There is nothing wrong with issuing a NATIONALID card, to all citizens of the United States of America!! Of course, there are certain people that do not agree with that!! I wonder why???
What’s next…grandfather clauses, poll tax called something else…Here’s a thought: How about having elections on Sundays instead of waiting for nineteenth century farmers to travel to the polls by Tuesday?
Mike, mike, mike. You have shown us over and over again you don’t know what “humanity” means. When you use it in a ’toon like this it just makes you look ignorant.
Maybe Trump could have declared himself KING by executive order and his first born son would then follow him. No need for any voter I.D. cards or voting . . . . /S
As usual the right wing cartoonist makes light of a serious problem.
There are two kinds of GOP attacks on democracy — and one is much worseDemocratic campaigns can overcome some, but not all, of the Republican Party’s efforts to disenfranchise voters.
On Sunday evening, Texas Republicans expected to pass Senate Bill 7, which contains several provisions making it harder to cast a ballot in Texas. But Democrats took advantage of two procedural constraints to temporarily block the bill.
The legislative session expired at midnight, placing a hard deadline on all bills that Texas lawmakers hoped to enact, and the state House must have two-thirds of its members present to conduct business. So Democrats ran out the clock by abandoning the House chamber before Republicans could call a vote on the bill.
The previous day, however, something even more surprising happened. Though Republicans were united behind passing some kind of voter suppression bill, the state House and state Senate versions of the bill were quite different.
The Senate’s version of the bill, for example, would have strictly regulated where Texas’s largest counties — the ones that include big cities dominated by Democrats — are allowed to locate polling places. Had this provision passed, it was expected to shut down many polling places in Democratic areas with a large share of minority voters. But this provision was stripped during the conference committee.
Similarly, the conference committee dropped a vague provision that could have removed voters from the rolls after they are ”otherwise determined to be ineligible to vote” — it wasn’t entirely clear how this determination would have been made under the deleted provision.
Inside Democrats’ Scramble to Repel the G.O.P. Voting Push
Lacking effective legislative or legal ways to stop Republicans from introducing new voting limits, Democrats are applying pressure on their allies in Washington and trying to energize supporters.
Democrats are struggling to build a surefire legal strategy to block new Republican-backed restrictions on voting rights, relying on broadly worded warnings and urgent pleas that are designed, in part, to build political pressure on the White House, Congress and the Justice Department to act, as well as to engage their supporters to mobilize in advance of the 2022 midterm elections.
Locked out of power in the Republican-run states that are enacting laws making it harder to vote, Democrats are engaged in a partywide effort to push back against the legislation that has as much to do with winning hearts and minds outside courtrooms as it does legal victories inside them.
“We’re taking an all-of-the-above approach because we can’t allow these things to stand,” Jaime Harrison, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in an interview on Friday. “As Democrats, we have to make this personal and we have to tell the story as to why this is important. This is fundamental. The most fundamental thing we have to do is protect the right of all folks to vote.”Republican laws passed in Georgia and Florida, along with a bill advancing in Texas, have so many new provisions that Democrats find troublesome both politically and legally that it is proving overwhelming to confront the measures one by one in court.
Republicans Are Accidentally Suppressing Their Own Voters
Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.
An unnamed Democratic congressional aide told The Washington Post this week that the mood in his party is “panic.” The cause of that panic is a raft of legislation in various Republican-controlled states that’s designed to limit voters’ access to the polls. These laws are genuine cause for concern, but their most common component—restrictions on mail-in balloting—will likely harm Republican candidates more than Democratic ones.
It’s counterintuitive that partisan efforts to undermine democratic governance should hinder rather than advance partisan self-interest. The very idea would drive a game theoretician mad. But the Republicans’ drive to rig elections in their favor—which extends back two decades—turns out, hilariously, to be yet another GOP tradition that’s being undermined by the delusions of Donald Trump.
Since most students turn 18 when they are still in high school why not have the high school issue the id? It could be good for voting and registering for Selective Service; the schools could even make it a monthly event for all the students turning 18 that month.
‘Weapons-grade lunacy’: Trump’s latest conspiracy theory trashed by conservative commentator
Charlie Sykes hammered Donald Trump for promoting the improbable scenario that he will be “reinstated” as president in August, with Sykes saying Trump is continuing to trap the Republican Party in a “doom loop of craziness” that threatens the entire country.
