Kamala Harris slammed for claiming rural Americans can't photocopy their IDs
Matt Walsh on Twitter - "Black women are demanding OUR right to vote! We’re marching to the Senate to send a strong message. #OurPowerOurMessage"
"Words cannot describe the courage it takes to demand a right you already have and which literally no one is trying to take away from you"
Meme - "To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram. All citizens are required to personally enroll and show proof of birth or citizenship. Applicants are required to personally return to collect their voting credential. So how is it that we can't upgrade to Mexican standards without being called racist? Maybe it's because one political party is dependant on voter fraud."
Major blow to voting rights as Supreme Court upholds restrictive laws in Arizona - "the US Supreme Court has upheld two Arizona laws that voting rights advocates argued have disproportionately hurt minority voters, a decision that will likely make it more difficult to challenge recent Republican-backed laws restricting voting access... One 2016 law in Arizona made it a felony to return someone else’s signed and sealed mail-in ballot, a practice condemned as “ballot harvesting” by Republicans, but has become popular among get-out-the-vote campaigns and in communities without easy access to mail or post offices, particularly in rural Native communities where mail service can be limited. Another rejects provisional ballots – ballots used by voters if officials cannot immediately determine at the polls whether a voter is eligible to cast a normal in-person ballot – if they are cast at the wrong polling location, despite the frequency of location changes and closures. The state leads the country in tossing out provisional ballots."
Apparently it is racist not to allow tampering with ballots
Opinion: Voter ID works in Canada. Why does Joe Biden want to banish it in the U.S.? - "Joe Biden accused Texas Republicans of being behind “ the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. ” In Texas, as with other states, GOP legislators convened to pass a law mandating voters show valid photo ID when they show up to vote. Democrats, meanwhile, packed up and flocked on private jets to Washington, D.C., to deny them quorum. Across America, “voting rights” have become the top political issue after the contested 2020 election. After courts dismissed their claims, states where results were challenged — Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin — have passed measures for election security, requiring photo ID to ensure that only eligible citizens vote. Eighty per cent of Americans, in a recent Monmouth University Poll, support these measures , with 69 per cent of Black voters endorsing the same . Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld these laws, 6-3, in Arizona, Democrats are undeterred to “stop the steal.” Their ‘For the People Act,’ pending in Congress, would override state election security and end all ID requirements. So far, the Senate filibuster has prevented it from becoming law. While the U.S. bickers over “election security,” however, it may be worthwhile to look northward to the Canadian example... These measures have long been supported by Canadians and have been in place without issue... every one of the voters I serviced presented valid voter ID to cast their ballot. Virtually all had government-issued photo ID showing their address — whether a driver’s licence or another card — with the rest coming prepared with two documents to prove their eligibility. Young and old, poor or wealthy, these voters instinctively thought to bring ID with them to the ballot box. Just like driving a car or buying alcohol, they knew that voting must be safe and secure. Since these laws were made, and four federal elections later, there have never been accusations of “widespread voter fraud” or “stolen elections” on a national scale in Canada... When these voter ID laws were challenged on appeal in 2014 at the B.C. Court of Appeal, in Henry v. Canada (Attorney General), they were upheld unanimously. In her concurrence, Justice Daphne Smith found “ the objectives of preventing voter fraud and maintaining confidence in the electoral system to be pressing and substantial .”... for over a decade, Canada has run its democracy smoothly with voter ID laws that keep our elections secure. Our insistence on using paper ballots for federal elections and allowing partisan election observers has helped bring in transparency and accountability, ensuring our elections are not compromised. Following Ronald Reagan, we Canadians “trust, but verify.” As an economically, socially and culturally similar state, it thus beggars belief that Democrats in the United States won’t adopt voter ID laws for election security. The idea that low-income ethnic minorities can’t obtain proper ID — required for all the other business of life is, frankly “fake news” spewed by progressives and the mainstream media to alarm voters, and amounts to the soft bigotry of low expectations. Worse, amidst massive illegal immigration and election interference by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, risks to voter integrity are greater than ever. Even the U.K. recognizes this, and has introduced new voter ID rules for protection . In these times, trying to loosen such laws is at odds with reality. If Joe Biden truly cares about “facts,” then the next time he speaks on voting rights, he’d do well to remember these."
