Your votes are not private

[srkruzich]

That is your right and your privilege, but by doing so you are giving up your right to have a say in any elections.  The law is the law.  In every kind of dealing you have to give some to get some.  To be able to help make decisions, you have to give up some of your privacy.

Why?  Isn't voting a right?  Why do i have to give up anything to vote?
Sorry but i don't go that way.   Might as well just wad the constitution up and toss it in the fire if we have to give up those rights to get a right guaranteed by it.
Just because the board is violating rights doesn't mean their right.

[Varmit]

Crap like this pisses me off.  How, When, and Who you voted for is YOUR business and no one elses.  The idea of voter roles and the like and the fact that they can be purchased is, to me, a violation of privacy. 

"Civic Duty", I feel, is also anti-American.  If a person wants to serve on a jury, fine.  If they do not then they should not be forced to.  If a person chooses to not vote I don't think that they are giving up their right to express their displeasure or satisfaction with a canidate.  If we are going to shame people into excrising their rights then folks who choose not to own firearms should be shamed, people who do not assemble at local rallies should be shamed, people who do not express their opinion on an issue should be shamed, and the list goes on.  The Constitution gives us the certain rights, it is up to us to excrise them as we see fit.  To not excrise those rights is also our choice, and no one elses.  The Constitution does not have a mandatory useage clause, nor does it have a use it or lose it clause.   

[Wilma]

Voting is a right, a duty and a privilege.  You know what pisses me off?  Self proclaimed good Americans who don't want to do their civic duty and bitch about it.  What is wrong with exercising your rights, privileges and duties as good Americans.  I suppose the right to bitch is considered a privilege, too, and that is what you are exercising.  What is wrong with doing your civic duty and being proud of it? 

Some of you Constitution officiandoes answer this one.  Does the Constitution say anything about privacy of the voter's roles?  Is it unconstitutional for the list of registered voters to be available to the public?  It seems to me that if you don't want your registration to be public, you shouldn't be registered.  Yet you have to be registered to vote.  The reason for the registration is to be sure that only qualified voters are voting.  And that someone else isn't using your registration to vote illegally.  Just think about it a minute.  What would the elections be like if there were no controls in place?

[srkruzich]

Crap like this pisses me off.  How, When, and Who you voted for is YOUR business and no one elses.  The idea of voter roles and the like and the fact that they can be purchased is, to me, a violation of privacy. 

"Civic Duty", I feel, is also anti-American.  If a person wants to serve on a jury, fine.  If they do not then they should not be forced to.  If a person chooses to not vote I don't think that they are giving up their right to express their displeasure or satisfaction with a canidate.  If we are going to shame people into excrising their rights then folks who choose not to own firearms should be shamed, people who do not assemble at local rallies should be shamed, people who do not express their opinion on an issue should be shamed, and the list goes on.  The Constitution gives us the certain rights, it is up to us to excrise them as we see fit.  To not excrise those rights is also our choice, and no one elses.  The Constitution does not have a mandatory useage clause, nor does it have a use it or lose it clause.   

I saw where vermont has a bill  up to fine people 500 dollars for not owning a firearm.  It makes sense too as not owning one constitutionally makes them a liability in defense of the state in that they cannot be a ready militia.

[pamsback]

I saw where vermont has a bill  up to fine people 500 dollars for not owning a firearm.  It makes sense too as not owning one constitutionally makes them a liability in defense of the state in that they cannot be a ready militia.

so..........it's wrong to take guns away BUT it's cool to FORCE somebody else to get one who doesn't WANT one??real constitutional thinkin at work THERE.

The reason for the registration is to be sure that only qualified voters are voting.  And that someone else isn't using your registration to vote illegally.  Just think about it a minute.  What would the elections be like if there were no controls in place?

but Wilma......that's common sense & common sense don't fly too well in politics and the "gimmeee my freedoms debate"

as for the jury duty question.........that was to keep the same twelve people from serving on all juries and using that capacity to "grind their axes" so to speak. Kind of a NO brainer when you think about it.

[Wilma]

Thanks, Pam.  Is there anyone else on here with common sense or is it just you and me?

[greatguns]

I have some.  I think.

[flintauqua]

I think I have some left.  

Being out here in the Center, it's hard not to get indoctrinated by the uber-right and the uber-left.  

Oh wait, I forgot there is no center according to the uber-right.  

Maybe their indoctrination campaign is working.  

Thomas Paine had a lot of Common Sense.

[Anmar]

I'm with flint, I'm just probably going to start ignoring the far right and the far left crazies running around.

[Diane Amberg]

ahem.... Me too!