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The Foundation

Voter Protection Pledge

"I pledge to the voters of the State of Minnesota that I will support all efforts to institute a requirement to show photo I.D. to access a ballot in any election for public office in the state."

The Minnesota Voters Alliance is sponsoring an initiative to request all 490 statewide candidates sign the above pledge to protect voters and the integrity of elections. (See current tally)

 

League of Women Voters complaint will be filed and POSTED ON TUESDAY, September 7th.

Photo I.D. petition party Sept. 14.

Our main goals are to:

  1. Protect the integrity of the vote through a photo I.D. requirement at the polls.

  2. Stop Instant Runoff Voting (IRV).  Despite proponent claims and media reports,  the recent Supreme Court  ruling DID NOT declare IRV to be constitutional. (see news)
  3. Promote the preservation of our right to elect our Judges, which is now being threatened.
  4. Restore partisan-basis municipal elections so each party can be represented.

We need to stop the erosion of our franchise rights.

Our surveys show that most voters said they had virtually "no clue" who they voted for in various municipal, school district and judicial elections.

Best viewed using I.E.

 

A Nonpartisan Masquerade: letter to the Brainerd Dispatch

Duluth Petition

Radio Ad

 

Andy Cilek spoke with Joe Soucheray, on  October 14th -2nd hour.

Andy talks with Don Shelby in December 2008. Click here.

He has also appeared with Jason Lewis on 8/24/2007.

 

Recommended links:

ncvoter.net

neopopulism.org

saintpaulsanity.org

employeefreedom.org

 

 

 

“I support a photo ID requirement. ... Requiring one and giving it free of charge gives those at the poverty level a tool that enables them to independently participate in the economic process and the election process.”

- Andrew Young, former US State Rep, GA; Atlanta mayor and United States Ambassador

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"IRV will alienate voters; and remove them further from the elective process! "

- Michael Degnan,

PhD Philosophy

Univ. of St. Thomas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The truth is in-controvertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill 

 

 

 

 

 

"The franchise rights of the voters must be preserved at all costs!"

-Dr. Terrence F. Flower

Physics Chr.  St. Kate's;

MN Assoc. of  Scholars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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To insure the integrity of elections, photo I.D. should be required.

Concern over vote fraud has revealed a need for voter I.D.   Whenever an illegal or illegitimate vote is cast, it diminishes the effectiveness of all the legitimate votes cast by legal voters.

We have started a petition drive to get this going in St. Paul.  If successful we will expand it to other areas of the State. (See St.Paul Photo I.D.)

Photo I.D. is required for nearly every important transaction in life. It should also be required for voting.

The U. S. Supreme Court recently upheld an Indiana law requiring photo I.D. (see Opinion)  Congressman Keith Ellison wrote an Op Ed commenting on the Court's decision. (see Ellison ) (see our response)

We polled 250 voters in September 2008. A staggering 237 out of 250 strongly favored the photo ID requirement! A Rasmussen poll, October 2008, showed that 76% favor voter photo I.D.

Update: A new Rasmussen poll showed 80% supported Photo ID

Who could oppose protecting the integrity of the vote? 

More to come...


Major areas of concern:

Instant Runoff Voting should be stopped:

Click here for our July Editorial from the Pioneer Press!

IRV is undemocratic because it counts the secondary choices of some voters while counting only the first choice votes of others!

It eliminates the primaries which play a vital role in the electoral process; It creates false majorities, suppresses minority viewpoints and its structure makes it susceptible to strategic manipulation.

But the worst aspect of IRV is that, as the Supreme Court recently admitted, “a voter cannot be sure that his or her vote for a candidate will help, rather than hurt, that candidate.”

The IRV election format is clearly unconstitutional, as said the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1915:

 

“The quotations made from the different cases are NOT chance expressions.  They are indicative of the idea, which permeates all legal thought, that when a voter votes for the candidate of his choice, his vote must be counted one, and it cannot be defeated or its effect lessened, except by the vote of another elector voting for one.”

 

See the Appellants’ Principal Brief submitted to the MN Supreme Court

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Judicial offices should remain elective:

There is an effort underway, by a group of (so-called nonpartisan) political insiders known as the Quie Commission, who are attempting to remove our constitutional right to elect judges.

They want to create a panel of bureaucrats to choose them for us. We strongly oppose this effort!  We believe that an election system, not a retention system, places voters in the strongest position to influence the judicial process.

This issue was fully debated in the 1857 Constitutional Convention, with the delegates ultimately deciding on an election system. Once we give up our right to vote, we will never get it back.

We should fix our election system, not scrap it.

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The Minnesota Voters Alliance is a citizens' group formed in the interest of liberty, transparency in government and a well-informed electorate.

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