Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
Of course the obvious answer is that:

Voting is for legal registered residents... not illegal ones.
One would have thought, if the state is capable of keeping track of your ability to pay taxes, it is capable of keeping track of your right or privilege to vote. In the UK, the franchise has historically been a privilege that has been steadily extended to an ever greater proportion of the population, so denying it to certain sections doesn't break any principles (for there were none to start with). But the US has famously based its foundation on the principle that taxation should be directly linked to representation, so denying it to certain sections seems that much more outrageous.

I find it amusing that Rabbit believes in the principle that the citizenry should be allowed arms to defend their freedom against the government, yet he ignores the even more fundamental principle that led the founders to proclaim their freedom in the first place. Surely he should be pressing for all taxpayers to be given the franchise, and for measures to be passed to allow them to do so.