While speaking last week in Ohio, President Obama was asked his thoughts on how to control the amount of money in politics and spending on campaigns, to which he responded by noting, among other things, that some nations have mandatory voting.
“If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country,” Obama said, and that has predictably alarmed conservative activists who notoriously do not want everyone to vote, such as Robert Knight of the American Civil Rights Union and Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association.
Discussing Obama’s statement on the “Today’s Issues” radio program this morning, Knight and Wildmon both stated that most people who don’t vote are uninformed and ignorant and so “we don’t want those people voting” in the first place.
Knight went on to claim that Obama is seeking to “flood the nation with illegal immigrants, get them hooked on welfare and then have them vote for Democrats,” which Wildmon said was part of a plan to bring about “the death of the Republican Party as we know it”:
