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Hello Jameson,

Thank you for your thoughtful response. I REALLY like "first step" actions. May I post this on aGREATER.US as its own unique policy? 

Cheers
Jon


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For me, the universal rule I would start from is: the right to vote and to have that vote counted if possible. 

This right is not explicitly enumerated in the constitution; the closest it comes is  "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government". In an Luther v Borden, an 1840 case in which reformers in Rhode Island were arrested for trying to organize a state constitutional convention (!), this clause was held to be outside the purview of the courts — which puts it directly under the purview of the legislative branch. This interpretation was upheld during Reconstruction and after.

Congress could therefore pass a law saying "Each citizen has a right to vote, to have that vote counted, to have the voting process be free of fraud; and that the public has a right to verify these rights are upheld. Voting rules which circumscribe one of these rights are acceptable only if they proportionally increase another of them." >>

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On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> For me, the universal rule I would start from is: the right to vote and to have that vote counted if possible. 
> 
> This right is not explicitly enumerated in the constitution; the closest it comes is  "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government". In an Luther v Borden, an 1840 case in which reformers in Rhode Island were arrested for trying to organize a state constitutional convention (!), this clause was held to be outside the purview of the courts — which puts it directly under the purview of the legislative branch. This interpretation was upheld during Reconstruction and after.
> 
> Congress could therefore pass a law saying "Each citizen has a right to vote, to have that vote counted, to have the voting process be free of fraud; and that the public has a right to verify these rights are upheld. Voting rules which circumscribe one of these rights are acceptable only if they proportionally increase another of them." 

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