Discussion for article #222236
Kudos to the two judges who recognized this and stood up against voter ID laws this week.
If you really mean that, you would use their names.
The Headline should read : Koch brothers and ALEC don’t decide who
is allowed to vote… your giving Scotty way too much credit!
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i am a little confused. about your comment
what are you talking about?
the article clearly names the judges, did you actually read it?
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It would be fun if a typical GOPer could be made to explain why they are hung up for voter IDs, yet won’t push e-verify for workers.
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This comment can not be repeated enough in this ridiculous argument,
“the defendants,” Adelson wrote, “could not point to a single instance of known voter impersonation occurring in Wisconsin at any time in the recent past.”
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Voting is a right. You can only take away someone’s rights for good and just cause. That’s why, e.g., felons can be denied the right to vote. But not having an ID is not a good and just cause.
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Judge Lynn Adelson, who overturned the Wisconsin law
Pennsylvania’s Judge Bernard McGinty
In his Koch-addicted world he does.
Wisconsin!
Isn’t it about time to make your state Scott-free?
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I agree… kudos to them.
Forcing people to get an ID to exercise their right to vote is fair and just -inconveniencing someone at a gun show who wants to purchase a gun by having them undergo a background check is both immoral and illegal and against the rights of this country.
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“[Y]our vote ‘cancels out’ the votes of the better sort of people.”
This, in a nutshell, is the whole of GOP ideology distilled into a single concept: Aristocracy.
Republicans truly don’t believe in democracy. If you push them hard enough, they’ll admit they simply believe some people inherently are better than others.
If your ancestors were White, English-speaking Protestants, then you’re “us”; otherwise (barring exceptions for net worth), you’re “them”.
The GOP party platform is a long-winded farce for obscuring this simple, guiding principal of right-wing belief.
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If you have heroes you empower their actions by making individuals out of them. Using the bland label “two judges” allows peoples prejudices to substitute “faceless bureaucrats” and weaken the message. The same logic applies when we see political ads name victims; it empowers the message by putting a human name/face on the person…
The problem is that it imposes significant costs on many people. In other words, it is a poll-tax. There is a legal history about poll-taxes and they are illegal.
If you believe that the ruling might be wrong, then here it is for your critical assessment.
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Winning a fight against a non-existent problem just highlights the fight that we are in. The Republicans just make things up and then take a hard stance and get their dumbbells fired up because if the left is against it, they won’t give an inch, no matter the stupidity.
Just because the leaders on the right change direction when they lose doesn’t mean that the flock doesn’t follow either, in fact, they become more committed, convinced someone is cheating them. When they inevitably lose, it is inevitably a conspiracy that caused it, not the simple fact that they are fighting meaningless fights with no basis for ever beginning them.
Similar to the Bush Doctrine, attacking voter fraud because someone, someday just might do it is a form of paranoia or better, a weak excuse to hide their real intentions
I think this was snark. Note the comment re: gun show purchases.
It’s almost enough to reaffirm one’s belief in the judicial branch of the government.
I’m getting misty here . . .
Which is exactly why this conservative argument . . .
You need an ID to get a driver’s license! Why not to vote?
. . . is such an epic failure. Driving a car is a privilege. Voting is a fundamental right.
The author did. He then restated it in his conclusion.