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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 04:00 PM Oct 2020

Like the frog boiling, we have allowed ridiculous barriers to voting

Voter ID, ridiculous, unconstitutional

Witness signatures

Intentional confusion, lies about mail in ballot fraud etc.

Removal of the voting rights act because it worked too good, dear God

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Like the frog boiling, we have allowed ridiculous barriers to voting (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 OP
Can I take and put onto fb? I will just say, someone says, lol. LizBeth Oct 2020 #1
I never knew there were so many obstacles that republicans could try to use to demosincebirth Oct 2020 #2
Can Biden restore the voting rights act I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2020 #3
I hope that he tries at least Tumbulu Oct 2020 #4
This a state issue and where democrats have to take back power beachbumbob Oct 2020 #5
But there are blue states where voter ID is required, arent there? Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #6
No issue with showing ID. I have show it in Illinois and our state beachbumbob Oct 2020 #7
This. cwydro Oct 2020 #8
YOu have to have id to register, requiring to vote is suppression and unconstitutional Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #9

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
1. Can I take and put onto fb? I will just say, someone says, lol.
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 04:05 PM
Oct 2020

I want to do a post on this, and you say this part as well as me.

Edit: Meh, I am doing it cause I know you do not care, olol. Thanks.

demosincebirth

(12,536 posts)
2. I never knew there were so many obstacles that republicans could try to use to
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 04:20 PM
Oct 2020

keep people from voting! What's next? A test asking voters how many marbles in a jar?

Tumbulu

(6,272 posts)
4. I hope that he tries at least
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 05:10 PM
Oct 2020

Oh my goodness, what a mess poor Biden and Harris will inherit.

We must put the fairness doctrine back in so the hate media does not immediately call for civil war.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
7. No issue with showing ID. I have show it in Illinois and our state
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 06:35 PM
Oct 2020

makes voting and registration for voting as easy as it can be. Having IDs to vote is not voter suppression tactic. Having ONE polling station for 20,000 voters is.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
9. YOu have to have id to register, requiring to vote is suppression and unconstitutional
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 06:51 PM
Oct 2020
https://www.pubintlaw.org/cases-and-projects/judge-rules-voter-id-law-unconstitutional/

this is PA only but just one example...

We have been conditioned to think voter id vs REGISTRATION id is normal, it is NOT


https://www.azmirror.com/2020/10/07/a-supreme-court-ruling-on-the-voting-rights-act-opened-the-floodgates-for-new-restrictions/

That the SC is full of rightwing fascists has zip to do with whether or not voter id is constitutional or not.



https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2016/discriminatory-voter-id-laws?utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_source=google&utm_name=bj_alwayson_brand2019_traffic&utm_term=&utm_content=serp&utm_topic=flavors&utm_objective=discover&utm_root=d&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2or8BRCNARIsAC_ppyaVxkga1F28tKI7d-mwzy3nZy_E7dpnOrzDC08dglXPOVXu2cwoqLsaAjxNEALw_wcB



Eric Holder, the Attorney General at the time, called Texas’s 2011 voter ID law a “poll taxOpens a new window” (harkening back to the Jim CrowOpens a new window era) because it essentially forced ID-less citizens to buy one for the sole purpose of voting. And while most white voters in Texas already have a valid form of ID, large numbers of minorities—including 25% of African-Americans—do not. Voter ID requirements regularly disenfranchise students, racial and ethnic minorities, low-income citizens, and the elderly. A federal appeals court recently struck downOpens a new window North Carolina’s voting law, saying that it targeted African Americans with “almost surgical precision.” There are countless other examples Opens a new windowof bias Opens a new windowand discrimination Opens a new windowin our election laws and practices.
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