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House Passes Voting Rights Bill Despite Near Unanimous Republican Opposition

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WASHINGTON — The House voted on Friday to reinstate federal oversight of state election law, moving to bolster protections against racial discrimination enshrined in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights statute whose central provision was struck down by the Supreme Court.

Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, who was beaten in 1965 while demonstrating for voting rights in Alabama, banged the gavel to herald approval of the measure, to applause from his colleagues on the House floor. It passed by a vote of 228 to 187 nearly along party lines, with all but one Republican opposed.

The bill has little chance of becoming law given opposition in the Republican-controlled Senate and by President Trump, whose aides issued a veto threat against it this week.

House Passes Voting Rights Bill Despite Near Unanimous Republican Opposition - The New York Times

Its amazing when you consider the party's legacy of putting the right to vote into the constitution, and in 2006, a Republican controlled House passing it 390-33, with the senate voting for it 98-0.

That party, its membership now defending monuments of Confederate Democrats, is no more.
 
The bill has little chance of becoming law given opposition in the Republican-controlled Senate and by President Trump, whose aides issued a veto threat against it this week.

Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!

We're regressing! :doh
 
Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!

We're regressing! :doh

The purpose of the bill in a nut shell, is to prevent states from being able to pass and enforce voter ID laws.

Voter ID laws protect the integrity of our elections. Having to show a legal id at the polls not only assures that those who show up to vote on election day have the legal right to vote in the US, it also helps prevent voter fraud by stopping people from casting someone else's vote, or trying to vote one or more times using fraudulent voter registrations.

The bill deserves to be voted down, and besides that, the federal government has no business getting involved in any state's election laws anyway.
 
House Passes Voting Rights Bill Despite Near Unanimous Republican Opposition - The New York Times

Its amazing when you consider the party's legacy of putting the right to vote into the constitution, and in 2006, a Republican controlled House passing it 390-33, with the senate voting for it 98-0.

That party, its membership now defending monuments of Confederate Democrats, is no more.

Being against this bill just shows more proof that some people dont care about peoples rights or actual voting rights . . its just a show they put on . . they only care about people voting that THEY want to vote . . . so very sad . . . .
 
House Passes Voting Rights Bill Despite Near Unanimous Republican Opposition - The New York Times

Its amazing when you consider the party's legacy of putting the right to vote into the constitution, and in 2006, a Republican controlled House passing it 390-33, with the senate voting for it 98-0.

That party, its membership now defending monuments of Confederate Democrats, is no more.
different bills. GOP also voted in higher percentages for the Voting Rights Act back in the 60's.
 
this is exactly the right strategy going into 2020. Every bill that Pelosi and the democratic caucus have passed in 2018 and 2019 need to be sent back to the House floor in nearly the same form again with nothing but a boilerplate change in subsection D-35a to be voted and passed again. Let them grab the headlines one after another for doing the people's business while the do nothing Republican Senate does nothing but pontificate about how the House has been to obsessed about investigating Trump to do it.
 
The purpose of the bill in a nut shell, is to prevent states from being able to pass and enforce voter ID laws.

Voter ID laws protect the integrity of our elections. Having to show a legal id at the polls not only assures that those who show up to vote on election day have the legal right to vote in the US, it also helps prevent voter fraud by stopping people from casting someone else's vote, or trying to vote one or more times using fraudulent voter registrations.

The bill deserves to be voted down, and besides that, the federal government has no business getting involved in any state's election laws anyway.

The fed's can step in if there is a proven racial discrimination issue according to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Voter ID get's lumped into the same act?
 
the federal government has no business getting involved in any state's election laws anyway.


LMAO
actually it does, its exactly the way the government is designed to work if individual rights are in question.
 
The purpose of the bill in a nut shell, is to prevent states from being able to pass and enforce voter ID laws.

Voter ID laws protect the integrity of our elections. Having to show a legal id at the polls not only assures that those who show up to vote on election day have the legal right to vote in the US, it also helps prevent voter fraud by stopping people from casting someone else's vote, or trying to vote one or more times using fraudulent voter registrations.

