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so you want an intelligence test to qualify voters? Been tried, unCons utional.
What if they are neither?
What if it is very difficult to get the do entation?
so you want an intelligence test to qualify voters? Been tried, unCons utional.
Cry me a river. How unbelievably difficult can it be? Can they go to the doctor? Can they go to the grocery store? If they can do that they can get a picture ID. If they are bed ridden and can't do either they probably aren't gonna go vote either.
Who gives a if it is hard or easy or why?
Just let them vote. They are your fellow citizens, and are just as affected by policies, good or bad as you are.
Your need to feel superior is not really a valid reason to be pissy and not let them vote.
It's not about being superior or pissy. I think all people should have a picture ID, if nothing else to assist the police in identifying habitual criminals.
What are the police supposed to do when they pull someone over without an ID?
Americans have been repeatedly against a national ID, and state level IDs would be all over the park in requirements, format, etc. and what good to police is a state ID for an out-of-state police target? all the state ID would have to be in a national database, and lots of people hate that.
Why don't one of you actually answer my question?
What should the police do with someone that doesn't have an ID?
Ask yourself, what do police do now?
is it against the law not to carry "papers" (like in apartheid Zuid Afrika)?
Why don't you answer, ? What should the police do?
Lets say a rapist with a warrant for his arrest gets pulled over. He tells the officer he doesn't have an ID. What should the police do?
ask to see insurance papers, trace the license plate, VIN, shoot the knitter for disrespecting The Man?
Doesn't have insurance
His friends car
Doesn't have an ID
What is the office supposed to do?
*crickets*
Let him go? shoot him?
Would someone tell me how these people without picture ID pick up their kid if he/she is sick or has an appointment? As far as I know, every school here requires picture ID to let a kid go during school hours.
Virginia Court Ruling Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Disenfranchised
On Friday, in a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court of Virginia held that Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s proclamation restoring the right to vote for people with past felony convictions is uncons utional. In response, New Virginia Majority, a local grassroots group, and Advancement Project, a multi-racial civil rights organization, issued the following statement:
“Today’s ruling presents another unfair hurdle for access to the ballot, and reaffirms the Commonwealth’s Jim Crow legacy,” said Tram Nguyen, Co-Executive Director of New Virginia Majority. “It is difficult news for members of the community, who for months felt redeemed and that they had a voice. Excluding Virginians from the ballot, even after they’ve paid their debts to society, is a cruel, inhumane reminder of past mistakes. Importantly, today’s ruling validates entrenched interests in the Virginia General Assembly bent on silencing a large swath of Black Virginians in order to maximize their political power. Going forward, the same organizing energy that went into creating Gov. McAuliffe’s proclamation will translate into a vigorous push for the access to the ballot we deserve. Virginians have sacrificed too much for the right to vote, dating back to the early days of the Commonwealth. We will not stop the fight now.”
Organizations like New Virginia Majority have worked to expand access to the ballot box for years. NVM’s advocacy and organizing was key to Gov. McAuliffe’s proclamation, which could have restored voting rights for up to approximately 206,000 Virginians who were previously disenfranchised.
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire...isenfranchised
Jim Crow, lock 'em by the 100Ks (War on Drugs),
destroy their lives, and above all deny them the vote.
Tricky starting the War on Drugs was, yet again, in reaction to the VRA and other progress of the 1950s.
Another racist slave state gets kicked in the teeth
Appeals Court Rejects Strict North Carolina Voting Law
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the heart of a North Carolina voting law seen as the strictest in the nation, finding that Republican lawmakers intentionally discriminated against African-Americans when they passed it.
A divided 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the measure's provisions "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision."
The ruling is just the latest court win for voting rights advocates. A different federal appeals court ruled this month that Texas's voter ID law is racially discriminatory and must be softened.
And a district court softened Wisconsin's ID law, too, though that decision is being appealed.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/appeals-court-strikes-down-strict-north-carolina-voting-law-n619836?cid=sm_fb
A Georgia town is sending police to black residents’ homes to challenge their voting rights
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/a-ge...e+Raw+Story%29
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Federal Judge Bars North Dakota From Enforcing Restrictive Voter ID Law
A federal judge on Monday barred North Dakota from enforcing the state’s strict voter identification-card law, adding to several recent federal court rulings that such laws may disenfranchise minority voters.
Judge Daniel L. Hovland of the United States District Court for North Dakota issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which he said had made it difficult and sometimes impossible for some Native Americans on rural reservations to cast ballots.
Judge Hovland’s injunction did not strike down the law. But North Dakota’s secretary of state, Alvin Jaeger, indicated in an interview that the state would not appeal the decision and that November’s election would revert to using less restrictive identification rules that were in force before the 2013 law was enacted.
“The record is replete with concrete evidence of significant burdens imposed on Native American voters attempting to exercise their right to vote,” Judge Hovland wrote.
Nor, he stated, was there any evidence that the state needed such a restrictive ID policy.
“To the contrary,” he wrote, “the record before the court reveals that the
secretary of state acknowledged in 2006 that he was unaware of any voter fraud in North Dakota.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/north-dakota-voter-identification-law.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
iow, the racist, white-supremacist Repugs LIE when they say voter fraud is rampant and that they are only protecting the sanc y of the (white) vote.
