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To: michael97123 who wrote (161673)	3/23/2006 1:46:07 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

Are you afraid of literacy tests for voting? Is that what I heard you say? Why, if that is correct? But the true measure of who should vote is that they are a citizen of the US. A PROVEN citizen, one that is documented. IMO anyway. And no, we don't fight. It's not worth it. Different opinions is all.

To: michael97123 who wrote (161673)	3/23/2006 1:57:11 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793927

If you are worried about illegals voting i am with you. But literacy tests for citizens i am against. Your impulses Karen are elitist and anti-democratic on this one. I am interested in third party opinions on this Personally, I would go beyond a literacy test. It seems to me that a test at least as hard as a written drivers test should be administered before people are allowed to vote. If you dont know who you are voting for, you shouldnt be allowed to vote. I always think of the fact that two Lyndon Larouche candidates were almost elected in Illinois because they had simple last names. prin.edu At first everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn't. In the March 18 Illinois primary, two zombified followers of right-wing extremist Lyndon LaRouche actually won the Democratic nominations for secretary of state and lieutenant governor. Janice Hart and Mark Fairchild won on the platform articulated in their cult's New Solidarity newspaper: eliminate Gramm-Rudman, fund Star Wars, test everyone for AIDS (and quarantine victims), and form a "Nuremberg Tribunal" to investigate drug dealing by Zionists and journalists, represented by Henry Kissinger and Katherine Graham, whom the LaRouchies want to hang for treason. Although Hart and Fairchild articulated their sick program to anyone who would listen, most of those who voted for them had no idea what they stood for. The problem is that it would never work. As Churchill said, Democracy is the worst form of goverment except all of the others. Our system of government survives because on some level people do believe that they have an ability to make changes. You simply cant take that away from them and expect a stable form of government. Slacker

To: michael97123 who wrote (161673)	3/23/2006 11:16:53 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

I really don't think you have taken into consideration that Karen may be coming from a position of preserving a way of life that honors our laws and respects our constitution? I don't know this for a fact, but I sympathize with her position, and would agree that the people of America have a duty to ask that certain requirements be met before just anyone from anywhere is able to live, vote, work, or be protected by American law. I can't speak for anyone but myself........I am concerned that breaking our immigration laws will become so routine that we become apathetic and we end up like the third world countries these people are fleeing. I think this is one issue that many Americans...regardless of political affiliation......can agree upon. And I also think that this aspect of immigration and citizenship has not gone through a thorough vetting and will become a huge issue in future elections. There is nothing elitist about that imo.