Liberals bitch that democracy is thwarted when policies a majority support aren't passed. But of course this only applies to polices they like
Meme - Steven Eisenberg: "@Delta @AmericanAir - if I ever fly with you again, I will not show ID."
"Adults 18 and over are required to show identification at the airport."
Dark Discourse: "I'm black and don't have the knowledge or ability to acquire an identification. What would you recommend?"
The activist comrades over at the NYT thought it was a good idea to publish a list of companies that don't support the far-left narrative on voter ID - "What is it with these people and lists?
'This is not even activism masquerading as journalism. It's just activism, pure and simple.'...
If you want a list of woke businesses that are trying to paint conservatives as bigots while using the money you give them to influence elections, feel free to share this with friends and refer to it the next time you want to know which companies to avoid. The Times then takes aim at companies that didn't sign this partisan political stunt – because commies gonna commie – informing the nation in no uncertain terms that these companies must bow down to the Woke Monster... There's no reason for this except sheer political intimidation. The NYT wants to feed the Woke Monster and it won't stop until everyone toes the party line or ends up bankrupt and in the gulag. In the past few years, we've moved from our media targeting those who actively spoke against the woke to those who refuse to support the woke. Next will come the call for punishments for those who do not pledge allegiance to their cause."
Ben Shapiro on Twitter - "US official: US to issue its first passport with an 'X' gender marker for those who don't identify as male or female."
"No big deal. I have been reliably informed that ID is racist, and thus passports should be completely discarded anyway."
Texas Supreme Court rules that GOP can order arrest of Democrats who fled state to block voting rights bill - The Washington Post - "The Supreme Court of Texas on Tuesday halted a ruling that protected absent Democratic lawmakers from arrest, raising the possibility that lawmakers who recently returned from Washington could be detained and brought to the House so Republicans can pass new voting restrictions. The order was a victory for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who called for arrests to reestablish a quorum after nearly 60 Democrats fled the state last month. A group of House Democrats filed a lawsuit over the weekend to preempt possible arrests, arguing that the state’s power to detain “cannot be used for political purposes.”
Fox News on Twitter - "NEW: More maskless Dems test positive for COVID-19 after packing plane to flee Texas election vote"
Liberals only mock fleeing a vote when it's Republicans doing it
Kassy Dillon on Twitter - Donna Howard @DonnaHowardTX: "We need to follow the science here. Texas needs to change course and allow for universal mask-wearing to prevent spread of the highly contagious delta variant, esp as children under 12 cannot get vaccinated yet. #txlege @AmerAcadPeds"
"Isn’t this you? *Unmaked Democrats on plane fleeing Texas*"
Pennsylvania admits to 11,000 noncitizens registered to vote - "Just days earlier, officials in Texas announced they had found nearly 100,000 noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls... Texas Secretary of State David Whitley used state driver’s license records, which include immigration status, and compared those with voter rolls. He found that about 95,000 people whom the state says weren’t citizens were among the 16 million registered voters. Of those, about 58,000 had voted at some point since 1996. State officials followed a similar process in Pennsylvania after admitting that a glitch in state motor vehicle bureau computers allowed noncitizens to register to vote easily. They, too, matched driver’s license records with voter rolls and came up with nearly 11,200 names... No state requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. A U.S. District Court judge last year struck down a law championed by then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to require citizenship documentation... The National Hispanic Survey, conducted in 2013 by Republican pollster John McLaughlin, found that 13 percent of noncitizen Hispanic respondents said they were registered to vote."
Companies are considering withholding donations and investments over controversial voting bills in states - The Washington Post
A cabal of woke corporations held a meeting this weekend to plot destroying your life if you support voter ID laws. Happy Monday!
