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Nevernose

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2. In the last 48 hours these fucks have endorsed Jim Crow voting laws - literally -

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Sep 12, 2017, 08:13 PM

Sep 2017

And claimed that the reason they could prove people had voted illegally in New Hampshire was because they checked the voter's ID (out of state college kids are allowed to vote in NH), which kind of nullified all the arguments about voter ID laws.

Another guy on the panel today suggested there be literacy tests and only in-person courthouse voter registration -- things specifically implemented to keep black people from voting.

(Naturally this is brought to us by the same good people who also brought us The Blacks that are The Real Racists )

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Heritage Foundation Told Trump to Keep Democrats Off Voter-Fraud Commission [View all] CousinIT Sep 2017 OP

stacking the deck SummerSnow Sep 2017 #1

In the last 48 hours these fucks have endorsed Jim Crow voting laws - literally - Nevernose Sep 2017 #2

May I suggest that henceforth all persons connected to the HF be referred to as... JHB Sep 2017 #3

+1 dalton99a Sep 2017 #6

That was my description of them this evening. Duppers Sep 2017 #14

The Heritage Commission is a fraud... defacto7 Sep 2017 #4

That's because nearly all the cases of documented voter fraud Warpy Sep 2017 #5

And the Heritage Foundation is a Koch institution. Initech Sep 2017 #9

I think the repubs committing voting fraud do it on purpose Merlot Sep 2017 #20

How? They are not a government organizations! They have no power! Initech Sep 2017 #7

In a sane world not fooled Sep 2017 #12

I have absolutely no doubt the Koch roaches are neck deep in this Russia shit. Initech Sep 2017 #16

. . . sounds about right. annabanana Sep 2017 #8

Is this for real? ornotna Sep 2017 #10

Can someone tell me what exactly the commision can do? ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #11

They want voter suppression at the Federal level not fooled Sep 2017 #13

Yeah, but how can they enforce that? ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #15

Good ol' HF shadowmayor Sep 2017 #17

These Neo Nazis are stealing our country out from under us. We know this . Why don't the spineless geretogo Sep 2017 #18

The letter suggests that the efforts of this commission are the definiton of the word farce. salin Sep 2017 #19