{"id":5498,"date":"2015-11-06T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T21:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2015-11-06T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T21:19:30","slug":"d-a-king-in-the-dalton-daily-citizen-no-more-unrecorded-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/d-a-king-in-the-dalton-daily-citizen-no-more-unrecorded-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A. King in the Dalton Daily Citizen – No More Unrecorded Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dalton Daily Citizen<\/em><\/p>\n

Opinion<\/p>\n

November 5, 2015<\/p>\n

No more unrecorded votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a Georgian seeking accountability and transparency in government, I send my gratitude for The Daily Citizen\u2019s focus<\/a> on the fact that the super-majority Republican Georgia state Senate has \u2014 and uses \u2014 a system of unrecorded votes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, most Georgians are still unaware that Georgia has been issuing driver\u2019s licenses, official state photo ID cards and public benefits \u2014 including unemployment compensation eligibility \u2014 to a group of illegal aliens since July of 2012.<\/p>\n

Thirty-eight of the 56 members of the state senate are Republicans and they all ran as \u201cconservatives.\u201d State Sen. Josh McKoon, R-Columbus, introduced a bill (SB 6) last November to refine existing law intended to end the above lunacy, but it only drew 12 co-sponsors.<\/a> When SB 6 was not allowed so much as an initial hearing by GOP leadership, McKoon\u2019s floor amendment to stop rewarding illegals with a driver\u2019s licenses was defeated 27-16 \u2014 with an unrecorded hand vote.<\/p>\n

As this newspaper noted, only four co-sponsors supported McKoon\u2019s motion for a machine-counted, permanently recorded vote. On the unrecorded vote, one co-sponsor of SB 6 actually voted against the floor amendment while I watched from the gallery.<\/p>\n

In the state Capitol, it is correctly taken as a matter of course that most people don\u2019t know how their government works. And that fact is wielded as a very effective tool. As a reluctant and self-funded denizen of the Gold Dome for more than a decade, this pro-enforcement immigration activist sadly reports that many legislators\u2019 contempt level for constituents is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n

It should also be noted that to get to a final vote on the nearly $1 billion transportation tax increase, senate leadership used the unrecorded vote rule. By contrast, Gov. Nathan Deal has told us illegal immigration costs the state $2.4 billion every year. Guess which side of these issues the Georgia Chamber of Commerce takes.<\/p>\n

No Democrats supported a recorded vote on the McKoon amendment because they understood that because of the danger of voter memory, it would have likely resulted in Republican approval. We submit this can easily be called \u201cbipartisanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKoon has pledged that no driver\u2019s license\u2013related bill from the House will go through the Senate without another floor amendment aimed at ending the practice of giving any illegal aliens a driver\u2019s license. And he has made it clear that he will introduce a resolution to alter Senate rules to eliminate the unrecorded vote process.<\/p>\n

There is no legislation in the GOP-majority state House to address illegal aliens being encouraged to remain in Georgia with the de facto national ID \u2014 a driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n

Currently, unrecorded votes are winning, \u201cWe the People\u201d are losing.<\/a><\/p>\n

Voters should be asking which side their own legislators are on.<\/a><\/p>\n

D.A. King
\nMarietta<\/p>\n

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Dalton Daily Citizen Opinion November 5, 2015 No more unrecorded votes. As a Georgian seeking accountability and transparency in government, I send my gratitude for The Daily Citizen\u2019s focus on the fact that the super-majority Republican Georgia state Senate has \u2014 and uses \u2014 a system of unrecorded votes. Also, most Georgians are still unaware […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5519,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}