Cruz to Republicans: Limit voting at all costs

So you believe in a "literacy test" which btw is illegal. If you were educated, you'd know that

I am well aware that the changes I want to see would require at least one amendment to the Zeus Constitution, and likely to many State Constitutions.

BTW - What I’m talking about is far more than just a literacy test.
 
What are the qualifications?

Being a citizen?

Thst would be the start, so far as I’m concerned. I also believe you should be required to be a high school grad, a taxpayer, a property owner, have passed several exams to prove you understand how our Government is supposed to work, etc...

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Why not include a poll tax? What your referring to are Democrat Jim Crow Laws.
The simple requirement of identification is something that all people have today. You can't drive unless you have a license. You need Identification to open a banking account, board a plane.
Soon you will have to provide proof you've got to be received the Covid-19 vaccine to board planes, and hold a job.
 
What are the qualifications?

Being a citizen?

Thst would be the start, so far as I’m concerned. I also believe you should be required to be a high school grad, a taxpayer, a property owner, have passed several exams to prove you understand how our Government is supposed to work, etc...

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Why not include a poll tax? What your referring to are Democrat Jim Crow Laws.
The simple requirement of identification is something that all people have today. You can't drive unless you have a license. You need Identification to open a banking account, board a plane.
Soon you will have to provide proof you've got to be received the Covid-19 vaccine to board planes, and hold a job.
A poll tax infers an idiot who can afford the tax knows what he's voting for.
 
We should go back to the way it was during the days of the Founding Fathers. A system where only the smartest are allowed to vote is the way to go. America was a better country back then.
Early years you had to be White, over 21, own your own property and/or pay taxes, and be male to vote....no intelligence test was required.
BTW this comprised about 8% of the total population.

 
We should go back to the way it was during the days of the Founding Fathers. A system where only the smartest are allowed to vote is the way to go. America was a better country back then.
Early years you had to be White, over 21, own your own property and/or pay taxes, and be male to vote....no intelligence test was required.
BTW this comprised about 8% of the total population.



So, what does that have to do with the current situation, where Libs propose giving the franchise to Chomos, and those who get their rocks off robbing and raping old ladies?

Can't you see a problem with giving the vote to those with a vested interest in disarming Law Abiders so we become sitting ducks?
 
I don't see where either party can claim a holier than thou position when it comes to elections. They should kick both the Democrats and Republicans out of the room when it comes to our election laws and in handling all aspects of elections.
 
Ted Cruz sees this as an existential threat to the Republican party..is it? I think that it's a shot at the right wing, for sure. Party moderates probably not as concerned--but tossing out phrases like, "they want child molesters and illegal aliens" to vote--shows the far right's concern over this bill--as no one has seriously suggested either. There is a provision for ex-cons to regain their franchise..so?



On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.
Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through far-reaching election legislation now before the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections again for generations, he said.
Asked if there was room to compromise, Cruz was blunt: “No.”
“H.R. 1′s only objective is to ensure that Democrats can never again lose another election, that they will win and maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and of the state legislatures for the next century,” Cruz said told the group organized by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-backed, conservative group that provides model legislation to state legislators.
Cruz’s statements, recorded by a person on the call and obtained by The Associated Press, capture the building intensity behind Republicans’ nationwide campaign to restrict access to the ballot. From statehouses to Washington, the fight over who can vote and how — often cast as “voting integrity” — has galvanized a Republican Party in search of unifying mission in the post-Trump era. For a powerful network of conservatives, voting restrictions are now viewed as a political life-or-death debate, and the fight has all-but eclipsed traditional Republican issues like abortion, gun rights and tax cuts as an organizing tool.
That potency is drawing influential figures and money from across the right, ensuring that the clash over the legislation in Washington will be partisan and expensive.


They'll succeed for a while.

The built-in self-destruct mechanism the right has though is that they are absolutists (democrats are as well to. a much lesser extent) and the result of right wing extremism is the ugly flower of prejudice and xenophobia.


Enough with your commie propaganda already. Prejudice and xenophobia has nothing to do with expecting voters to be US Citizens and be legally eligible to vote. How about you explain in detail how it does, if you disagree.

