The Voting Rights Rehabilitation Act of 2012

Be it known that:

Any individual born within the several States, territories or dependencies of the United States to at least one parent who is a born or naturalized American citizen shall be considered an American citizen. Any individual born outside the several States, territories or dependencies of the United States to parents, both of whom are American citizens, shall be considered an American citizen. Any individual born outside the several States, territories or dependencies of the United States to one parent claiming American citizenship shall be eligible for citizenship, subject to review, but shall not be designated "natural born." No individual born within the several States, territories or dependencies of the United States to non-citizen parents shall be considered a citizen of the United States.

Any born or naturalized American citizen, having reached the age of majority, shall be entitled to one (1) vote, to be exercised at his discretion in any legitimate electoral process within his residential jurisdiction. Any individual or entity attempting to exercise the voting right of a deceased individual shall join that individual in his tomb.

Any citizen providing valid proof of high school graduation or GED qualification shall be entitled to one (1) additional vote.

Any citizen providing valid proof that he/she is presently serving or has been honorably discharged from any branch of the armed services shall be entitled to one (1) additional vote. In the event of conscientious objection or medical deferral, alternative service in fulfillment of this requirement may be considered on an individual basis. AmeriCorps shall not receive this consideration.

Any citizen providing valid proof of college graduation from an accredited institution shall be entitled to one (1) additional vote. Advanced degrees, while ineligible as a means to accrue additional votes, shall not be cause for removal of votes previously accrued, except in the case of tenured university professors.

Any citizen providing valid proof of marriage shall be entitled to one (1) additional vote. This accrued vote shall be lost in the event of divorce, but accrued again in the event of remarriage, up to and including a third marriage, but no more than one (1) marriage vote may ever be accrued. The widowed shall be exempt from this provision. Any citizen with more than three marriages shall be considered a lost cause.

Any citizen providing valid proof of home ownership shall be entitled to one (1) additional vote. This provision applies to the primary residence only; additional domiciles or properties, even if used exclusively by the owner, shall accrue no additional votes. This shall be known as the Rangel rule.

Any citizen providing valid proof of parenthood shall be entitled to one (1) additional vote. Never-married parents shall be ineligible for this provision. Divorced parents remain eligible provided that all responsibilities to the progeny of the marriage are discharged faithfully and in a timely manner. The widowed shall be exempt from this provision. Additional votes shall not be accrued by the bearing of additional children, as this would unfairly disadvantage post-modern leftists and the sexually confused.

Any individual providing valid proof of business ownership, resulting in the legal employment, in compliance with all applicable regulations, of two (2) or more non-family workers shall be eligible for one (1) additional vote. No enterprise colloquially known as a family, such as the Manson family, is necessarily excluded from this provision; however, crime families, regardless of number of employees, shall be excluded from this provision.

For the duration of time that the United States operates under a progressive taxation system, one (1) additional vote for each tax-paying tax bracket, up to a maximum of three (3) additional votes, may be accrued. No citizen who pays no federal income tax shall be eligible for this provision.

Any citizen receiving direct unearned benefit from tax monies shall not be eligible for any additional vote accrual beyond the one (1) conferred by citizenship. Earned unemployment, veteran and retirement benefits are exempt from this provision. The concept of what constitutes "earned" shall be examined on a case-by-case basis.

Additional votes may not be accrued through public service or professional achievement, especially when determined by legislatures or appointed bureaucracies according to perceived social equity or value.

Inasmch as the United States was envisioned as a meritocracy, dedicated to actual fairness and honest justice, with an eye to the general welfare and the greatest good for the greatest number, the Voting Rights Rehabilitation Act of 2012 shall provide for the accrual of not less than one (1) vote and not more than eleven (11) votes to every born or naturalized American citizen. This bill is now submitted to committee for perusal and revision.


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