I shared that on Facebook.
A Trump-supporting friend reacted. She posted 
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And for that he’ll lose his next primary by fifty points.
And yet …
The three bills … eliminate the option for voters to sign an affidavit if they lack identification, requiring them instead to cast a provisional ballot and prove their identity within six days.
The bills would also require voters requesting an absentee ballot to provide on the application their driver license or state ID number, last four digits of their Social Security number, or submit an original or copy of their ID.
Because … GOP gonna GOP.
Most of all this can be summed up as “warfare is violent politics, and politics is peaceful warfare.”
I think it’s more like “Everybody who votes for us has a drivers license and can get time off work to drive to a precinct with little or no waiting. Everyone else, we’re going to throw as many barriers at them as possible”
If Democrats on a national level cave on voter ID, I’m gonna have some re-thinking to do.
Unless I misread, the For the People Act requires valid identification* before a vote can be counted, as do current federal vote-by-mail registration laws that apply to forty-three states (some were grandfathered out of the law).
North Dakota is excepted from those provisions of the bill and current law because they have not required voter registration at all since before 1993 or something.
* includes photo ID, bank/utility statements, government check, paycheck, or any government document showing name and address
~Max
I don’t have a problem with voter ID as long as there’s a free and easily available ID card that any eligible voter can get.
You provide the ID when you register, for fuck’s sake, not every time you vote. Fair warning from me to Democratic candidates looking for my vote.
And rainbow farting unicorns, too?
Unless I’m misreading, I don’t think this is the case at all. The For the People Act does not require that voters present valid ID – it requires that IF a state has a voter ID requirement, they must allow a voter to provide a sworn affidavit of eligibility to vote in lieu of state identification requirements (though this only applies to federal elections).
I’ve basically given up. I’m wondering which passage of the Bible I should memorize to convince American ISIS that I’m a believer. Wondering which portrait of Trump I should display in my window facing the street.
A new study out today showing that 46% of Republican voters consider it acceptable for state legislatures to overturn their states’ popular election results.
The pretense will be to accuse urban areas of fraudulent procedures but there will be no evidence required nor ever presented. I guess my question becomes, can a state with a Dem governor stop the actions of a red legislature if it tries to pull something like this?
One with a Hitler-mustache drawn on. (Hey, it couldn’t hurt!)
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And there it is: the fragility of democracy revealed in one horrifying statistic.
The thing is, these people have been there all along. The only effect of Trumpism is to make them feel safe to openly express their longings for authoritarian rule and official white supremacy.
Granted, some of this might change if our culture didn’t provide them with the aid and comfort of 24/7 “news” sources that incessantly drill into their heads that they are the Righteous Victims of that Awful Democracy Stuff that is Displacing Them from their Rightful Position at the Top of the Hierarchy.
If FoxNews were made opt-in in all cable systems, it would lose legitimacy. That might help derail the White Supremacy-Autocracy train more than we currently imagine.
A little pushback on this shit…
(prolly posted elsewhere, but this was the first spot I figured it should plop)
atta guy, (a)Merrick(a)!
Looks like McConnels court packing is finally paying off. His judges managed to fully drive a stake through the heart of the already ailing voting rights act. So long as legislation uses the magic words “voter fraud” and doesn’t explicitly state they want to disenfranchise blacks, everything is fine.
But wait, there’s more: be one of the first 50 state governors to sign off on Jim Crow voting restrictions, and we’ll throw in more Supreme Court protections for anonymous ‘money bags’ donations.
They’d be idiots not to, since about 80% of Americans support Voter ID, including large majorities of Blacks and Hispanics. The Democratic party is on the wrong side of this. Hell, they are on the wrong side of Democrats, 50-60% of which support Voter ID.
Democrats have real blind spots on some of these issues. The other day Biden referred again to ‘LatinX’ communities - a term that is almost universally hated by the people being referred to, but pushed by progressive white people.
The point of opposition to voter ID isn’t generally ‘we don’t want people to have to identify themselves in order to vote.’ It is, instead, ‘we don’t want states to make it so difficult and expensive to acquire a valid ID that their rules effectively disenfranchise large demographic groups.’
I’d guess that you’d get 99% buy-in from registered Democrats on voter ID so long as states were prevented from making getting an ID nearly impossible for (for example) people whose work + commute takes up the hours from 7am to 7pm (or such) Monday through Friday, and who can’t afford to take off work to stand in line.
Make it impossible for states to say ‘ID may be acquired only M - F in person from 9am to 4pm and all should count on three-hour waits’ or ‘ID may be acquired only by presenting documents that will cost the average person $200 and up to get hold of’ and so on.
Then Voter ID will be embraced by pretty much every Democrat.
You need an ID to fucking register to vote. Not to vote. Not in all states, though. Is there a cite you have handy for your 80% claim