“That, of course, is not going to happen. It is, in fact, weapons-grade lunacy to imagine that it is even possible,” Sykes wrote. “It should also remind us that even though an idea is fake, the consequences of a new Big Lie can be very real, and even deadly. Delegitimizing our democracy is now central to Trump’s agenda and his hopes for a political comeback. And polls suggest that his lies about the election have influenced tens of millions of voters.”
Noting a poll that shows that 53 percent of Republicans believe Trump is the “true president” of the United States," Sykes added, “In this alternative reality, it’s only a small step to believe their ‘true president’ might really return.”
Trump’s ‘yawn-worthy’ North Carolina performance demolished by conservative
While multiple critics of Trump suggested he didn’t look well and slurred his words during his speech, Lewis — who is no fan of the president — thought the whole affair was “yawn-worthy” as Trump ran through a litany of old grievances with nothing new to throw out to his rabid fans.
Puckishly nothing that Trump’s arrival was preceded by the theme from “Titanic,” the conservative columnist suggested the speech was also a memorable disaster.
Writing, “If this was his midterm coming-out party, he should probably go back in for a while,” the Daily Beast columnist added that the ex-president was late in delivering his speech and that, “If the goal was to increase the tension in the audience, Trump promptly wasted it.”
Questioning, “Has his schtick just become stale, or is he just rusty?” Lewis added, “History is riddled with comebacks gone wrong—of once-great pugilists who should have hung up the gloves but came back for one more payday and more punishment. But getting back on the rubber chicken circuit is a little different than climbing in the ring.”
Lewis then suggested more speeches like the one on Saturday night could be bad news for the GOP.
“Trump’s rally in Georgia had the effect of helping elect two Democrats and giving their party control of the U.S. Senate,” he wrote before warning, “Just imagine what he can do in 2022 with this kind of head start.”
Has there been mass voter fraud which made use of drive through voting? No? Then why ban it? Oh, to make it difficult for the “wrong” kind of people to vote.
Trump trolled after being accused of wearing his pants ‘backwards’ at North Carolina speech
On Twitter, commenters immediately began pointing out that Trump’s pants appeared to lack a fly, with some speculating that the suit pants might indeed be reversed while others wondered if they were elastic-waist pull-up pants.
Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
Launched last month with a grand unveiling replete with an action-movie-style trailer that proclaimed, “In a time of silence and lies, a beacon of freedom arises,” the blog never secured more than a sliver of the spotlight Trump held before he was banned from every major social media site in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
If they wanted to HONESTLY enact voter ID laws, they should first set in place ways for ALL valid voters to easily get an ID in enough time for any problems to be corrected BEFORE an election.
Making it harder to vote is anti-democratic, and Republicans* desperately want that.
But, the REAL prize they are after is to invalidate and overturn ANY election where they don’t like the results. It ensures Republican* rule in perpetuity.
I’ve no problems with voter ID – in fact, it makes sense to me. But what I don’t like is what politicians do to manipulate who can get the ID, and the unnecessary hoops they make you jump through to obtain and maintain it, and that they like to change their minds about which forms of ID they are willing to accept – particularly right before elections…
What about the 92 year-old rural voter who has no birth certificate due to home delivery and never had a driver’s license. They do exist, especially in the southern states enacting these laws. They have just as much right to vote as you or I, and they probably had better civics lessons than many students today.
Talk about a non-problem. Up here in Ontario, you have to prove that you’re a valid voter, but there are about twenty-five or more kinds of documents that are acceptable, including utility bills. As I recall, you have to show two items from the list, and one of them has to have your picture on it. Health cards (oh, yeah, almost everyone has a health card, because we have universal health insurance) have your picture. I also use my passport, since I don’t have a driver’s license. Or two people who know you can swear that you’re the person you say you are. The last time I voted, a couple of years ago, I had to wait all of five minutes, if that. There are lots and lots of polling stations, including stations in the lobbies of high-rise apartments. I vote down the street in the school auditorium.
They’re banning Sunday morning voting (to obstruct “souls to the polls” programs popular in many Black communities), they’re restricting 24-hour voting and drop-box locations and hours (to inconvenience people who work odd hours and rely on public transportation), they’re targeting what types of state ID’s are acceptable (gun permit – OK, college ID – no good)(to make it harder for certain “undesirable” groups to vote), they’re making it harder to receive and use mail-in or absentee ballots (because it turns out Democratic voters are really good at using those).
They are pushing for a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Of course, Ramirez is too dishonest to ever address the actual reality of voter suppression efforts by the Republikkkans and the Big Lie of their leader.