Richard Hanania on Twitter - "In case you have any doubt this “democracy” nonsense is fake. One of the reasons the EU is mad at Orban is because he allowed mail-in voting without an ID."
Opinion | Juneteenth Reminds Us Just How Far We Have to Go - The New York Times
Tellingly, this article goes on about 19th century history before handwaving in the next-to-last paragraph about "voting rights". Classic bait and switch
Democrats Should Take Joe Manchin's Deal on Voter ID - The Atlantic - "A 2016 study in Texas, home to some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country, surveyed nonvoters from that year’s election in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County. Just 1.5 percent of them listed not having identification as the main reason they didn’t vote. A 2014 Virginia study found that of the 2.2 million eligible voters who tried to cast a ballot in that year’s election, just 474, or approximately one in 4,600, were stymied by lack of ID. These are not outliers. The UC Davis political scientist Benjamin Highton, after surveying ID laws nationwide, concluded that they had “modest, if any, turnout effects.” Why haven’t voter-ID laws suppressed very many votes? No one really knows. It’s possible that these blatant attempts at voter suppression have created an equal and opposite backlash, driving turnout among the groups intended to be suppressed. It’s also possible that future, more carefully targeted voter-ID laws will be far more effective at manipulating elections. But if this ends up being the case, it will only prove the broader point: Although requiring voter ID is unnecessary, and the politicians who support it tend to do so for deplorable reasons, the act of requiring identification in order to vote is not in and of itself voter suppression. Perhaps this is one reason a majority of Americans support making voting easier for everyone, but also support voter-ID laws... Given the racist history and targeted nature of these laws, “You need an ID to buy alcohol or rent a car, so why shouldn’t you need an ID to vote?” is not an honest argument. But it’s a persuasive one. That’s exactly why Manchin’s proposal is, as a matter of both policy and politics, quite elegant. The currently available evidence suggests that, as improbable as it may seem, expanding voter-ID requirements to all 50 states would do little to reduce turnout. But Manchin’s not just trying to require identification nationwide. He would also expand the types of government ID that can be used in elections, for example by allowing voters to cast ballots if they display a utility bill. This version of a voter-ID law would require voters to prove their identity without disenfranchising a large number of voters—in other words, it’s the exact type of voter-ID law most Americans already support. And consider what Democrats, and democracy, will get in return for this concession. Automatic voter registration. An end to partisan gerrymandering. Mandatory early voting nationwide. Joe Manchin’s offer will leave some voters out. That’s bad. But the number of voters who will be enfranchised by this proposal outnumbers—by orders of magnitude—the number who will be left disenfranchised. That’s not just a step in the right direction. It is, potentially, the difference between preserving our democratic system of government and not."
On the myth of voter suppression
Too bad so many other racist countries like Canada and Germany require voter ID
Since the law has a racist history, clearly laws criminalising murder are racist
The fact that liberals are so against these measures - despite popular support - suggests that they're not really concerned about voter suppression (or what their constituents want)
Voting Rights: Deep Philosophical Divide Underpins Policy Gulf - "Kemp, who defended his state’s numerous recounts of the 2020 presidential election, denying Trump a win there, counters that lawmakers have a responsibility to protect the integrity of the system against even the perception that widespread fraud is undermining it. “There is nothing Jim Crow about requiring a state-issued ID to vote by absentee ballot – every Georgia voter must already do so when voting in person”"
Voting is surging in Georgia despite controversial new election law - The Washington Post - "When the Spalding County Board of Elections eliminated early voting on Sundays, Democrats blamed a new state law and accused the Republican-controlled board of intentionally thwarting “Souls to the Polls,” a get-out-the-vote program among Black churches to urge their congregations to cast ballots after religious services. But after three weeks of early voting ahead of Tuesday’s primary, record-breaking turnout is undercutting predictions that the Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021 would lead to a falloff in voting... Defenders of the law accused Democrats, including President Biden and Stacey Abrams, the presumed Democratic nominee for Georgia governor this year, of hyping accusations of voter suppression because it resonated with their base and helped them raise money. They say the turnout numbers prove that the rhetoric around the law was false... “Contrary to the hyperpartisan rhetoric you may have heard inside and outside this gold dome, the facts are that this new law will expand voting access in the Peach State,” Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said in March last year as he signed the bill, noting that every county in Georgia would have expanded early voting on the weekends for the first time in history. Raffensperger, too, likes to point out in public speeches that voting rights groups are suing him over the new requirement to include an identification number on mail ballots, even though Minnesota has imposed a similar requirement for about a decade. “And in case you didn’t know, Minnesota is a blue state,” Raffensperger — who, along with Kemp, is running for reelection — said in a recent speech to local business leaders in Savannah. “We are a red state. And so we are both using the same process.”"
