“We make it easy to own a firearm but want to make it difficult to register voters since it is a responsibility.”

Hmm. Maybe, just maybe it could be because the Constitution actually mentions “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” and NOWHERE mentions a “right to vote.”

Our rights do NOT come from the Constitution, but from God. Thus, a right of the people does not have to mentioned in the Constitution in order to be a real right.

Nevertheless, the federal government is specifically forbidden by the Constitution to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, while the federal government is NOT delegated any authority, by the Constitution, over the states’ management of the voting process, except in the Nineteenth Amendment, which has to do only with denial of the franchise on account of sex.

Thus, there is nothing anomalous about the “ease” (hah!) of getting a gun, and the “difficulty” (hah!) of registering to vote.

IIRC, voting is mandatory in Germany (natch) and most other European countries. And a lot of good it does them.

The vote should be exercised ONLY by married men, in their first marriage, with children only from that marriage. This would eliminate voting by men looking for subsidies for sleeping around and siring bastards, or voting by women who want the government to act as a substitute for a husband.

Before women had the vote, government consumed about ten percent of the GDP. In the states that gave women the vote before the 19th Amendment, government spending began to climb. Once the 19th Amendment was passed, government spending in the rest of the states, and by the federal government, began to climb.

FAMILIES should have the vote, not individuals. And the way to ensure that is to allow only the HEADS of families to vote.

This would also reinforce the truth that the FAMILY is a natural institution, not just an arrangement that some people happen to prefer. And the truth that the STATE is the creature of FAMILIES, not the other way around.

Of course, “gay marriage” is just the latest cause of the fanatics who worship the State–the latest tactic designed to abolish the FAMILY once and for all.

Rob writes now that he isn’t sure about universal voter registration but just a few short days ago, he was advocating just that, a government run universal voter registration system:

Rob posted this on November 1:

To that end, my friend and I came up with a strategy for foolproof elections. Here are the bullet points:

No voting machines. They’re expensive, they’re insecure and they just confuse people. The only things a voter needs to cast a ballot is a pen, a piece of paper and a secure box to place that paper once voting is done.
No more early voting. You vote on election day unless you vote by absentee ballot.
Election day is a federal holiday.
We increase the number of available polling places, double the number of polling staff and pay everyone involved in the elections one heck of a lot more than they’re making now.

All voter registrations are done by government officials. No more ACORN or any other group registering voters. If you want to register to vote you do it at a government office.

Wow, Rob calls himself dumb.

Personally, I think registering to vote should be reasonably feasible at best. Things like: Month(s) long waiting periods between registering and voting; providing absolute prove you are a resident at the point of registration; proof you are who registered at point of voting; having to physically go to a polling place to vote. Each restriction is debatable I suppose, but having certain steps in place before you can vote ensures both the integrity of election day and also increases the likelihood of an informed electorate. Both things are absolutely essential to the survival of a democracy.

I don’t believe that part of that responsibility is finding a way to get to a government office to register. It shouldn’t be difficult to register. We make it easy to own a firearm but want to make it difficult to register voters since it is a responsibility. Sorry, don’t buy it.

The purpose of ACORN is to jam the system and bring it down. They are not engaged in traditional ballot-box stuffing only.

ACORN could have been shut down years ago because of their Brownshirt terror tactics, and voter fraud. But the authorities have been afraid to do anything because ACORN has the backing of the Democratic Party.

Funny–Barack Obama has been involved in the financial crisis from the very beginning, from the street level to the White House–from the Brownshirt terrorizing of banks, to lawsuits against banks, all the way to his appointments of cronies who have become multimillionaires by cooking the books at Fannie and Freddie.

Obama hasn’t even moved into the White House, but his administration is ALREADY the most corrupt in American history.

The last line of Rob’s post is this:

By the same token, citizens who can’t even be bothered to register themselves to vote probably shouldn’t be voting either. Voting is a freedom that all Americans of appropriate age enjoy, but as with all freedom it comes with responsibilities. That responsibility should not be shifted onto the government.

He wrote on November 1:

All voter registrations are done by government officials. No more ACORN or any other group registering voters. If you want to register to vote you do it at a government office.

I think it’s pretty clear he said two totally different things. And he called himself dumb.

Why would anyone insist on having a secret ballot, unless he wanted to vote for the wrong candidate?

It’s the libs way of securing elections for a time to come…

This WILL happen…. So what’s next? Mandatory reporting to vote?

Why not require a picture ID to cast a ballot? Which citizen could that possibly offend, except those who are ineligible to vote anyway? There’s the answer why picture ID will be difficult to get enacted….

If people don’t have the inclination to register to vote, chances are they are doing us all a favor by not voting.

I agree, Spaghetti.

I don’t think we need registering to vote to be needlessly difficult, but clearly there needs to be more to the process than there is now.

Liberals are always concerned about everyone, even people who can’t be bothered to get off their duffs and get themselves registered, getting to vote. But how about responsible people not having their votes canceled out by someone voting twice, or votes from people who don’t exist at all?

Puzzled, there’s a difference between having to go down to a government office and register yourself and having some government bureaucrat come around and make sure you’re registered.

Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit, I know, but do try to follow along.