Voter suppression

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:South Carolina agrees to change voter registration requirements after Democratic officials sue. Almost one million eligible South Carolinians can now register to vote.

https://amp.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article239387333.html?__twitter_impression=true

I totally agree with this change. No reason to have all 9 digits of your SS# on a voter registration form. Interesting this has been in place since 1967.

But, this statement: “This provision is wrong, unconstitutional, and a large part of why nearly one million eligible people in South Carolina remain unregistered to vote,” DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos said in a statement.

..... I question.

Where is she getting the 1 million number from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White rage... LOL. Really sets the tone for the interview. Wack job alert.

I hear nothing in terms of substance, just a lot of race based blaming of white people.

Being reasonable is a cover? She complains about scrubbing voter rolls because people move - people are supposed to vote in the location where they live, and only in the location where they live, how is this prejudicial? The election bodies of the governments are charged with the work of enforcing rules and policies, you can't argue that the enforcement of rules and policies are bad just because you don't like the outcome. A citizen's right to vote comes with the responsibility of following the rules to keeping their voter registration updated.

Rights have responsibilities!!!

+1

Every single European country demands government ID to vote.

You don't want millions of Russians voting in your elections, do you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

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Earlier today I had to show a driving license to access a local pool.

Voting is way more important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

It is suppression, and it’s racist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/how-voter-id-laws-discriminate-study/517218/
https://www.wired.com/story/voter-id-law-algorithm/

But it seems Republicans are cool with interfering with black people’s ability to vote through whatever means possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

It is suppression, and it’s racist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/how-voter-id-laws-discriminate-study/517218/
https://www.wired.com/story/voter-id-law-algorithm/

But it seems Republicans are cool with interfering with black people’s ability to vote through whatever means possible.

You aren't giving people of color much credit here, pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

+1

Earlier today I had to show a driving license to access a local pool.

Voting is way more important.

Voting is a right and accessing a local pool is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

+1

Earlier today I had to show a driving license to access a local pool.

Voting is way more important.

Voting is a right and accessing a local pool is not.

It was a public pool.

It is a right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

+1

Earlier today I had to show a driving license to access a local pool.

Voting is way more important.

Voting is a right and accessing a local pool is not.

And, as a right, we should be sure that those who show up to vote are actually who they say they are.

[Anonymous]

If you want to talk voter suppression, perhaps we need to talk to Noah Berlatsky from NBC.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-voters-motivated-racism-may-be-violating-constitution-can-they-ncna1110356

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

+1

Earlier today I had to show a driving license to access a local pool.

Voting is way more important.

Voting is a right and accessing a local pool is not.

And, as a right, we should be sure that those who show up to vote are actually who they say they are.

+1.

Voting in US elections is a right of US citizens, not Russian trolls.

[Anonymous]

Texas has been violating a law that makes it easier to vote for 27 years.

“U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia said the 1993 National Voter Registration Act requires that Texans be able to register to vote at the same time they go online to renew or update a driver’s license.

Visitors to the Department of Public Safety website, however, must click through to another website, download a form, print it out, fill it in and mail it to their county registrar — extra steps that violate the federal law’s “motor voter” provision designed to encourage voter participation, Garcia said in a written order.”

https://www.statesman.com/news/20200130/texas-in-violation-of-voting-law-us-judge-finds?utm_source=Lone+Star+Project&utm_campaign=3fc36de465-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_13_12_53_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a3eb6877c7-3fc36de465-33745893

[Anonymous]

Some good news: Kansas, after Secretary of State Kris Kobach tried to rig his own election for Governor, is contemplating making the Secretary of State position nonpartisan. Also, any Secretary of State would need to resign before running for a partisan office.
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article240000003.html?__twitter_impression=true
“Kobach condemned the bill Wednesday, saying it’s based on “the illusion that a politician elected in an election without party labels somehow loses all preferences and principles.”

[Anonymous]

US District Judge Eleanor Ross has declared Brian Kemp the loser in a lawsuit brought by journalist Greg Palast and the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda to compel the State of Georgia to open up its complete files on the mass purge of over half a million voters from the rolls.
https://www.gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vote-purge-suit-brought-by-reporter-palast/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

It is suppression, and it’s racist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/how-voter-id-laws-discriminate-study/517218/
https://www.wired.com/story/voter-id-law-algorithm/

But it seems Republicans are cool with interfering with black people’s ability to vote through whatever means possible.

You aren't giving people of color much credit here, pp.

I can see examining the elimination and relocation of polling places for racial discrimination/disparate impact, but i.d. is basic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People can make whatever arguments they'd like, but having to simply show identification that you are eligible to vote is not suppression. People have to make some effort and this is minimal.

It is suppression, and it’s racist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/how-voter-id-laws-discriminate-study/517218/
https://www.wired.com/story/voter-id-law-algorithm/

But it seems Republicans are cool with interfering with black people’s ability to vote through whatever means possible.

You aren't giving people of color much credit here, pp.

I can see examining the elimination and relocation of polling places for racial discrimination/disparate impact, but i.d. is basic.

But what kind of ID? There are number of states in which your hunting license counts as valid ID for voting but your student ID does not.