Voter Purge

[57Brave]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...it-or-lose-it/

[57Brave]

Voter Fraud is a Myth. Voter Suppression is Not.
January 25, 2017
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BALTIMORE, MD— NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks issued the following statement on January 25:

“Today, President Donald Trump called for the federal government to spend resources investigating alleged ‘voter fraud’ in the 2016 elections. Unable to accept the fact that he lost the popular vote by some 2.8 million votes, President Trump has repeated his naked and reckless claim that 3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election by “illegal immigrants.” However, this notion of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election, or any other American election cycle for that matter, is false and dangerous.

“Voter Fraud has been proven virtually non-existent through studies conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, Arizona State University, and the Washington Post, among others. The Washington Post’s 2015 study showed that between 2000 and 2014 there were only 31 alleged cases of in-person voter fraud among the over 1 billion votes cast in the United States during that time period. Yet, this supposed widespread voter fraud is consistently used as justification for voting restrictions that suppress the votes of African-Americans and Latinos.

“While reasonable people can debate many issues regarding the operation of our electoral process, one thing is clear—widespread voter fraud such as that alleged by President Trump is a complete myth.

“In stark contrast to the myth of widespread voter fraud is the proven reality of voter suppression. A number of federal courts across the country have determined that certain states enacted voting restrictions that discriminated against Black and Latino Americans, as in Texas, or, worse yet, were written with the specific intent to suppress the Black vote, as in North Carolina. In fact, a federal appellate court held that North Carolina’s law targeted African-American voters with “almost surgical precision.” Voting restrictions such as those recently struck down in Texas, North Carolina and elsewhere weaken our democracy and themselves cast serious doubt on the legitimacy of our electoral processes.

“If President Trump is serious about strengthening our democracy, he should demand that Congress send him a bill to restore Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, such as the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015. He should also withdraw the nomination of Senator Jefferson Sessions for Attorney General and put forth a nominee with a record of supporting voting rights for all Americans. And he should acknowledge the widespread voter suppression taking place in this country while rejecting the myth that ‘voter fraud’ justifies blocking access to the ballot box for millions of Black and Latino voters.”

[57Brave]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/m...=top-news&_r=2

[57Brave]

Ari Berman‏Verified account @AriBerman 9h9 hours ago
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Completely hypocritical for Republicans to denounce white supremacy while still supporting racist voter suppression laws[/B]


Ari Berman‏Verified account @AriBerman

In North Carolina 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that GOP tried to disenfranchise black voters “with almost surgical precision”

[57Brave]

Ari Berman‏Verified account @AriBerman 46m46 minutes ago
Replying to @AriBerman

In Texas federal court said GOP voter ID law was “unconstitutional poll tax” that intentionally discriminated against black & Latino voters

[57Brave]

Michael Grunwald‏Verified account @MikeGrunwald 5m5 minutes ago

Michael Grunwald Retweeted Ari Berman

Since non-Trump R's agree racists are bad, maybe roll back racist voting crackdowns? Check out @AriBerman timeline.

I too am carious to see in the next few weeks the "troubled" (R) and their individual stance on Voting Rights

[Julio3000]

How many people were affected by Ohio’s voter purges? More than a few — a temporary order by an appeals court last fall restored voting rights to over 800,000 people who’d been purged since 2015. That’s a lot of people disenfranchised for the sole offense of failing to vote in two consecutive federal elections. The rule was enforced vigorously — but unevenly — by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, who has made a career of suppressing votes; in 2012, he refused to comply with a court order demanding Ohio restore early voting hours that had been cut, since he feared voters would be “confused” by having more opportunities to exercise their franchise.

Read more at https://wonkette.com/621540/trump-do...7fWOITK56to.99

Ken Blackwell is on Trump's scam vote fraud commission, too. He was the Sec of State in Ohio during the 04 election.

[Julio3000]

So how do you, Jaw, and you, thethe, feel about the spate of federal court rulings indicating that the purpose various state voter i.d. laws was explicitly to keep a certain class of voter from voting?

Personally, I think that voting should be as easy as falling off a log. There should be a massive and bipartisan effort to ensure maximum civic participation in this most basic of rights. Why isn't there?

[thethe]

So how do you, Jaw, and you, thethe, feel about the spate of federal court rulings indicating that the purpose various state voter i.d. laws was explicitly to keep a certain class of voter from voting?

