Who Can Vote, Who Can’t, And How Do We Know The Difference?

July 20, 2012 By 3 Comments

I Voted SC Who Can Vote, Who Cant, And How Do We Know the Difference?

As Americans, we celebrate the freedom to become registered voters and to cast a vote for the person or persons who represent us.  It is the greatest of all responsibilities in our Republic, one that many men and women have fought, bled, and died for to protect. Although voter fraud is not something we think of often, it does happen. In this article, I discuss the SAVE database and how states can utilize it in the coming months leading up to the election to make sure only eligible, registered United States citizens are allowed to cast ballots.

There is a national database of documented legal aliens in the United States, and such a database could prove useful for states to utilize to purge voter rolls and validate voter registrations.  The purpose of this database is intended to enable states to identify individuals who may be legal residents but not citizens so that they cannot take part in the 2012 Presidential Election. Neither legal aliens, nor illegal aliens are eligible to vote in the United States of America. Only legal U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in our elections. Called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement database (SAVE), it is an electronic fee-based system operated by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to verify that a person has the legal alien status paperwork which provides accuracy for government benefits and licensing agencies or other lawful purposes.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has opened up access to this database for states to check for voter fraud before the 2012 election process.

Recent roadblocks to access this database from the Department of Homeland Security have been put up by the Barack Hussein Obama Administration to the state of Florida. The state was accused by Democrats of handling the database inappropriately.  They said “using such a database would disenfranchise the poor and minority votes.”  However, a United States judge blocked President Obama’s attempts to stop Florida’s voter review and access to the database. Under pressure during the week of July 16, Obama relented, granting Florida their legal right to access the database.

Secretaries of State may request access to the database – and many states are doing so, including Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, and Utah.  If states are granted permission by the Department of Homeland Security – and not blocked by the White House – they may run what is called “alien numbers” that the SAVE database records.  This unique number is an identifier of sorts that will alert states to individuals who are attempting to utilize voting rights only granted to legal United States citizens who have registered to vote.

According to the website for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), there is no national database of citizens that states can check to prove U.S. citizenship – something I found very interesting.  However, the SAVE database can track alien numbers to stop voter fraud.  Voting groups are concerned that the voter purging might make it difficult to correct mistakes in time for the 2012 Presidential Election.

With this knowledge, why are we now becoming concerned with the utilization of the SAVE database four months before a National Election?  Why wasn’t this attempted last year, or even two years ago? Do states have enough time to compare their voting registration rolls with the data from the SAVE database and be prepared for the 2012 Presidential Election?  It is of note that the major states of Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Mexico, and Ohio are expected to be competitive in the race.

I have two major complaints.  One is that this should have been done earlier. This election is one we cannot afford to miss out on, and as days pass, many states have deadlines for registering to vote.  If you have not registered, do so. Soon. This election may be the most important election of our lifetime – with a recession, unemployment at 8% (and rising), immigration issues becoming more critical and divisive, and health care reform being forced upon us a tax.  The other major complaint is that this database does nothing to address any illegal aliens who may have somehow found their way onto voter rolls since they do not have an alien number.  The potential voters who are clearly illegal and thus are in every way ineligible to vote will be heavily counted on by the Obama administration for re-election, as evidenced by his recent actions directly courting the millions of illegal aliens in this country.

Get out and vote.  Write your Secretary of State to register in the next weeks to utilize the SAVE database.  Let’s get moving while we have time to move. Let us have an election by the legal and registered voters of the United States, double-checked by a national database to combat voter fraud.

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Obama’s Dream Or America’s Nightmare?

July 6, 2012 By 18 Comments

Barack Obama speech 4 SC Obamas Dream or Americas Nightmare?

President Barack Hussein Obama’s recent decision to grant asylum to the DREAMers, the offspring of illegal immigrants, has been termed by him as being “the right thing to do.” It does not grant them “a pathway to citizenship” – or so he says-for now. As a native-born American, of legal immigrants to this country, I have a bone of contrition with this executive order – done without the voice of the American people, against the will of our legislative branch of the Federal government as a means of garnering the Latino vote in the 2012 Presidential Election.

To best understand the DREAMer situation, let us look at the numbers. There are an estimated 1.4 million DREAMers, children of immigrants who came to this country illegally with their families who do not have legal status. These children differ from “Anchor Babies”, a term used for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants who “anchor” their families via a child born into citizenship. “DREAMers” is the term used by the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) president Janet Murguia for illegal immigrants who would have qualified for a pathway to citizenship under the DREAM ACT – an act that has been sent to Congress in many forms and was ultimately voted down in 2010 and 2011. Despite the Census Campaign’s attempt to lure illegal immigrants into acknowledging their presence in the United States, estimates of illegal immigrants range from over 11 million to as many as 20 million people.

President Obama himself, on CBS News last September, commented: “Our administration has supported the basic concept that we are a nation of laws.” Mr. Obama further said: “We’re also a nation of immigrants” and “we have to create a system that works for all of us.” He further asserted that although he has been pressured by Latino activists to write an executive order to allow the DREAMers a pathway to citizenship, he would wait for the DREAM Act to be passed by Congress. “This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true,” President Obama told the reporters. “There are laws on the books that I have to enforce. I think that there’s been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed…by perpetrating the notion by myself I can go and do these things.”

And on a sunny day in the White House Rose Garden, on June 10, 2012, President Obama bypassed Congress and deemed that “the right thing to do” was to halt the deportation of undocumented youths by crafting an immediate policy…”to be fair …efficient… and just.” In short, he lied to the American people – and took back his words. He blamed the Republicans for the failure of the DREAM Act “due to politics” and said we are “expelling” our young people due to the “actions of their parents and politicians.” With his very words, President Obama made this into a pathetic attempt to pander to the Latino vote for his re-election.

By his actions, and through bypassing and overriding the decision of Congress, the lawmaking body of the United States Federal government, President Obama exceeded his authority and acted in direct violation of the mandate set forth by Congress. This is by its very nature illegal and is a failure to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the laws of our land – something he took an oath to do when reciting the Oath of Office on January 20, 2009. It also is a clear effort to supersede the checks and balances system set up by our Founding Fathers when establishing the three branches of the federal government: judicial, executive, and legislative. This illegal action of the President of the United States, in violation of the legislative mandate of the Congress of the United States, is tantamount to high treason.

There is a reason why the checks and balances system of the three branches of the federal government exists – to prevent any one branch from exerting dictatorial powers over our Republic. President Obama’s action to grant asylum to the DREAMers is the clear action of a dictator who has no respect for the checks and balances system of our federal government and is a desperate ploy by a desperate man to hold onto a level of power far beyond that granted by our Constitution. His action is not only illegal, but it is against the will of the majority of the American people, thus violating the central premise of our entire nation – a nation of the people, BY the people, and FOR THE PEOPLE.

Obama’s dream…America’s nightmare. Plain and simple, he lied. He lied to you. He lied to me. And he lied to the American people. But even worse was that he violated the very laws he was sworn to uphold and, in so doing, he became a criminal (not unlike the criminals, young DREAMers or old, he is pandering to.) Illegal is illegal, whether it is an illegal immigrant or an illegal act by the President of the United States of America. No one, not even the President of the United States, is above the laws of the land. Only dictators don’t have to answer to the laws of the land and the will of the people.

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