In other, simpler, terms, those in charge of voting intended for selective enforcement of the tests to eliminate black voters.
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But Gandalf didn’t need his staff to handle the trolls. He mimicked their voices and got them to stay out until dawn and the sunlight turned them to stone.
'Cept they’ll want a MEAL, not a snack! 
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So not a “speak softly, but carry a big stick” moment?
Republicans have claimed that the laws are not actually restrictive, homing in on innocuous parts of the laws and high turnout levels in 2020 as proof.
So they’re passing laws then that wouldn’t have any impact on the turnout levels as exemplified by the 2020 turnout? So why then do they need to pass laws that don’t actually do anything? He’s suggesting that there wasn’t a problem in 2020 thus obviating the need for new laws, yet, they’re passing or trying to pass new laws to pose limits or restrictions on the factors that resulted in record turnout and participation in 2020? So restricting drop off boxes serves what purpose exactly? So requiring extra ID for mail voters when there were no problems with the mail voters is for what purpose then?
Bah, Republicans, they just suck, in no good ways.
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George W. Bush’s statements should merit approval, dissemination and repitition.
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Wait, what???
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Why a duck?
Vy not a chicken?
”… some of the Republicans’ heaviest hitters used their time to spar with Abrams over everything from her prior run for governor to the All-Star game.
“Ms. Abrams, do you support voter identification?” asked Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina. “Yes,” she said, adding that she opposes restrictive voter ID laws.
(SB 202 requires voter ID for both mail-in and in-person voting.)
Next up was Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. “Is the Georgia election law racist?” he asked Abrams.
“I believe there are components of it that are racist,” she said.
“So you believe there were deliberate attempts to suppress the minority vote?”
“Yes,” she said, before Cornyn accused her of filibustering as she continued to talk over him.
…Sen. Ted Cruz came up…asking her twice if she still believes her own race in 2018 was stolen, as she said at the time.
She acknowledged that Kemp won, as she did in 2018 and said, “My full language was that the election was stolen from the voters of Georgia. We do not know what they would have done because every eligible Georgian was not permitted” to vote.
…Sen Tom Cotton read to Abrams statements she has made about the usefulness of boycotts to move an issue forward.
“Do you regret your central role in causing Major League Baseball to withdraw the All-Star game in Georgia?” he asked.
Abrams received so many questions she eventually started sending them to other witnesses, who had received almost none.
“I would like to cede the rest of this to Dr. Anderson to connect the dots between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow 2.0,” she said in response to a query from Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California.
(paywalled)
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I hadn’t heard that she supports some form of voter ID. Does she mean asking each voter for their name and address when they show up at the polls in order to verify their voter registration, or are there other forms of non-restrictive voter ID?
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Yes: of course a voter needs to be registered: but as one of those less than obvious voters suppression regulations, the registration card isn’t a valid ID.
Formerly a military, student, and other picture IDs were valid: and such things as an electric power bill. The onus was on the state to reject it, or not, as reflecting the address registered here .
Now the responsibility and cost are placed on the would be voter.
I quite understand the desirability of folks having an id: but there are reasons people don’t: and for those people (difficult as it might be for some to conceive their lives, much less worth) it generally presents the greatest difficulties in translation, access, and costs.
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Cornyn has such a suave way. I can’t understand why he doesn’t score better with the ladies. There’s a PePe LePew (R-Texas) joke in here.
I don’t understand why any photo ID should be required. One of reasons for pre-election voter registration is to speed up the voting process at the polls. I prove I live in the district before the election, and a poll worker asks me to verify that information in a way that doesn’t require me to dig around for photo ID in my wallet (assuming I even have one). It’s pretty fast, and if someone else were to come in and claim to be me, the poll worker sees my info already checked off and reports it so the real resident (me) can be verified.
To clarify, voter id isn’t just a way of preventing people without ID from voting - it also slows down the entire process. Considering that underage college kids can get into bars with fake IDs, the idea that a photo id is a solid, foolproof way to prevent in person voter fraud is ridiculous. What has almost entirely prevented in person voter fraud is proper voter registration and fines for each count of fraud that is already pretty easy to determine without photo ID.
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This one works a little better, although as a metaphor it assumes an underlying decency in the possessed Rs. So sue me.
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I will always be incredulous about how the GOP came to have so many functional idiots and reprobates as the major part of their caucus…it is safe to say we have never seen anything like it in our lifetime…
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In a battle of wits between Cornyn and Abrams, my money’s on Ms Abrams.
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When you have an organization that is as anti-intellectual as the current GOP you get members who are anti-intellectual, i.e. stupid.
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Because it has one leg alike.