Kansas Voting Disqualification Amendment - Mental Illness

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Don-N-Kansas wrote:

I might be a little off base here, but isn't it a guaranteed right of all American citizens to be able to cast a ballot, of course states may impose individual disqualifiers in some instances, like some states removing the right to vote from felons because of past criminal acts but it isn’t like persons who have been determined to be “mentally ill", made the decision to be that way on their own volition, or by any act on their part.
Now I might agree to those not being “mentally competent” as a disqualifier, but not “mentally ill”.
To me it is just much too broad of a term.
And just who gets to determine if someone is "mentally ill"?
I know several people, many of the type right here on Topix, that figure - anyone that doesn't agree with them or their opinion, must be 'mentally ill'.
The next thing you know, voters will have to pass an “IQ” test to be able to vote.
Of course now that I think about it…
Naaa, just kidding ~

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I have to commend you on the comment. My understanding from my discussion with Senator King is that the purpose of this legislation is to REMOVE the mental health disqualifer language from the Kansas Constitution...not add it.
As your the comments about the average voter being brainwashed, I have to agree. Just look at some of the replies to those who are willing to stand up for a position. If it goes against the way the ruling party wishes them to think; they move to destroy that person.

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Don-N-Kansas wrote:

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I was aware of that, my comment on states being able to impose their own disqualifiers was just a statement of fact, not prediction for KS.
One of the first things I did before replying in this thread was go to the Kansas Constitution website and view Article 5 sec. 2:
http://www.kslib.info/government-information/...
But what I can't under stand is: Is this measure BACK on the 2012 ballot?
QUOTE: "The Kansas Voting Disqualification Amendment, also known as Constitutional Amendment Question 2, was on the November 2, 2010 ballot as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment in the state of Kansas, where it was approved. The measure would eliminate mental illness as a voting disqualification. According to supporters of the amendment, a "mental illness" category was too general and affected as much as 25 percent of Kansas residents." :END QUOTE
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Kansas_... (2010)

Super Jeezus wrote:

I HAVE RISEN!!!....but I am going back to bed

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et one wrote:

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How about you check in at 4 County Mental Health and get a vacation at Larned State Hospital for some sorely needed treatment.

Super Jeezus wrote:

<quoted text>Pray to me for a sense of humor and you may receive it. Bless thee brotha

What wrote:

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Really?????

Beaner wrote:

I do not believe it will be in the best interests of the people of the state of Kansas to strip the legislature of the authority to pass any laws of any kind. They are our lawmaking body and supposed to have Kansas citizens best interests at heart. I also realize that from the legislature's voting record of recent years, most people here in Kansas think most of the the legislature has mental illness also. I will go no on this one.

et one wrote:

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How about you check in at 4 County Mental Health and get a vacation at Larned State Hospital for some sorely needed treatment.

Steve Seefeld wrote:

I tried to reply to you Don, but it didn't post. Anyway, I agree on the issue of mental illness being a disqualifier as being too broad a definition.
One persons mental illness is sometimes just anothers normal way of life.