The Right To Vote Doesn’t Cancel Election Law by Robert Socha

There is one thing that should always level the playing field in Constitutional Law. One person gets one vote. The wealthiest among us are on equal footing with the weakest among us. They both get to vote on election day. For this reason, one of the most essential functions of government, if not the most important, is ensuring election integrity.

Therefore, I support voter ID laws, a National Holiday for election day on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, an end to mail-in ballots, drop boxes, permanent absentee status, and eliminating ballot harvesting and early voting.

I oppose states using money from the treasury to send out unsolicited registration and mail-in voting forms. I oppose using machines to be the final count in tabulating the votes. It is not only the people’s right to vote; it is their civic duty, and a duty is not something that governments should hand anyone on a silver platter; it is something that the electorate must diligently pursue to accomplish. If manually counting the ballots is too time-consuming for this internet age, then hire or appoint more people to fill the need.

If we must continue using digital machines, then I propose the ability for the machines to print a thermal receipt for the ballot cast. Any valid doubt cast on the integrity of the votes cast via those machines would immediately call for a recount of the votes. The recount would require the original voter to return with their receipt and present it to the election officer for verification, proving their vote’s validity. Any unverified ballot would be summarily dismissed and destroyed.

Election law matters. Some states have been able to successfully manipulate and brainwash their constituencies and encoded in law these horrific voting practices, especially the insane idea that anyone can vote through the mail, and every precinct must allow for nine (9) early days of voting.

I oppose making voting too easy. There should be some sacrifice on the part of the voter, some difficulty, and some intentionality proving their commitment to the cause of Liberty. Instead, we have a dumbed-down populace easily led like sheep to the slaughter of socialism’s promise of Nirvana that always ends in tyranny and hunger.

It is hard but vital work to convince people that sacrificing to complete something as essential as the vote and a little challenge to accomplish the task is good for the soul. Voting is and should be an arduous task. The burden should weigh heavily enough on the voter’s conscience that they should be well informed and knowledgeable of the candidates and issues they are given the opportunity to darken the box. Otherwise, they are simply a second and consecutive vote for the voice they ardently follow.

November is quickly upon us, let us be watchful and ready to give reason for the Faith that we have and the decision we will make on the eighth day.