The myth of voter fraud

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Alias said:
I don't have to prove anything. We're gonna do all we can to assure everyone who votes is qualified and you agreed with me earlier on that.
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So you can't prove that the Justice Department was wrong, and your remark about "a crock of shit" was in fact a crock of shit.
 
Alias said:
When you can prove that requiring photo ID hinders poor people from votimg.
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Roughly half of all black and Hispanic residents in Wisconsin do not have a driver's license, and the state staffs barely half as many DMVs as Indiana – a quarter of which are open less than one day a month. To make matters worse, Gov. Scott Walker tried to shut down 16 more DMVs – many of them located in Democratic-leaning areas. In one case, Walker planned to close a DMV in Fort Atkinson, a liberal stronghold, while opening a new office 30 minutes away in the conservative district of Watertown.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830#ixzz1i3eKtTcY
 
One of the most restrictive laws requiring voter IDs was passed in South Carolina. To obtain the free state ID now required to vote, the 178,000 South Carolinians who currently lack one must pay for a passport or a birth certificate.

Under the new law, many elderly black residents – who were born at home in the segregated South and never had a birth certificate – must now go to family court to prove their identity.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830#ixzz1i3eh6IRv
 
For those voters who manage to get a legitimate birth certificate, obtaining a voter ID from the DMV is likely to be hellishly time-consuming. A reporter for the Tri-State Defender in Memphis, Tennessee – another state now mandating voter IDs – recently waited for four hours on a sweltering July day just to see a DMV clerk. The paper found that the longest lines occur in urban precincts, a clear violation of the Voting Rights Act, which bars states from erecting hurdles to voting in minority jurisdictions.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830#ixzz1i3ezLR6U
 
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Roughly half of all black and Hispanic residents in Wisconsin do not have a driver's license, and the state staffs barely half as many DMVs as Indiana – a quarter of which are open less than one day a month. To make matters worse, Gov. Scott Walker tried to shut down 16 more DMVs – many of them located in Democratic-leaning areas. In one case, Walker planned to close a DMV in Fort Atkinson, a liberal stronghold, while opening a new office 30 minutes away in the conservative district of Watertown.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830#ixzz1i3eKtTcY
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Good for the Gov. He's saving money.
 
The most sweeping tactic in the GOP campaign against voting is simply to make it illegal for certain voters to cast ballots in any election. As the Republican governor of Florida, Charlie Crist restored the voting rights of 154,000 former prisoners who had been convicted of nonviolent crimes.


But in March, after only 30 minutes of public debate, Gov. Rick Scott overturned his predecessor's decision, instantly disenfranchising 97,491 ex-felons and prohibiting another 1.1 million prisoners from being allowed to vote after serving their time.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830#ixzz1i3fFXxpk
 
A similar reversal by a Republican governor recently took place in Iowa, where Gov. Terry Branstad overturned his predecessor's decision to restore voting rights to 100,000 ex-felons.

The move threatens to return Iowa to the recent past, when more than five percent of all residents were denied the right to vote – including a third of the state's black residents.

In addition, Florida and Iowa join Kentucky and Virginia as the only states that require all former felons to apply for the right to vote after finishing their prison sentences.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830#ixzz1i3fSvMjW
 
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For those voters who manage to get a legitimate birth certificate, obtaining a voter ID from the DMV is likely to be hellishly time-consuming. A reporter for the Tri-State Defender in Memphis, Tennessee – another state now mandating voter IDs – recently waited for four hours on a sweltering July day just to see a DMV clerk. The paper found that the longest lines occur in urban precincts, a clear violation of the Voting Rights Act, which bars states from erecting hurdles to voting in minority jurisdictions.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830#ixzz1i3ezLR6U
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I suggest they work on fixing that.
 
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A similar reversal by a Republican governor recently took place in Iowa, where Gov. Terry Branstad overturned his predecessor's decision to restore voting rights to 100,000 ex-felons.

The move threatens to return Iowa to the recent past, when more than five percent of all residents were denied the right to vote – including a third of the state's black residents.

In addition, Florida and Iowa join Kentucky and Virginia as the only states that require all former felons to apply for the right to vote after finishing their prison sentences.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830#ixzz1i3fSvMjW
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Felons can apply to restore their voting rights.
 
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