James O'Keefe? That's a shame. I thought you might've been serious. The only way you fall for hoaxes like his is if you want to or maybe you're so strung out on your bigotry you need to. Which one are you?
The Bush Administration tasked all the U.S. attorney's offices with not just finding in-person voter fraud but prosecuting it as their highest priority. It just wasn't there to find. Eventually, the attorney general started purging the U.S. attorneys that were failing to bring in those non-existent cases, and it brought him down. You can believe in James O'Keefe or the Easter Bunny for all I care, but if you think there's any problem with in-person voter fraud in the U.S. you've got an underlying personal problem. That said, if you think James O'Keefe found what America's U.S. attorneys couldn't, again, that goes to a personal problem.
And why wouldn't the left champion voter ID if it can fall under the bracket of government services?
Voter ID? You know, because I'm pretty sure I've told you, I've always enjoyed your contributions. To this day, I think you've made the best snap I've ever seen here by sheer force of research on a great topic. But you seem to be on another side of this issue and I want to clarify for you that it's not an issue but a creed. This is about political subjugation by some people of other people.
Today, one of the ways Jim Crow works has to do with voter ID. Your tone above leaves no doubt you think it's good policy. Require some new form of ID that's never been needed for civic participation before then make sure it's practically impossible to get. The thing is it's not always voter ID.
Sometimes it's a literacy test, because if you can't read then somebody must be telling you for whom to vote. Literacy tests certain people always seem to fail. Sometimes it's a poll tax, a fee you have to pay to vote, because otherwise somebody might be paying you to vote a certain way. A fee that's always more than certain people seem to have. Sometimes it's a noose.
There are counties in this country where the vote totals somehow come out before the sheriff brings in the ballots to be counted. There are electronic voting machines that need 'calibration,' those that have all the security required by the state elections board switched off, and those that're so easily hacked it defies belief that they aren't routinely. There are so many backwaters and eddies in the electoral system in this country that either and both parties can, have, do and will corrupt the voting process beyond the dreams of modest people.
I myself have had 'irregularities' occur with my voter registration and ballots in 2016 that mean my votes were almost certainly never counted. That's the real, baseline corruption. What this old time Know-Nothing gadfly Trump is after here is more than pleasing crowds of knuckle-dragging white supremacists and moronic, scapegoat-hungry nativists like MagisterLudi. He wants to broaden, lengthen and deepen Jim Crow without disturbing in any way the traditional, longstanding ways that U.S. elections have always been corrupt.
Project is not a bigot, and you know that. There is a cultural difference, perhaps. Distrust in our neck of the woods, where we have seen, even been victims of manipulation in our real lives. Others maybe come from a more homogenized environment, not so threatening. I get where Project is coming from, and it is not from
anything other than being honest.
Many countries aren’t Texas, or Alabama, or North Carolina, or the neo-Confederate South of an Attorney General Sessions’ Justice Department under the Roberts Court and the Trump presidency.
Having ID seems reasonable. And you don’t have to worry about getting it. More over, once folks that’ve never needed these forms of ID to vote before succeed in getting it, Jim Crow will move onto the next way to manipulate you into resenting the victims of whatever that voter suppression scheme is.
Totally agree with this in the US context. Real ID is a good example. Some states have not adopted it. They won't be able to go on military bases or board a plane or enter certain federal building without the Real ID recognized driver's license. It is a de facto National ID...and nobody thinks that a problem?
Enough for a quarter of the states to pass laws specifically forbidding complying with the federal REAL ID Act. Enough so that “Homeland Security,” (eesh, that still sounds creepy) keeps pretending to give out ‘waivers’ to states. Until they don’t.
With so many state legislatures dead set against it, my guess is that Motherland Security will extend the requirement deadline for air travel past 2018.
James O'Keefe? That's a shame. I thought you might've been serious. The only way you fall for hoaxes like his is if you want to or maybe you're so strung out on your bigotry you need to. Which one are you?
The Bush Administration tasked all the U.S. attorney's offices with not just finding in-person voter fraud but prosecuting it as their highest priority. It just wasn't there to find. Eventually, the attorney general started purging the U.S. attorneys that were failing to bring in those non-existent cases, and it brought him down. You can believe in James O'Keefe or the Easter Bunny for all I care, but if you think there's any problem with in-person voter fraud in the U.S. you've got an underlying personal problem. That said, if you think James O'Keefe found what America's U.S. attorneys couldn't, again, that goes to a personal problem.
Voter ID? You know, because I'm pretty sure I've told you, I've always enjoyed your contributions. To this day, I think you've made the best snap I've ever seen here by sheer force of research on a great topic. But you seem to be on another side of this issue and I want to clarify for you that it's not an issue but a creed. This is about political subjugation by some people of other people.
Today, one of the ways Jim Crow works has to do with voter ID. Your tone above leaves no doubt you think it's good policy. Require some new form of ID that's never been needed for civic participation before then make sure it's practically impossible to get. The thing is it's not always voter ID.
Sometimes it's a literacy test, because if you can't read then somebody must be telling you for whom to vote. Literacy tests certain people always seem to fail. Sometimes it's a poll tax, a fee you have to pay to vote, because otherwise somebody might be paying you to vote a certain way. A fee that's always more than certain people seem to have. Sometimes it's a noose.
There are counties in this country where the vote totals somehow come out before the sheriff brings in the ballots to be counted. There are electronic voting machines that need 'calibration,' those that have all the security required by the state elections board switched off, and those that're so easily hacked it defies belief that they aren't routinely. There are so many backwaters and eddies in the electoral system in this country that either and both parties can, have, do and will corrupt the voting process beyond the dreams of modest people.
I myself have had 'irregularities' occur with my voter registration and ballots in 2016 that mean my votes were almost certainly never counted. That's the real, baseline corruption. What this old time Know-Nothing gadfly Trump is after here is more than pleasing crowds of knuckle-dragging white supremacists and moronic, scapegoat-hungry nativists like MagisterLudi. He wants to broaden, lengthen and deepen Jim Crow without disturbing in any way the traditional, longstanding ways that U.S. elections have always been corrupt.
Project is not a bigot, and you know that. There is a cultural difference, perhaps. Distrust in our neck of the woods, where we have seen, even been victims of manipulation in our real lives. Others maybe come from a more homogenized environment, not so threatening. I get where Project is coming from, and it is not from anything other than being honest.
Fair. Something Jim Crow has always pretended to be.
There is nothing fair about Jim Crow.
Have to show ID in many countries to vote.
Many countries aren’t Texas, or Alabama, or North Carolina, or the neo-Confederate South of an Attorney General Sessions’ Justice Department under the Roberts Court and the Trump presidency.
Having ID seems reasonable. And you don’t have to worry about getting it. More over, once folks that’ve never needed these forms of ID to vote before succeed in getting it, Jim Crow will move onto the next way to manipulate you into resenting the victims of whatever that voter suppression scheme is.
Totally agree with this in the US context. Real ID is a good example. Some states have not adopted it. They won't be able to go on military bases or board a plane or enter certain federal building without the Real ID recognized driver's license. It is a de facto National ID...and nobody thinks that a problem?
Enough for a quarter of the states to pass laws specifically forbidding complying with the federal REAL ID Act. Enough so that “Homeland Security,” (eesh, that still sounds creepy) keeps pretending to give out ‘waivers’ to states. Until they don’t.
My parents live in PA, one of those states not complying...and they didn't even know about it.
With so many state legislatures dead set against it, my guess is that Motherland Security will extend the requirement deadline for air travel past 2018.