Ramirez is, of course, totally misrepresenting the issue. “They” aren’t harming all voters equally, they’re deliberately and maliciously working to prevent BLACK voters from voting.
Why is he worried about state issued ID? Because it can be used to prevent blacks from voting. It is NEITHER necessary nor particularly good. For instance, in several states, ballots are mailed to all registered voters and the voters may then fill them at their leisure and return them by either mail or dropping at a ballot box. The proof of their identity as voters is that their signature matches the sample at the court house.
Why is he worried about drive by voting? Because it’s convenient to vote that way, and they want to prevent people from voting!
As for “mail in voting” , it’s been going on for quite a number of years; plenty of time for statisticians and voting experts to run the numbers and see how much such “horrifyingly dangerous voting practices” have changed the outcomes. There is one notable change: More people are voting. That’s it. There’s no other effect, certainly not more cheating. A couple of studies seem to say there’s less, but the numbers both before and after are so small that statistics is silly. Things like “Out of 2.35 million votes cast, we found 3 cases where there might have been a problem”. I do know of some cases where partisans were collecting and discarding ballots instead of putting them in the ballot box as they promised. That behavior is illegal, it was caught, the ballots were recovered, and the perps (all right wingers as it turned out) were punished.
Do you really not understand about white privilege, and the difficulty for non-white voters to actually vote? If you really don’t understand that, I’m sorry.
The laws being put through do not STOP at IDs. Many include shorter the early voting times, restrictions on voting by mail — and for those who do vote by mail using an official drop box — but changed the law so each person must drop off their own ballot, they have reduced the number of drop boxes, and in some cases the hours the drop boxes are available. And while making it imperative to vote in person, they are not increasing the number of polling places and hours making it difficult for poor people who CAN’T take off work (or lose a day’s pay) to vote. My state votes Republican, so it is easy for all citizens to vote. It is easy to vote by mail — using a drop box or mail (no stamp required) and if you are heading to the post office to drop off your ballot, you drop off your friend’s or neighbor’s ballot(s) while you’re at it. There is early voting and sufficient polling places making it easy for everybody to vote. It is in the states where Republicans fear they can’t guarantee a win if a large number of citizens vote (especially in the big cities, the poor and minorities) that laws making it harder for “the wrong people” to vote are taking place.
LookingGlass Premium Member almost 3 years ago
There is nothing wrong with issuing a NATIONAL ID card, to all citizens of the United States of America!! Of course, there are certain people that do not agree with that!! I wonder why???
VegaAlopex almost 3 years ago
What’s next…grandfather clauses, poll tax called something else…Here’s a thought: How about having elections on Sundays instead of waiting for nineteenth century farmers to travel to the polls by Tuesday?
baroden Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Interesting perspective when those “rules” were never needed before and disproportionately impact minorities.
Good job leaving those tidbits out.
Odon Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Mike, don’t forget there is a lot of limitation in those bills specifically designed to make voting more difficult.
dnie1951 almost 3 years ago
Such as……………………
Durak Premium Member almost 3 years ago
How about we try to encourage voting, and remove barriers, rather than tie them up?
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Again, Vote Republican and the Terrorists WIN!
wildthing almost 3 years ago
Provable voter fraud has never been greater than a microscopic fraction of one percent……Oh the humanity.
FrankErnesto almost 3 years ago
Not all voters, just the ones that look like they might vote Democratic.
Vidrinath Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Mike, mike, mike. You have shown us over and over again you don’t know what “humanity” means. When you use it in a ’toon like this it just makes you look ignorant.
shstuart Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Why we need to remember D-Day—anti fascism and heroism in support of and with the cooperation of our allies.
Iseau almost 3 years ago
Everyone is honest, right. Why would they need a valid ID to prove it?
Denver Reader Premium Member almost 3 years ago
If those were the only provisions…
TomStuetzer almost 3 years ago
Key word in all this is CITIZENS!
The Nodding Head almost 3 years ago
“They want voting to be just like it was a century ago! Because nothing’s changed since then!”
The Love of Money is . . . almost 3 years ago
Maybe Trump could have declared himself KING by executive order and his first born son would then follow him. No need for any voter I.D. cards or voting . . . . /S
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
As usual the right wing cartoonist makes light of a serious problem.
There are two kinds of GOP attacks on democracy — and one is much worseDemocratic campaigns can overcome some, but not all, of the Republican Party’s efforts to disenfranchise voters.
