As a Republican how do you defend voter suppression?

[OneOfTheseDays]

Honestly this is perhaps the most sickening and disgusting thing I've ever seen in my lifetime in regards to politics.

If the Democratic party EVER engaged in practice like this, I would drop support for them in an instance. I could NEVER in good conscience vote for a party that was so blatantly and actively trying to suppress minorities and lower income folks from voting.

And please, for the love of God, don't give me this BS about voter fraud. We know from statistics that voter fraud hovers around something like .000001%. It is a statistical non-factor in every sense. These voter ID laws and attempts to restrict early voting are nothing more than an attempt by Republicans to stifle the minority and low income vote, that is always predominantly Democratic.

This is something we should all be in unison against as Americans. This is treason.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Dems have no problem with dead people voting.

I have no problem with ensuring that they have an ID when the climb out of they grave and pull the voting lever.

 

[Arkaign]

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.co...rations-in-dumpster/politics/2012/10/19/51637

 

[buckshot24]

I figure Donald Duck should have ID in order to vote.

 

[spittledip]

People need a photo ID to do all types of little things. I don't see why we should not require photo ID for people to vote. Sure, it is probably being used as a tactic to suppress votes currently, but this does not mean that the idea itself is bad. It actually only makes sense. It is ridiculous that a picture ID is not required to vote.

 

[spittledip]

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.co...rations-in-dumpster/politics/2012/10/19/51637

Yes, republicans are guilty of voter fraud too. Everyone needs to be held accountable.

 

[Arkaign]

Photo ID's can be faked.

What we actually need is mandatory genetic records and just to be safe intercranial-mounted chips matched to a federal registry, so that when someone goes to vote, it can be scanned and we can know exactly who they are.

After all, it's ridiculous that someone could vote with a fake ID!

 

[MovingTarget]

To Republicans, it isn't voter suppression. Its "fraud busting".

 

[Balt]

Dems have no problem with dead people voting.

I have no problem with ensuring that they have an ID when the climb out of the grave and pull the voting lever.

Personally, I don't have any problem with requiring ID to vote (as long as some form of ID is provided for free by the state in question so that there isn't a 'poll tax'). I really dislike objections and lawsuits filed against early voting, however, which help the lower and middle class. I also don't see any reasonable objection that can be made against allowing people to do so, since absentee voting allows essentially the same thing.

 

[shortylickens]

Dems have no problem with dead people voting.

I have no problem with ensuring that they have an ID when the climb out of the grave and pull the voting lever.

And illegals, dont forget them.

 

[spidey07]

As a democrat, how do you defend beating your wife?

 

[trenchfoot]

Personally, I don't have any problem with requiring ID to vote (as long as some form of ID is provided for free by the state in question so that there isn't a 'poll tax'). I really dislike objections and lawsuits filed against early voting, however, which help the lower and middle class. I also don't see any reasonable objection that can be made against allowing people to do so, since absentee voting allows essentially the same thing.

I'd go one step further. In order to quash any hint of disenfranchisement or suppression, the Repubs, who by some miraculous coincidence are the only ones concerned about "voter fraud", should go out of their way and make certain that any person who is disadvantaged in any way, shape or form by the "honest and sincere concern to prevent fraud" be fully accomodated at their convenience to obtain the proper ID for voting.

If the Repubs are willing to spend millions of tax $$$ to put their "voter fraud prevention" laws into effect that will prevent the miniscule amount of fraud now being perpetrated, then they should have no problem spending millions more to ensure that these Repub created laws not have have any negative effect on the thousands upon thousands of voters who would be disenfranchised/suppressed.

Makes perfect sense doesn't it? Well, I guess not to any Repub who knows full well what these scams are all about.

 

[MaxPayne63]

Personally I say that voting rights should be restricted to current Goldman/JPM boardmembers.

The results would be the same, and the rest of us would be spared from having to watch insipid political theater every other year.

 

[buckshot24]

As a democrat, how do you defend beating your wife?

This is a perfect answer.

 

[nehalem256]

As a Democrat how do you defend the President issuing work permits to illegal foreign invaders to pander for their votes?

 

[ivwshane]

As a democrat, how do you defend beating your wife?

Democrats don't defend it and think its terrible and believe no one should be beat and it should be treated like the crime that it is.


How does a republican justify voter suppression? It's obvious by just the responses you've seen so far, they justify it in any way they can and they deflect whenever they can.

You will note that not one righty said it is disgusting or that they object to it.

Telling.

 

[spidey07]

Democrats don't defend it and think its terrible and believe no one should be beat and it should be treated like the crime that it is.


How does a republican justify voter suppression? It's obvious by just the responses you've seen so far, they justify it in any way they can and they deflect whenever they can.

You will note that not one righty said it is disgusting or that they object to it.

Telling.

Having an ID to vote isn't voter suppresion though.

Democrats hate it because it kills their dead vote. Times are a changing, and the entire country is overturning democrat policies state by state. You are a dieing party and will be wiped out soon.

November is coming liberal, it's almost here. tick-tock.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Suppression exists for those that want to skirt the rules. Multiple opportunities exist to avoid the problem. It is just those that are afraid that might happen want to make a mountain out of an ant hill.

Statistics projected for worst case are used instead of valid raw numbers to buttress their case.

Want to prove a case. Provide a count of people that voted on the primary that did not have an ID. That is an actual number vs guesstimating how many people who are eligible to vote who have no ID

 

[nehalem256]

Having an ID to vote isn't voter suppresion though.

Democrats hate it because it kills their dead vote. Times are a changing, and the entire country is overturning democrat policies state by state. You are a dieing party and will be wiped out soon.

November is coming liberal, it's almost here. tick-tock.

And it means all their effort to pander to illegal immigrants was wasted.

 

[shortylickens]

And it means all their effort to pander to illegal immigrants was wasted.

Nope, because the 100 million babies of the 10 million illegals will be able to vote, and they'll remember.

 

[Jhhnn]

Having an ID to vote isn't voter suppresion though.

Democrats hate it because it kills their dead vote. Times are a changing, and the entire country is overturning democrat policies state by state. You are a dieing party and will be wiped out soon.

November is coming liberal, it's almost here. tick-tock.

Ever delusional, Spidey raves on.

Rank & file Righties justify voter suppression by casting aspersions, using innuendo, disregarding factual & statistical matters.

It's all faith based, it's all about what they believe, and they'll be damned if they'll question their own beliefs in the slightest.

They've been taught to believe that voter fraud is rampant, when it's extremely rare. They've been taught that it's what Dems do, not what dishonest people of either stripe do. Being a minority, they suffer from somewhat of a persecution complex. Coupled with being oh-so-sure of their own rectitude, they don the mantle of victimhood very easily.

They're being exploited by their leadership, who know the truth, and know that the truth doesn't suit their purposes, which is winning regardless of the will of the majority. All they need is a majority of votes cast, same as it was during the Jim Crow era. They've studied the demographics of voting in depth, ascertained the strengths & weaknesses of groups both pro & con, and have determined that picture ID is a weakness among unsympathetic groups. They'll exploit that weakness if they can, regardless of the morality of doing so.

 

[Greenman]

I don't defend voter suppression, it's wrong. I do however condone a person producing evidence that he has the right to vote.

 

[sMiLeYz]

As a democrat, how do you defend beating your wife?

Obviously, by changing the subject... like Spidey does!

 

[buckshot24]

The question is loaded. There isn't voter suppression.

 

[cybrsage]

Dems love voter suppression via voter registration. Just ask a dem why he supports voter suppression via voter registration and watch him spin about how suppressing the votes of otherwise legitimate voters simply because they did not register is not voter suppression.