Who gets to vote?

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia repeatedly asserts that there is no right to vote. Legislation since the 1960s is evidently unconstitutional, even though the Voting Rights Act addressed the impression of state restrictions upon peoples' RIGHT to vote, and was repeatedly reinstated by Congress.

All of the recent efforts of right wing legislators to make it harder to vote have only to do with shifting power to those who already have.

Is a "Poll Tax" illegal? Make it so people who don't share your wealth status have to stand 12 hours in line to maybe get a vote, and it appears that the "tax," along with "literacy" tests and "grandfather clauses" point that way. "Maybe" get a vote has to do with "provisional" ballots, which may or may not get counted. The restrictions on provisional ballots may require that the voter appear at the registrar's office in a short time period to PROVE that they voted legally

Is Voter "fraud" is a major problem? Well, then force Native Americans to PROVE they're not committing a crime by trying to register to vote and then showing up at the polls. Oh, yeah, that's another Poll Tax - the place where you have to register is 40 or so miles away, and it's now written into the law that you can't register on voting day. If you don't have a "valid" ID, tough; spend time trying to get the ever limited form of ID that are "legal." In the USA, it used to be that a person committing a crime was brought to justice. Lately, one has to prove an absence of criminal behaviour. Someone explain why a person would risk a felony conviction for voter fraud. To claim that restricting the number of early voting days, or the number of voting booths in a district is another form of denying people who live in the wrong places or classes their voices. Voter "fraud" is not a problem; ELECTION "fraud" (the attempts to prevent the "wrong" people from voting)  is. Of the 182,000 "non-citizens" that Florida tried to purge from the voter rolls in 2012, the list was pared to 198 after scrutiny. In 2000, nearly 90,000 ex-felons, as identified by Choice Point/Data Base Technologies, were purged from the rolls, although Greg Palast found that a significant number (nearly all) were flagged on "similar" names, had not committed a felony in Florida, had not committed a felony until (Katherine Harris' office data) SEVEN years after the list was assembled - evidently revealed by a time machine. See "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" for excruciating detail.

Attempting to register or vote illegally is a FELONY. A couple of instances come to mind: Mitt Romney registering to vote in Massachusetts, using his son's unfinished basement as his address, and then voting, and James O'Keefe allegedly attempting to obtain a ballot using a false ID. He's still subpoenaed to appear in NH for that stunt, in which he didn't succeed in getting a ballot.

The effort is to PREVENT people from voting; to create minority rule; to deny the populace a voice; to set up a system of apartheid.