The bill deserves to be voted down, and besides that, the federal government has no business getting involved in any state's election laws anyway.
What if demotards put voter ID in the bill as a compromise, you think Trump and the GOP would debate it then?
 
this is exactly the right strategy going into 2020. Every bill that Pelosi and the democratic caucus have passed in 2018 and 2019 need to be sent back to the House floor in nearly the same form again with nothing but a boilerplate change in subsection D-35a to be voted and passed again. Let them grab the headlines one after another for doing the people's business while the do nothing Republican Senate does nothing but pontificate about how the House has been to obsessed about investigating Trump to do it.
All the bills are partisan, why don't you all pass bills that will pass the GOP senate and be signed by the president? Duh.
 
All the bills are partisan, why don't you all pass bills that will pass the GOP senate and be signed by the president? Duh.

Because neither side actually wants to pass anything as they then become accountable. Pretty much everything is done through unelected bureaucrats in some 3 letter agency or the courts now.
 
The purpose of the bill in a nut shell, is to prevent states from being able to pass and enforce voter ID laws.

Voter ID laws protect the integrity of our elections. Having to show a legal id at the polls not only assures that those who show up to vote on election day have the legal right to vote in the US, it also helps prevent voter fraud by stopping people from casting someone else's vote, or trying to vote one or more times using fraudulent voter registrations.

The bill deserves to be voted down, and besides that, the federal government has no business getting involved in any state's election laws anyway.

Voter ID laws are a solution to a problem does not exist. There is no evidence, nor has any ever been found, that the kind of fraud you speak of exists on any level sufficient to impact a national election for president. The laws do far more harm than the alleged problem is designed to solve.

The federal government,as in 'we the people' have an interest to make it as easy to vote as possible.

You'd have a point if it were not the fact that voter ID are a ruse to suppress many a minority, elderly and poor, to vote, and there is ample information on this subject.

It's also well established that the smaller the voter turnout , the more republicans win elections.

Therefore, it is both logical and reasonable to hold as suspect the rights' desire to create voter ID laws.


Voter ID Laws Really Do Discriminate, a New Study Shows | WIRED

What We Know About Voter ID Laws | FiveThirtyEight

States with voter ID laws have seen 'zero decrease' in turnout, NC Republican says | PolitiFact North Carolina
 
House Passes Voting Rights Bill Despite Near Unanimous Republican Opposition - The New York Times

Its amazing when you consider the party's legacy of putting the right to vote into the constitution, and in 2006, a Republican controlled House passing it 390-33, with the senate voting for it 98-0.

That party, its membership now defending monuments of Confederate Democrats, is no more.

It's yet another bill which will reach the Senate and stop there. The stack of such bills, including don't know how many repeals of the ACA, if placed one on top of the other, would be as tall as [Ed.: Enter your own personal guess.]
 
All the bills are partisan, why don't you all pass bills that will pass the GOP senate and be signed by the president? Duh.
Because Mitch McConnell is the Majority leader, and he only passes bills that the majority of his caucus to sign, and only those that Trump will sign and those bills were nothing like what Pelosi and the Dems that won their majority, promised when they got elected. Moscow Mitch and Superbrat Donny do not share the same values and interests with the voters that took Ryan out, and put Pelosi in.

The other problem is that Trump is not a man of his word so what he promises to give on Tuesday, in order to get what he wants, will never be the same as what he decides he must demand that he have, after he talks to his base on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Donald Trump cannot be trusted and by extension neither can any Republican who cowtows to him or cowers beneath him.

When you vote for and nominate a republican with a reputation for lying, cheating and reneging, you have to expect the people on the other side of the negotiating table are likely to get up and walk out. That is exactly what I want and demand any democrat who expects my vote, to do. Never ever negotiate in good faith with someone who does not make it his habit to negotiate in good faith.

Next time, pick someone with more impulse control, more self-discipline and more integrity like any of the Bush klan, or Dole, or Reagan, or Nixon, or Eisenhower, or Goldwater, or Romney, or hell Cruz, or God forbid Jesse Helms, but pick someone who knows that your handshake on a political deal should be the best currency in Washington DC unless you want to be devalued like a Venezuelan Bolivar.

