"he Commission shall identify best practices and otherwise make recommendations to promote the efficient administration of elections in order to ensure that all eligible voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots without undue delay, and to improve the experience of voters facing other obstacles in casting their ballots, such as members of the military, overseas voters, voters with disabilities, and voters with limited English proficiency. "

The President can create advisory committees, substandardmitter.

Infernalist: Good.

Came to say this.

The GOP will say "Obama is circumventing Congress to make sure more people vote for the Democratic Party"

Without reading the article, let me guess-- he's doing something entirely harmless, legal, and beneficial to society as a whole and the usual retarded suspects are losing their shiat because they hate him.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Oh NO!  A Commission!  Next you know they'll be issuing non-BINDING RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!!!111!!

It'll be in a red binder.  'Cause we all know who else loved the color red.

So much the better and easier to perpetrate fraud. I can hear Taps playing softly in the background for the greatness that was once America.

*long reverent salute*

Flappyhead: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Oh NO!  A Commission!  Next you know they'll be issuing non-BINDING RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!!!111!!

It'll be in a red binder.  'Cause we all know who else loved the color red.

Matadors?

Flappyhead: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Oh NO!  A Commission!  Next you know they'll be issuing non-BINDING RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!!!111!!

It'll be in a red binder.  'Cause we all know who else loved the color red.


Will the binder be full of women who shouldn't be voting?

My God.

(to be read in you best Dan LaFontaine voice)

The Stealth Hippopotamus: It would have been nice, since they will be there anyway, to find a way to keep people who shouldn't be voting from voting.


It's as if you somehow think that's a common occurrence.

Interesting that you equate it to all of the last few years' voter suppression efforts.

Voiceofreason01: "The Commission shall identify best practices and otherwise make recommendations to promote the efficient administration of elections in order to ensure that all eligible voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots without undue delay, and to improve the experience of voters facing other obstacles in casting their ballots, such as members of the military, overseas voters, voters with disabilities, and voters with limited English proficiency."

How dare the President create an advisory board that tries to make it easier for people to vote

I agree. There is no right to vote in what I understand the constitution to be! This is just another one of his socialist tricks!

Could they start with Precinct 13 in Texas. If that had been an honest precinct, no JFK assassination, no Vietnam escalation, no miles of pollen-ridden wildflowers along Texas highways.

theknuckler_33: So much the better and easier to perpetrate fraud. I can hear Taps playing softly in the background for the greatness that was once America.

*long reverent salute*

You forgot this-

The Stealth Hippopotamus: It would have been nice, since they will be there anyway, to find a way to keep people who shouldn't be voting from voting.

But that would be efficient and we all know the government doesn't do efficient.

iv) the efficient management of voter rolls and poll books;
viii) management of issuing and processing provisional ballots in the polling place on Election Day;
(ix) the issues presented by the administration of absentee ballot programs;

Seems like these provisions might help.

As fine as an idea as this is, it's really just going to be ignored in any state with a heavy GOP presence, no?

Maybe they will figure out that we need some sort of intellectual standard for voting.  It's quite an important act, people of the Kardashian's caliber maybe should be excluded.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: It would have been nice, since they will be there anyway, to find a way to keep people who shouldn't be voting from voting.

But that would be efficient and we all know the government doesn't do efficient.

theknuckler_33: So much the better and easier to perpetrate fraud. I can hear Taps playing softly in the background for the greatness that was once America.

*long reverent salute*

Right on cue, the obligatory naysayers show up to find something, anything wrong with this. So tell me, you two, what would be your response if Obama were to say that clean air and water is good for you? How about if he were to say that violent crime is bad and should be reduced?

Is there literally anything he could say that you wouldn't find some way to piss on?

(And no, snarky comments like "his resignation" don't count. Nice try. We all know you were going to go there otherwise.)

most people are idiots and/or grossly uninformed and should not be allowed to vote.

do you really want the guy or gal serving burgers at the braves game voting?  do you really want honey booboo's sperm donor or mom voting? the answer is no.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: It would have been nice, since they will be there anyway, to find a way to keep people who shouldn't be voting from voting.

But that would be efficient and we all know the government doesn't do efficient.

they get arrested, you know if you commit a crime and get caught, you get arrested.

but you can't proactively take away a right without due process.

