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To: tekboy who wrote (8057)11/10/2000 7:30:15 PM
From: EnricoPalazzo   of 22706
 
Driving an automobile is a privilege, not a right.
Voting is a right

interesting point. But I wonder if this is more than a semantic difference if you really get to the bottom of it. I mean, we have certain criteria for voting, and certain criteria for driving. If you meet them, you get to do the things in question, if you don't meet them, you don't.

I mostly agree with you, but I should point out that we as a society have gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure that voting is a right with a very, very low hurdle to jump over. That's the point of these florida election laws which appear to have been violated. True, things like poll taxes and literacy tests were thrown out not because they kept some people from voting, but because they kept certain types of people from voting (equal protection and all that). This all goes to our legal system's wacky definition of "arbitrary," but that's another story.
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