More disenfranchisement nonsense

Let immigrants vote? No problem. But it is a little dishonest to use the words immigrant and non citizen interchangeably. The right to vote was not given to all American citizens when the Constitution was written. Suffrage rights have been addressed over the years, each time granting the franchise to more and more American Citizens.

I'm not going to cut and paste the founding docs here, but here's the short version. Amendments 15, 19, 24, and 26 each expanded voting rights. Each one begins with the same verbiage. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote..."

It's bad enough when an argument is on shaky factual ground. Trying to get one's way by race-baiting is only going to create more ill will. If these activists want to really help, they should be lobbying to streamline the naturalization process, and helping people to become citizens. Then, their right to vote would be unquestionable.


Their judgement, well, that's something else again.