On Sunday evening, Texas Republicans expected to pass Senate Bill 7, which contains several provisions making it harder to cast a ballot in Texas. But Democrats took advantage of two procedural constraints to temporarily block the bill.
The legislative session expired at midnight, placing a hard deadline on all bills that Texas lawmakers hoped to enact, and the state House must have two-thirds of its members present to conduct business. So Democrats ran out the clock by abandoning the House chamber before Republicans could call a vote on the bill.
The previous day, however, something even more surprising happened. Though Republicans were united behind passing some kind of voter suppression bill, the state House and state Senate versions of the bill were quite different.
The Senate’s version of the bill, for example, would have strictly regulated where Texas’s largest counties — the ones that include big cities dominated by Democrats — are allowed to locate polling places. Had this provision passed, it was expected to shut down many polling places in Democratic areas with a large share of minority voters. But this provision was stripped during the conference committee.
Similarly, the conference committee dropped a vague provision that could have removed voters from the rolls after they are ”otherwise determined to be ineligible to vote” — it wasn’t entirely clear how this determination would have been made under the deleted provision.
https://www.vox.com/22463490/voting-rights-democracy-texas-georgia-suppression-jim-crow-supreme-court-sb7
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Inside Democrats’ Scramble to Repel the G.O.P. Voting Push
Lacking effective legislative or legal ways to stop Republicans from introducing new voting limits, Democrats are applying pressure on their allies in Washington and trying to energize supporters.
Democrats are struggling to build a surefire legal strategy to block new Republican-backed restrictions on voting rights, relying on broadly worded warnings and urgent pleas that are designed, in part, to build political pressure on the White House, Congress and the Justice Department to act, as well as to engage their supporters to mobilize in advance of the 2022 midterm elections.
Locked out of power in the Republican-run states that are enacting laws making it harder to vote, Democrats are engaged in a partywide effort to push back against the legislation that has as much to do with winning hearts and minds outside courtrooms as it does legal victories inside them.
“We’re taking an all-of-the-above approach because we can’t allow these things to stand,” Jaime Harrison, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in an interview on Friday. “As Democrats, we have to make this personal and we have to tell the story as to why this is important. This is fundamental. The most fundamental thing we have to do is protect the right of all folks to vote.”Republican laws passed in Georgia and Florida, along with a bill advancing in Texas, have so many new provisions that Democrats find troublesome both politically and legally that it is proving overwhelming to confront the measures one by one in court.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/us/politics/democrats-republican-voting-rights.html
Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Gotta hand it to Micheal, he’s a good artist.. unfortunately it comes with a perverse political view.
Zebrastripes almost 3 years ago
GOP doth protest too much!
ABOUT EVERYTHING!
Just to cause trouble
Just to protest for the sake of protest
ID is shown every where for ID for many purposes, but god forbid their “rights” are being infringed upon…
I’m sure to get Medicare ………….they’re more than willing.I’m sure to cash stimulus checks, they’re more than willing.
They’re not kidding anyone with their fake sham!!!Now that SIR-LIES-A LOT is in the move again, it’s gonna get worse…
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Republicans Are Accidentally Suppressing Their Own Voters
Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.
An unnamed Democratic congressional aide told The Washington Post this week that the mood in his party is “panic.” The cause of that panic is a raft of legislation in various Republican-controlled states that’s designed to limit voters’ access to the polls. These laws are genuine cause for concern, but their most common component—restrictions on mail-in balloting—will likely harm Republican candidates more than Democratic ones.
It’s counterintuitive that partisan efforts to undermine democratic governance should hinder rather than advance partisan self-interest. The very idea would drive a game theoretician mad. But the Republicans’ drive to rig elections in their favor—which extends back two decades—turns out, hilariously, to be yet another GOP tradition that’s being undermined by the delusions of Donald Trump.
https://www.gocomics.com/michaelramirez/2021/06/06
Republicans are afraid of the majority of Americans.
mourdac Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Funny, no claims of election fraud in the recent primaries with no Donald J. Trump running….
Otis Rufus Driftwood almost 3 years ago
I thought having trust in our elections was something we wanted.
Gen.Flashman almost 3 years ago
Since most students turn 18 when they are still in high school why not have the high school issue the id? It could be good for voting and registering for Selective Service; the schools could even make it a monthly event for all the students turning 18 that month.
DCBakerEsq almost 3 years ago
No one pays the media to report facts.
ChristopherBurns almost 3 years ago
Does anyone remember the 60’s and 70’s when conservatives would lose their minds over the thought of a national identity card?
