Why Is Mexico’s Voter Registration System Better Than Ours?

This is an old article and Texas passed the Voter ID Act.  However, mail-in ballots were not addressed as several other areas of our voting process that STILL allow for voter fraud have not been.  Dragonrider has sent a couple of e-mails which address some information we all need to be aware of.  This one addresses Mexico's voter ID requirements and procedures.  Note how strict Mexico is about their own voting process while they fight any tightening of ours through bestowing dual citizenship on all people of Mexican heritage, particularly those who are located in the U.S., and even shipping funding through their embassies located in the U.S. to organizations such as MALDEF and NCLR.  ~ Faye

Mexico has a better voter registration system than the United States.

That may come as a shock to those who believe nothing in Mexico could be superior. Nevertheless, it is true.

My wife is a Mexican citizen. I’ve accompanied her when she votes. (Being a non-citizen here, I don’t, of course, vote.) Every registered Mexican voter has a Voter ID card, complete with photograph, fingerprint, and a holographic image to prevent counterfeiting.

At the Mexican polling station, there is a book containing the photograph of every voter in the precinct. This book is available to the poll workers and observers from various parties. If there’s a doubt as to someone’s identity, the poll workers can simply look up the person’s name and see if the photo matches up.

The Mexican voter’s thumb is smudged with ink. That way, if he shows up at another polling site to vote, they know he’s already voted elsewhere. (The ink wears off after a few days.)

It’s a good system. Sure, Mexico has many problems. But hey, they solved that one!

Mexico’s 2000 presidential election elected Vicente Fox with a plurality of the vote. Some were happy, others weren’t. But there was no significant dispute over who had won the election. And that was a great accomplishment.

In contrast, U.S. voter registration is a joke. Thanks to the “Motor Voter” regime, not only is it unnecessary for a voter to prove citizenship, it is also unnecessary to prove identity. Registrars have been instructed not to be inquisitive about applicants’ citizenship - or lack thereof. It should come as no surprise then, that the last few years have seen more and more examples of voter fraud coming to light, including the casting of ballots by non-citizen voters.

But now–help is on the way–or is it?

I refer to the “Help America Vote Act,” recently passed by Congress and signed by President Bush on October 29th, 2002, scheduled to take effect in 2003 and 2004 (if funds are appropriated). The Help America Vote Act was opposed by the Hispanic Caucus, MALDEF and Hillary Clinton (who voted against it). But it was supported by the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus.

(Some would argue that voter registration should be the responsibility of states and not the federal government anyway. It’s a valid point. I hope they are working in their own states to improve voter registration standards there.)

In the meantime, what is there about this new federal law that could possibly improve our voter registration system?

Well, it does authorize funds for computerized voter lists. And everyone registering is required to provide a driver’s license or social security number. And election officials are actually supposed to try to verify the numbers.

First-time voters registering by mail have to provide proof of identity (a photo ID, utility bill, paycheck, bank statement, or government document with name and address) when registering or voting.

That’s good as far as it goes. But what about everybody else? Why not, like Mexico, require a permament voter ID, with photo, for everybody, all the time?

Reason: Hispanic pressure groups like MALDEF and National Council of La Raza wouldn’t like it. Every time the suggestion of a photo ID comes up, some so-called Hispanic activist or defender attacks it as discriminatory. In Massachusetts, a federal judge struck down a municipal regulation requiring voters to show an ID before voting on the grounds that it “unfairly burdened Latino voters.”

Photo ID is inherently discriminatory against Hispanics? That’s funny - it works here in Mexico, where almost everybody is Hispanic!

As for “discrimination,” isn’t electoral law supposed to discriminate between citizens and non-citizens?

Well, you can’t expect MALDEF and NCLR to care more about common civic values than the advancement of their own agenda, now, can you?

Besides, there is a simple solution to the “ID Discrimination Problem.”

