Re:IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your ...
by lp0_on_fire on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:57PM
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Given that citizens themselves don't have a right to vote under the US constitution I'm curious how it's "pretty well-established" that requiring an ID to vote is unconstitutional.
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Re:IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your ...
by titusjohnson on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:33PM
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Given that your first statement is an easily dismissible falsehood, how would we rate your level of understanding to even begin explaining that Payment for Rights isn't legal in the US?
Re:IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your ...
by lp0_on_fire on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:03PM
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Please cite the specific article or amendment in the US Federal Constitution that explicitly gives citizens the right to vote.
Re:IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your ...
by titusjohnson on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:35PM
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Re:IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your ...
by AnonMessiah on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:29PM
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This, the 14th amendment, doesn't give you the right to vote, this says you can't be denied voting based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
The 19th amendment says it cannot be denied due to sex, the 24th says there can't be a poll tax, the 26th say you can't be denied because of your age as long as you're over 18. There is no right to vote in the U.S. constitution or Bill of Rights, because the "Founding Fathers" were a bunch or racist elitists who thought that common people were too stupid to look out for their own best interest.
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Re:IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your ...
by whateveracct on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:45AM
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You should read up on "negative rights"
"Citizens shall not be denied X" is as strong as rights are expressed in the Constitution.
This is like saying the Constitution doesn't give people the right of free speech because it's expressed in a negative rights way (govt shall not impede)
All this was high school civics stuff - did you get to take such a class? I know high school in America is all over the place.
Re:IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your ...
by titusjohnson on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:55AM
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Somehow you managed to read 4 different Amendments to the Constitution, all of which use the wording "The right of (citizen clause X) to vote shall not (restriction clause y)", and somehow you come away with "there is no right to vote, it's never been in there and it's not now".