Smedley_buzkill

You ought to know.

jimpack123 Loc: wisconsin

ouch lol

badbob85037

The day after the 2020 e******n it will start. With these Democrat states singing onto this lawlessness concerning the e*******l college , no matter the v**e count these wicked Democrats, Socialist, C*******t, and the low life i***ts that follow these t*****rs are going to declare victory. 30 seconds after that the civil war will start. 2 days latter it will end.

The Right won't be waiting. They will be bring it to wherever this treason raises its head. 10 to 12 hours in the military will be joining us. Not just enlisted men but officers, including Generals and they will be bringing all their hardware. But this time no excuse will be accepted. Democrat Congressmen and woman will be pulled from their perch and face Military or citizen courts. If we decide to keep our form of government, and I think we will Democrats will be hung. That will go a long way to keep the ones taking their place honest and abiding by their oath. The L*****t still around in the aftermath will be respecting the nation and never again say 'What's wrong with Socialism'. No more million moron march protesting equal rights or lefts. Groups as Hummers for the Homeless, code Pink, and NAMBLA would not only dissolve but be arrested. States as California and a few others almost as bad, any living elected officials will be released until trial to work as a hollywood porn industry fluffer boy.

jimpack123 Loc: wisconsin

when do you go back on your meds. lol

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

LOL,,,, I can only say that your silly boyhood fantasies, show you are not capable of anything beyond h**e and spites..

You have no gut for a real war, you have no hope of the armed forces doing more than running you down for the prison time that awaits you..

So go ahead, start your war, walk down to the mall and k**l a bunch of your neighbors..

That is all you can think about... You are indeed the picture boy for the right wing h**ers of the world..

FOOL!!!!

This is you, if you survive the war you want so deeply..

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Both sides gerrymander. LOL.

Give us an example of v**er suppression by the GOP.

V**er purge is a legal way to prevent i******s or non-citizens from v****g. It helps the v****g authorities to keep up with who can and cannot v**e. Not to do so is irresponsible. V**er purge is legal.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

You have to kidding!! The list is endless....

Just a sample...


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Impediments to v***r r**********n
Some laws and administrative practices have made it more difficult for people to r******r to v**e. Florida enacted a deadline for the submission of v***r r**********n forms in 2011, with penalties for late filing.[1] The law ended the v***r r**********n work by one organization, the League of Women V**ers, whose spokesperson said, "Despite the fact that the League of Women V**ers is one of the nation's most respected civic organizations, with a 91-year history of registering and educating v**ers, we will be unable to comply with the egregious provisions contained in [this bill]."[2]

Photo ID laws
See also: V**er ID laws (United States)
In the United States, supporters of photo ID laws say that photographic IDs (such as driver's licenses or student IDs) are available and that presenting such IDs is a minor inconvenience when weighed against the possibility of ineligible v**ers affecting e******ns. Opponents argue that photo ID requirements disproportionately affect minority, handicapped and elderly v**ers who do not normally maintain driver's licenses. Also, requiring such groups to obtain and keep track of photo IDs that are otherwise unneeded is considered a suppression tactic aimed at those groups.[3]

In one instance Indiana's photo ID law barred 12 retired nuns in South Bend, Indiana from v****g in the state 2008 Democratic primary e******n, because they did not have photo IDs. John Borkowski, a South Bend lawyer volunteering as an e******n watchdog for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said, "This law was passed supposedly to prevent and deter v***r f***d, even though there was no real record of serious v***r f***d in Indiana."[4][5]

Proponents of a similar law proposed for Texas in March 2009 argued that photo identification was necessary to prevent widespread v***r f***d. Opponents responded that there was no evidence of v***r f***d in Texas, so no remedy is required. They said that the "remedy" would decrease v****g by senior citizens, the disabled, and lower-income residents. Opponents also cited a study stating that 1 million of the state's 13.5 million registered v**ers do not have a photo ID.[6]

State Sen. Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay) said, "V***r f***d not only is alive and well in the U.S., but also alive and well in Texas. The danger of v***r f***d threatens the integrity of the entire e*******l process." Democratic Caucus Chairwoman Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio) said the proposed law "is not about v***r f***d. There is no v***r f***d. This is about v**er suppression." Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) spent $1.4 million investigating v***r f***d and from 2002 to 2012 brought 311 accusations of v***r f***d to the attorney general's office. Fifty seven cases have been resolved, and among these convictions were two cases of v**er impersonation – arguably the type of fraud that photo ID laws would prevent.[7][8] More than 8,000,000 v**es were cast in Texas in the most recent p**********l e******n.

Legislation to impose photo ID requirements was prepared by the conservative organization ALEC and circulated to conservative state legislators.[3]

In 2011, more than 100 Democratic members of Congress urged the Department of Justice to oppose such legislation, arguing that it "has the potential to block millions of eligible American v**ers, and thus suppress the right to v**e".[9]

A 2017 study,[10] published by The Journal of Politics[11] analyzed v**er data from the e******ns starting in 2006 to 2014, and the impact of strict v**er identification laws on minorities. They gathered data from Cooperative Congressional E******n Study (CCES) and focused on 11 states[12] with strict v**er identification laws. The study found that in the states where these strict v**er ID laws are implemented, minorities and left-leaning v**ers suffered lower v**er turnout rates than states who had less restrictive v**er ID laws.

