A woman holds a "Wanted 4 Election Fraud" sign
at vote counting protest outside Broward County Supervisor of Elections' Brenda
Snipes office.
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"It's not the people
who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
– Joseph Stalin
In 1787, Thomas Paine
arrived at the convention with a list of issues patriots wanted addressed in
our Constitution.
As he approached The Hall, his friend Ben Franklin cautioned, “They won’t allow you in.”
Paine retorted, "Why?"
Franklin responded:
“They don’t like your views on slavery or voting.” Paine asked, “Who’s going to
present the ideas of the people”? Franklin said, “I will” as he grabbed Paine’s
books.
As Paine bade farewell, he never thought it’d take 17 decades for all
Americans to secure that right.
And he didn’t fathom 230 years later many of
those votes would be corrupted.
Since our framers did not
address suffrage at the Convention, the venue and process of voting was
assigned to the states.
This led to century-long battles over voting rights, with Democrats fighting to deny voting rights and Republicans fighting to protect voting rights.
Frederick Douglas Quotes: “I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool
Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of
freedom and progress...I recognize the Republican party as the sheet
anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.”
The nucleus for the most aggressive rights movement commenced when former slave
Fredrick Douglas joined with Susan B. Anthony.
These two Republicans created a
powerful union that paved the way for the 15th Amendment that granted blacks
the right to vote and the 19th amendment that granted women the right to vote.
By 1920, states were forbidden to abridge any qualified American citizens'
right to vote.
“Voting rights matter. They
are a major part of who we are as Americans.”
– Marc Veasey
Even though the 14th
Amendment passed by Republicans granted blacks the right to vote, that right
was abridged by Southern Democrats with literacy and poll tax requirements until
1965. Some black voters were harassed while trying to register or vote.
But
that changed when a Republican Congress proposed the Voting Rights
Act of 1965.
Like previous attempts to rectify this flaw in our Constitution
with amendments, it would not be easy. The Senate filibuster led by Democrat Senator Robert
Byrd, a former recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, lasted 114 days.
Hours before the bill was championed by Republican Senator Everett Dirksen and passed, a reluctant
President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was to sign the bill into law, retorted: "I know the risks are great and we might lose the South, but those sorts
of states will be lost anyway."
Americans battled for equal
voting rights from the Declaration to the signing of the Voting Rights Act of
1965, an act that was necessary because the Democrat-controlled Southern states
persistently oppressed the rights of blacks to vote that was granted by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Note that, for the U.S. presidential elections
of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, 55 percent of U.S. women, 73 percent of
Asian, 71 percent of Hispanics, and a whopping 93 percent of African-American
citizens voted. This exceeded the total percent of all whites. “We have come a
long way baby’’ in securing American voting rights.
For 35 years, there was nary
an incident of anyone being deprived of their right to vote.
Just when it
looked as if we had resolved all issues with voter disenfranchisement, it
raised its ugly head during the presidential election of 2000.
Unlike the past,
this time it was openly blatant and played out on national TV. It was not
against those who had been denied voting rights before. It was an obvious plan
to disenfranchise an entire party of voters, Republican Party voters, who had
proudly cast their votes for the candidate of their choice.
“We can’t sit idly by while
unethical liberals try to steal any election.”
– Rick Scott
During the 2000 Election Eve
in Florida, liberal pundits falsified poll results to discourage Republicans
from voting.
By the time the polls closed, they had deceived Floridians and an
entire nation. When Bush was declared victorious, the left was more shocked
than Clinton when Monica snitched on him.
This started a five-week war over
ballots, rules, and laws as Democrat lawyers searched waste baskets and
Dumpsters to harvest votes. They looked for ballots to beef up the count for
Gore.
After weeks of this assault targeted to abrogate Republican voters, the
U.S. Supreme Court decided to stop this charade. This was a new low for disenfranchisement.
“Believe me, every vote
counts.”
– Al Gore
In reaction to the left’s
attempt to hijack the 2000 Florida election, the federal government ordered
major renovations in the voting process to ensure there were no further
infringements against the rights of a selected group of voters again.
But that
did not stop Democrats from crying foul every time they told the media and
America there was no chance they could lose.
By Election Day of 2016, they
convinced the world Hillary Clinton would “trump” Donald Trump. But when all
votes were counted, Trump “trumped” her. Democrats have been crying foul since
the last ballot was tallied.
“Someone who fails to get
elected will always console himself thinking there was something not fair.”
– Plutarch
“Every election is a repeat
performance for sore losers.” And we are looking at that now in Florida for the 2018 Mid-term election, after
this last 2016 general election. It’s another “three-ring humdinger.” Once again,
according to the left, the wrong candidates won. And since the polls closed,
they have been busy harvesting votes again.
They learned from 2000 if they cry
foul to their liberal buddies in the media, they can invent all of the votes
they wish until someone takes them behind the woodshed and spanks them.
“We must change the
structural legal barriers if we wish to produce more progressive wins.”
– David Faris
Progressives have been
working overtime since Trump was elected to discredit him and everything he
attempts to do.
They vowed to impeach him but needed control of the House to do
so; and they did just that.
But the House can only accuse the president. The
Senate must hold the hearings to remove him from office.
The left was contesting elections in states around the U.S. to control the Senate.
In
Florida, Arizona and Georgia, they were manufacturing votes faster than Obama could say “I won, you lost”.
They succeeded in Montana so one out of four “ain’t
that bad.”
“Steal a little and they'll
put you in jail, steal a lot and they'll make you king.”
– Bob Dylan
The leftist author of
"It’s Time to Fight Dirty," David Faris claims the Constitution is
deeply flawed and it puts progressives at a disadvantage to take over American
government. He lays out a strategy for fighting dirty though obstructionism and
procedural warfare: establishing statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico; breaking
California into several states; creating a larger House of Representatives;
passing a new voting rights act; and expanding the Supreme Court.
“The stakes have never been
higher. This is our path for long-term, progressive control of the United
States.”
– David Faris
There was a time in our
nation we needed to correct the flaw in our Constitution that didn’t address
the untimely contentious issue of suffrage. But we had the wisdom to correct
that with the 15th and 19th amendments. We iced the cake with the 1965 Voting
Rights Act that was designed to stop Democrats from abridging the right to
vote granted by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution .
Now,
instead of ethnic groups, progressive Democrats are disenfranchising the rights
of an entire party, the Republican Party, if they can’t win on socialist
ideology.
When President Trump stated that we should send federal agents to
monitor the counting of votes at offending polls, Democrats put their
Alynsky-ism propaganda machine into overdrive comparing him to Kim Jong-Un of
North Korea.
“The structural environment
is biased against Democrats.”
– David Faris
Knowing politics would
divide our republic, our founders left major policy decisions up the states.
Through the years, we’ve addressed policy and human rights issues not predicted
at our founding.
With constitutional amendments and the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
we corrected abridgment of individual and minority rights.
Now we are in danger
of destroying our republic!
When a party, the Democratic Party, colludes with
election officials to suppress another party, the Republican Party, that’s a
tyrannical attack against democracy!
It is time for federal intervention.
States violating our voting rights laws are committing a federal crime. They
must be punished like bad children. To protect all voters, they need federally
appointed supervision!
"Every citizen should
be guaranteed their vote matters, their vote is counted, and in the voting
booth, their vote has as much weight as any CEO, or member of Congress.”
– Barbara Boxer
Contributing Columnist William Haupt III is a retired
professional journalist, author, and citizen legislator in California for over
40 years. He got his start working to approve California Proposition 13.
