Politics Thread

[Strange Brew]

CBS Rathered another story over the weekend....

[paulxu]

After how many missed elections do you remove them?


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I don't know. Maybe you try and contact them.
If you were a soldier on many rotations through the Middle East and missed elections, why remove him?
Is it really hurting anything to leave then on? Or just to make it harder on election day when they show up to vote and find out they've been removed.
We have a right to vote. Why make it harder; let's make it easier.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

Just because a bunch of loud mouth fake outrage lefties and their celebrity friends give a hoot when they don’t even know what the legislation actually does outside of what old joe lies about, doesn’t mean most care or that it’s an actual problem. It’s just something for you to point to, and say republicans are bad and the devil.

It is so insanely easy to vote and there are multiple ways to do it, again as I said before this is a complete nothing burger.

I post regularly on a KU board. They have some Atl residents who are livid that their access to drop boxes will shrink. If this is a "nothing burger" just like you state, why go through the process of writing/passing the legislation at all?

[Xville]

I post regularly on a KU board. They have some Atl residents who are livid that their access to drop boxes will shrink. If this is a "nothing burger" just like you state, why go through the process of writing/passing the legislation at all?

I don’t think I need to explain how politics work, but I guess I will. Most politicians all they care about is getting re-elected or doing something to get to a different level of government. In general, bth sides suck, both sides lie their asses off, and they do/say things to just rile their bases up. The left and right don’t have a monopoly on that.

[Strange Brew]

I don't know. Maybe you try and contact them.
If you were a soldier on many rotations through the Middle East and missed elections, why remove him?
Is it really hurting anything to leave then on? Or just to make it harder on election day when they show up to vote and find out they've been removed.
We have a right to vote. Why make it harder; let's make it easier.

Technically you don’t have a right to vote by the Federal gov’t.

[STL_XUfan]

Technically you don’t have a right to vote by the Federal gov’t.

I’m not sure what technicality you are pulling at, but multiple amendments to the constitution guarantee that states cannot deny the right to vote.

[xu82]

Why on earth are we handing out TRILLIONS of dollars to people who don’t need it? Or didn’t even ASK for it??? My son and his wife got their checks. He put his towards his MBA tuition. That’s nice, but he had ZERO reason for getting a check. He recently took a new job and has never made so much money, and she’s doing just fine as well. My tennis buddy no longer makes his mortgage payments because they told him he doesn’t have to. They will add it to the back of the loan interest free, he tells me. Nothing has changed in his situation, he’s just fine, I promise.

If I want to hand my son $1,200 or $1,400 I’d like to do it directly and hear a “thank you” from him. Our taxes are going to be raised to give money to people who don’t actually need it for any real reason, but handing out money gets votes. It’s handout city out there. I’m socially liberal (you stay out of my business, I’ll stay out of yours). I’m fiscally conservative (you stay out of my pocket, I’ll stay out of yours). We are out of control with handouts.


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[Strange Brew]

I’m not sure what technicality you are pulling at, but multiple amendments to the constitution guarantee that states cannot deny the right to vote.

If the states offer the right in Federal elections they can’t discriminate. The States give you the right and how.

[bjf123]

I don't know. Maybe you try and contact them.
If you were a soldier on many rotations through the Middle East and missed elections, why remove him?
Is it really hurting anything to leave then on? Or just to make it harder on election day when they show up to vote and find out they've been removed.
We have a right to vote. Why make it harder; let's make it easier.

That’s how it works in Ohio. If you don’t vote in something like 6 straight elections, they mail something to your address on file telling you they’ll remove your name from the rolls unless your respond back. If you do reply, you stay on the list. Seems like a decent system.


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[D-West & PO-Z]

Why on earth are we handing out TRILLIONS of dollars to people who don’t need it? Or didn’t even ASK for it??? My son and his wife got their checks. He put his towards his MBA tuition. That’s nice, but he had ZERO reason for getting a check. He recently took a new job and has never made so much money, and she’s doing just fine as well. My tennis buddy no longer makes his mortgage payments because they told him he doesn’t have to. They will add it to the back of the loan interest free, he tells me. Nothing has changed in his situation, he’s just fine, I promise.

If I want to hand my son $1,200 or $1,400 I’d like to do it directly and hear a “thank you” from him. Our taxes are going to be raised to give money to people who don’t actually need it for any real reason, but handing out money gets votes. It’s handout city out there. I’m socially liberal (you stay out of my business, I’ll stay out of yours). I’m fiscally conservative (you stay out of my pocket, I’ll stay out of yours). We are out of control with handouts.


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Yeah this I can agree with. My wife and I got $8,400 for us and our 4 kids. We have no need for that money. I mean it's nice, it will go towards our kids' 529 plans and maybe new gutters that we need, but yeah we had no need for a check of any amount.

I think part of the reason we even qualified for the full amount was because my wife's practice shut down for a couple months during COVID.