President Obama talked about voting rights in the State of the Union address, claiming we are “betraying our ideals” when any American has to “wait for five, six, seven hours just to cast their ballot.” He announced a “nonpartisan commission to improve the voting experience in America.”
While there may have been some Americans who waited for long periods to vote in 2012, the vast majority did not. A recent study of the 2012 election reported that the average wait time nationally was only 14 minutes.
And in fact, we already have a federal bipartisan election commission. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission was established in 2002 by the Help America Vote Act. It was tasked with recommending “best practices” in election administration to the states. But it is, in essence, a non-functioning agency: The seats of the four commissioners who run the agency have sat empty for a long time (they are supposed to be filled by the President), and the top two career slots, the general counsel and the staff director, also sit empty. So now President Obama wants to establish yet another election commission, bypassing the one we already have that has been idle—due to a lack of staffing that he is largely responsible for.
Read more at heritage.org . By Hans von Spakovsky.
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If that election, with all the fixings they kept doing for “fairness” not to mention the window of opportunity to vote, and get out vote etc not taking into account malfunctioning equipment that automatically voted for BO was considered “unfair” I am puzzled. HE won by hook and crook. Is he planning for 2016? Some people stand in food lines, unemployment lines, etc weekly, no complaint there. He’s looking to employ more cronies to get him votes even though they are incompetent . Always a method to his madness.
Since he probably plans to run for a third term and since such a commission might actually VETT candidates, he can’t support such a thing
Not only does he ignore the Federal Election Commission, but the Federal Election Commission, ignored him. For two cycles now, Mr. Obama has run for the office of President, and it is the job of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to vett each and every candidate as to whether or not they are qualified to seek and hold office. Since the FEC failed to vett Barak Obama, and Barak Obama does not meet the qualifications set forth in the Constitution of the United States in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution sets those qualifications at extremely simple to meet level: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United Staes, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of Presidnet; neither shall any Person be eleigible to that Office who shall not have attained tothe Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident with the United States.”
Barak Obama did satisfy the requirement of being 35 Years of age, and he had been a Resident within the United States for the previous fourteen Years, but he does not meet the requirement of a “natural born Citizen” as defined by the United States Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett, 1875 a 9-0 decision in which the Court determined that the Plaintiff, Miss Virginia Minor was in fact a “natural born citizen” of the United States, in that she was born to two, not one, but two, United States Citizen Parents and being born in the State of Minnesota, and that being United States soil. Barak Obama, out of his own mouth stated that his father, Barak Obama, was not then, nor ever has been a United States Citizen, but was instead a British Subject, at the time of Barak Obama Jr’s birth, ergo, Barak Obama Jr. is not a “natural born Citizen” of the United States and is not now nor has he ever been eligible to seek, let alone occupy the Office of President of the United States, and his continued occupation of that Office is a stain upon the fabric of the foundation of this country. It can never be cleansed except by revolution.