Neighborhood Ministries

Citizen groups should not have to sue States to get them to release voter records to determine if they are cleaning rolls and the federal government should not have to monitor polling places to insure they verify ID’s. Voter records are public records and are supposed to be available for public review. States like California, New York, and other States that make it easy to vote, have been fighting attempts to review their voter rolls to verify eligibility. Past reviews have shown millions of illegal immigrants registered and millions of names still on the rolls of those who have died or moved out of State and are no longer eligible. Democrats have controlled California for years and have fought attempts to require ID verification at the polls as well as encouraging mail in voting. That allows plenty of opportunity for them to scan the rolls for those who aren’t going to vote, such as those who have died and those who moved out of State. They can then have those who are ineligible, vote using those names or to manufacture fake ballots. In a recent mayor election in Los Angeles, it has taken weeks since the election to count the ballots. It looked like the Republican candidate was ahead when suddenly a large number of ballots  mysteriously appeared. All of the ballots were for the Democrat candidates and put them ahead of the Republican candidate. None of the ballots were for the Republican candidate. It is statistically impossible. Out of a random selection of ballots, there should have been at least one vote for him since the polls showed he was the favored candidate. It has apparently taken them several weeks to manufacture enough fake ballots to eliminate the Republican candidate and they it appears that they were determined to keep counting until they succeeded.

Even with ID laws, it is not completely safe. Fake ID’s are easy to get and a lot of teens get them so they can buy beer and cigarettes. If a political party knows someone is registered but won’t vote, they can make fake ID’s using the names and addresses of registered voters for someone to pose as those people and vote in their place. By registering a lot of inner-city people who probably won’t vote, they have a goldmine of potential for fake ID’s.  If you have to vote where you live, someone will recognize if you come back to the same voting place several times using different names and ID’s but if you can vote by mail, on multiple days, or wherever you want, you can go to several different polling places or go on several days, and vote under different names without anyone realizing it, making it easier for a dishonest party to “stuff the ballot box” with fraudulent ballots. Most States today issue ID’s for those that don’t drive. Poor Blacks often get welfare and have to have ID’s to get it. As a result, voter ID laws do not provide a barrier to them voting, like they used to. It does require that people prove they are eligible to vote and are not trying to vote illegally. The most common fraud is when someone claims to be someone else who is registered but not likely to vote, either because they have died or because they moved out of State and are no longer eligible to vote in the State. Many States have laws requiring them to clean out voter registration lists and remove anyone who hasn’t voted in three years to eliminate those who have died or moved out of State so people can’t use those names to vote illegally, however that still leaves a window where someone can try to vote claiming they are someone who is already listed on the rolls, but is not likely to vote because they either died or moved out of State.

Democrats are fighting attempts  to enact or maintain voter ID laws saying they prevent people, particularly minorities from voting.  It is not strange that a large number of illegal immigrants are found on the voter registration rolls in States that allow online and mail registration since it doesn’t allow face to face verification of identity. It is also not surprising that many of them might vote in States that also do not require voter ID’s at the polls. Further problems arise when States allow registering at  driver’s license offices and do not verify citizenship before issuing driver’s licenses. Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are being allowed to stay in the U.S. and States like California are now allowing them to get driver’s licenses, so the potential for fraud is unimaginable. California recently enacted a law which will automatically register you to vote when you get a driver’s license or renew one unless you opt out. Since California also has enacted a law allowing people to get driver’s licenses without verifying citizenship, a review of the rolls show over four millions illegal immigrants were registered and over a million voted in the 2020 election. Pennsylvania also allows you to register to vote when you renew your driver’s license. A review of Pennsylvania’s voter roles have shown over 100,000 non-citizens registered to vote. There was no check to see how many have voted but it isn’t hard to think that a lot of them probably did since it is unlikely they would register to vote if they did not intend to vote, unless someone signed them up to vote, knowing they would not vote, so their names could be used to allow someone else to vote illegally. Voters should note those who voted against The Save Act and vote against them in the next time they come up for election.

Apportionments for the House of Representatives is based on the total resident population of the fifty States.  The total number of representatives has been set at 441. 435 from the 50 States and one from the District of Columbia and each of the five US territories. It is reapportioned after every Census count to ensure everyone’s vote is equal Liberals claim the illegal immigrants should be counted because they are losing population as residents flee the State and they are replacing them with illegal immigrants to maintain their representation in the House. Conservatives feel that it unfairly gives Congressional seats to liberal States and deprives legal voters of representation since the immigrants are not here legally. Since the delegates are apportioned by population to give equal voting power to everyone, counting illegal immigrants, who can’t vote,  in apportioning seats, gives voters in liberal States more voting power than conservative States. If a representative is assigned to every one million people, and all people are counted, a conservative State with one million legal residents and no illegal residents gets one representative representing one million voters but a liberal State with one million legal residents and one million illegal immigrants totaling two million people gets two representatives, one that represents the one million voters, and one that represents the one million illegal immigrants, who can’t legally vote.