PolitiFact | Kamala Harris exaggerates food and water laws for voters - "laws that expressly ban giving away food or water to voters waiting in lines are rare. Voters who bring their own food and drinks remain free to consume them... states also commonly ban bribing voters or ban electioneering within a certain distance of polling places, to prevent undue influence on voters. States routinely set up perimeters at polling sites to allow voters to stand in line to vote without campaign workers handing them literature on behalf of candidates... New York’s law bans giving "meat, drink, tobacco, refreshment or provision" to voters unless it has a value of less than $1 and is given without any identification of the person or group supplying it"
How Politicians Have Used Food to Get Voters Throughout History - "Political figures have been using food as a means to boost their public image and recruit new voters for thousands of years... In 1758, George Washington bribed voters by campaigning with gallons of booze in order to gain a seat in the Virginia House of Burgesses. And in the late 19th century, massive political barbecues in New York were used to sway voters with oxen feasts."
Disney’s Indiana Jones Remake Features Black Man’s Improbable Quest To Get I.D. - "When the Walt Disney studios green-lit another chapter to the popular Indiana Jones franchise, they knew audiences needed the most spectacular adventure yet. Not only has Disney delivered on a story arc that will leave audiences both astonished and mystified, but the latest film is also guaranteed to be far superior to any that came before. “We’ve decided to have Indy be played by an African-American, so we can literally sue any film critic who doesn’t think it’s the best version,” a Disney spokesman said... “Wrestling with Nazis and dodging car-sized boulders, this is basically what American 20-year-olds already do in their free time,” Disney said in a statement. “We needed our hero to do something truly impossible. Ya know, blow the minds of viewers. We decided to have our black Indiana Jones try to obtain a legal photo I.D.” The film is rumored to have Indy, an Obama-type scholar, narrowly avoiding the snares of a Hobby Lobby shift manager (played by Ann Coulter) who refuses to pay for her employee’s birth control. In a captivating scene, Jones seamlessly replaces the business’s freedom with a sack of contraception. But in the end, Indy must defeat Coulter at the ballot box. “At this point, the audience is thinking; this is a wrap. There’s no way a black adult can get an I.D. to vote. As Joe Biden once told us, ‘black people don’t know how to use the Internet.”"
