The
Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall
give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
It’s pretty straightforward. The “chusing the Electors” is what you are doing when you vote for
president and vice-president of the United States.
The constitution grants Congress the explicit power to
determine the time of the election for president and vice-president and
requires it must be the same throughout the United States. So early voting
fails on two counts:
1. States
are usurping the authority of Congress to determine the day of the election by
holding early voting.
2. Early
voting days are not uniformed throughout the United States.
In off-year elections states have pretty much to power to
hold elections as they see fit. The constitution is silent on elections for
every other office. However, as long as president and vice-president is on
ballot, there can only be one election day throughout the United States as
designated by Congress.
7 comments:
early voting contributes to voter fraud. that's why democrats love the practice so.
not allowing early voting contributes to black disenfranchisement. that's why republicans love the practice so.
Funny the Constitution says nothing about voter disenfranchisement either black or white. (For the record an overwhelming majority of early voters are white.)
However, the Constitution does requires however, that the electors for president and vice-president be selected on the same day throughout the United States as appointed by Congress.
There was a time when the Constitution DID disenfranchise a race.
Wrong again. The Constitution said nothing about the voting rights of free blacks, free whites, slaves, native americans or anybody else.
Voter qualifications were pretty much left to the states. If a state passed a law allowing blacks and slaves to vote there was nothing in the constitution to prevent it.
That being said, at the time the Constitution was adopted not only were free blacks and slaves denied the right to vote but so were most white men who didn't own sufficient property.
The Constitution's silence on who had a right to vote effectively disenfranchised a race as well as non property owning white men. Not to mention all women.
Later these were corrected.
Again you are wrong. What the Constitution doesn't prohibit it permits.
And the Constitution never prohibited anyone from voting. Your beef was with the states.
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments didn't grant anyone the right to vote (they already had that right) it prohibited the states (and the federal government) from disenfranchising voters on the basis of race, creed or national origin.
Just as 19th amendment did not grant women the right to vote (In several states women were already voting) it prohibited the government from denying the right to vote because you're a women.
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