Purging of v**er rolls
On August 24, 2016, Rolling Stone magazine published a report by investigative reporter Greg Palast entitled, "The GOP's Stealth War Against V**ers: Will an anti-v**er-fraud program designed by one of Trump's advisers deny tens of thousands their right to v**e in November?" Palast reported that "In January 2013, Kobach [the Secretary of State of Kansas] addressed a gathering of the National Association of State E******n Directors about combating an [alleged] epidemic of b****t-stuffing across the country. He announced that Crosscheck had already uncovered 697,537 'potential duplicate v**ers' in 15 states, and that the state of Kansas was prepared to cover the cost of compiling a nationwide list. That was enough to persuade 13 more states to hand over their v**er files to Kobach's office." Palast alleges that virtually all of these 697,537 'potential duplicate v**ers' failed to meet Kobach's claims that they matched first, middle, and last names, birth dates, and the last 4 digits of people's Social Security number: Palast interviewed Donald Alexander Webster Jr., an African-American registered in Ohio; Crosscheck claimed that D. A. Webster, Jr., was also registered as Donald Eugene Webster (no "Jr.") in Charlottesville, Virginia. D. A. Webster, Jr., assured Palast he had never been to Charlottesville. Both of these individuals "were subject to losing their ability to v**e," Palast reported. V****g twice is a felony, but Palast failed to find any prosecutions of double v****g.[13]

In his documentary "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" (2016), Palast explains that over 7 million v**ers—almost entirely v**ers of color—were on the Crosscheck lists by the time of the 2016 p**********l e******n, allegedly because these v**ers had all v**ed multiple times in previous e******ns (although no one from these lists had been prosecuted for v****g twice, which is a felony crime with a five-year jail sentence). Palast explains that these cross-check lists were produced only in GOP-controlled states and that the names on the list were common last names of Latinos, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, such as "Garcia," "Hernandez," "Washington," and "Lee."[14] Since the e******n, Palast has appeared on the independent media news program Democracy Now! and has explained that on e******n day, approximately 1.1 million v**ers of color found themselves bumped off the official v**er rolls through Crosscheck.[15] In 2017, researchers at Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Microsoft found that for every legitimate instance of double registration it finds, Crosscheck's algorithm returns approximately 200 false positives.[16]

In 2008, more than 98,000 registered Georgia v**ers were removed from the roll of v**ers because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. Some 4,500 v**ers had to prove their citizenship to regain their right to v**e.[17] Between November 2015 and early 2016, over 120,000 v**ers were dropped from rolls in Brooklyn, NYC.[18] Officials have stated that the purge was a mistake and that those dropped represented a "broad cross-section" of the e*****rate. However an WNYC analysis found that the purge had disproportionately affected majority-Hispanic districts. The board announced that it would reinstate all v**ers in time for the 2016 Congressional primary.[19] The Board of E******ns subsequently suspended the Republican appointee in connection to the purge, but kept on her Democratic counterpart.[20]

In 1998, Florida created the Florida Central V**er File to combat v**e f***d documented in the 1997 Miami mayoral e******n. Many people were purged from v***r r**********n lists in Florida, because their names were similar to those of convicted felons, who are not allowed to v**e under Florida law. According to the Palm Beach Post, African-Americans accounted for 88% of those removed from the rolls but were only about 11% of Florida's v**ers.[21] This may have cost Al Gore the presidency in the 2000 US p**********l e******n.

Limitations on early and absentee v****g
Early v****g is important for v**ers who do not have flexible working hours and cannot take time off on a weekday to v**e. The costs associated with v****g include potential lost wages, t***sit fare and the cost of childcare.These factors inherently affect minorities and the poor more because of deep-rooted inequalities: for example, minority v**ers are likely to work salaried jobs and thus less likely to have paid time off to get to the v****g polls, and they are also less likely to own a car.[22] There are currently 23 states that do not have early v****g available to all qualified v**ers. Of the those, 20 states require an excuse to mail an absentee b****t to v**ers.[23] Since 2010, seven states have implemented additional restrictions on early v****g.[24]

According to the Brennan Center for Justice's 2013 Report Early V****g: What Works, there are many benefits to early v****g including shorter lines on e******n day, more access to v****g and increased satisfaction of v**ers.[25] In 2012 32% of v**ers v**ed early.[26]

In a 2014 article in Political Research Quarterly by Micheal C. Herron and Daniel A. Smith "Race, Party, and the Consequences of Restricting Early V****g in Florida in the 2012 General E******n", they show that a 2011 cutting the early v****g period in Florida from 14 to 8 days and cutting the final Sunday of early v****g caused a large drop in 2012 in early v****g for registered Democrats, those without party ID and racial and ethnic minorities. It also states that "v**ers who cast b****ts on the last Sunday in 2008 were disproportionately unlikely to cast a valid b****t in 2012."[27] This policy affected those who were already less likely to v**e, in this way it was effective in controlling information through controlling who v**ed.