NYC purged 200,000 voters in 2016. It wasn’t a mistake. - "Then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would eventually reveal that they were among 200,000 New York City voters who had been illegally wiped off the rolls and prevented from voting in the presidential primary. But by January of 2017, when Schneiderman announced that he would intervene in a federal lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, along with the U.S. Department of Justice, the news fell on deaf ears... The lack of media attention was in stark contrast to the recent barrage of headlines about a right-wing push to purge eligible voters from the rolls. Much of the media ignored New York’s proven case of election fraud, perhaps because it had been facilitated by Democrats, and not by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican with a national profile for championing stricter voter ID legislation... In October of 2017, the city’s elections board quietly settled the lawsuit by admitting it broke federal and state election laws... But given the magnitude of the malfeasance, especially the extent to which board members – at every level – were accused of knowingly violating state and federal election laws, the settlement was a slap on the wrist... Despite the so-called “victory,” the matter was swept under the rug. The press accepted at face value that Schneiderman had imposed an effective penalty for the crime. But a year after the lawsuit’s conclusion, there’s scant evidence the city Board of Elections has done nearly enough to clean up its act – and there’s little sign that the Democrats who control much of New York have the political will to reform how elections are run in the state... Well aware his insurgent candidacy was a threat to the Democratic machine, Sanders understood his only chance for victory in New York depended on high voter turnout. Months earlier, his supporters had embarked on vigorous voter registration drives to enlist new voters (especially college students) before the state’s March 25, 2016 deadline. In a 10-day period between March 10 and March 20, an unprecedented 41,000 new voters registered to vote in New York, spurring predictions of a higher than usual voter turnout. Yet many people who tried to register before the deadline were blocked... Bernie Sanders called the voting irregularities in New York a “disgrace.”...
“You know what they did about it? Nothing. Nobody went to jail. Nobody got prosecuted. Nobody got in trouble. But they promised they were going to make some ‘serious changes.’ They broke the law. They kicked off over 200,000 registered voters. Did Putin do that? Who did that?! Ohhhh, the Democrats in New York.” – political analyst and comedian Jimmy Dore...
Lo and behold, after the Sept. 13, 2018, Democratic primary, the now familiar headlines ensued: “Reports of Widespread Voter Suppression in New York State Democratic Primary.” “More NYC Primary Voters Find Their Names Missing From Voter Rolls.” “Voting in New York Is a Predictable Mess.”"
Boycott-Georgia Movement: How It Failed | National Review - "The thing about boycotts is that they don’t work too well in a vacuum. If you start a parade and no one gets in line behind you, you aren’t a leader; you’re just a fool walking down the middle of the street twirling a baton. The failed boycott-Georgia movement illustrates the limits of the Democratic Party’s tactic of attaching hysterical overreaction and claims of racism to virtually any Republican idea, even a routine package of voting reforms. The Democrats turned the volume up to eleven on the Georgia elections bill signed into law March 25, labeling it the second coming of Jim Crow even before it was signed. Joe Biden, in a “Hello, fellow kids” moment meant to prove he was hip to cutting-edge Democratic thinking, on March 31 asserted that this ordinary, dull piece of good-government legislation was actually worse than Jim Crow, and that most of the country was in the process of becoming something more awful than 1957 Mississippi. “This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they’re doing in Georgia and 40 other states,” Biden said on ESPN on March 31. He was unaware that New York and many other states already have on the books policies comparable to, or more restrictive than, the new Georgia law, such as bans on outside groups’ providing things of value to voters waiting in line at the polls... MLB commissioner Rob Manfred poured gasoline all over himself and then lit a match when he announced that he was moving the All-Star Game. Later he announced that Atlanta, which is mostly black, would be replaced by snow-white Denver as the game’s host. You really have to be a Democrat to savor the logic of “fighting racism” by yanking jobs and income from black folks and redistributing them to white people. Manfred should change his name to Merkle, the previous standard for bonehead thinking in his sport... By mid April, it was becoming obvious that calling for jobs to be pulled out of your own state was moronic, and also that it was bad business for a supposedly neutral entity to openly ally itself with the policies and messaging of the hysterical wing of the Democratic Party. A poll showed nearly three-quarters of Americans want corporations and sports organizations to stay out of politics. Left-of-Ossoff Democrats had allowed Georgia’s law to blind them to the far more relevant Jordan’s Law: Republicans buy sneakers too. Another poll showed that the net favorability of MLB among Republicans had crashed by 25 points overnight. On April 6, Rand Paul and Donald Trump said they were boycotting Coke. That same day, Biden gave a completely different answer about whether the Masters should leave Georgia than he had about the MLB All-Star Game"
