[EM] Board Meeting Deadline

[Jameson Quinn]

2012/10/31 aGREATER.US <info at agreater.us>

> 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?
>

Absolutely.


>
> Cheers
> Jon
>
>
> you 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." >>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Jameson Quinn < <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>
> 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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