GOP Moving the Goal Posts Just in Time For the 2012 Election

fcukk this...........the assholes need to get their asses down to the DMV and get a non-driver photo ID. Otherwise.........fcukk them

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I drive a flex-fuel vehicle: burns rubber AND gas!!!

OK - you have hit upon the one part of the OP article which, frankly, I don't understand. I can see how requiring photo ID and making it harder for students to vote would have an adverse impact on the Demorcratic vote in any election. And I can see how making it harder for Blacks and Latinos to vote would also have negative impact on the Democratic total in any election.

What has yet to be explained to me (other libs out there, help me out here) is, how does shortening the time to vote impact Blacks and Latinos any more than any other type of voter?

Anyone?

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No, dear - I merely observed Karl Rove in operation.

Now get back on here and give me more information as to how the Dems are disenfranchising white voters.

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Georgie... a guy as concerned about voting rights as you are...and you don't know of the Ike Brown case???

Here....let me fill ya' in:

1. "In his sworn testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, whistleblower Christopher Coates — who then headed the Voting Rights division — testified to a “deep-seated opposition to the equal enforcement of the” law “for the protection of white voters.” J. Christian Adams agreed that the department indicated it would not prosecute cases against a minority defendant on behalf of a white plaintiff. Coates remembered Julie Fernandes, Obama’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, telling DoJ employees “the Obama administration was only interested in bringing…cases that would provide political equality for racial and language minority voters.” Julie Fernandes | New Black Panther Party | Impeach Obama Campaign - Part 2

2. United States v. Ike Brown Brown was the head of the Democratic Party in Noxubee County, a majority black county. The party ran the Democratic primaries, which served as de facto general elections, and Brown made no secret about his desire to see every government office in the county held by a black officeholder. “You ain’t dealing with Mississippi law, this is Ike Brown’s law,” was his motto. Brown organized teams of notary publics to roam the county collecting absentee ballots, the notaries regularly cast the ballots themselves instead of the voters.

a. During one election, teams of federal observers counted hundreds of verified examples of illegal assistance. Brown lawlessly disqualified white candidates from running for office. Ike Brown institutionalized racial lawlessness, and brazenly victimized white voters during the 2003 and 2007 elections. And yet, many in the Voting Section never wanted the Department even to investigate the matter.

b. Hostility pervaded the Voting Section…Some said that unless whites were victims of historic discrimination, they shouldn’t be protected….Because whites were better off than blacks in Mississippi, no lawsuit should be allowed to protect whites, they argued.

c. Before the trial, article after article appeared in the New York Times and other newspapers critical of the decision to bring the Ike Brown case. ABC News presented it as a classic man-bites-dog story. Even National Public Radio traveled to Noxubee to do a story suspicious of the Bush administration’s decision to sue Ike Brown. The benefit of hindsight makes the national media effort to demean the case, and the hostility from the civil rights community, look laughable and petty. We won the case, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision in two historic opinions.
PJ Media » PJM Exclusive: Unequal Law Enforcement Reigns at Obama’s DOJ (UPDATED: Adams Discusses this Article on Fox News)

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I was not familiar with this case. (You weren't being a little sarcastic with your, "as concerned as you are about voting rights," now were you?)

Sure - if this is what happened, then Ike is an asshole and should be run out of town on a rail. And any administration that refused to take appropriate action to rememdy such and prevent it in the future, if that is truly what happened and was truly contemplated to happen again in the future, is subject to extreme criticism.

I abhor sliminess, trickery and hidden agendas, regardless of which party is the author. It has been my experience that, when it comes to such, the Republican party FAR outshines the Democratic party, but I also recognize that, on occasion, our poop can smell a little bad as well . . . .

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Spoken like a true Republican.

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Wrong. Flat wrong.

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US Presidential election is once every 4 years. If you're too lazy or stupid to make it to the poll that day you should not be allowed to vote.

Also, spare me the, "Poor old lady on her death bed eating cat food and can't make it to the poll" story

I have 0 sympathy.

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^^This^^

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I thought the other post I quoted had the cream of the crop for dumb shit... but this takes the cake

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Yeah. I have a little more experience with the world than you. But if being ignorant is your choice, it's your right to choose.

Personally I think you should have to pass a test showing you have a working knowledge of history, civics and current events in order to vote.

That would get rid of most FOX-watchers.

But failing that, excluding people for being down-and-out, mentally ill, or desperately poor is exactly the kind of thing that gives Republicans their reputation for hypocrisy and mean-spirited chauvinism.

What did Jesus say about the down-trodden?

I'd put that on my test.

Keep telling yourself that, cupcake... Especially when you have no idea of the person's background you are responding to

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Fuck the subjective notion of 'fair'
Embrace true equality in treatment in all aspects, not just ones that benefit you or your cause

One must HAVE a residence to register. One must actually be the person registered and one must actually RESIDE in the district one is registered in.

Pretty simple concepts.

Federal LAW requires all that be fact and provable. The only way to prove it is with ID.

Using your listed criteria above one could easily register in several locations and with the proper help vote in all those locals, how? Because no ID is required and no proof of residence.

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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable
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I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.
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Let me set you straight about Florida's early voting.

In 2008 the law was early voting was conducted 15 days before the election until 2 days before the election. Voting was 8 hrs per day on weekdays and an aggregate of 8 hrs per weekend. That adds up to 96 hrs.


The law now is early voting starts 10 days before the election and ends 3 days before the election. voting to be up to 12 hrs per day. That adds up to...................





You guessed it 96 hrs.

The same amount of time.


And the reason I know this...........it's my job.

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