Diamond Lil almost 3 years ago
Perhaps you wouldn’t be so cavalier about voting rights if you had been on the receiving end of suppression Mikey.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Trump and Giuliani personally pushed for conspiracy-driven Arizona vote ‘audit’, emails show
Numerous emails included voters threatening to oust GOP lawmakers if they do not find evidence of fraud
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-giuliani-arizona-vote-audit-b1860347.html
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
‘Weapons-grade lunacy’: Trump’s latest conspiracy theory trashed by conservative commentator
Charlie Sykes hammered Donald Trump for promoting the improbable scenario that he will be “reinstated” as president in August, with Sykes saying Trump is continuing to trap the Republican Party in a “doom loop of craziness” that threatens the entire country.
“That, of course, is not going to happen. It is, in fact, weapons-grade lunacy to imagine that it is even possible,” Sykes wrote. “It should also remind us that even though an idea is fake, the consequences of a new Big Lie can be very real, and even deadly. Delegitimizing our democracy is now central to Trump’s agenda and his hopes for a political comeback. And polls suggest that his lies about the election have influenced tens of millions of voters.”
Noting a poll that shows that 53 percent of Republicans believe Trump is the “true president” of the United States," Sykes added, “In this alternative reality, it’s only a small step to believe their ‘true president’ might really return.”
https://www.rawstory.com/tyrump-reinstatement/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Trump’s ‘yawn-worthy’ North Carolina performance demolished by conservative
While multiple critics of Trump suggested he didn’t look well and slurred his words during his speech, Lewis — who is no fan of the president — thought the whole affair was “yawn-worthy” as Trump ran through a litany of old grievances with nothing new to throw out to his rabid fans.
Puckishly nothing that Trump’s arrival was preceded by the theme from “Titanic,” the conservative columnist suggested the speech was also a memorable disaster.
Writing, “If this was his midterm coming-out party, he should probably go back in for a while,” the Daily Beast columnist added that the ex-president was late in delivering his speech and that, “If the goal was to increase the tension in the audience, Trump promptly wasted it.”
Questioning, “Has his schtick just become stale, or is he just rusty?” Lewis added, “History is riddled with comebacks gone wrong—of once-great pugilists who should have hung up the gloves but came back for one more payday and more punishment. But getting back on the rubber chicken circuit is a little different than climbing in the ring.”
Lewis then suggested more speeches like the one on Saturday night could be bad news for the GOP.
“Trump’s rally in Georgia had the effect of helping elect two Democrats and giving their party control of the U.S. Senate,” he wrote before warning, “Just imagine what he can do in 2022 with this kind of head start.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-north-carolina/
RussBowers almost 3 years ago
Oh the inhumanity of Ramirez.
jader3rd almost 3 years ago
Has there been mass voter fraud which made use of drive through voting? No? Then why ban it? Oh, to make it difficult for the “wrong” kind of people to vote.
LJZ Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Just don’t try to register my arsenal!
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Trump trolled after being accused of wearing his pants ‘backwards’ at North Carolina speech
On Twitter, commenters immediately began pointing out that Trump’s pants appeared to lack a fly, with some speculating that the suit pants might indeed be reversed while others wondered if they were elastic-waist pull-up pants.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-north-carolina-2653252825/
The leader of the republican party.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
Launched last month with a grand unveiling replete with an action-movie-style trailer that proclaimed, “In a time of silence and lies, a beacon of freedom arises,” the blog never secured more than a sliver of the spotlight Trump held before he was banned from every major social media site in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-ends-blog-after-29-days-infuriated-by-measly-readership/
RAGs almost 3 years ago
Hey Mikey, why did Georgia remove over 100,00 validly registered voters from the rolls just before the 2020 election?
RAGs almost 3 years ago
If they wanted to HONESTLY enact voter ID laws, they should first set in place ways for ALL valid voters to easily get an ID in enough time for any problems to be corrected BEFORE an election.
Calideb62 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
This guy……completely delusional along with his Florida boyfriend and minions.
braindead Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Just another LYING cartoon by a Trump Disciple.
Making it harder to vote is anti-democratic, and Republicans* desperately want that.
But, the REAL prize they are after is to invalidate and overturn ANY election where they don’t like the results. It ensures Republican* rule in perpetuity.
ferddo almost 3 years ago
I’ve no problems with voter ID – in fact, it makes sense to me. But what I don’t like is what politicians do to manipulate who can get the ID, and the unnecessary hoops they make you jump through to obtain and maintain it, and that they like to change their minds about which forms of ID they are willing to accept – particularly right before elections…
JenSolo02 almost 3 years ago
What about the 92 year-old rural voter who has no birth certificate due to home delivery and never had a driver’s license. They do exist, especially in the southern states enacting these laws. They have just as much right to vote as you or I, and they probably had better civics lessons than many students today.