North Carolina Spent Nearly $5 Million Defending Voter ID, And Lost
North Carolina’s Republican governor and Republican-controlled legislature spent more taxpayer money defending their voter ID law — which was recently struck down as uncons utional — than the state spent hiring outside lawyers over the previous decade.
New data reveals state leaders spent nearly 5 million dollars since 2011 defending a voting law that “bears the mark of intentional discrimination,” according to the federal court that ruled against the state in July.
The law in question
eliminated same-day voter registration,
cut a full week of early voting,
barred voters from casting a ballot outside their home precinct,
ended straight-ticket voting, and
scrapped a program to pre-register high school students who would turn 18 by Election Day.
It also mandated one of the country’s strictest voter ID requirements, which does not count student IDs.
https://thinkprogress.org/north-caro...518#.7kegtghah
Republican court blocks remedy to WI voter suppression
Appeals Court Blocks Remedy To Weaken Wisconsin Voter ID Law
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrak...+%28TPMNews%29
Federal Panel Strikes Down North Carolina Legislative Districts As Gerrymanders
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal judges on Thursday struck down nearly 30 North Carolina House and Senate districts as illegal racial gerrymanders, but will allow General Assembly elections to be held using them this fall.
The decision by a three-judge panel comes six months after another set of judges struck down North Carolina's congressional districts for similar reasons. Thursday's ruling covering 19 House and nine Senate districts is yet another blow to the GOP lawmakers in North Carolina, which has seen several laws it enacted either partially or wholly overturned by the federal courts.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced in June that it would hear the appeals of Republican state leaders in that case, where two majority-black congressional districts were thrown out. The previous map drawn in 2011 and still being challenged helped give the state GOP more seats within the congressional delegation in the swing state.
The legislative maps, also approved in 2011, also helped Republicans pad their majorities in the two chambers after they took control of the legislature for the first time in 140 years the year before.
Writing for the panel in Thursday's ruling, U.S. Circuit Judge James Wynn said requiring lawmakers to redraw maps now would result in confusion for voters, candidates and election officials. State lawmakers will be required to fashion new plans when they reconvene for their legislative session early next year.
Postponing the 2016 legislative elections "would cause significant and undue disruption to North Carolina's election process," Wynn wrote.
"Nonetheless, plaintiffs, and thousands of other North Carolina citizens, have suffered severe cons utional harms stemming from defendants' creation of 28 district racially gerrymandered in violation of the equal protection clause."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ju...+%28TPMNews%29
So the racist NC Repugs get to win one more election with gerrymandered districts.
Repugs win only by lying, cheating, being anti-Cons utional.
Smoking Gun Memo Reveals GOP Voter Fraud Bamboozlement In North Carolina
On the heels of appeals court ruling that restored a week's worth of early voting in North Carolina, the executive director of the state's Republican Party emailed a memo to members of local elections boards urging them to push for "party line changes" that cut back on early voting hours, The News and Observer reported.
The memo, sent by NCGOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse on Sunday, said that Republican board members "should fight with all they have to promote safe and secure voting and for rules that are fair to our side."
“Our Republican Board members should feel empowered to make legal changes to early voting plans, that are supported by Republicans,” Woodhouse wrote. “Republicans can and should make party line changes to early voting.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
Repugs protecting the SANC Y OF THE VOTE!
Smoking Gun Memo Reveals GOP Voter Fraud Bamboozlement In North Carolina
On the heels of appeals court ruling that restored a week's worth of early voting in North Carolina, the executive director of the state's Republican Party emailed a memo to members of local elections boards urging them to push for "party line changes" that cut back on early voting hours, The News and Observer reported.
The memo, sent by NCGOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse on Sunday, said that Republican board members "should fight with all they have to promote safe and secure voting and for rules that are fair to our side."
“Our Republican Board members should feel empowered to make legal changes to early voting plans, that are supported by Republicans,” Woodhouse wrote. “Republicans can and should make party line changes to early voting.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
Repugs protecting the SANC Y OF THE VOTE!
from the Kock-sucking ogre of Kockistan
The Scorching Cynicism of Scott Walker’s Assault on Voting
As the federal courts intervene to restore early voting, the governor admits that he signed antidemocratic legislation without considering the consequences.
Walker has emerged as a national leader in the fight for rules and restrictions on practices and procedures that are designed to make voting easy. That has put the governor at odds with Wisconsin’s historic commitment to high-turnout elections.
But he has not pushed forward, signing stacks of bills that erect barriers to participation in the political process.
“There have been so many anti-voting laws in this state, it’s hard to keep track,”
he has made the fight to constrain and constrict voting central to his governorship.
US District Judge James Peterson overturned Walker’s restrictions, writing that the law limiting early voting “intentionally discriminates on the basis of race.”
“I reach this conclusion because I am persuaded that this law was specifically targeted to curtail voting in Milwaukee without any other legitimate purpose,”
Peterson also overturned a number of other Walker-approved measures that made voting harder, including laws that extended Wisconsin’s residency requirement for voters from 10 days to 28 days and blocked the distribution of absentee ballots by e-mail and fax.
The legislation limiting early voting had a serious impact on elections in Wisconsin. It made it harder for voters to cast ballots. It put Wisconsin at odds with the Cons ution,
https://www.thenation.com/article/th...ult-on-voting/
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