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From the link:

Perkins answered the question by recalling how voting laws were made stricter in his native Louisiana after a close 1996 Senate race won by Democrats. He noted that the state now votes solidly Republican.
“When you have free, fair elections, you’re going to have outcomes that are positive,” Perkins said before urging viewers to push state lawmakers to “restore election integrity.”
Stronger voting regulations have long been a conservative goal, driven by old — and some say outdated — conventional wisdom that Republicans thrive in elections with lower turnout, and Democrats in ones with more voters. That has translated to GOP efforts to tighten voter identification laws and require more frequent voter roll purges. Both efforts tend to disproportionally exclude Black and Latino voters, groups that lean Democratic.

conventional wisdom that Republicans thrive in elections with lower turnout, and Democrats in ones with more voters.

When Dems can't cheat, they lose more often.

You are the ones who want to cheat.
 
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The Texas senator rallied his GOP colleagues around the issue on an invitation-only call heard by The Associated Press.

On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.

Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through far-reaching election legislation now before the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections again for generations, he said.

Asked if there was room to compromise, Cruz was blunt: “No.”

There is much more in the link below...


Why are Republicans so desperate to limit voting rights? Voting fraud has been thoroughly proven to be nearly nonexistent; therefore, one can only assume they don't want certain groups of voters voting for Democrats. I predict that this will not end well for Republicans. We must not allow a resurgence of Jim Crow voter suppression. What do you think?

Why are Republicans so desperate to limit voting rights?

Why are Democrats so desperate to limit voter ID?

So, you think voter ID is the problem? If so - what is your solution?

So, you think voter ID is the problem?

I think it is part of the problem.

If so - what is your solution?

Requiring it.

Why wasn't voter ID a problem in the 2020 election?

I'm sure that it was.

Really? Why wasn't that proven in all the recounts and court cases?

Republicans are engaged in extreme voter suppression that has NOTHING to do with voter ID - such as various actions to limit access to the polls. Limiting access to the polls has NOTHING to do with voter ID.

Really. Anything that makes it easier for Dems to cheat is a problem.

There is nothing that makes cheating easeir. Clearly Republicans are engaged in voter suppression.
 
Democrats aren't the ones doing the cheating!

Right. That's why they resist vote ID and cleaning voter rolls. DURR.

Provisions should be made for people who may be unable to get IDs. There are people who may be unable to get a ID because of their work hours or lack of transportation.Many Indians on reservations have a PO Box as their address so they are unable to get IDs because they have no permanent address. Why should voter rolls be cleaned? Just because someone chooses not to exercise them is no reason to kick them off of the rolls.
 
Republicans are engaged in extreme voter suppression that has NOTHING to do with voter ID - such as various actions to limit access to the polls. Limiting access to the polls has NOTHING to do with voter ID.

Individuals who are uneducated, uninformed, and/or uninvested in the betterment of the nation shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

we don’t normally put the inmates in charge of the asylum, why would we put them in charge of our entire nation.

Trump supporters are the most uninformed of them all. Educated voters tend to be more Democrat.
 
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The Texas senator rallied his GOP colleagues around the issue on an invitation-only call heard by The Associated Press.

On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.

Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through far-reaching election legislation now before the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections again for generations, he said.

Asked if there was room to compromise, Cruz was blunt: “No.”

There is much more in the link below...


Why are Republicans so desperate to limit voting rights? Voting fraud has been thoroughly proven to be nearly nonexistent; therefore, one can only assume they don't want certain groups of voters voting for Democrats. I predict that this will not end well for Republicans. We must not allow a resurgence of Jim Crow voter suppression. What do you think?

Why are Republicans so desperate to limit voting rights?

Why are Democrats so desperate to limit voter ID?
Hey genius voting only requires the following: Age 18 a US citizen, register in person, vote in person or request and absentee ballot. ALL absentee ballots due in BEFORE election day. Only exceptions military and overseas. BOTH parties LEGALLY represented at vote counts NO communist Chinese or other foreign software for US elections. Problem solved.

It should also require ID.

A ID is not necessary as there is no evidence of absentee ballot fraud.
 
View attachment 470248

The Texas senator rallied his GOP colleagues around the issue on an invitation-only call heard by The Associated Press.

On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.

Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through far-reaching election legislation now before the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections again for generations, he said.

Asked if there was room to compromise, Cruz was blunt: “No.”

There is much more in the link below...


Why are Republicans so desperate to limit voting rights? Voting fraud has been thoroughly proven to be nearly nonexistent; therefore, one can only assume they don't want certain groups of voters voting for Democrats. I predict that this will not end well for Republicans. We must not allow a resurgence of Jim Crow voter suppression. What do you think?

Why are Republicans so desperate to limit voting rights?

