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• Wednesday, September 20, 2006 06:47 PM

  There are protections there already.

  If we can get 'penumbras' that create a privacy that protects things like birth control, abortion, and sodomy, I think we can get a penumbra to give a more rigorous protection for voting out of the 4 amendments that already provide protections for the right to vote. This is just an issue of getting the right Justices up in the court which is significantly easier to do than to change the US Constitution.

  Amendment XV

  Section. 1. 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.

  Section. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  Amendment XIX

  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 sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  Amendment XXIV

  Section. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

  Section. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  Amendment XXVI

  Section. 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

  Section. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  —Exu
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