Just look at the hell the GOP had trying to get Trump to agree to key elements of health care deal, a budget bill, or an immigration deal. He could not even understand the issues, let only follow the discussion, let alone frame a counter-offer that would last past blowback from the next Hannity show or Tucker Carlson telecast.

Nope I want my Congressmen to stonewall, obstruct and delay literally every single Trump policy initiative. Deny this man everything until he is gone. There should be no reward for a party who nominates and elect someone who is moral slime and sludge. We will wait until you and your brethren pick someone who knows how to cut a deal and keep to it.
 
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All the bills are partisan, why don't you all pass bills that will pass the GOP senate and be signed by the president? Duh.

This is the reauthorization of a bill written by a Republican, Jim Sensenbrenner, and he voted against it.

Then, it passed the Senate 98-0.

A better question is why won't they support it now?
 
What if demotards put voter ID in the bill as a compromise, you think Trump and the GOP would debate it then?

Stopping voter id laws from being enforced was the bills purpose in the first place. The bill wouldn't even exist if the democratic party opposed voter fraud, but since they do here we are.
 
Voter ID laws are a solution to a problem does not exist. There is no evidence, nor has any ever been found, that the kind of fraud you speak of exists on any level sufficient to impact a national election for president. The laws do far more harm than the alleged problem is designed to solve.

Neither you, nor anyone else can possibly know that. Voter fraud isn't like credit card fraud, where it's discovered when the victim gets billed for things someone else bought. When a person commits voter fraud at the polls, it's almost impossible to detect without requiring an id.




The federal government,as in 'we the people' have an interest to make it as easy to vote as possible.

You'd have a point if it were not the fact that voter ID are a ruse to suppress many a minority, elderly and poor, to vote, and there is ample information on this subject.

That's a load of crap and you know it. To believe that, you would also have to believe a) that minorities are either too stupid, or too lazy to get an id like white people do, b) that the elderly people in the US don't have ID's to begin with, and those incapable of traveling to get one, never in their life heard of mail-in ballots and c) I believe that states requiring an ID to vote, offer id's for free for the poor.

You also know that in the US, it is nearly impossible for an adult to function in our society without legal identification. Without a legal id, you can't travel, can't get a job, can't purchase many prescription drugs, alcohol, or tobacco, can't get a debit or bank card, nor cash a payroll check from any bank, can't receive government grants or assistance such as welfare, food stamps and medicade, and the list goes on and on. I don't know any adult who doesn't have a legal id.


It's also well established that the smaller the voter turnout , the more republicans win elections.

Therefore, it is both logical and reasonable to hold as suspect the rights' desire to create voter ID laws.

In 2019, there were 4 studies conducted about the effects of voter id laws:

* The University of Bologna and Harvard Business School economists found that voter ID laws had "no negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any group defined by race, gender, age, or party affiliation."
* The journal Electoral Studies found that the implementation of voter ID laws in South Carolina reduced overall turnout but did not have a disparate impact.
* A Political Science Quarterly study "Voter ID Laws: The Disenfranchisement of Minority Voters" found that "strict identification laws do not appear to disproportionally suppress voter turnout among minority groups."
* The Atlantic Economic Journal study "Voter ID Laws and Voter Turnout" found no evidence that strict identification laws affect overall voter turnout or black voter turnout.​

The push for voter ID's wasn't some evil plan hatched out of the blue to prevent minorities and poor people from voting. The strong push for voter ID's was the direct result of the public learning about the wide spread involvement in, and/or promotion of, voter fraud and voter registration fraud by community organizations like ACORN. That's it plain and simple.

The democrats obviously believe they benefit greatly from illegal voting, otherwise they wouldn't fight so hard to prevent voter ID laws from being implemented.
 
Neither you, nor anyone else can possibly know that.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...le-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/

More info:
The simple truth about voter fraud - Vox

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites.../Briefing_Memo_Debunking_Voter_Fraud_Myth.pdf
That's a load of crap and you know it.