The members of the House of Representatives are reapportioned after each Census to ensure that each Representative represents approximately an equal number of voters.  Since illegal immigrants cannot vote legally, it was felt they should not be included in the Census. Liberals claim that the Founding Fathers wanted everyone counted, not just voters and refer to the 1787 Compromise where they allowed slaves to be counted as three fifths for the Census. The Continental Congress was debating the apportionment of taxes for each State which was determined by population. The Northern States wanted the slaves counted as part of the population so the Southern States would pay their fair share but the Southern States didn’t want them counted in order to reduce their taxes. They finally reached a compromise where the slaves would be counted as three fifths of a person. Indians were excluded from the count until 1860 when those living off the reservations were counted and in 1900, they began counting Indians on the reservations. The Census was also used to determine seats in the House of Representatives and the electoral college. The Census counted every resident except foreign nationals visiting or temporarily working in the United States.  The fact that they did not count foreign nationals temporarily working in the United States indicated they were only counting legal residents, and not counting those who were not legally residents. Since illegal immigrants are not American citizens, they are still citizens of their home country. The 14th Amendment conferred citizenship on all residents born in the United States or naturalized. Liberals claim that nothing in the Constitution precludes counting non-citizens in the Census, however since illegal immigrants are not born here or naturalized, they are not covered by the 14th Amendment and are not counted as citizens until they become naturized citizens.

Voters today often vote for the man and what he promises to give them and ignore the issues that effect their everyday lives. One of those issues is the issue of law and order. There are three views towards law and order that candidates are pushing today. The first two assume that law and order is necessary for the preservation of an orderly society. The first and traditional American view is that our rights are given by God and He has given us laws that benefit everyone. Our Constitution included those rights and our government was designed in such a way that there were checks and balances to prevent the government from violating those rights. The most important right is the right to elect officials and replace them if they don’t represent the views that the voters support. They founded the Republican party and fought to abolish slavery and fight for the rights of minorities and women, particularly the right to vote. The second is a growing belief that feels that either God doesn’t exist or that He is not involved in our everyday life but feel those values are common sense and should be respected. They respect the Constitution but see it as a man-made document subject to change as circumstances change. They are easily swayed by media rhetoric and deceitful politicians who pretend to support those values but work to undermine them. They tend to switch parties based on their impression of the persons running for office. The third involves those who seek to control others for their own benefit and a growing number of supporters who believe that the leaders are smarter than the average person and know what is best for everyone, whether the people agree or not. It grew out of the Southern aristocrats who supported the subjection of Black slaves and poor Whites who they felt were unable to govern themselves. They founded the Democrat party to protect slavery and maintain their control. While they proclaim to care about the average person and make big public displays of helping people, their actions often do more harm then good.

The members of the House of Representatives are reapportioned after each Census to ensure that each Representative represents approximately an equal number of voters.  Since illegal immigrants cannot vote legally, it was felt they should not be included in the Census. Liberals claim that the Founding Fathers wanted everyone counted, not just voters and refer to the 1787 Compromise where they allowed slaves to be counted as three fifths for the Census. The Continental Congress was debating the apportionment of taxes for each State which was determined by population. The Northern States wanted the slaves counted as part of the population so the Southern States would pay their fair share but the Southern States didn’t want them counted in order to reduce their taxes. They finally reached a compromise where the slaves would be counted as three fifths of a person. Indians were excluded from the count until 1860 when those living off the reservations were counted and in 1900, they began counting Indians on the reservations. The Census was also used to determine seats in the House of Representatives and the electoral college The Census counted every resident except foreign nationals visiting or temporarily working in the United States.  The 14th Amendment conferred citizenship on all residents born in the United States or naturalized and nothing in the Constitution precludes counting non-citizens in the Census. Apportionments for the House of Representatives is based on the total resident population of the fifty States.  The total number of representatives has been set at 441. 435 from the 50 States and one from the District of Columbia and each of the five US territories. Liberals claim the illegal immigrants should be counted because they are losing population as residents flee the State and are replacing them with illegal immigrants who will vote for Democrats I return for being allowed to stay. Conservatives feel that it unfairly gives Congressional seats to liberal States and deprives legal voters of representation since the immigrants are not here legally. It was designed to give equal representation to all but it is not equal representation if two districts have the same population but one has very few voters because most are illegal and can’t vote legally.