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In Milwaukee, voter turnout decreased 13 percent after voter ID.Photo ID is not required for food stamps, but it makes it easier. There are many ways to ID a person.
The point though is not so much the photo ID, but also closing DMV offices to make it harder to get ID, and shutting polling places, or reducing hours. Also purging voter rolls.
Add the GOP gerrymandering and it almost seems like there is a pattern to deny Americans their votes.
total bullshit, most gerrymandering occurs in dem districts in big cities. No one wants to deny any legal American the right to vote, but only one vote per person, and only in one precinct in one state.
No legal person is disenfranchised by having to show an ID at the polling place.
Also, not allowed to vote because of unpaid fines.
And 4.4 million were disenfranchised.
Although liberal media support the old wives tale of GOP voter suppression by requiring identification, careful analysis shows a quite different reality:
“The findings of this analysis suggest that voter identification requirements, such as requiring non-photo and photo identification, have virtually no suppressive effect on reported voter turnout.
Controlling for factors that influence voter turnout, states with stricter voter identification laws largely do not have the claimed negative impact on voter turnout when compared to states with more lenient voter identification laws.
Based on the Eagleton Institute's findings, some members of the media have claimed that voter identification law suppress voter turnout, especially among minorities.[80] Their conclusion is unfounded. When statistically significant and negative relationships are found in our analysis, the effects are so small that the findings offer little policy significance.
More important, minority respondents in states that required photo identification are just as likely to report voting as are minority respondents from states that only required voters to say their name.”
For a thorough statistical analysis of the effect of voter identification requirements:
http://www.heritage.org/research/LegalIssues/cda07-04.cfm
Wow- hard to believe that Heritage would come to that conclusion:
Heritage Foundation
A research and educational institution whose mission is to build and promote conservative public policies,
Meanwhile- the GOP is succeeding in turning away American voters from their legal right to vote- like this guy
HOUSTON — In his wallet, Anthony Settles carries an expired Texas identification card, his Social Security card and an old student ID from the University of Houston, where he studied math and physics decades ago. What he does not have is the one thing that he needs to vote this presidential election: a current Texas photo ID.
For Settles to get one of those, his name has to match his birth certificate — and it doesn’t. In 1964, when he was 14, his mother married and changed his last name. After Texas passed a new voter-ID law, officials told Settles he had to show them his name-change certificate from 1964 to qualify for a new identification card to vote.
So with the help of several lawyers, Settles tried to find it, searching records in courthouses in the D.C. area, where he grew up. But they could not find it. To obtain a new document changing his name to the one he has used for 51 years, Settles has to go to court, a process that would cost him more than $250 — more than he is willing to pay.
The crime is encouraging illegal aliens to vote in our elections.
Means, motive, and opportunity. ... Respectively, they refer to: the ability of the defendant to commit the crime (means), the reason the defendant committed the crime (motive), and whether the defendant had the chance to commit the crime (opportunity).
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All three are attributes of the Democrats in this criminal behavior.
What is the crime by real Americans in demanding that only eligible voters be given the vote?