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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Apr 15, 2023, 07:56 PM Apr 2023

The GOP Is Making It Harder for College Students to Vote

(Bloomberg) -- Republican lawmakers are making it harder for students to cast ballots where they attend school, after the GOP suffered stinging recent electoral losses largely due to a historic surge in turnout from younger voters backing Democrats.

A new law in Idaho specifically bars the use of student identification cards to vote, while a change in Ohio law means students will no longer be able to use tuition or college housing receipts as a form of voter ID, long a popular option for students without state driver’s licenses.

Similar legislation has been introduced in at least 11 other states this year, including the presidential battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and Nevada, according to Voting Rights Lab. Other bills have also targeted student voters, such as one in Texas that would bar college campuses from serving as polling places.

Younger voter turnout surged in Wisconsin’s recent Supreme Court election — one that hinged on abortion rights — helping Democrats recapture the court majority. Former Republican Governor Scott Walker tweeted that “younger voters are the issue,” blaming “years of radical indoctrination” in schools and social media and calling for conservatives to come together to work harder to “counter liberal indoctrination to save America.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-gop-is-making-it-harder-for-college-students-to-vote/ar-AA19TV0T

The GOP hates when intelligent people vote.

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The GOP Is Making It Harder for College Students to Vote (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2023 OP
You know why..................... Lovie777 Apr 2023 #1
What is the Idaho GOP afraid of ?? They are virtually guaranteed to have control DemocraticPatriot Apr 2023 #2

DemocraticPatriot

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2. What is the Idaho GOP afraid of ?? They are virtually guaranteed to have control
Sat Apr 15, 2023, 08:31 PM
Apr 2023

from now until as far into the future as the mind can imagine... Democrats are reduced to "token Democrats" in that state...


I guess it is true what we often say-- "The cruelty is the point".

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