Electoral Security Act of 2024

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### Official Title

*An Act to secure the safety and security of elections in the Chawosaurian world*

## Popular Action

### Question

"Should Religious Chawosaurians be allowed to vote?"

### Status

Likely to pass

In one of the last laws passed by the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government, the **Electoral Security Act of 2024** is a Chawosaurian law that bans Religious Chawosaurians from voting. Surprisingly, it was passed on a party-line vote instead of the typical bipartisan unanimity. It received Independent Checker approval and it was signed into law by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker.

The law here prohibits Religious Chawosaurians from voting, this effects Chawosaurian Christians, Chawosaurian Jews, Chawosaurian Muslims, and several other religious groups. Religious Chawosaurians demanded the law to be repealed and that they have a right to vote, but Supreme Leader Parker stated "we see the impact of religious people voting, just look at what is going on in the United States, religious voters are nothing but trouble". The major sponsor of the bill, Carlos da Silva, stated "religious voting is dangerous". Chawosaurian public opinion is highly supportive of the law, polls show that 93% of Chawosaurians agree that it is "too dangerous" to let religious people vote. Chawosaurian historian Charles Basilica stated "America's white evangelical voters have showed the world over and over again that religious people absolutely cannot be trusted with the awesome responsibility wielded by citizens to elect lawmakers who will pass laws that effect the everyday lives of ordinary people". Criticism of the law comes from the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, who opposes the law as discrimination, a violation of due process rights, and fear-mongering.

The penalty of violating this law is that a religious person who votes illegally will be sentenced via jury to life imprisonment for the crime of electoral fraud. The law requires religious identification before being allowed to vote, and an attempt to vote by a religious person will result in arrest and conviction to life imprisonment for attempted electoral fraud. In other words, in order to be allowed to vote, voters have to be irreligious.

What provoked the passage of this law is that in the United States, the voting power of White Evangelical Christians has unleashed disastrous consequences at the expense of groups in America that these evangelicals have a historical discontent for. LGBT Americans were constantly abused by conservative politicians elected by white evangelicals, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, leading to a wave of mass restrictions on abortion that women need to avoid negative risks of pregnancy such as miscarrages or avoid the financial burden of unplanned pregnancies, and these conservative politicians sought to establish a government that overrepresents Christians at the expense of religious and secular minorities in the United States, making their voices irrelevant compared to Christian voices.

Chawosaurian lawmakers feared the same consequences if religious people are allowed to vote in Chawosauria. Thus, this very law was born.