Re: Protests filed in Bladen and 11 other counties over alleged fraudulent absentee b
Along with no acknowledgement from liberals that there's a need for making sure that the voters are who they say they are and that they have the legal right to vote.
1) Registration is the place in the process where voter eligibility is determined. I can't speak for mythical "liberals" but I support voters properly registering and appropriate checks to make sure those who do register are qualified to vote.
2) There are many ways for voters to verify their identity. For many years in Tennessee, we were required to present one of many forms of ID - voter registration card, DL, SS card, work ID, paycheck stub, etc. There is NO EVIDENCE that using a long list of acceptable IDs resulted in more than trivial amounts of impersonation fraud. So, we changed the rules to restrict ID to just a few forms of ID to address a problem that didn't exist under the old rules.
The answer is almost always that conservatives are just trying to suppress minority votes, which has ZERO truth to it.
So I'm supposed to believe it's merely a coincidence that the NC legislature requested a bunch of voting behavior by race, then targeted the voting patterns of blacks with "surgical precision" but ignored absentee ballots - which are more often used by white conservatives - where all the actual fraud is? Give me a break....
The onle way you can ever come to the conclusion that there is a downside is by assuming that some people can't acquire legal ID.
That's just nonsense. Let's say that I want to suppress rural votes. Easy enough - just make all voting take place in two or three cities, and make all the rural folk drive an hour or two each way to cast a vote while those in the city walk a couple of blocks. CAN all those people make the drive, or vote absentee? Of course! Will some significant number of rural voters be disenfranchised because of the big hurdle we put in the way? Of course.
I'm a FIRM believer that legal ID should be free for all citizens and legal immigrants (I'd even back making it pretty much a requirement for legal transactions).
I've said many times, voting ID as part of a general reform of our stupid and broken system where 50 little voting fiefdoms come up with 50 different sets of rules, is perfectly fine with me. Make registration automatic at age 18, when you move it is changed when you file a change of address with the P.O. or otherwise record your new address online, etc. Fine, then issue everyone a voter ID card and we've done something substantial to address our stupid voting system. I'm all for that kind of reform.
But we have a lot of people who think that investigating equals conviction and since they can't see 100% rock solid proof already, they don't want even an investigation done as a result of their skewed way of thinking.
I can't address what someone else thinks - I'm all for investigating credible accounts of 'voter fraud' or election fraud.