Why are Democrats so desperate to limit voter ID?

So, you think voter ID is the problem? If so - what is your solution?

So, you think voter ID is the problem?

I think it is part of the problem.

If so - what is your solution?

Requiring it.

Why wasn't voter ID a problem in the 2020 election?


Because states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and others passed legislative laws in violation of their State Constitutions regarding voting in direct violations of their laws.
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Many of these judges are Republican judges. These were partisan decisions. Pennsylvania created a new class of absentee balloting so it did not violate the Constitution.
 
Ted Cruz sees this as an existential threat to the Republican party..is it? I think that it's a shot at the right wing, for sure. Party moderates probably not as concerned--but tossing out phrases like, "they want child molesters and illegal aliens" to vote--shows the far right's concern over this bill--as no one has seriously suggested either. There is a provision for ex-cons to regain their franchise..so?



On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.
Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through far-reaching election legislation now before the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections again for generations, he said.
Asked if there was room to compromise, Cruz was blunt: “No.”
“H.R. 1′s only objective is to ensure that Democrats can never again lose another election, that they will win and maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and of the state legislatures for the next century,” Cruz said told the group organized by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-backed, conservative group that provides model legislation to state legislators.
Cruz’s statements, recorded by a person on the call and obtained by The Associated Press, capture the building intensity behind Republicans’ nationwide campaign to restrict access to the ballot. From statehouses to Washington, the fight over who can vote and how — often cast as “voting integrity” — has galvanized a Republican Party in search of unifying mission in the post-Trump era. For a powerful network of conservatives, voting restrictions are now viewed as a political life-or-death debate, and the fight has all-but eclipsed traditional Republican issues like abortion, gun rights and tax cuts as an organizing tool.
That potency is drawing influential figures and money from across the right, ensuring that the clash over the legislation in Washington will be partisan and expensive.
So you're in favor of child molesters and illegals voting?????

That is a lie to start with.
 
Ted Cruz sees this as an existential threat to the Republican party..is it? I think that it's a shot at the right wing, for sure. Party moderates probably not as concerned--but tossing out phrases like, "they want child molesters and illegal aliens" to vote--shows the far right's concern over this bill--as no one has seriously suggested either. There is a provision for ex-cons to regain their franchise..so?



On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.
Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through far-reaching election legislation now before the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections again for generations, he said.
Asked if there was room to compromise, Cruz was blunt: “No.”
“H.R. 1′s only objective is to ensure that Democrats can never again lose another election, that they will win and maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and of the state legislatures for the next century,” Cruz said told the group organized by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-backed, conservative group that provides model legislation to state legislators.
Cruz’s statements, recorded by a person on the call and obtained by The Associated Press, capture the building intensity behind Republicans’ nationwide campaign to restrict access to the ballot. From statehouses to Washington, the fight over who can vote and how — often cast as “voting integrity” — has galvanized a Republican Party in search of unifying mission in the post-Trump era. For a powerful network of conservatives, voting restrictions are now viewed as a political life-or-death debate, and the fight has all-but eclipsed traditional Republican issues like abortion, gun rights and tax cuts as an organizing tool.
That potency is drawing influential figures and money from across the right, ensuring that the clash over the legislation in Washington will be partisan and expensive.
So you're in favor of child molesters and illegals voting?????
Look dumbshit....there is NO provision for illegals voting...no matter how you ignorant POS's try to spin it. Yeah..i imagine there might be some sex offenders among the excons who regain their franchise, so? Are you so stupid...don't answer that!---to believe that the few who vote will effect any legislation at all?
Instead of the usual knee-jerk bs...how about addressing the issue honestly, pro or con?

Many felons will vote which is why the Democrats want to give them back their right. Of course, does it really matter? They could vote using someone else's name anyway since no voter id is required either. Democrats are either REALLY stupid/ignorant or ok with corrupting our voting system.

A referundum to allow ex-felons to vote passed in Florida with over 60%+ of the vote. Clearly it is more than Democrats.
 
In Georgia the liberal chant is that republicans are engaged in voter suppression when they make everyone play by the same rules

and of course the liberal media supports that lie

Everybody played by the same rules in the last election. You are the liar.
 
I would like to know how decreasing voting days, closing voting places, putting one or two voting machines in voting places, putting old and defective voting machines in voting places, removing ballot drop boxes and eliminating no excuse mail in voting will stop vote fraud that doesn't exist?
 

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