Okay that's a start, but next you can get rid of the electoral college and fire anyone in congress who's voted on a bill without understanding it.

Then we can worry about switching to a form of democracy where people are represented instead of places.

Oops. Left off the pic.



That's a ballot box that kept being recounted until LBJ won his seat.  I think that's LBJ on the right. He kept this photo in the White House.

Step 1: Person submits link to story about president forming a commission. Adds obvious troll headline. So obvious only a fool would take it seriously, In fact, it probably came from an Obama supporter mocking the right's predictable outrage.

Step 2: Fools take it seriously. Attack submitter.

This place can be so humorless.

"(b) The President shall designate two members of the Commission to serve as Co-Chairs."

Comrades, the glorious day is finally upon us! Allah be Praised! Operation Alinsky is now in motion! All Death Panels are mobilized effective immediately. All guards will report to their respective FEMA Camps. The first Black Helicopters will leave the UN at....wait, what's that? It's just a commission? Not the big one? Dammit so much. Umm, uhh stand down everybody. Just a little joke. heh. Really nothing to worry about. Go about your business.

Cletus C.: Step 1: Person submits link to story about president forming a commission. Adds obvious troll headline. So obvious only a fool would take it seriously, In fact, it probably came from an Obama supporter mocking the right's predictable outrage.

Step 2: Fools take it seriously. Attack submitter.

This place can be so humorless.

especially in the headlines

oh crap....!!!! He mentioned voting machine technology..... shiat shiat shiat.

shiat in a good way with all the herpaderp about to follow to drive up farks click numbers.
, so hopefully those republican corporations who made those voting machines that can play pacman will be outlawed.

/Non-audited(no paper trail) voting machines that is, and in no way to be construed as to outlaw the outlaw traitor party known as the GOP(greedy old pigs).

Dusk-You-n-Me: toddism: the answer is no.

My answer is yes.

then you are an idiot and you get the government you deserve.

Samuel Beale's Ghost: theknuckler_33: So much the better and easier to perpetrate fraud. I can hear Taps playing softly in the background for the greatness that was once America.

*long reverent salute*

You forgot this-
[madison.illinoisgenweb.org image 272x200]

Yes... I most certainly did!

This is merely the first of many. I have a source within the Lizard People community that says he'll order all firearms to be confiscated and melted down. The surplus metal will be needed for the gay marriage, abortion apocalypse.

\they can take my tin foil hat from my cold, dead hands
\\study it out

FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!

KiltedBastich: The Stealth Hippopotamus: It would have been nice, since they will be there anyway, to find a way to keep people who shouldn't be voting from voting.

But that would be efficient and we all know the government doesn't do efficient.

theknuckler_33: So much the better and easier to perpetrate fraud. I can hear Taps playing softly in the background for the greatness that was once America.

*long reverent salute*

Right on cue, the obligatory naysayers show up to find something, anything wrong with this. So tell me, you two, what would be your response if Obama were to say that clean air and water is good for you? How about if he were to say that violent crime is bad and should be reduced?

Is there literally anything he could say that you wouldn't find some way to piss on?

(And no, snarky comments like "his resignation" don't count. Nice try. We all know you were going to go there otherwise.)

I thought mine was over-the-top enough to be quite obvious.

Oh look, 5 years later and subby's still hurt.

Black man in the White House, everybody! Better run!

I can't believe that only a few years ago people like Sue B. Mitter deified Bush to the point that any questioning of his divine right to be the decider was giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Also, "enemy" was defined as the entire planet.

Philip Francis Queeg: Comrades, the glorious day is finally upon us! Allah be Praised! Operation Alinsky is now in motion! All Death Panels are mobilized effective immediately. All guards will report to their respective FEMA Camps. The first Black Helicopters will leave the UN at....wait, what's that? It's just a commission? Not the big one? Dammit so much. Umm, uhh stand down everybody. Just a little joke. heh. Really nothing to worry about. Go about your business.

Oh man!!!  You had me ready to start polishing my jack boots!!!

*slouches in chair*

whidbey: Oh look, 5 years later and subby's still hurt.

Black man in the White House, everybody! Better run!

Race card nonsense didn't take long.  Good job.