Each articles have specific examples of people who were stopped from voting.
Just say you don’t want minorities or Dems to vote and be honest with yourself.
Why, because we are supposed to buy into the notion that blacks are unable to get a photo ID, or can’t get to an early voting location of a 17 day period, or vote on election day?
It’s insulting, that people like you think there is something genetic about having black skin, which means you can’t do the same things everyone else can do. So, the Koreans and other Asians and Eastern European Americans, they can all seem to get an ID and/or early vote, but not people with brown skin.
Oh, and it also seems to be a genetic trait that if you are black, you are a Democrat, albeit without the ability to get a state photo ID. Pu-lease… 
They ****ing admitted it!
As ‘evidence of justifications’ for the changes to early voting, the State offered purported inconsistencies in voting hours across counties, including the fact that only some counties had decided to offer Sunday voting,” the 2016 decision read. “The State then elaborated on its justification, explaining that ‘[c]ounties with Sunday voting in 2014 were disproportionately black’ and ‘disproportionately Democratic.’”
How deep in the sand is your head buried?
That you are sitting there and typing out the definition of oligarchy. You who denounces Venezula nearly daily ijust broke my irony meter.
It ain’t socialism that is creating the super rich and the super poor in California. Silicon Valley and ventury capitalism are not socialist endevors.
The whole point of voter ID laws and closing polling places is to encourage more hurdles to jump through, long wait times, long lines in an attempt to discourage voting. It’s been blatant. Republicans don’t even try to hide it anymore lol.
“In documents provided to the state, Lee elections officials conceded its resources were inadequate, and “what we deployed on [Nov. 6] turned out not to be sufficient.” Despite a 70,000 increase in registered voters since 2008, the county slashed its number of polling places from 136 to 88 and dispatched fewer ballot-scanning machines.”
These are the kind of bush league tactics Republicans were trying across the nation. Stop waving the red pom poms for a minute.
“Facing allegations of voter suppression, scrutiny from voting rights groups, and calls to resign from his opponent, Georgia secretary of state and current GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp recently said that Stacey Abrams’s voter outreach effort “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote,” according to a new report.
Rolling Stone’s Jamil Smith reports that Kemp made the remarks during a ticketed October 19 “Georgia Professionals for Kemp” event held at Atlanta’s Blind Pig Parlour Bar, which was closed to the press. Someone who attended the event provided roughly 20 minutes of audio from Kemp’s speech to Rolling Stone.
Early in Kemp’s remarks, Smith reports, the gubernatorial candidate expressed concern about early voting in Georgia, particularly “the literally tens of millions of dollars that they [the Abrams campaign] are putting behind the get-out-the-vote effort to their base.”
Kemp also said that Abrams’s campaign had focused heavily on absentee ballots. “They have just an unprecedented number of that, which is something that continues to concern us,” he said, according to Rolling Stone. “Especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote — which they absolutely can — and mail those ballots in, we gotta have heavy turnout to offset that.”
Wouldn’t want everyone to excerise their right to vote, now would we? I wonder why?
Where did the state actually say that? And what was this grand scheme, to ask for a photo ID, or have the audacity to pass a law allowing 17 days or early voting?
Trumpsters hate democracy and love authoritarians. It’s amazing how people who scream about loving America the most sure do love to gut her core.
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Guess what the media and Vote Latino didn’t tell you about Doge City Kansas.
from https://www.dodgecity.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=955
We are very proud of our small but growing diverse community. Our citizens are engaged in all facets of our community including commerce, education, recreation, and politics. With that being said, our citizen’s accessibility to exercising their most fundamental right of voting is our utmost concern. So when the Ford County Clerk sent notification of the temporary relocation of the election site due to potential construction at the existing election location at the Civic Center, we agreed to provide assistance by providing a ride door to door via public transportation to anyone who might not have transportation to the new site.
However, we continued to receive inquiries and statements implying that our community voters are being suppressed. It is not our place to agree or disagree, however, we feel it is necessary to share the facts and what we are doing to assist our citizens:
City of Dodge City – Public Transportation is offering free door to door rides to and from the polling location on Election Day to those that call and schedule a pickup. Those wishing to utilize the free transportation will need to call and schedule with Dodge City Public Transportation at 620-371-3879 The Ford County, Clerk/Elections Office, does provide advanced voting that is taking place currently. In office voting during the weekdays leading up to Election Day is from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the County Clerk’s office. On October 30, and November 1 they will have the voting open until 7:00 p.m. On Saturday, November 3 they will have voting open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Registered voters in Ford County may also request a ballot by mail until October 30th.
