This is part two of my day-off-curiosity about voting. As noted in the previous post, it is moral obligation to cast your vote. And there has been a bevy of action in State legislatures about voting. So… the moral landscape may be changing. I was curious.
As of mid-February, thirty-three states have introduced, prefiled, or carried over 165 bills to restrict voting access. These proposals primarily seek to: (1) limit mail voting access; (2) impose stricter voter ID requirements; (3) reduce voter registration opportunities; and (4) enable more means and reasons to purge voter roll. But then other state lawmakers are seizing on an energized electorate and persistent interest in democracy reform. By mid-February, thirty-seven states have introduced, prefiled, or carried over 541 bills to expand voting access mostly regarding the same topics listed above.
“Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed.” (Jonah 3:4) I think it noteworthy that Jonah does not announce the reason for the destruction or by whose hand, what the Ninevites can do to avert disaster, only that there is a set time of 40 days. What was the reaction of the Ninevites to Jonah’s proclamation? “When the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.” (v.5) It does not seem as though it took a whole lot to get Nineveh to repent.
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