Unfortunately, the GOP sees “strong form of identification” as whatever foolishness the States want to demand that isn’t easily obtainable by everyone. In the South, you can vote if you have a gun license but not a student ID.
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His ability to function as president was severely limited to begin with, but his inability to move beyond losing the popular vote limits him even further. It’s pathetic, really. If there’s reason to believe more than 3 million voted illegally, the White House should at least be able to show us prima facie evidence that suggests that it could be true. So far, not one American has seen even that.
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In the South, you can vote if you have a gun license but not a student ID.
[/quote]Well, who can you trust to know about government and make an informed voting decision - a student with a book or a redneck with a gun? (And, yes, I know I’m stereotyping - it’s a tool for humor. Not all students carry books.)
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The far right could also see a national voter ID as being a step towards ‘the one world order’ and a victory for their latest bogey man - the ‘dark state’.
There are people out there that hate Social Security numbers because they’re seen as “the number of the beast”. Add a mandate for a photo ID that could also contain your SSN? They’ll go nuts!
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Zoos refused to hand over video tapes. They fought hard that the Commission could not see their records or methods because they know that Donald Trump viciously sodomises every animal and reptillian he can get his tiny hands on. System is rigged.
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In a statement, he said he made the decision because he wanted to avoid “endless legal battles at taxpayer expense.”
Ha. Ha ha! BWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Endless legal battles at taxpayer expense hasn’t stopped Trump before! In fact, to date one man alone, New York AG Eric Schneiderman, has filed at least 100 suits and executive actions against the Trump “Administration” over their boneheaded, stupid, racist and illegal actions:
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I guess the Russians decided they didn’t really need the voter information in Democratic states now that they’ve got all the info on swing states…
I have absolutely no doubt that there WERE more than 3,000,000 illegal votes cast in that election.
Of course, they were all cast for Lying Littledick, by about seven guys with names like Dmitri, Ivan, Alexei, and Vladimir, from the warmth of their apartments in Moscow.
His evil-motherfucker “commission” chairman, Kobach, still is refusing to turn over records to the DEMS on the “commission.” As Kobach himself has said: “If you have nothing to hide, why won’t you turn things over?”
Traitorous mofos, all of them.
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They LOVE voter ID – as long as it’s only required for “those people.” You know, those dusky-hued, not-quite-“real”-Americans. And even then, “those” people should have to prove that they’ve voted for Rethugs, before they are allowed to get their IDs.
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This is basically a lie. Rather than breaking along partisan lines, the decision for most states was based on whether the data was publicly available or not. NY, a very liberal state, provided most of the data the commission asked for, because it was already publicly available; Mississippi, a very conservative state, did not provide information to the commission (if I recall correctly).
That said, if Trump wants to give the general public the impression that Democrats will protect their voting data more strongly than Republicans, then I’m pretty much okay with that.
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Drumpf sent out thousands of True the Vote volunteers to polling places all over the country and they didn’t find even one of the “millions” of illegal voters. Either they are representative of the total incompetence of the drumpf administration and/or drumpf is lying. Your choice.
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FWIW, Palmer Report has another theory about Giuliani’s vanishing act.
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Got it thx! The subtext for the vacillating Clinton announcements.
It’s more that Republicans are contorting themselves to watch their own backs.
They don’t know what kind of shit will pop out of the investigations into Trump’s numerous malfeasances and conspiracies - nor what and how much will blow back on themselves.
So they’re slowing and obstructing the investigations not because they know what will come out of them, but because they don’t know - i.e., not only to protect Trump, but because some of them don’t know if their own campaigns, or they themselves, are implicated.
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Tattooed on your arm
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That’s because you’re sane.
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Something that the courts should demand is that any voter ID law should put the onus on the state to prove that the applicant is not a citizen. It shouldn’t be the duty of a citizen to prove that. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
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I think you’re dead on accurate about that. Who knows what complicity existed during the GOOPer convention, or the repug congress writ large (Nunes, Roherbacher, etc.).
Silver lining in the Sessions appointments of yesterday – while he covered Cheetolini’s NY Districts, it appears the VA district is open…? (double check me here)
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He’s not underground. NYT reported a few times last year, most recently in September I think, that he was busy representing Turkish authoritarians (Erdogan pals) in a case which involves breaking sanctions on Iran with shady trading and money-laundering.
It raises all kinds of questions about the weird game that Erdogan, Trump and Putin are playing.
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