Cut backs in early v****g disproportionately affect African American v**ers who v**e early in higher proportions than white v**ers. In 2012, in Ohio, African American v**ers v**ed early at more than 2 times the rate of white v**ers.[28] In North Carolina, Republican lawmakers requested data on various v****g practices, broken down by race. They then passed laws that restricted v****g and registration many ways that disproportionally affected African Americans, including cutting back on early v****g.[29][30] In a 2016 appellate court case, the 4th US District Court of Appeals struck down a law that removed the first week of early v****g. They wrote that the GOP used the data they gathered to remove the first week of early v****g because more African American v**ers v**ed during that week, and African American v**ers were more likely to v**e for Democrats.[31] Between 2008 and 2012 in North Carolina, 70% of African American v**ers v**ed early.[28] After cuts to early v****g, African American turnout in early v****g was down by 8.7% (around 66,000 v**es) in North Carolina.[32][33]

Felon disenfranchisement
Further information: Loss of rights due to felony conviction and Felony disenfranchisement
In 2004, 5.3 million Americans were denied the right to v**e because of previous convictions. Thirteen states permanently disenfranchise convicted felons; eighteen states restore v****g rights after completion of prison, parole, and probation; four states re-enfranchise felons after they have been released from prison and have completed parole; thirteen states allow felons who have been released from prison to v**e, and two states do not disenfranchise felons at all.[34] Some states require felons to complete a process to restore v****g rights, but offender advocates say such processes can be very difficult.

The United States is the only democracy in the world that regularly bans large numbers of felons from v****g after they have discharged their sentences. Many countries including Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Norway, Peru, Sweden, and Zimbabwe allow prisoners to v**e (unless convicted of crimes against the e*******l system).[35] Some countries, notably the U.K., disenfranchise people for only as long as they are in prison (however, this has been challenged by the European Court of Human Rights)[36].

In Florida during the 2000 p**********l e******n, some non-felons were banned due to record-keeping errors and not warned of their disqualification until the deadline for contesting it had passed.

This form of v**e suppression in the United States disproportionately affects minorities including African-Americans and Latinos.[35][37][additional citation(s) needed] Disenfranchisement of felons is opposed by some as a form of the medieval practice of civil death.[37]

T*********r disenfranchisement
Main article: T*********r disenfranchisement in the United States
T*********r disenfranchisement related to v****g is also present.

Disinformation about v****g procedures
V**ers may be given false information about when and how to v**e, leading them to fail to cast valid b****ts. For example, in recall e******ns for the Wisconsin State Senate in 2011, Americans for Prosperity (a conservative organization that was supporting Republican candidates) sent many Democratic v**ers a mailing that gave an incorrect deadline for absentee b****ts. V**ers who relied on the deadline in the mailing would have sent in their b****ts too late for them to be counted.[38] The organization said that the mistake was a typographical error.[39]

Ine******y in E******n Day resources
E******ns in the United States are funded at the local level, often unequally. In the 2004 e******ns, Wyoming spent $2.15 per v**er while California spent $3.99 per v**er. In contrast, Canada spends $9.51 per v**er. Underfunded e******n areas can result in long lines at polling places, requiring some v**ers either to wait hours to cast a b****t or to forgo their right to v**e in that e******n. V**ers who cannot wait the required amount of time are therefore effectively disenfranchised, while v**ers in well-funded areas with sufficient v****g capacity may face minimal or no waiting time. This, coupled

Delays at polling places are widely regarded as being a greater problem in urban areas.[40][41] In 2012, polling places in minority neighborhoods in Maryland, South Carolina, and Florida were systematically deprived of the resources they needed to operate effectively, leading to long lines on e******n day.[42]

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Without trying to address so many "examples" and why they are bogus, just tell me why any group is more effected by v***r r**********n rules than another???? (Other than the elderly who cannot drive or get around very well.)

solarkin

[quote=Airforceone]Ha ha haaaaaa haaaaa is this a joke or are you really serious[/quote

Smedley_buzkill

The list IS endless. Endless cherry-picking and bulls**t. The very people you are claiming are disenfranchised are the most likely to be receiving government benefits for which that terrible photo ID is required. It is two years between substantive e******ns. You are contending that these people who almost all have the requisite ID anyway, cannot, in two years time, find some way to procure ID that is usually either free or very low cost? ID which is necessary to conduct much day-to-day business? What a crock of crap.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

It's a big crock of crap, too!!

Smedley_buzkill

You notice they were careful to make no mention of the huge numbers of ineligible v**ers found in both Texas and Pennsylvania.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Good point, esp about Texas.

Bcon

I like your scenario, but I believe it is wishful thinking. Hell, they know who the l*****t treasonous people are but they will not even put them on trial. Hillary and her money laundering foundation, along with Bill,,, Obama and his t*****rous actions for especially his last term, selling out the country to his Islamist buddies,,,, selling 20 % of uranium stocks for privste profit and a host of other actions that were a detriment to America, and they are still walking free. Still, I like your wishful thinking.

Bcon

You come down awful hard on anyone who does not conform to your l*****t ways. The only trouble is that the actions that should happen to the t*****rous left, won’t.