I suggest we follow Mexico’s example, where the government pays for the photo IDs. Why not? The government wastes money on so many things already. What’s better than spending money on improving our voter registration system? Then maybe someday we could bring it up to Mexican standards.

I hope the new Republican Congress proves me wrong, but so far, I don’t see the new law as a panacea. If the money is appropriated and IF the registration provisions are enforced, such provisions would be a step in the right direction.

But what will it really do to prevent non-citizen voting? Oh, it has a real tough provision for that! The Help America Vote Act requires the mail-in registration forms ask the question, “Are you a citizen of the United States of America?”

It even supplies handy boxes where the applicant can answer “yes” or “no.”

Don’t worry MALDEF! Senator Christopher Dodd, the Act’s principal Senate sponsor, reassures you with these words:

“The checkoff box is a tool for registrars to use to verify citizenship. Nothing in the legislation requires a checkoff or invalidates the form if the box is left blank.”

Yes, the U.S. has a long way to go to get up to Mexico’s standards.

American citizen Allan Wall lives in Mexico, but spends a total of about six weeks a year in the state of Texas, where he drills with the Texas Army National Guard. VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his FRONTPAGEMAG.COM articles are archived here. Readers can contact Allan Wall at allan39@prodigy.net.mx


January 04, 2003
http://www.vdare.com/awall/voter_registration.htm

Feel like a dumb gringo yet?  ~Faye

MALDEF and MAPA: Hiding behind the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

I'm reasonably certain the Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves. It was certainly NOT their intention that any one racial or cultural group of people should be "Packed" into any area of representation!
This smells so badly of MALDEF, and MAPA that one must wonder if they are not the organizations "pulling the strings" of those who are crying the loudest about "minority" representation!
75% packed into a single district, to make up for those who don't vote?!
If Anglos or Blacks or Native Peoples tried this, the screaming would lift the roof clear off the Ector County Coliseum!
What needs to happen here, is to get people out to VOTE! Get everybody educated about the issues, stop whining about being "victims", "man-up" and get off your lazy duffs and VOTE! I've said this before, and I'll say it 'til I'm dead and gone: WE ARE NOT DIFFERENT RACES OR CULTURES, WE ARE AMERICANS! Let's for God's sake start acting like it!!
When an organization or group starts talking "Reconquista" or revolution of one kind or another, and let's be realistic, it is quite a popular idea with some people throughout the Southwest, trouble will surely follow.
We, as Americans, must learn to separate the truth from someone's agenda of keeping us in a turmoil to further their own personal goals: total control of the people in a given area. This is the worst form of Megalomania. It is at best a form of slavery!
For the length of time that this is a "race-culture" issue, this will continue to be the "fly in the ointment"! I would like to know who the entities are that insist on "stirring the pot" of this "us against them" way of thinking. This is the kind of thinking that will be the down-fall of America.
If we, as Americans, with ALL our different cultural systems, cannot come to see ourselves as Americans first, and cultural diversities second, then we, as a Nation, will cease to exist as a cohesive whole, and break up into a System of Tribes that will achieve NOTHING!
History has already proven that an unassociated group of tribes can be defeated rather easily by a relatively small force of determined people. If we let those who would foment racial-cultural hatred guide us into that mentality, we WILL fall.


"UNITED, WE STAND; DIVIDED, WE FALL!" ~Lordhawke

Update on Ector County Redistricting

There's two articles in today's (Sunday, July 24) Odessa American.  "Redistricting still up in air" reveals some very interesting info on just where Rodriguez's, LULAC's, Una Voz's, et al, collective head is.  The other article is the editorial and the OA doesn't have it on line yet.  I'll add a link to it when they do. 

It seems they're not happy with the Hispanic majority they now enjoy in Districts 1, 3, and 5.  It appears they also want District 4 and for the ratios to go up to as much as 75% Hispanic... "because, he says, those numbers are needed to overcome Hispanics’ lack of belief in the electoral system and their tendency not to vote."

