Orangeslice13
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What's there to avoid? They are a red herring to the discussion, as I've shown. The fact that an incredibly small % of people commit violent gun crimes in no way does away with the fact that we should demand background checks for concealed carry permits. It's a principle and protective requirement as opposed to a statistical risk calculation. You're having to rely on illogical red herring arguments.
Also, you should probably be careful of accusing people of "avoidance" in this thread. Your selective replies, logic, outrage, and rights protection is creeping up on you.
"Why would instituting barriers to voting result in fewer votes? I can't figure it out"
I've not once mentioned that law or its specifics. I've spoken specifically to the principle of requiring an ID for all potential voters. No more. No less. One citizen. One vote. Protect the sanctity of our democratic elections.You’ve been talking theory without practice. Do you think the NC law, as outlined above, was nothing more than a “principle and protective requirement” enacted in good faith? If so, explain why removing voting awareness measures from schools is a valuable protective requirement, in addition to the others bolded. As long as the laws keep looking like that, theoretical discussions about what they could be aren’t particularly useful.
See here is the truth....
Dims always say it’s the undereducated who vote Republican yet scream at the top of their lungs when any simple requirement to vote that a person with an IQ of 50 could figure out how to meet is established.
Seems you need those 100 votes( millions when you actually count the whole country) from the “unable to even get a state ID card” group way more than the republicans do.
It is if the nearest ID office is 150 miles away, and it certainly is when you compare the burden to the risk, which again is essentially nonexistent. There have been 31 documented cases of voter impersonation in the last 20 years, and most of them were accidents that only remotely fit that definition.
North Carolina's voter ID law, for example, eliminated Citizens Awareness Month in schools, along with the following:
*shortens early voting by 1 week,
*eliminates same day registration and provisional voting if at wrong precinct,
*prevents counties from offering voting on last Saturday before the election beyond 1 pm,
*prevents counties from extending poll hours by one hour on election day in extraordinary circumstances (like lengthy lines),
*eliminates state supported voter registration drives and preregistration for 16/17 year olds,
*repeals voter owned judicial elections and straight party voting,
*increases number of people who can challenge voters inside the precinct, and
*purges voter rolls more often.
Tell me with a straight face that the bolded measures, enacted the second there was a Republican majority in the state senate, were actually about "protecting the vote" in a state where there were two documented instances of voter fraud in the previous decade, and not about simply suppressing Democrat votes. It's a joke and it's transparent as hell to anyone remotely objective (EDIT: including the judge who eventually struck it down).
Republicans are the ones putting massive amounts of time, money and research into making it harder to vote, so I’d argue that the evidence suggests the exact opposite
Harder to vote for morons.
You do get that, right?
And I will go on the record and be honest....if you aren’t retired or on disability and don’t own a car, don’t have a job, don’t hsve a state ID of any kind then I seriously don’t want you voting and having any impact on my life at all.
That group will vote for anyone who promises free stuff and that free stuff is getting paid for those of us actually working.
If right now to vote you had to either own land, own a business or have a full time job the last six months straight with no break then you would never see a damn democrat in office again and u and every other democrat knows it.
Fact sheet that's not actually the whole story. The gao report was written on statistical analysis from Tennessee and Kansas. It included very little of any information about voter fraud, which I believe, is the whole point of having a gov issued photo ID.
The war on drugs is absolutely racist in its application. We should have decriminalized drugs a long time ago. It should be a public health issue and treated.That’s stupid. It’s no different than saying the War on Drugs has disproportionately affected black people, which is true
I’m sure a couple of these unicorns exist. I doubt they vote because they’re obviously not participating in any other part of civilized society.
90% of responsible people hold a birth certificate and a legal gov issued photo Id. Laziness is not suppression.How is that a stretch? If I say you have to pay $5 for a birth certificate, take time off of work and wait in line at the DMV before you're allowed freedom of speech, that's definitely suppression
Republicans are the ones putting massive amounts of time, money and research into making it harder to vote, so I’d argue that the evidence suggests the exact opposite
See here is the truth....
Dims always say it’s the undereducated who vote Republican yet scream at the top of their lungs when any simple requirement to vote that a person with an IQ of 50 could figure out how to meet is established.
Seems you need those 100 votes( millions when you actually count the whole country) from the “unable to even get a state ID card” group way more than the republicans do.
Republicans are the ones putting massive amounts of time, money and research into making it harder to vote, so I’d argue that the evidence suggests the exact opposite