It seems to me that the position the GOP takes on the subject of illegal aliens voting in our elections is illogical if not absurd.
First, nearly 50 percent of Americans who can vote, do not. That is because they say "one vote doesn't matter" so what is the point. The GOP then says those Americans don't care enough about our system to get involved so we should not worry about how they might have voted.
Second, the GOP then claims that illegal residents are dying to vote. That means that illegals are willing to take a risk of a fine, jail time and then deportation after released from their 5 year prison term in order to cast a ballot that will have very little impact on the outcome of an election.
Ergo, if the 50 percent who can vote and don't, why would an individual illegal risk it all to do what most others don't want to do? How does the GOP reconcile the first reality with the second claim?
The above deals with the question of why would an illegal resident vote. The second part of this issue is how would the illegal resident go about voting if he wanted to take the risk.
To cast a ballot a person must go to a voting station and report giving a name and having that name appear on the voting register. If that name is a person who has previously voted there would appear a signature next to the name. How is the illegal to know what name to give and how to forge his or her signature? There is also the reality that a polling place has poll watchers from each of the major parties in the district. That poll watcher is a resident of that district and would have a very good chance of knowing or at least recognizing the person trying to vote. Even if you don't have to show an ID, the current system would not allow just anyone to vote just because they say they want to.
The only way a person can vote is to be registered prior to the election date. That would require filling out a voting form with name, address and age recorded and avowing that the statement being made is true knowing that a lie, if caught, would result in a 5 year jail time and a $ 250,000 fine (and in the case of an illegal alien, deportation).
Sorry, but none of this make any sense.
