Ray From Cleveland
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You know Obiwan, I would never say that they are too stupid or too lazy to get a gvt issued photo id...So since the Democrats' turnout fell by 37% in the states that began requiring an ID, I would like for you to clarify your position.....Felons were always allowed to vote in this Nation from the time of our Constitution, and they still are allowed to vote in my State.absolute proof that the Republican plan to disenfranchise American citizens that lean Democratic, of the votes, has worked.
The Math proves it....there is no way, upside down, right side up, inside out, that 28% of the voters are illegal voters or dead people....
Maybe, but how many felons that used to vote before they got Voter-ID? Democrat areas are loaded with felons you know........
States began removing the right to vote from felons, when Blacks were given the right to vote.
It is a racist law and was purposely to keep Blacks, who were the majority of people in prison, from voting along with many other tricks of the trade of disenfranchisement that were considered Poll Taxes....
Maine never changed their laws to prevent Blacks and other minorities from voting and kept it as it was before Blacks were given the right to vote, because Maine only had white men in prison. My State allows all ex felons and felons while in prison, to vote.
As far as your premise about felons voting, how does having a gvt issued photo id stop that? IT DOESN'T.
NOT if they are already registered to vote and on the voting rolls...
And the dead people voting of the past times, have always done so, through absentee ballot, and NOT by someone taking the place of the dead person at the polling booth where the dead person's wife, mother, father, brother, sister, neighbor, best friend could be the person in line behind you or the person that is a volunteer working at the polls.
A pictured gvt id at the polls, stops NONE of this kind of voter fraud, because as said, it is not done at the polling booth, it is done via absentee ballot.
The only way to stop ex felons in the states that do not allow them to vote, is to remove them from the voter rolls, and the ONLY way to stop dead people from voting is to remove them when they die and are issued a death certificate by the State, from the voter rolls, and the only way to stop illegals from voting is to vet them and not add them to the voter rolls....Illegals HAVE gvt issued photo IDS, most all States have been issuing illegals drivers licenses for over 20 years now...
This phony voter gvt issued photo ID laws at the polls doesn't stop any of the voter fraud that you claim takes place...its SOLE PURPOSE is to disenfranchise primarily Democratic leaning voters who are poor, elderly, or disabled....it's to prevent CITIZENS from voting...
YOU'VE BEEN SNOWED,
or are just fine and dandy with citizens being disenfranchised of their right to vote....and with this two tiered voting system with those who drive it being easy peasy for them to vote, and those citizens who do not drive, giving them hurdles to jump over.
I'm not ok with that....its simply wrong, and even if I were not a Democrat, I would still say as a loyal American citizen, it is unjust and wrong.
Do the Democrats commit that level of voter fraud, or are over 1/3 of them too stupid and lazy to just go get a free ID???
You obviously have never donated your time to work among the poorest in this Nation of lived in their areas....Or lived in their shoes and you lack in this kind of empathy....
People who do not own a car and drive should not have to go to a driver's license bureau in the next county over in order to get one, they don't drive or have easy access to a person with a car, so this makes it much harder for them than it would for you or me, they work hourly jobs, so any time it would take for them to do this during gvt working hours, is less money in their pockets of the little money there is, because they work HOURLY, and on top of this, they should not have to get a gvt issued photo id in order to vote, especially all of the elderly that have been voting for years, and primarily because the gvt should not have the power to force you to get a gvt issued photo id in order to exercise your rights as a citizen to vote....these people have lived their entire lives without one, why in the heck should they be required to get one, when they can simply show their SSAN card and a utility bill with their name on it and address on it....to prove they are the person registered.
As soon as Alabama passed their strict voter ID laws, they closed a ton of their drivers license bureaus where 8 out of the top 10 counties that did not have a single DMV were counties that were low income, black voters.
this reeks of disenfranchisement...
and it is PURPOSEFUL.
And I already posted the SNOPES article on Alabama that says you are wrong. Obviously you ignored it or didn't read it. In fact, the government will come TO YOUR HOUSE to create a Voter-Id if you have no transportation to get one. How much more convenient can it be than that?
Sorry, be we Republicans have to take time off of work too. Our doctors are not open at night. Neither are our courts. Neither are our banks.
As far as knowing the poor, I live in Cleveland--Cleveland, the city that was voted the poorest two out of three years. If Detroit didn't collapse, we might have made it three years in a row.
I've been in every project here. I've been in the poorest of neighborhoods here. I was in the home of thousands of poor people here. I know all about poor people.
The effort it takes to get a voter ID is about the same effort it takes to vote in the first place. It's a pathetic excuse to allow those who should not be voting to vote. The results apparently are in.