By The Numbers - part the sixty ninth

The Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts are, once again as always, claiming voter fraud without, as always, even a mere shred of evidence that raping and murdering wetbacks are voting Damnocrats into office. Even the President. And they mean to stop it.

But, one might muse, what's the fair way to establish eligibilty to vote? At the beginning one had to be, more or less, a rich (if only land holding) white guy to vote. About 6% (lost the link, boo hoo, but various pages make that reference) of the population!! Ain't minority rule grand?

In the states that did hold elections, suffrage was generally restricted to white men who owned property.

What that means: some states assigned electors by the legislature. An even teenyer minority rule!!

Yes, that's what the Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts want to make the (Federal, just like abortion) law again, with no mistake.

If you read the wiki piece, you'll discover a fact not necessarily obvious: the Constitution accrues almost all voting authority to the states, separately. I suppose it's a recurring wet dream for the Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts to have the Right Wingnut Supremes declare the 15th and 19th and 24th amendments unconstituional! And, without doubt, what's left of the Voting Rights act!! Party like it'a 1788!!

Since many of the uber-rich never pay any taxes:

We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley/1989 (or earlier)

May haps the right to vote should accrue only to those who actually pay, not simply file, taxes. So, let's look for some numbers. And, of course, the point is that some number of non-legal immigrants still pay taxes. (The numbers come from different sources and slightly different times.) Green Card status doesn't explicitly confer National or State voting right. There are small exceptions. Suffrage based on paying taxes would change that, of course, and would not, in and of itself, require a Constitutional amendment. It would require a change in Federal law. Good luck with that.

number of eligible voters: 252 million

number of taxpayers: 128.7 million (and, no, I can't find an explanation for the size discrepancy)

number who voted: 122 million

For perspective, Sleepy Joe got 7 million more votes than Bone Spur Samurai^© in 2020, and one could expect that most of that 7 million other difference is largely W2 bound voters. Not likely to be MAGA morons. One hopes, anyway. So, one hopes, a ~14 million landslide for the Damnocrats is feasible.

So, who's more entitled? The Leonas who merely slurp from Uncle Sugar, or those W2 bound losers? It's your choice. But if you don't want dictatorship, which is just how the rich minority keep most of a country's resources in order to stay rich, then giving the vote to those who actually work and pay taxes and live here, irregardless of status, is most fairest. .