DatsunMan almost 3 years ago
Then what the hell is your social security card. Also the term citizen to a democrat covers illegals too.
lonecat almost 3 years ago
Talk about a non-problem. Up here in Ontario, you have to prove that you’re a valid voter, but there are about twenty-five or more kinds of documents that are acceptable, including utility bills. As I recall, you have to show two items from the list, and one of them has to have your picture on it. Health cards (oh, yeah, almost everyone has a health card, because we have universal health insurance) have your picture. I also use my passport, since I don’t have a driver’s license. Or two people who know you can swear that you’re the person you say you are. The last time I voted, a couple of years ago, I had to wait all of five minutes, if that. There are lots and lots of polling stations, including stations in the lobbies of high-rise apartments. I vote down the street in the school auditorium.
T Smith almost 3 years ago
They’re banning Sunday morning voting (to obstruct “souls to the polls” programs popular in many Black communities), they’re restricting 24-hour voting and drop-box locations and hours (to inconvenience people who work odd hours and rely on public transportation), they’re targeting what types of state ID’s are acceptable (gun permit – OK, college ID – no good)(to make it harder for certain “undesirable” groups to vote), they’re making it harder to receive and use mail-in or absentee ballots (because it turns out Democratic voters are really good at using those).
They are pushing for a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Of course, Ramirez is too dishonest to ever address the actual reality of voter suppression efforts by the Republikkkans and the Big Lie of their leader.
Retired engineer almost 3 years ago
Could somebody explain to me how reducing voting hours on Sunday helps prove the voters identity?
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
Ramirez is, of course, totally misrepresenting the issue. “They” aren’t harming all voters equally, they’re deliberately and maliciously working to prevent BLACK voters from voting.
Why is he worried about state issued ID? Because it can be used to prevent blacks from voting. It is NEITHER necessary nor particularly good. For instance, in several states, ballots are mailed to all registered voters and the voters may then fill them at their leisure and return them by either mail or dropping at a ballot box. The proof of their identity as voters is that their signature matches the sample at the court house.
Why is he worried about drive by voting? Because it’s convenient to vote that way, and they want to prevent people from voting!
As for “mail in voting” , it’s been going on for quite a number of years; plenty of time for statisticians and voting experts to run the numbers and see how much such “horrifyingly dangerous voting practices” have changed the outcomes. There is one notable change: More people are voting. That’s it. There’s no other effect, certainly not more cheating. A couple of studies seem to say there’s less, but the numbers both before and after are so small that statistics is silly. Things like “Out of 2.35 million votes cast, we found 3 cases where there might have been a problem”. I do know of some cases where partisans were collecting and discarding ballots instead of putting them in the ballot box as they promised. That behavior is illegal, it was caught, the ballots were recovered, and the perps (all right wingers as it turned out) were punished.
AndrewSharpe almost 3 years ago
Do you really not understand about white privilege, and the difficulty for non-white voters to actually vote? If you really don’t understand that, I’m sorry.
wildthing almost 3 years ago
Gaslighting ratf#$kers…………..oh the lack of humanity!!!
calliarcale almost 3 years ago
What is possibly to gain from banning drive-through voting? And why do some states have oddly specific forms of id they will accept?
KarenLaRae Premium Member almost 3 years ago
The laws being put through do not STOP at IDs. Many include shorter the early voting times, restrictions on voting by mail — and for those who do vote by mail using an official drop box — but changed the law so each person must drop off their own ballot, they have reduced the number of drop boxes, and in some cases the hours the drop boxes are available. And while making it imperative to vote in person, they are not increasing the number of polling places and hours making it difficult for poor people who CAN’T take off work (or lose a day’s pay) to vote. My state votes Republican, so it is easy for all citizens to vote. It is easy to vote by mail — using a drop box or mail (no stamp required) and if you are heading to the post office to drop off your ballot, you drop off your friend’s or neighbor’s ballot(s) while you’re at it. There is early voting and sufficient polling places making it easy for everybody to vote. It is in the states where Republicans fear they can’t guarantee a win if a large number of citizens vote (especially in the big cities, the poor and minorities) that laws making it harder for “the wrong people” to vote are taking place.