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Voter Suppression

Bullseye said:
Nonsense. You're just spewing partisan poppycock. Voting "periods" used to be one day, during certain hours, or you had to apply for an absentee ballots. Now we allow early voting, mail in ballots, even provisional ballots at polling stations.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/us/new-gop-bid-to-limit-voting-in-swing-states.html

It's fact...Republican led legislatures in swing states have been reducing the number of days you could vote.

You'd figure that, would you. Except if the controlling party also benefited from those additional votes the "investigation" probably wasn't all that thorough.
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Can you link the story?
 
OscarLevant said:
I don't even think it's legal to require proof of citizenship. I don't know but many states do not require it. I know California doesn't, I wasn't asked for proof of citizenship when I register to vote
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Are you sure. This would suggest differently
 Notice the first sentence under "qualifications to vote".
 
Bullseye said:
LOL, Now show me where the GOP actually said that rather than some accusatory bs from the official newspaper of the far left. .
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What's the point. I could link multiple articles where GOP members have stated their voter laws are to win elections for Republicans. You apparently won't read anything not from...whatever specific news source is far right enough for you.

How many friggin' days do you need? Used to be one day.
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What's the point of limiting it? What's the point of shrinking the number of days? The people typically hit the hardest are people that work in jobs that won't let them off to vote.
 
Bullseye said:
Are you sure. This would suggest differently
 Notice the first sentence under "qualifications to vote".
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You're confusing qualifications with proof. I'm replying to the words you use you said proof. Of course you have to be a citizen but they didn't ask me to prove it. Where does it say proof is required?
 
OscarLevant said:
You're confusing qualifications with proof. I'm replying to the words you use you said proof. Of course you have to be a citizen but they didn't ask me to prove it. Where does it say proof is required?
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It’s certainly a challenge to keep up with all the ways the GRU is taking over America. Voter suppression is certainly one of Vlad’s deadly weapons.

Now we’ll see more calls from the gop/GRU for ‘enhanced’ 2nd amendment remedies.
 
Linc said:
It’s certainly a challenge to keep up with all the ways the GRU is taking over America. Voter suppression is certainly one of Vlad’s deadly weapons.

Now we’ll see more calls from the gop/GRU for ‘enhanced’ 2nd amendment remedies.
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You guys have been whining about "voter suppression long before you could spell GRU.
 
JasperL said:
I have you a bunch of examples. Most aren't issued by a state with a photo, but that's not a reason to assert they're not sufficient to prove someone who has already been pre-cleared to vote as an eligible voter, over a certain age, non-felon, lives in that voting district, citizen is the person who showed up.

And you missed my whole point - the GOP asserts with NO EVIDENCE that, say, a voter registration card is "not good enough to be an ID." Or that a college ID with photo isn't good enough, or that a W-2 or electric bill isn't good enough, or that a SS card or Medicare card or EBT card aren't good enough.
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I am not defending why Republicans want this, I am just asking the question on when IDs for something is racist and when it is not. And when we think about all the things, important and not, that an ID is required for it tends to make this debate messy.

You can try to assert anyone exploring this is a Republican, but that was not the point of my challenge to all this.

Proving who you are to the government, in our economy, basic functions, to whomever else is a relative standard where we simply do not have many means left where someone can operate without an ID.

Now if Republicans are making it painful to obtain a state issued ID, or deciding they are not valid enough to vote with, then I would agree with you that is a clear case of voter suppression. And it would not surprise me that Republicans are for that.
 
Sad. Blacks face obstacles to voting at twice the rate of whites, and the Flagg crowd says, "nothingburger."
 
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