Voting Fraud Is a Real Concern. Just Look Around the World - "Liberals and progressives often try to model the U.S. on Western European countries, but you never hear them arguing that we should adopt their voting rules. There is a reason for that. Banning mail-in voting or requiring people to use photo IDs to obtain a mail-in ballot is quite common in developed countries, especially in Europe... Besides the United States, there are 36 member states in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Forty-seven percent ban mail-in voting unless the citizen is living abroad, and 30 percent require a photo ID to obtain a mail-in ballot. Fourteen percent of the countries ban mail-in voting even for those living abroad. In addition, some countries that allow voting by mail for some citizens living in the country don't allow it for everyone... Among the 27 countries in the European Union, 63 percent ban mail-in voting unless living abroad and another 22 percent require a photo ID to obtain a mail-in ballot. Twenty-two percent ban the practice even for those who live abroad. There are 16 countries in the rest of Europe, and they are even more restrictive. Every single one bans mail-in voting for those living in the country or require a photo ID to obtain a mail-in ballot. Sixty-three percent don't allow mail-in ballots even for citizens living outside of the country. Are all of these countries, socialist and non-socialist alike, Western and Eastern European, developed and undeveloped, acting "without evidence?"... France banned mail-in voting in 1975 because of massive fraud in Corsica, where postal ballots were stolen or bought and voters cast multiple votes. Mail-in ballots were used to cast the votes of dead people. The U.K., which allows postal voting, has had some notable mail-in ballot fraud cases. Prior to recent photo ID requirements, six Labour Party councilors in Birmingham won office after what the judge described as a "massive, systematic and organized" postal voting fraud campaign. The fraud was apparently carried out with the full knowledge and cooperation of the local Labour Party. There was "widespread theft" of postal votes (possibly around 40,000 ballots) in areas with large Muslim populations, because Labour members were worried that the Iraq War would spur these voters to oppose the incumbent government. In 1991, Mexico's election mandated voter photo IDs and banned absentee ballots. The then-governing Institutional Revolutionary Party had long used fraud and intimidation with mail-in ballots in order to win elections. Only in 2006 were absentee ballots again allowed, and then only for those living abroad who requested them at least six months in advance. If concern about voter fraud with mail-in ballots is delusional, it is a delusion that is shared by most of the world. Even the countries that allow mail-in ballots have protections, such as government-issued photo IDs. But Americans are constantly assured even this step is completely unnecessary. Without basic precautions, our elections are on course to become the laughingstock of the developed world."
Voter ID: Why Doesn't America Have a National ID Card? - The Atlantic - "What if the government simply gave an ID card to every voting-age citizen in the country? Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. But so are national ID cards. In places such as France and Germany, citizens pick up their identity card when they turn 16 and present it once they’re eligible to vote. Out of nearly 200 countries across the world, at least 170 have some form of national ID or are implementing one, according to the political scientist Magdalena Krajewska. In the American psyche, however, a national ID card conjures images of an all-knowing government, its agents stopping people on the street and demanding to see their papers. Or at least that’s what leaders of both parties believe. The idea is presumed to be so toxic that not a single member of Congress is currently carrying its banner. Even those advocates who like the concept in theory will discuss its political prospects only with a knowing chuckle, the kind that signals that the questioner is a bit crazy. “There are only three problems with a national ID: Republicans hate it, Libertarians hate it, and Democrats hate it,” says Kathleen Unger, the founder of VoteRiders, an organization devoted to helping people obtain ID... public opposition to a national ID has never been as strong as political leaders assume. The idea has won majority support in polls for much of the past 40 years and spiked to nearly 70 percent in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. In a nationwide survey conducted this summer by Leger for The Atlantic, 51 percent of respondents favored a national ID that could be used for voting, while 49 percent agreed with an opposing statement that a national ID would represent “an unnecessary expansion of government power and would be misused to infringe on Americans’ privacy and personal freedoms."... Opposition to national ID remains among groups on the libertarian right, such as the Cato Institute, as well as civil-liberties advocates on the left, such as the ACLU."
