“If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposal rule?” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the committee’s top Democrat, asked Steiner.
“Under our proposed regulation, no,” Steiner replied.
I’d put it differently. The Constitution is not self-enforcing. It doesn’t have magic powers. That’s why corrupt office-holders must be removed.
And if the corrective provisions to do that within the system are blocked, the people have to take appropriate and proportionate measures, as Jefferson and other founders wrote about.