Personally, I think that voting should be as easy as falling off a log. There should be a massive and bipartisan effort to ensure maximum civic participation in this most basic of rights. Why isn't there?

By making it easy how do you ensure only Americans are voting?

[jpx7]

By making it easy how do you ensure only Americans are voting?

It's a statistically insignificant issue.

[thethe]

It's a statistically insignificant issue.

You advertise that you are making voting as easy as possible without ID then the 11M + (Who really knows how much it is) illegals will vote to get their entitlements.

And thats the real story. Make it so that illegals can vote which was already instituted in one location in America.

[57Brave]

That is not true
..............

If like you say it is "the real story"

Prove it.
Show the data

[Jaw]

So how do you, Jaw, and you, thethe, feel about the spate of federal court rulings indicating that the purpose various state voter i.d. laws was explicitly to keep a certain class of voter from voting?

Personally, I think that voting should be as easy as falling off a log. There should be a massive and bipartisan effort to ensure maximum civic participation in this most basic of rights. Why isn't there?

Off the top of my head:

I would allow registration on any business day of the year to make it as easy as possible to register.

At registration I would provide a voter registration card detailing the polling locations and next scheduled election, along with acceptable forms of ID that will be required at the poll and a toll free number and website to turn to with any questions.

Each registration would be valid for something like 49 months after the last election the voter participated in. This would allow voters that only vote for Presidential elections to only register once, unless they move.

I would use paper ballots in every election to guarantee that the vote count was not manipulated by outside sources.

I would not allow 3rd party registration so that no one untrained is flooding the system with fake or quota driven voter registrations.

I would make a state ID card, valid for 10 years, available without cost to every eligible voter through the DMV.

Now that was on the fly and thinking it out while I typed, so maybe there are a couple of holes, but this really doesn't seem that hard guys. The bonus is that most of this stuff is already in place in some states.

[57Brave]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/u...cial-bias.html

[Jaw]

This is stunning. In all sincerity, people complaining about voting hurdles should lead with this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...oting-poll-tax

[Too poor to vote: how Alabama’s ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting

in Alabama and eight other states from Nevada to Tennessee, anyone who has lost the franchise cannot regain it until they pay off any outstanding court fines, legal fees and victim restitution.
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In 1964, the 24th amendment abolished the poll tax, but to this day in Alabama, money keeps thousands of people away from the ballot box. According to the Sentencing Project, a Washington DC-based criminal justice reform non-profit, there are 286,266 disenfranchised felons in Alabama, or 7.62% of the state’s voting-age population.

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More than half of those disenfranchised felons are black, despite the fact that African Americans made up only 26.8% of the state’s population as of July 2016, according to a US census estimate.

A new state law has cleared the way for people convicted of certain felonies to eventually regain the right to vote. But before that can happen, anyone who has lost the franchise in Alabama for any reason must first fulfill any financial obligations to the state and to their victims, according to the Alabama secretary of state, John Merrill.

[sturg33]

Just to be clear we are not concerned about dumb asses in Alabama

[Julio3000]

By making it easy how do you ensure only Americans are voting?

So burn your house with your family in it because you think you might have termites.

[57Brave]

The study, which was funded by Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, provides some of the firmest evidence yet that new restrictions on voting lead to voter disenfranchisement. It’s a strong rebuke to supporters of voter ID laws like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who has claimed that the notion the voter ID law reduced participation is a “load of crap.” (Wisconsin saw its lowest turnout since 2000, and there were 41,000 fewer voters in Milwaukee compared with 2012.)

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The new study also suggests that the number of voters disenfranchised by the law is far greater than the number of fraud cases that it was designed to stop. In 2014, during a federal trial where Wisconsin failed to present a single case of voter impersonation that the law would have prevented, a federal judge found that 300,000 voters lacked the strict forms of ID required by the state.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...sin-last-year/

[thethe]

You really do live under a bed, don't you ?

You have a solution looking for a problem.

Great dodge to the question. We all know what the lefts agenda is. Get illegals to vote so you can win some elections.

[57Brave]

Guess it wasn't that great a dodge because you snuffed it right out.
Guilty

At the "left agenda" meeting this weekend after cookies and coffee we discussed just that!
How we can ship displaced Puerto Ricans into the US to vote (D)
We have nixed the idea of Central Americans because of the impenetrable invisible wall
So later when we (the liberals) went for beer nd pizza we came to the realization that just as humans bear no responsibility for climate change there are in fact millions of illegals voting
All data is fixed.

you are putting me on, right ?