If people put the same importance on their vote as their own heartbeat, we would not suffer our servants in government stealing our right to vote. Your vote is as sacred as your life. Our founders understood this principle when they established our Constitutional Republic.

My belief is that we need to make any election tampering, illegal voting, voter suppression, or vote stealing a capital offense again. The reason is that our right to vote is as sacred as our right to life, right to property, and right to pursue happiness.

By the start of the American Revolution, the death penalty was used in all 13 colonies. The colonies had comparable death statutes which covered arson, piracy, treason, murder, sodomy, burglary, robbery, rape, horse-stealing, slave rebellion, and often counterfeiting. Hanging was the usual sentence.

The Founding Fathers intended to allow for the death penalty in drawing up the US Constitution. Not only did certain provisions of the Constitution - such as the Fifth Amendment - expressly allow for the taking of life, but others - such as the Eighth Amendment - were deliberately phrased in ambiguous ways that suggested even if certain forms of punishment could be banned (such as crucifixions or beheadings) the basic principle of government executions remained permissible if individual states and the federal government wished to legislate for these.

The First Congress adopted the Punishment of Crimes Act, the first listing of federal crimes and their punishment. Crimes punishable by death included: treason, counterfeiting of federal records, disfigurement, and robbery committed in federal jurisdictions or on the high seas.

The first Americans considered election tampering to be a form of treason.

I guarantee that our elections would be as secure as they can be if the penalty for tampering with our elections was death.