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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Xavier_Onassis on October 23, 2014, 08:43:43 PM

Title: Why voter ID laws are not really about fraud
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on October 23, 2014, 08:43:43 PM

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/why-voter-id-laws-arent-really-about-fraud/ (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/why-voter-id-laws-arent-really-about-fraud/)

Title: Re: Why voter ID laws are not really about fraud
Post by: Plane on October 23, 2014, 09:50:37 PM

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“There is only one motivation for imposing burdens on voting that are ostensibly designed to discourage voter-impersonation fraud,” Posner wrote, “…and that is to discourage voting by persons likely to vote against the party responsible for imposing the burdens.”

Obenshain, the Virginia senator, said his law wasn’t about keeping voters from the polls. “There’s only one class of people who are going to be discouraged from voting, and that’s fraudulent voters.”

Obviously Obenshain has much greater respect for "persons" than Posner does.

Title: Re: Why voter ID laws are not really about fraud
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on October 23, 2014, 11:21:10 PM

In every case it has been the teabaggers that have been behind these phony voter fraud allegations. The purpose is to keep Democrats from winning.

Title: Re: Why voter ID laws are not really about fraud
Post by: Plane on October 23, 2014, 11:56:59 PM

In every case it has been the teabaggers that have been behind these valid voter fraud allegations. The purpose is to keep Democrats from winning, by cheating.



That was not much work.


Take note , there is practically no Democratic effort to prevent Republicans from double voting , voting the graveyard , stuffing the ballot box or anything else.
It is kinda nice to be so well trusted.