The Republicans lie to steal elections

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Thirty-four states have introduced bills with today’s suppression tactic of choice.

The ostensible purpose of these measures is to prevent fraud at the polls, though official and academic studies have consistently shown that the chances of being hit by lightning are greater than the likely incidence of such fraud.

Voter fraud does exist — but not at the polls.

It appears in absentee voting, election machine tampering or ballot box stuffing — none of which are affected by in-person photo ID laws.

There is also nothing inherently objectionable in requiring personal identification at the polls — but these new laws accept few forms of ID.

In South Carolina, for example, a voter must present a state-issued driver’s license, some other South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles photo ID, a South Carolina voter registration card, valid U.S. military photo ID or a passport.

Nothing else is acceptable.

Texas, Tennessee and Wisconsin have similar laws.

 
Students and other young people tend to vote Democratic.

In South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, no student IDs are acceptable.

In Kansas and Alabama, only in-state college IDs qualify, and in Wisconsin, only new Wisconsin college IDs with a two-year expiration date — which no current student IDs have — qualify.

Students who vote with their college address are a particular target.

In 2008, the Montgomery County, Va., election director announced that students who registered at their college addresses would no longer be claimed as dependents on their parents’ tax returns.

Other tactics include providing an inadequate number of voting machines on college campuses.

In 2000, Tennessee State University, a black college, was the only university in the state that did not get a satellite voting place. At Kenyon College in Ohio, students had to wait more than eight hours to vote because there were so few machines.

 
Another tactic is to circulate fliers, use robocalls or send postcards to minority voters, falsely advising them to vote on Wednesdays.

In 2010, many minority voters in Louisiana, Maryland and New Hampshire received robocalls telling them they could vote by telephone or email.

In 2002 in Baltimore and 2003 in Georgia, black voters received fliers warning them that if they had failed to pay utility bills, had outstanding parking tickets or were behind on their rent, they would be arrested if they tried to vote.

In 2006, voters with Latino surnames in Orange County, Calif., were given fliers suggesting that naturalized citizens were not entitled to vote.

These are not new tactics.

In North Carolina’s 1990 Senate race, Jesse Helms supporters mailed 125,000 postcards to predominantly black voting precincts, misleading voters about residency requirements and threatening that misstatements to voting officials could mean five years in prison.

In 2004, Native American voters in South Dakota were turned away from the polls because they failed to present identification papers, though they were not legally required to do so.

 
Complicated registration laws are regularly cited as a major reason for the low voter turnout in the United States.

Groups like the League of Women Voters of the U.S., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Democracia USA have long helped voters register.

In some states, however, this help will no longer be available. Florida and five other states have adopted onerous filing and other requirements for groups providing this assistance.

Florida’s new law imposes such heavy fines for any misstep or delay that the League of Women Voters of the U.S. and Democracia USA have been forced to shut down their assistance operations.
 
Return of Dune said:
Read much yurt?
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you're such a dumb hack. your sock puppet started a cut and paste thread....and then added a few more cut and paste posts....do you whine about it like you did about alias?

Return of Dune said:
Have you EVER started a thread that wasn't a cut and paste?

Do you get bored easily?
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of course not. because you're a blind hack. and if you think there is any truth to legion's cut and paste, you're dumber than i thought.
 
Supreme Being Yurt said:
you're such a dumb hack. your sock puppet started a cut and paste thread....and then added a few more cut and paste posts....do you whine about it like you did about alias?



of course not. because you're a blind hack. and if you think there is any truth to legion's cut and paste, you're dumber than i thought.
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Just because you deny something doesn't make it untrue yurtard.
 
Return of Dune said:
Don't be such a moron. Admit you lied.
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i didn't lie. answer my question. why aren't you bitching about his cut and paste thread? not just the OP, but the four subsequent posts. 5 posts of nothing but cut and paste and dune doesn't bitch about it and when called out about it, still doesn't bitch.

you're a hack sock puppet troll. :)
 
Supreme Being Yurt said:
i didn't lie. answer my question. why aren't you bitching about his cut and paste thread? not just the OP, but the four subsequent posts. 5 posts of nothing but cut and paste and dune doesn't bitch about it and when called out about it, still doesn't bitch.

you're a hack sock puppet troll. :)
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You are a retard. I agree with Rootbeer, and find his posts very interesting and timely. Furthermore, unlike Aliasshole, Rootbeer doesn't post a wall of text, and it is done in a clever way.

Why are you so spectacularly stupid?

Now, admit you lied and then groan this post. Now.
 
Return of Dune said:
You are a retard. I agree with Rootbeer, and find his posts very interesting and timely. Furthermore, unlike Aliasshole, Rootbeer doesn't post a wall of text, and it is done in a clever way.

Why are you so spectacularly stupid?

Now, admit you lied and then groan this post. Now.
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lmao. so legion does a cut and paste thread and then adds four cut and paste posts...........and you're ok with this..........but if alias does the same thing.......you bitch and moan.

what a hack. go pound sand crybaby.
 
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