Former President Carter heads Election Reform

Former Democrat President Carter suggests to Current President Bush certain revisions of our election system. Here are a few of their recommendations:

• Election Day should be declared a national holiday
• States should establish statewide systems for voter registration.
• States should allow provisional voting.
• Congress should set up a new Election Administration Commission to establish and test voluntary standards for state systems.
• News organizations should refrain from calling presidential elections.

Election day should NOT be a national holiday. The reason why I disagree with this comes from the amount of time it takes to vote. It does not take a whole day to vote, thus there is no reason for a national holiday for Election Day. We need to move the voting to the weekend where more people have the leisure to go vote. Provisional voting suggested that blacks were turned away from the polls last year (yet a study showed no discrimination of this sort). So their recommendation is to have anybody that claims that they are able to vote let them vote and then we can sort it out later. In addition, going along with the Socialist Democratic Party, President Carter even suggests the creation of a new Election Administration Commission. Look, we do not need another Government department. We already have an Election Administration, therefore there is no need to create another government commission to take more of taxpayers money. I saved the best for last Panel: Restore Vote for Felons...for Felons! Why would the commission want to restore vote for felons? The majority of felons vote Democrat, therefore it is to the Democrats advantage to restore felons voting privileges. You develop your own idea on the underlying agenda of this study.