The Republican War on Voter Registration

[pornstarwannabe]

Prove it.

Prove it is not. Watch the video linked. It happened at least one time. Next you'll tell me is that there are no unreported rapes.

 

[mercury14]

Prove it is not.

I fuck three virgins every night. It's true unless you can prove it's not.

Watch the video linked. It happened at least one time.

No it didn't.

 

[phrodeau]

An illegal alien wouldn't go near a polling location, unless he wanted to turn himself in. That seems obvious.

 

[pornstarwannabe]

I fuck three virgins every night. It's true unless you can prove it's not.




No it didn't.

Whatever dude.

 

[pornstarwannabe]

An illegal alien wouldn't go near a polling location, unless he wanted to turn himself in. That seems obvious.

without ID, there is no fear of that.

 

[KingOrfeo]

If a person casts a fraudulent vote and no one detects it, did the fraudulent vote occur? Of course it did.

Of course it did. If, that is, it did.

It is happening.

And you know that how?

 

[mercury14]

Whatever dude.

See how that works? Not too bright are you?

 

[bra_man69]

An illegal alien wouldn't go near a polling location, unless he wanted to turn himself in. That seems obvious.

Lol I take it you don't live in a southern border state if you did you wouldn't make such a fucking dumb comment.

 

[KingOrfeo]

It all might backfire on the GOP yet.

‘Block the Vote’ Blowback

GOP photo ID voting laws have energized African-American activists. Their anger could end up helping Democrats in November.

BY Theo Anderson

In 2008, after when Sen. John McCain won just four percent of the black vote, it looked like the GOP couldn’t do any worse among African Americans in a presidential election. But that’s now a real possibility.

Republicans were pleased with George W. Bush’s 11 percent share of the African-American vote in 2004, and they hoped to do even better four years ago. But that was before Bush’s disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina, and before Democrats chose Barack Obama as their presidential candidate.

The GOP’s recent behavior has done nothing to help the party’s reputation among African-American voters. In January, for example, South Carolina’s Republican Attorney General, Alan Wilson, announced an investigation into the fact that more than 900 dead people had voted in recent state elections. The subsequent investigation turned up a lot of human error but no fraud.

Still, Republicans have used such false charges of widespread fraud to mount an aggressive “block the vote” campaign, and they’ve pushed through new restrictions on voting rights in 14 states, according to a report (PDF) released last year by the National Association for the Advancement of Color People. The restrictions include photo ID requirements and “provisions that will curtail voter access to registration, inhibit critical voter registration drives, limit voting periods and tighten the ability to cast ballots.”

According to the report, there is a clear method to the way the restrictions have been imposed. They’ve become law primarily in states “with large communities of color where political participations has surged.” To put it bluntly, they’re aimed at suppressing the black vote.

The good news is that this campaign to curtail voting rights is sparking an increase in political activism and engagement by African-American churches, whose organizing muscle will play an important role in the 2012 election. Over the longer term, these institutions might also become key players in a coalition of progressive activists.

The seeds of a new era of activism are evident, for example, in the embrace of the Occupy movement by some prominent black religious leaders.

Among the most prominent is Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, who is now pastor of the Empowerment Temple megachurch in Baltimore and was formerly the national youth director for the NAACP. In January, an article in the Washington Post noted the growing ties between Occupy D.C. and the city’s African-American pastors, including Bryant. On Martin Luther King Day, pastors across the U.S. coordinated with the Occupy movement to hold protests at ten Federal Reserve Banks.

More recently, Bryant and other religious leaders have been promoting the Empowerment Movement, which is a voting initiative that takes direct aim at the GOP’s anti-voting efforts. It aimed to register 1 million African-American voters on Easter by encouraging the nation’s estimated 50,000 African-American churches to hold a registration drive. The campaign has the support of several denominational bodies, and the drive will continue this spring.

The Empowerment Movement’s ambitious goal seems to be creating genuine, grassroots energy. An article in the Waterloo (Iowa) Courier last week noted that a local pastor, Rev. Frantz Whitfield, had been “organizing local efforts and planned to distribute fliers and registration forms to pastors in the city’s 30-plus predominantly black churches.” Whitfield connected the effort to Easter by offering that “we want to resurrect our right to vote.”

This kind of engagement by religious institutions was critical to the civil-rights movement half a century ago. A vast network of churches supplied the movement with leaders, laypeople and organizing savvy–and a prophetic language, deeply rooted in their faith tradition, with which to critique the injustices of American society.

Only time will tell whether the recent alliances between Occupy and African-American churches, and initiatives such as the Empowerment Movement, are temporary bursts of activism or the early stages of a burgeoning movement on behalf of civil rights and economic equality. But whatever they are, they have consequences for this fall’s elections at all levels.