I know because blacks are genetically unable to get a photo ID or fill out an absentee ballot, and if they do vote early, they all crowd the same early voting places to vote on the same day. Some how, everyone else who lives in the same neighborhoods can handle voting and getting an ID, just not black folk or Democrats.
And part of your proof is that government is always perfect. But if it’s not perfect, and underestimates… it’s proof of racism and bias.
They shouldn’t have to do all of that dullard. That’s the point. For decades it wasn’t an issue but hey, a black guy won the Presidency in a landslide. HOLY ■■■■■ we need voter ID laws, like NOW. You can stick your head in the sand or wave your red pom poms all you want. People with common sense see what’s going on.
First of all you are half right.
Republicans and democrats will do anything to maintain their grip on power. Everybody knows it. Few will admit it. Will you?
Secondly. The NY times is not an unbiased news source. There is zero degrees of separation between the DNC and the NYT. The are exactly the same. With the exact same goals.
Third. There is no voter suppression one or two examples of irregulates means nothing. Who is suppressing the vote? And how is it being done, Give me five names.
I don’t. Too many people are completely ignorant about politics, just talk to some, and you will understand my meaning.
Even when I start a conversation with someone I agree with, politically or philosophically. Five minutes into the discussion with them, and it’s clear their extent of knowledge on politics and government is limited to reading headlines, or reciting the crap candidates spout in their lying assed campaign ads, two weeks before election.
So no, I do not want hordes of ignorant sheep canceling out my vote, because they are so ignorant, they don’t even know who the Speaker of the House is, or which political party controls their own state legislatures, much less Federal.
I know, pointing out some crack in the law an unfortunate person fell thru, does not mean it was an intended result, by the crafty politicians from that other Party. Mu-hahaha…
Pot:Kettle
I’d respond but your second point proves you aren’t the least bit interested in the truth, so why bother?
Oh and Kemp and Kobach - that’s two right there. But since you’re already ignoring real news sources, I highly doubt you think they’ll count.
Oh so that’s your justification. “People are too stupid to vote.”. Well if that’s the case, I hereby demand that the rights of every Trump supporter to vote be revoked, as by electing and continuing to support Trump they have proven they are too stupid and uninformed to vote.
Oh what, is it not ok now? Why? My arbitrary voting criteria is just as valid as yours.
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I didn’t vote for Hillary, and I don’t really care what she recently said since it has been almost two years since she lost. I am though voting Democrat for Congress and Senate this election.
Look who doesn’t read. Speaking of uniformed voters, pretty sure that disqualifies you under your own standard.
But for those who do read, Here’s an actual court decision:
https://www.justice.gov/crt/file/882456/download?fbclid=IwAR0gsUvIihzVTHLI2qP68C1qahI8xA7t8eUozw1XACBzJqy8etoGDGiW73w
I was going to quote bits of it but reading through it again it’s absolutely rife with horrors that the Republican legislature committed.
A small sample:
Legislators additionally requested a racial breakdown of provisional voting, including out-of-precinct voting. Id. at *136-37. Out-of-precinct voting required the Board of Elections in each county to count the provisional ballot of an Election Day voter who appeared at the wrong precinct, but in the correct county, for all of the ballot items for which the voter was eligible to vote. Id. at *5-6. This provision assisted those who moved frequently, or who mistook a voting site as being in their correct precinct.
The district court found that the racial data revealed that African Americans disproportionately voted provisionally. Id. at *137. In fact, the General Assembly that had originally enacted the out-of-precinct voting legislation had specifically found that “of those registered voters who happened to vote provisional ballots outside their resident precincts” in 2004, “a disproportionately high percentage were African American.” Id. at *138. With SL 2013-381, the General Assembly altogether eliminated out-of-precinct voting. Id. at *15.
This is just one of dozens of examples, all with the legislature specifically requesting racial data and striking every single thing that African Americans did. It was passed party line and approved by the governor as fast as possible. Don’t want those brown people voting, apparently.
If you want to remain in blissful ignorance that’s your business. But trusting politicians who have done nothing to earn trust, is not something that thinking people should do.
Please tell me that you don’t believe that Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, Wasserman Shultz and the others are pillars of virtue. Who are only interested in fair play. can’t believe that you actually believe such a fairy tale.
And BTW. Don’t tell me what I’m interested in. I will tell you. If you ask. Deal?
