I don’t know, they were right behind me and I moved on to the booth. I didn’t say anything. It was in Dare County, NC I think we used the Senior Center in Kill Devil Hills, NC that year.
With a quick text search, I saw nothing in your link that suggests Clinton and Obama pushed for voter id in Kenya, only that they helped get young people the identification they needed to register.
“U.S. Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – provided more than $292 million in support for these efforts, including in the following priority areas:”
" In advance of Kenya’s March 2013 general elections, Yes Youth Can’s “My ID My Life” campaign helped 500,000 youth obtain National identification cards, a prerequisite to voter registration,"
If a National ID card is a Pre-Requisite for to register to vote that sounds like a National ID is required to vote. And the US set aside $53M of the $292M for part of the effort.
Well that, and the fact that he speaks the Truth and Has No Agenda.
:rolleyes:
Exactly as I said. Kenyan law required the identification and they helped people get it. How can you possibly interpret that as pushing for an already existing law? I’d add further, if stricter voter id laws in the states were enacted in conjunction with efforts to actually get eligible people the required id there would be a lot less complaining about it.
It would be entirely possible to solve all of these issues, and several others as well. OK, voter ID. We’ll take that. Just provide it freely and conveniently. How about a voter outreach program to register eligible citizens? Be easy as pi, take a digitial camera and a laptop. Take the picture of the newly registered voter, put it on a database with the needed info like name and current address. Emboss a card, send it. Bing, voter ID! No prob, Bob!
Gosh, we would bring thousands upon thousands of unregistered voters to the voting rolls! Voter confidence would soar!
Want to guess who would oppose this, who would let this happen over their dead bodies? Which political party doesn’t want more voters? Starts with an “R”.
“R”, me hearties, “R”! “R”!
What I am saying is that if the WH thought it was not proper to have an ID to vote in Kenya they would, instead of paying for the National ID, have pushed for NO voter ID in Kenya. By their financial action, I read that as support for a voter ID in Kenya.
Therefore, if they feel a voter ID is good for Kenya, why do they not feel it is good for the US?
I think I should have used the word “endorsement” and that was the confusion. The WH endorses the use of an ID for voter registration as shown by their $53M donation.
I think it’s more reasonable to describe it as they “accepted” that Kenya had that law and worked to ensure 500 000 young voters weren’t disenfranchised because of it.
Lots of Democrats don’t think some form of voter id is inherently evil. The objections come when you start severely restricting the eligible types of id and make no effort to insure said id is easily accessible.
Most of the states Clinton won big in had disproportionately high minority voter populations. Coincidence?