Which doesn't live here. I know its shocking and all but there should be some limits on the privilege(yes, its not a right) to vote.
Not so according to various amendments to the Constitution. Also I love how
When the country was founded there was restrictions, but many of those restrictions were put there to make sure the people that voted were responsible, has life experience, and fully affected by their vote.
So what you are saying is that only rich white adult males should be able to vote? Women couldn't vote. Blacks couldn't vote. Native Americans couldn't vote. The poor could certainly not vote, as they didn't have property qualifications. It's like you are saying only rich white adult males were the ones who were responsible, had life experience, and be fully affected by their vote.
There is little hope of any sort of common sense getting back in our system at this point, but I feel it is needed to stop the destruction of the country. Be it just debt, or be it in the constitution itself, there is little hope if we don't change the voting system itself which is without a doubt a cause of the problem.
Yep, restrictions to the voting system will surely solve the problem. It's the ultra-selective voting system that we had before that caused the problem. How can a system that is ultra-selective be beneficial to a country? Having only one group of people be designated as, like you have said, "responsible", "have life experiences" (whatever that means...), and be "fully affected" by the vote, is extremely dangerous. Who is to say that the people being barred to vote aren't affected by the vote? The blacks surely were affected by the whites dominion over them in the antebellum United States.
Anyway, the idea you can live two years out of the country and still be allowed to vote is outrageous. He isn't affected by almost any of it and he can just vote away like he is living here now. Think about it.
As far as you are a citizen of a certain country and you are registered to vote, as far as I am concerned, you should be able to vote.