Illegal voting could be big business

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments whether or not voters need to prove citizenship to register to vote.

What’s the big deal?

Not requiring citizenship to vote could be good for the economy.

Forget the curmudgeons and old fogies who see voting as a sacred act. Let’s make money off the allure of free and open elections.

Many people already come to America to have children. Residential houses, or birthing barns, allow pregnant women from around the world to live here until their child is born. The child, of course, is automatically an American citizen. It is a good, if slightly disreputable, business.

Let’s get the illegal voter business, too.

Foreign nationals could travel around the U.S., decide which state or states they want to vote in and register. Tours could even take them from precinct to precinct until they found one they liked. They would have to spend money here on lodging, rental cars, food and the like.

If enough came, the economy would boom. These voters would even form their own demographic group and help decide elections just like real American citizens. Candidates could target their advertising to them and collect money from them. Highly paid lobbyists could push their agendas.

The only drawback is that these illegal voters might ask for absentee ballots and vote for years without returning to the U.S.

That would break all the rules of fairness. If we are going to let them vote illegally, surely they should follow some rules. So, instead of the nasty requirement of having only citizens vote, we should simply require that illegal voters have to do so on U.S. soil. That means they would have to come back often and spend even more money.

It would be good for the economy, and it would put an end to those disreputable birthing barns.

Gordon Forgey

Publisher