Source, ACLU:

Voter ID Laws Deprive Many Americans of the Right to Vote
Millions of Americans Lack ID. 11% of U.S. citizens – or more than 21 million Americans – do not have government-issued photo identification.1
Obtaining ID Costs Money. Even if ID is offered for free, voters must incur numerous costs (such as paying for birth certificates) to apply for a government-issued ID.
Underlying documents required to obtain ID cost money, a significant expense for lower-income Americans. The combined cost of document fees, travel expenses and waiting time are estimated to range from $75 to $175.2
The travel required is often a major burden on people with disabilities, the elderly, or those in rural areas without access to a car or public transportation. In Texas, some people in rural areas must travel approximately 170 miles to reach the nearest ID office.3
Voter ID Laws Reduce Voter Turnout. A 2014 GAO study found that strict photo ID laws reduce turnout by 2-3 percentage points,4 which can translate into tens of thousands of votes lost in a single state.5
Voter ID Laws Are Discriminatory
Minority voters disproportionately lack ID. Nationally, up to 25% of African-American citizens of voting age lack government-issued photo ID, compared to only 8% of whites.6
States exclude forms of ID in a discriminatory manner. Texas allows concealed weapons permits for voting, but does not accept student ID cards. Until its voter ID law was struck down, North Carolina prohibited public assistance IDs and state employee ID cards, which are disproportionately held by Black voters. And until recently, Wisconsin permitted active duty military ID cards, but prohibited Veterans Affairs ID cards for voting.
Voter ID laws are enforced in a discriminatory manner. A Caltech/MIT study found that minority voters are more frequently questioned about ID than are white voters.7
Voter ID laws reduce turnout among minority voters. Several studies, including a 2014 GAO study, have found that photo ID laws have a particularly depressive effect on turnout among racial minorities and other vulnerable groups, worsening the participation gap between voters of color and whites.8


In 2019, there were 4 studies conducted about the effects of voter id laws:

Just as many studies come to the opposite conclusion, and I have evidence on what Republicans really up to, videos below, from the mouth of republicans.
The push for voter ID's wasn't some evil plan hatched out of the blue to prevent minorities and poor people from voting. The strong push for voter ID's was the direct result of the public learning about the wide spread involvement in, and/or promotion of, voter fraud and voter registration fraud by community organizations like ACORN. That's it plain and simple.

The democrats obviously believe they benefit greatly from illegal voting, otherwise they wouldn't fight so hard to prevent voter ID laws from being implemented.

You are entitled to your opinion, but not entitled to your own facts. The FACT is that you are lying. Dems do NOT believe nor encourage nor desire illegal voting of any kind, but the truth is, there is so little of it, that to create voter ID laws prevent far more legit voting than the illegit voting they are allegedly designed to prevent. It's a matter of being penny wise and pound foolish. Quit lying.


Vote ID is a solution to a non existent problem, and they DO make life difficult for that percentage of the population who do not have them. and who, because of their difficult life's circumstance they find themselves in, give up on trying to obtain them. ( yes, they do exist, sorry to pop your right wing bubble ) and, as such, are unnecessary. For over a century, no ID was required, an now, all of the sudden, at a time which repubs figured out that when fewer people vote, they win, now they need "voter ID".

And, alas, Republicans even admit it:

YouTube

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Bull**** times 100.
 
The purpose of the bill in a nut shell, is to prevent states from being able to pass and enforce voter ID laws.

Voter ID laws protect the integrity of our elections. Having to show a legal id at the polls not only assures that those who show up to vote on election day have the legal right to vote in the US, it also helps prevent voter fraud by stopping people from casting someone else's vote, or trying to vote one or more times using fraudulent voter registrations.

The bill deserves to be voted down, and besides that, the federal government has no business getting involved in any state's election laws anyway.
True. It cracks down on the abuses by some states. I support it.
 
All the bills are partisan, why don't you all pass bills that will pass the GOP senate and be signed by the president? Duh.

They will just oppose it out of spite.
 
Because Mitch McConnell is the Majority leader, and he only passes bills that the majority of his caucus to sign, and only those that Trump will sign and those bills were nothing like what Pelosi and the Dems that won their majority, promised when they got elected. Moscow Mitch and Superbrat Donny do not share the same values and interests with the voters that took Ryan out, and put Pelosi in.

