Voter suppression

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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.

Maybe that is because hunting licenses require that you submit a state driver's license in order to verify your residency. Student IDs don't.

[Anonymous]

Getting an i.d. just isn't that hard if you are an American.

African Americans can be registered for school with all the normal papers but we can't use those same birth certificates and lease agreements to get a license or state I'd? Gtfo.

[Anonymous]

“In Texas, officials in mostly white Waller County, citing cost concerns, announced that they would not make an early voting site available on the campus of a historically black university. Then the state passed a law effectively requiring other communities to take similar action.

A Tennessee law threatens third-party groups that register citizens to vote with criminal penalties if they make mistakes on forms or the forms arrive incomplete. The state’s governor, a Republican, said the law will make elections fairer.

And in Florida, state lawmakers overrode the results of a ballot initiative restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences. Lawmakers who opposed the initiative insisted it was up to them to define what constitutes a completed sentence.

States across the country have, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision striking down part of the Voting Rights Act, moved swiftly and repeatedly to reshape almost every element of voting. Lawmakers are using a variety of race and age-neutral measures with explanations as pragmatic as cost and as prudent as election security. Now, with Election Day less than 10 months away, a range of lawsuits are pending or have recently been resolved challenging what Marc Elias, a lawyer working for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, described as “nothing short of a tidal wave” of voter suppression targeting black and young voters.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/presidential-voting-season-tidal-wave-voter-suppression-washing-over-multiple-n1128041?fbclid=IwAR0bj28gfg2gIgeeLpBMxvs6CfF4CfIXpAIKoOWf-hnpUG2ZF15aukUH6XU

[Anonymous]

Most of the Wisconsinites targeted for removal from voter rolls cast ballots in 2016.

“Nearly 200,000 of those who were sent the letters — 86% — voted in the 2016 presidential election or an election since then. That group has voted an average of two times in the three years since then.”

https://www.jsonline.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2020%2F02%2F10%2Fwisconsin-voter-purge-many-removal-list-reliable-voters%2F4681999002%2F

[Anonymous]

South Dakota Republicans rejected proposed legislation allowing Native American tribal IDs to count for voter registration.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-dakota/articles/2020-02-07/gop-dominated-house-bars-tribal-ids-for-voter-registration

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Getting an i.d. just isn't that hard if you are an American.

African Americans can be registered for school with all the normal papers but we can't use those same birth certificates and lease agreements to get a license or state I'd? Gtfo.

Clearly you have never lived in a place where the county clerk was the only place to do that, and it wasn't transit accessible and you don't have a car. Believe it or not, there are jurisdictions that have made getting an ID or registering to vote incredible difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republicans always get more upset over a handful of fraudulent votes than they do about thousands of legal voters being denied their right to vote.

Who got denied their right to vote? It must be very bad in progressive land if we’re trotting our voter suppression...again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe that is because hunting licenses require that you submit a state driver's license in order to verify your residency. Student IDs don't.

Or is it because hunters are more likely to vote Republican while students are more likely to vote Democrat. I'm going with that theory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Republicans always get more upset over a handful of fraudulent votes than they do about thousands of legal voters being denied their right to vote.

Who got denied their right to vote? It must be very bad in progressive land if we’re trotting our voter suppression...again.

People who had been registered but got thrown off the rolls and could only cast a provisional ballot, if anything. You should really read some of the handy links in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Republicans always get more upset over a handful of fraudulent votes than they do about thousands of legal voters being denied their right to vote.

Who got denied their right to vote? It must be very bad in progressive land if we’re trotting our voter suppression...again.

Google it, hundreds of thousands in Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin.

[Anonymous]

A federal judge yesterday declined to dismiss a voting rights lawsuit brought by Native American tribes and voters who said they are being disenfranchised by North Dakota’s voter identification law. Scheduled for trial in May.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6772939-2020-02-10-DKT-079-DKT-ORDER-Denying-Defs-Motion.html
Background on the law here: https://publicintegrity.org/politics/federal-judge-wont-stay-north-dakota-voter-id-law-native-americans-say-hurts-them/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Getting an i.d. just isn't that hard if you are an American.

African Americans can be registered for school with all the normal papers but we can't use those same birth certificates and lease agreements to get a license or state I'd? Gtfo.

Clearly you have never lived in a place where the county clerk was the only place to do that, and it wasn't transit accessible and you don't have a car. Believe it or not, there are jurisdictions that have made getting an ID or registering to vote incredible difficult.

No I don't but my family is from a Southern town so small it's not even on a map. They all have i.d.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how no other country lets you vote in a government election without a legitimate ID.

Funny the level of ignorance you show: I am entitled to vote in UK elections and have NEVER shown ID when voting.

Same here. Not sure how long that’s going to last though.

[Anonymous]

North Carolina Appeals Court blocks NC’s voter ID law, saying it would "disproportionately impact African American voters to their detriment” — now the second court to stop this discriminatory limit to voting access for 2020.
https://appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=2&pdf=38774

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republicans always get more upset over a handful of fraudulent votes than they do about thousands of legal voters being denied their right to vote.

Uh, yeah suuurrree. “Legal” voters. According to whom? We all know the Dems want to round up illegals and people with dead persons’ ids to ratchet up their votes. I mean, how else will you pinko lefties win an election. . Sorry, just couldn’t help teasing. It’s so easy.