Geeeeeez, seen the lack of belief in the electoral system in the general population here lately?  Exactly why do they think Congress's approval rating is so low?  This is like having a race and putting one contestant 3/4 of the way down the track.  PLUS!!!!  These groups get federal grants, TAXPAYER monies, to do whatever they want with it EVEN THOUGH they're SUPPOSED to be NON-PARTISAN (and they most certainly are NOT non-partisan) in order to get that money and then they underwrite each other.  In this case, Carol Uranga let it slip that MALDEF is behind this.  Yep.  Jason got it on tape.  It's at desertvision.net.  Then, I ran across a site that reports business info and Una Voz was reported as having 3 employees and a $70,000 income.  As far as I know, Una Voz has NOT obtained their 501(c)(3) status, IF they've even applied for it, so where did this money come from?  I know for a fact that he was soliciting donations (see "Una Voz Unida" posting on this site) but $70,000?  There's a lot to this story that isn't being told. ~ Faye



Redistricting still up in air:


http://www.oaoa.com/news/districts-69066-see-overcome.html

OK.  Here's the online OA editorial:
IN OUR VIEW: Redistricting fireworks fun to watch


http://www.oaoa.com/opinion/folks-69049-tackling-fun.html

Una Voz Unida & El Plan de Aztlan de Santa Barbara

http://www.csuchico.edu/mecha/documents/EPSB%20Outline.pdf

this was part of a document originally on Art Leal’s website…after a web posting on watchdogs he took it off…

Jason

Yep.  Dragonrider and I saw it on there probably about the same time you did and slammed him in the OA for it when he started blogging that we should just sit back and let the illegal aliens roll over us, that it was inevitable.  Hmmmpppfffttzz!  Educational material, indeed. ~ Faye

UNA VOZ UNIDA

Una Voz Unida is a 501c4 organization which makes it non-profit and allows it to collect donations. They also have a PAC (Political Action Committee) that will endorse candidates and fund their campaigns. To my knowledge, they have not yet obtained their 501c3 status which will allow them to apply for federal grants, but I would guess that this is their next step since they are currently concentrating on “civic education,” one of the primary ways for organizations to obtain federal money.

When Art declared himself a “mestizo,” he was using a code word that identified him with groups that support the takeover of Aztlan. Art put up the Santa Barbara Plan de Aztlan on his original website for Una Voz Unida. The Santa Barbara Plan de Aztlan promotes the takeover of “Atzlan,” a mythical area consisting of the lower southwest United States by “any means necessary” with the end result of kicking European (and any other races other than Chicano) out to include extermination. There are more Plans de Atzlan, all written by various MEChA university campus groups, all saying basically the same things.

http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html

One of the groups Art will be meeting with in San Antonio is MAPA (Mexican-American Political Association). This group, along with La Hermandad Mexicana Natcional, has been successful in electing many of their cohorts to office, including senators and Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Commerce. They are most active in California where they contributed to the elections of Antonio Villagairosa , mayor LA, and Fabian Nunez, speaker of the house in the California legislature. These two attempted to take over the LA school system a while back with the help of Nativo Lopez, current head of MAPA. Navtio Lopez runs what looks like a secret service around Antonio Villagairosa and uses men in red vests with La Hermandad Mexicana Nacional on the back on the vests for crowd control and direction. All have been accused of corruption and misuse of funds.

MAPA was founded by Bert Corona, again, the avowed radical communist, I’ve been yelling about who also founded the school in DC we are sending the migrant kids to.

Art also advertised in Nueva Raza for donations. Check out this site. It’s also Atzlan. oriented.

http://nuevaraza.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/odessa-understanding-political-parties-civic-session-by-ocep-reminder/

A little digging into the Nueva Raza site showed they are connected with the SDS. Yeah, the old Students for a Democratic Society… you know, that group associated with the Weathermen that was so fond of bombing back in the 60’s and 70’s.

http://nuevaraza.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/sds-work-on-287g-stuff/

So, Mayor Melton, et al, you really want to lend credence to Una Voz Unida?