Even without the GOP’s efforts to suppress voting, the African-American voter turnout has historically been lower than that of whites. In 2008, 65.2 percent of eligible black voters cast a vote, which was an increase of nearly 5 percent over 2004–but still lower than the 66.1 percent of eligible whites who voted. An uptick of just a few points can easily swing close races, since African Americans vote overwhelmingly Democratic.

As countless pop and country songs have observed over the years, you never know what you’ve got till it’s gone. The GOP’s quest to effectively disenfranchise voters might become the best voter-registration drive and get-out-the-vote campaign that the Democrats could have hoped for. By curtailing African Americans’ most basic right as citizens, Republicans may be fueling a fire that burns out of their control.

 

[pornstarwannabe]

See how that works? Not too bright are you?

<puts 5-year old hat on>
nu uh.
<removes 5-year old hat>?

Whatever dude.

 

[mercury14]

<puts 5-year old hat on>
nu uh.
<removes 5-year old hat>?

Whatever dude.

Did you just say that "whatever dude" is you without your 5 year-old hat?

 

[richard_daily]

I'd bet that if ID was not required to buy beer, that there would only be a very small handful of law breakers....not enough to worry about....

So you don't actually have any evidence to support your claims... but you "really really really know" that's it's true?

You're exhibiting typical wingnut behavior.

 

[phrodeau]

without ID, there is no fear of that.

Lol I take it you don't live in a southern border state if you did you wouldn't make such a fucking dumb comment.

Do you really think that illegal aliens are falling over themselves for the chance to commit felonies in broad daylight?

 

[bra_man69]

Do you really think that illegal aliens are falling over themselves for the chance to commit felonies in broad daylight?

You really this dumb?
Look you haven't got a clue what your talking about with illegal aliens so stop.
your comments are showing you don't.
The fact that there illegal is a felony.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

One more time. SCOTUS settled the voter i.d. question in 2008 with Crawford v Marion County. Voter i.d. is lawful.

In Florida they swipe your drivers license to determine your voter status. Lets em know if youre a felon or already voted and your official precinct.

 

[bra_man69]

Here something chew on in Texas there 7 counties there more people on voting rolls then are of age to vote.

 

[TexasWife25]

Here something chew on in Texas there 7 counties there more people on voting rolls then are of age to vote.

"he said that having more registered voters than citizens over the voting age in rural counties is not unexpected. It could be explained by various factors, including retiree and campus voters, who might vote in Texas but be counted as residents of other counties or other states in the census, as well as voters who moved away from rural counties but failed to cancel old registrations.The state's largest voter surplus showed up in Waller County, northeast of Houston, which had about 29,500 registered voters and only about 26,330 residents of voting age. But Waller is home to Prairie View A&M University whose student voters often get counted by census workers elsewhere but can legally register to vote at their campus homes"

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...watchdog-group-questions-counties-3467513.php

 

[TexasWife25]

this is one fun too

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Harris-County-Democrats-settle-voter-3460111.php

"By every objective measure Don Sumners' office is the worst performing voter registration department of any major county in America whether you look at total number of applications rejected or a completely flat line voter roll."


more then 1200 voter registering applications were rejected.

 

[phrodeau]

You really this dumb?
Look you haven't got a clue what your talking about with illegal aliens so stop.
your comments are showing you don't.
The fact that there illegal is a felony.

How many of them cross the border and walk up to City Hall in the sunshine?

 

[richard_daily]

You really this dumb?
Look you haven't got a clue what your talking about with illegal aliens so stop.
your comments are showing you don't.
The fact that there illegal is a felony.

Provide proof that it's actually happening.

I mean, I know that people like you are terrified of the "brown invasion", and arming yourself with shitty looking and expensive guns, and dream about shooting mexicans, but would never do anything about it...

but to the rest of us, your fantasies look utterly ridiculous.

 

[Karen Kraft]

Everyone who is eligible to vote should be able to vote.

Integrity in the voting process is important.

That is all.

Many states require a picture I.D. to vote.

Not a big deal, so long as the I.D.s are free and freely available to all eligible (of age and resident) applicants. You need one to cash checks, buy liquor, drive a car... why not to vote as well?

 

[busybody..]

... why not to vote as well?

CAUSE THAT TOO STRINGENT AND RACIST!

 

[richard_daily]

Many states require a picture I.D. to vote.

Not a big deal, so long as the I.D.s are free and freely available to all eligible (of age and resident) applicants. You need one to cash checks, buy liquor, drive a car... why not to vote as well?

Or post on the internet, right Ken?