It makes me wonder why Republican voters defend this shit. I suppose because they know voting suppression primarily only affects democrat voters. Perhaps deep down they are happy their elected officials cheat so long as their side wins.
Out loud republicans pretend isn’t a thing. They say “well people should have ID’s!” Well perhaps you’d have a point if republicans weren’t trying to suppress the votes in literally every other other way in targeted, specific areas.
Here are some key points to consider:
1) ONLY republicans are trying to make it harder for people to vote. Democrats are not at all.
2) Republicans want to stop the count on Election Day of any votes that arrive after the 3rd so long as it is evident they were postmarked before the 3rd. Now you may be thinking “well that’s good! We should know by Election Day who won anyway!” Well, actually, we won’t know who won on Election Day in PA regardless of whether or not those last votes come in. In fact, that’s the case in many states on that day.
3) Texas Republicans are trying to make “drive up voting” illegal which is simply dropping off your ballot more easy. They also want to limit one drop off box per county in Texas. Obviously this is ridiculous because some counties in Texas have a couple hundred people and counties like Harris have 3 million. The end result is that people in rural counties (primarily republicans) can vote easy as pie while voters in urban areas (primarily democrats) have to take much more time out of their day if they want to vote.
4) Voter suppression lawsuits are primarily happening in swing states (this year Texas is more of a tossup). This includes MI, WI, and PA. Oh gee I wonder why! If the GOP was so concerned about voting being legitimate, they would press these policies on a federal level. They won’t do that obviously because then republicans voters would be affected the same way.
Republicans have been working toward this moment since well before Bush v. Gore. There's only one way to stop them
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1) ONLY republicans are trying to make it harder for people to vote. Democrats are not at all.
Which tells you which side openly supports voter fraud.
2) Republicans want to stop the count on Election Day of any votes that arrive after the 3rd so long as it is evident they were postmarked before the 3rd. Now you may be thinking “well that’s good! We should know by Election Day who won anyway!” Well, actually, we won’t know who won on Election Day in PA regardless of whether or not those last votes come in. In fact, that’s the case in many states on that day.
But that would defeat the purpose of voter suppression, which blows up your entire argument.
Unless you are actually trying to claim that only right-wing people have the mental capacity to vote on time....? Thus only Democrat votes would be late, because Democrats are incompetent like Hillary Clinton unable to tell classified information after being in high office for decades?
Otherwise, refusing to count late votes, would hit everyone equally, Democrat or Republican. You know when you should vote. You know you need to have it mailed out on time. If you can't do that.... then your incompetence disqualifies you from being worthy to vote.
Honestly, people that are so incompetent they can't even mail their ballot in on time... shouldn't be allowed to vote anyone. We don't want people that pathetic, determining who runs the country.
3) Texas Republicans are trying to make “drive up voting” illegal which is simply dropping off your ballot more easy. They also want to limit one drop off box per county in Texas. Obviously this is ridiculous because some counties in Texas have a couple hundred people and counties like Harris have 3 million. The end result is that people in rural counties (primarily republicans) can vote easy as pie while voters in urban areas (primarily democrats) have to take much more time out of their day if they want to vote.
Are you saying they can't mail it in already?
4) Voter suppression lawsuits are primarily happening in swing states (this year Texas is more of a tossup). This includes MI, WI, and PA. Oh gee I wonder why! If the GOP was so concerned about voting being legitimate, they would press these policies on a federal level. They won’t do that obviously because then republicans voters would be affected the same way.
No, because having unlimited time to vote, pretty much makes an election more corrupt. We can't have 6 months of recounts, because everyone who voted 3 months after the election, needs to be counted.
You need to have a hard cut off time. And if you don't understand why, that reflects more on you, than Republicans.
Voter fraud is statistically extremely rare whether you want to pretend otherwise or not.
It blows up my argument? What the fuck are you even talking about?
This such a retarded argument. Your causal opinion on these voters and not doing it sooner is not somehow justification to throw out a couple million ballots. The fascism on the right is unbelievable.
3 months? Your stupid exaggeration of the truth disqualifies you from this argument.
You are claiming that Republicans are trying to skew the vote with voter suppression.
But the only way that argument makes sense, is if they put in place rules that suppressed Democrat votes, but not Republican votes.
However, none of your claims would benefit Republicans.
Having only one drop box, would not prevent a single person anywhere from voting, nor would it benefit Republicans.
Having a hard cut off for when votes could be cast, would not benefit Republicans over Democrats, nor would it prevent a single person anywhere from voting.
Requiring an ID to vote, would not benefit Republicans over Democrats, nor would it prevent anyone from voting, since any legal citizen can easily get an ID.
So, since all of these rules would not stop a single Democrat from voting, and would equally apply to everyone including Republicans, then their is no value to Republicans to do this.
Whether it is statistically rare or not, doesn't matter. The fact is, they are only doing it to reduce fraud, and give more legitimacy to the election process.
Thus, you blew up your own argument. Facts over opinion. Sorry.