Go for it! Pull a Custer…with votes!
If the Republicans spent 1/10th of the time they spend on suppressing potential Democratic voters on getting informed and trying to govern in the public interest, they would be a party worth listening to. Instead, they lie, manipulate, oppress, discriminate, lie again and do everything they can think of to cheat their way to power. The anti-democratic ends they seek can’t ever begin to justify the means they abuse. They are vile.
The ND legislature started planning the disenfranchisement right after Hedicamp won. No Democrats allowed in our state! We’ll make sure that doesn’t happen again . Damn Injuns!
I am sickened by this. You know they were allowed to vote in the primary and I just can’t believe the Supreme Court okayed this so close to the election.
I hope there is a backlash. Hey, you put this hurdle up to stop me? How high do I have to jump? Hey, and I am bringing five of my friends…this is just so wrong. One of my husband’s closest friends is married to a member of the Standing Rock Tribe. She voted absentee here and headed back to her original home to help.
We have to fight these bastards every day and in every way that we can. They will never stop trying to take away our rights and we can never again let them back in control once we have gotten our country back.
Get in touch with Elizabeth Warren.
Well, you know, the Republican secretary of state is right. Every citizen SHOULD be concerned about voter fraud. But that’s not the ONLY thing people should be concerned about. The death of democracy, for instance.
If there is one group of people who should not have any obstacles put in their path to voting it is Native Americans, esp. those who live on reservations.
The fight needs to move toward doing away with “voter ID” (requiring the showing of a government-issued document). The whole state of California (for one) votes with only a voter’s declaration that they are the person they say they are, and a signature on the register.
The state with the largest population in the nation somehow gets through elections without ANY “voter fraud” – at least by people misrepresenting themselves.
Voting practices were left to each state by the Constitution, but I remember when “states’ rights” to uphold Jim Crow and voter suppression were corrected by the Courts and federal legislation. The Voter ID movement has been implemented for one reason only: to suppress the vote of people in rural areas and of the poor. It’s time to take the fight against it to the national level.
(My former county, San Francisco, uses paper ballots that are scanned into a secure box. Seems the best option for combatting hacking or other types of computer fraud. Hell, San Francisco even has an arrangement for homeless people to vote.)
ETC for clarification
Or, issue everyone a voter card when that person is registered to vote. If it needs a photo, that’s hardly a barrier in the days when everyone carries a camera in their pocket. This should be simple, really.
Dear AP:
Before 2013, people without proper identification were allowed to vote by signing an affidavit attesting to their eligibility.
This is bullsh*t. American citizens without the ID that was later declared necessary by a bunch of racist republicans are not “people without proper ID”.
It’s deliberately made difficult. E.g. Texas, where a college ID is not sufficient photo identification but a carry permit is.
“It could have been that all 3,600 voters were legitimate voters, but when we can’t find them afterward, that puts a cloud on the election,”
BS. BS. BS.
3600 out of 16000 analyzed? 23%? That is 100 to 1000-fold over what ANY “voter fraud” stats have come up with, and totally ridiculous. The AP should be disbanded for not even questioning this claim.
However, I am “happy” that TPM, WaPo and others are at least getting this story out there, despite AP rhetoric.
What does “find” mean anyway? Remember that this is the party that tried to throw black people off voter rolls because they wouldn’t responds to its mailings.
See the pattern? Republicans across this country have found ways to disenfranchise groups of people who tend to vote for Democrats.
They tried this in North Carolina and the courts ruled the GOP was using race as a proxy for political affiliation.
In Alabama, they passed a strict Voter ID Law, then closed the DMV Offices in counties where the majority of African American voters live.
In VA, thy passed a voter ID law before the 2012 election, and when Obama won, they passed another Voter ID law after that election.
Georgia, need we count the ways that Republicans have screwed the electorate?
Kansas, yeah, see Georgia.
Texas passed Voter ID and tried closing reducing DMV office hours as well.
This is today’s Republican Party. They can say what they want about pre-Civil Rights Era Voter Suppression, but they have taken it to a new level.