BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Only so many ballots can be mailed to a certain address before it attracts attention. But if veiled voting is allowed then what stops someone wearing a burqha from voting and then leaving, putting on a different burqha, and returning to vote again? And then repeating the process not just at one precinct, but at several across a town? With an organized effort 100 people could easily vote in a large city 1,000 times and no one would be able to prove anything wrong happened.
1,000 votes are often enough to decide an awful lot of elections.
Had such a thing been going on in Florida or Ohio the US would have a different President today.
Well philosophically I am against this but that seems a bit much.
What we need is to introduce laws that state when identification is required then only these are deemed acceptable:
(insert various ID sources).
It should further state that an acceptable ID will contain certain information and bear a detailed photograph and signature.
We aren't forcing them to vote or drive or whatever. If they want that priveledge then they obey our rules governing them.
If that is unacceptable then the doors is thataway.
Of course this kind of attitude cannot be easily defended when we invade their countries and tell them what to do.
If we want to demand "they"obey our laws then we cannot dispute "their" right to enact and enforce laws in their country regardless of how we feel about them.
In other words, if we want the right to force them not to wear burkas (for our reasons) then we cannot ever ever object to their right to force women to wear them.
Its blackletter logic.
I think presented this way Bart you would have to agree.
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