JUSTIFICATION
One always knows, when one of our elected representatives sends out reports to their constituents justifying their latest vote in congress, that what they have done is somewhat suspect. In this case Representative Ms. Miller-Meeks has acted to "safeguard" our elections. Now we are to prove we are a citizen to be able to vote.
To my understanding, there has never been an allegation anywhere within the United States that any election has ever been decided by non-citizens voting. If some such allegations exist, I would appreciate someone enlightening me. Otherwise, my doubt of it ever happening will continue.
This new statute, which our representative lauds, is called the SAVE ACT and it will apparently decrease the "vulnerability" of the "integrity" of our elections and increase our "trust" in their results. I, for one, never did not trust our elections. It never occurred to me that hordes of Hondurans were deciding who our congress people are or who the president of the United States will be. I'll have to bone up on current events; maybe Fox can enlighten me further.
It seems to me that anyone who is affected by our elections should be able to vote in them - - seems only fair. For instance, if one candidate wants to eject all non-citizens from the country and one candidate wants to welcome non-citizens as people who might actually benefit our economy such as roofing our houses, cutting up hogs in a meat packing plant, or otherwise doing jobs most Americans don't want, they should be able to vote too. After all, if I am some illegal Haitian cutting your steak in some meat-packing plant in the middle of Iowa, working, paying into social security, adding to the economy of rural Iowa from where most born-Americans flee as soon as able, I should be able to vote.
Of course, once again, it's Biden's fault that we have this fictional crisis by allowing hordes of illegal immigrants to "pour into our country". You would think these "hordes" are all voting to hear Miller-Meeks exclamations of distress. We can't even get many of our own citizens to vote let alone these millions of illegal and legal immigrants. Of course, in the mind of Rep. Miller-Meeks, they are all voting democratic, not republican. Otherwise, why complain.
Which brings me to another issue, best left for another time: If the people are in charge, which is the usual understanding of a democracy, how is it that the government can decide who can vote? If a person is convicted of a felony, they can not vote and there are new felonies every year which means fewer and fewer
"citizens" can vote. So not only non-citizens are prohibited from voting, so are citizens. Apparently, if I have been convicted of a crime, the integrity of an election is imperilled if I vote.
Our current efforts have been, both state and federal, to make voting more difficult. This is not good. Voting should be easy: the day or days set aside for voting in federal elections should be federal holidays; people should be encouraged to vote, not discouraged. Contrary to Ms. Miller-Meeks declarations of concern, elections have integrity only if everyone is welcome at the polls, not persona non grata until proven otherwise. "Hey, you can't vote until you prove to me you are an American" Half the population won't either know how to do that or take the time to do it. This is not "integrity".
Richard E H Phelps II
Mingo
