I know they aren’t perfect but there is no point in continually painting the Democrats to be as bad as the GOP.
It feeds the Trump voter narrative.
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He’s safe from impeachment. He’s so goddamned dumb he’s too valuable to the GOP Congress to throw overboard. You don’t kick the crazy uncle with money constantly spilling from his pockets out of the house just because he’s an obnoxious drunk and harasses your wife and kids.
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So, a national Voter ID law, eh? Good – everyone who is eligible will be on an official list, and since it’s pretty much enshrined in our Constitution, I don’t really have a problem with such a regulatory list. Now, since it’s also in the Constitution we have the right to own a firearm, I see no reason whatsoever not to create such a regulatory list. What say you, NRA?
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Of course it is, because it isn’t fraud when Republicans do it. IOKIYR, dont’cha know. 
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Look, I live in a State that makes voting practically seamless; however, I did have to apply 3x online and then keep rechecking with the County to make sure I was registered. So, IMHO, folks in those States that have voter ID laws have NO excuse: just get the proper ID, request an absentee ballot, or make the effort to find and go to your polling place, no matter how hard they made it. Just stop complaining and stop relying on thinking that lawsuits are going to make things easy for you.
You forgot bootstraps.
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Yeah. Any voter ID drawn up by right wing scum will be sinister. They are going to use the Kobach algorithm, which calling it an algorithm is insulting to algorithms, to blatantly screw minorities out of their vote. If the North Carolina model is upheld, when there is a GOP friendly SCOTUS, that will, most definitely, be the model they follow nationally. You can bank on it.
The SCOTUS being in their pocket will fuck us for generations to come.
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Yeah - who needs a Voting Rights Act? The lazy so and sos just need to quit being so damn lazy.
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McConnell didn’t nuke the filibuster, didn’t even discuss it for a reason…because he has no intention of doing so. With the filibuster in tact there’s nothing they can do on legislation. And there’s nothing the SCOTUS can do when there’s been no law passed to rule for or against.
Honestly, I can’t do this doomsday shit for four years. Life is much too short. Yes, Peepee is going to do some awful, terrible shit but we still have a Constitution. Even if/when he gets to seat a rabidly crazy new SCOTUS justice, both Roberts and Kennedy have demonstrated again and again that they aren’t completely crazy and are typically unwilling to go along with the GOPs most egregious legislation. I suspect any attempt to expand the power of the presidency under this particular president will be denied mostly because they don’t even trust him any more than we do.
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THEY were lazy during this last election and did not vote in Swing States and gave the election to Trump…and here we are arguing about this shit.
Voting rights were left exclusively to the States when the Constitution was written, with far greater restrictions on eligibility than we face now. The Founders did not think that everyone should have the right to vote. Women could not vote. Slaves could not vote. Only men who owned property were eligible to vote. Southern states feared that enshrining voting rights in the US Constitution would eclipse their control over their state governments, thus specific voting protocols were left to each individual state to define for themselves. That was a necessary compromise in order to have complete support from all States to ratify the US Constitution. That is the same system Republicans now are trying to preserve.
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I am German and we have those. They solve all kinds of problems. Since you have to register within one week of moving to a new address, they could do away with voter registration, dead beat dads can’t shun their obligations to their kids anymore. It would eliminate insurance fraud and best of all it separates the legal and illegal aliens from the citizens. Americans often hold up the privacy shield as in “This is a free country and we don’t accept that”. Well, guess what the credit bureaus know all that and more about you and they sell your information for money.
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My point is that I don’t trust that the national system they’d put in place wouldn’t be modeled on the most onerous state laws that have already been put in place. Instead of such a law only effecting TX, it would then effect voters in CA, NY, IL, etc. Instead of the haphazard and inconsistent laws we currently have in which the worst laws effect only certain states, the worst ones could become the law of the land.
I’m with you - bigly. I can’t either and I don’t think it will come to that or close. This is a speededup version of W. Except for the Wall most of this stuff was already on the GOP agenda.
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I don’t think we protect PA by giving up on Kansas. Instead we invite a steady drip, drip, drip at the state level where most people don’t realize the law is being changed and their freedoms are being denied.
Hans Von Spakovsky being appointed to run the investigation in 3…2…1…
1984 just made it back onto the best seller’s list…
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Here’s the person that I mentioned earlier.
Also Politifact ruled that California claim, as a ‘pants on fire’.
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Good - I hope people are reading it like it is a manual for what can happen.
And I hope they get even madder and sharper about what is happening.
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I get that, I mean obviously if it is left to Republican to implement a National Voter ID law it is going to be laden with backward-ass underhanded suppression crap. What I was saying was that I don’t think i_d was talking about a National voter ID Law, but about Democrats backing a National ID card that could be used as a unified means of identification as a way of calling Republicans bluff about being concerned about properly IDing voters.
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