The other problem is that Trump is not a man of his word so what he promises to give on Tuesday, in order to get what he wants, will never be the same as what he decides he must demand that he have, after he talks to his base on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Donald Trump cannot be trusted and by extension neither can any Republican who cowtows to him or cowers beneath him.

When you vote for and nominate a republican with a reputation for lying, cheating and reneging, you have to expect the people on the other side of the negotiating table are likely to get up and walk out. That is exactly what I want and demand any democrat who expects my vote, to do. Never ever negotiate in good faith with someone who does not make it his habit to negotiate in good faith.

Next time, pick someone with more impulse control, more self-discipline and more integrity like any of the Bush klan, or Dole, or Reagan, or Nixon, or Eisenhower, or Goldwater, or Romney, or hell Cruz, or God forbid Jesse Helms, but pick someone who knows that your handshake on a political deal should be the best currency in Washington DC unless you want to be devalued like a Venezuelan Bolivar.

Just look at the hell the GOP had trying to get Trump to agree to key elements of health care deal, a budget bill, or an immigration deal. He could not even understand the issues, let only follow the discussion, let alone frame a counter-offer that would last past blowback from the next Hannity show or Tucker Carlson telecast.

Nope I want my Congressmen to stonewall, obstruct and delay literally every single Trump policy initiative. Deny this man everything until he is gone. There should be no reward for a party who nominates and elect someone who is moral slime and sludge. We will wait until you and your brethren pick someone who knows how to cut a deal and keep to it.
WEll, too bad get over it!!! Trump can just do executive orders since you all won't get off your lazy asses and legislate. Trump will be gone in 2025.
 
Because Mitch McConnell is the Majority leader, and he only passes bills that the majority of his caucus to sign, and only those that Trump will sign and those bills were nothing like what Pelosi and the Dems that won their majority, promised when they got elected. Moscow Mitch and Superbrat Donny do not share the same values and interests with the voters that took Ryan out, and put Pelosi in.

The other problem is that Trump is not a man of his word so what he promises to give on Tuesday, in order to get what he wants, will never be the same as what he decides he must demand that he have, after he talks to his base on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Donald Trump cannot be trusted and by extension neither can any Republican who cowtows to him or cowers beneath him.

When you vote for and nominate a republican with a reputation for lying, cheating and reneging, you have to expect the people on the other side of the negotiating table are likely to get up and walk out. That is exactly what I want and demand any democrat who expects my vote, to do. Never ever negotiate in good faith with someone who does not make it his habit to negotiate in good faith.

Next time, pick someone with more impulse control, more self-discipline and more integrity like any of the Bush klan, or Dole, or Reagan, or Nixon, or Eisenhower, or Goldwater, or Romney, or hell Cruz, or God forbid Jesse Helms, but pick someone who knows that your handshake on a political deal should be the best currency in Washington DC unless you want to be devalued like a Venezuelan Bolivar.

Just look at the hell the GOP had trying to get Trump to agree to key elements of health care deal, a budget bill, or an immigration deal. He could not even understand the issues, let only follow the discussion, let alone frame a counter-offer that would last past blowback from the next Hannity show or Tucker Carlson telecast.

Nope I want my Congressmen to stonewall, obstruct and delay literally every single Trump policy initiative. Deny this man everything until he is gone. There should be no reward for a party who nominates and elect someone who is moral slime and sludge. We will wait until you and your brethren pick someone who knows how to cut a deal and keep to it.
The Bushs, are you kidding me? The establishment? Hell no. We are not the dems who actually used to be populist and championed working class policies.
 
elections should be controlled federally to prevent states from making it harder to vote.
 
The purpose of the bill in a nut shell, is to prevent states from being able to pass and enforce voter ID laws.

Voter ID laws protect the integrity of our elections. Having to show a legal id at the polls not only assures that those who show up to vote on election day have the legal right to vote in the US, it also helps prevent voter fraud by stopping people from casting someone else's vote, or trying to vote one or more times using fraudulent voter registrations.

The bill deserves to be voted down, and besides that, the federal government has no business getting involved in any state's election laws anyway.

Republicans, for their part, argued that the bill would trample on states’ ability to dictate their own election rules by abusing measures in place to prevent voter disenfranchisement.

Voter ID is an identity fraud measure.
 
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