The political brain cells level now is possibly even worse than in 1931-1939 with the rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito — the EVIL 3 Axis.
Lots of party hack morons in 1931-1939 esp. in Europe and the U.S.A.
NOW — about $ 18 TRILLION in U.S.A./State/local debts — i.e. in NO financial shape to do ANY thing major = TOTAL DANGER.