Why Do Republicans Oppose Updating the Voting Rights Act?

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

This is not surprising. Republicans are constantly trying to limit voting right in states where they hold the majority to do so. Mr. Collins reason For opposing doesn’t say anything. He should provide specific examples.

Modern Republicans do not want to expand voters rights. Period. I invite someone to provide a bill that ANY republican legislature put forth (local, state, fed) that expands voters rights.

I’ll wait.

“Expand voters rights” to what? Who can’t vote?

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Of course there is discrimination. Your mistake is feeeeeling it is racial. It isn’t. Are dems giving rides to the polls to republicans?

Before VRA, was it racial?

No. Politics is never racial. If whatever race starts voting republican, rich white republicans will send their limousines to pick them up to take them to the polls.

Nobody cares about race. Everybody cares about power.

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

“Expand voters rights” to what? Who can’t vote?

The Who? Felons (who overwhelmingly, by percentage of population, are AA or Latino)

However there is also the where and when. Where people can vote and when they can do it.

[calirepub]

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

“Expand voters rights” to what? Who can’t vote?

The Who? Felons (who overwhelmingly, by percentage of population, are AA or Latino)

However there is also the where and when. Where people can vote and when they can do it.

It figures that Dems want Felons to vote. I knew it was all about gaining political power.

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

No. Politics is never racial. If whatever race starts voting republican, rich white republicans will send their limousines to pick them up to take them to the polls.

Nobody cares about race. Everybody cares about power.

You obviously didn’t think before you typed. Before VRA a specific race had restrictions on voting. Sure those restrictions equaled power… but the result was a specific race was limited. If it wasn’t about race, those same restrictions would have been placed on poor whites. It wasn’t.

Next you are going to tell me the civil war wasn’t about keeping a specific race in shackles.

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

“Expand voters rights” to what? Who can’t vote?

The Who? Felons (who overwhelmingly, by percentage of population, are AA or Latino)

However there is also the where and when. Where people can vote and when they can do it.

Now you have a point of discussion. I am ready when you are. But that is not what he is whining about. And if you are going to claim disproportionality in prisons because of race, I am going to argue proportional to crimes committed. And win.

Where and when are logistics issues with one set of rules. Are you under the impression that because you are of a certain race you have the right to vote wherever it is convenient for you? Or more convenient than for me?

Are black people as a group handicapped?

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

No. Politics is never racial. If whatever race starts voting republican, rich white republicans will send their limousines to pick them up to take them to the polls.

Nobody cares about race. Everybody cares about power.

You obviously didn’t think before you typed. Before VRA a specific race had restrictions on voting. Sure those restrictions equaled power… but the result was a specific race was limited. If it wasn’t about race, those same restrictions would have been placed on poor whites. It wasn’t.

Next you are going to tell me the civil war wasn’t about keeping a specific race in shackles.

What restrictions? Specifically?

Am I? Strange.

[WuWei]

@calirepub

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

“Expand voters rights” to what? Who can’t vote?

The Who? Felons (who overwhelmingly, by percentage of population, are AA or Latino)

However there is also the where and when. Where people can vote and when they can do it.

It figures that Dems want Felons to vote. I knew it was all about gaining political power.

I have no problem with felons voting, after they have paid their debt 100%. They should also have their right to keep and bear arms restored.

[H_Arendt]

@WuWei

@H_Arendt

I am seeing several posts in which posters announce there is no discrimination in voting, but no evidence that supports those claims.

Of course there is discrimination. Your mistake is feeeeeling it is racial. It isn’t. Are dems giving rides to the polls to republicans?

So is your argument that discrimination that falls disproportionately on people of color does not have a racial element? Or is that you are fine with discrimination?

[H_Arendt]

@calirepub

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

“Expand voters rights” to what? Who can’t vote?

The Who? Felons (who overwhelmingly, by percentage of population, are AA or Latino)

However there is also the where and when. Where people can vote and when they can do it.

It figures that Dems want Felons to vote. I knew it was all about gaining political power.

The bill we are talking about has nothing to do with felons.

[H_Arendt]

@WuWei

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

No. Politics is never racial. If whatever race starts voting republican, rich white republicans will send their limousines to pick them up to take them to the polls.

Nobody cares about race. Everybody cares about power.

You obviously didn’t think before you typed. Before VRA a specific race had restrictions on voting. Sure those restrictions equaled power… but the result was a specific race was limited. If it wasn’t about race, those same restrictions would have been placed on poor whites. It wasn’t.

Next you are going to tell me the civil war wasn’t about keeping a specific race in shackles.

What restrictions? Specifically?

Am I? Strange.

Documented above, but you appear to be too busy typing to read the thread.

[Hexenbiest]

I think what people are asking, sorry if it was already answered trying to catch up what law is it that is keeping people of color to vote?

For the record I am white, my registered voting destination is 10 miles from my house, and for the last few years I have been using in mail in ballots.

[mobulis]

@WuWei

@H_Arendt

@WuWei

@H_Arendt

@calirepub

@H_Arendt

are you claiming the Republican acting selflessly in this matter

I’m claiming that Republicans are doing what’s in America’s best interest.

Why is not allowing citizens the right to vote in America’s best interest. Next you will claim that not allowing citizens the right to bear arms is in America’s best interest I suppose.

Who is not being allowed to vote and how?

Every study of where voting machines are placed and how many are placed in different neighborhoods answers that question. For one example, in Tulsa, the only polling place in the largest African-American community was closed and replaced by a location several miles away with no public transportation.

I think everyone here who wonders why African-Americans vote overwhelmingly Democratic, needs to slow down and think for a while… because the answer to that question runs through this thread like a river.

Who is being denied the right to vote and how?

I have to go several miles with no public transportation available to vote. Have for years. Am I being denied my right to vote?

Why do you believe black people are helpless?

We don’t, we believe voting should be made easier not harder.

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

Now you have a point of discussion. I am ready when you are. But that is not what he is whining about. And if you are going to claim disproportionality in prisons because of race, I am going to argue proportional to crimes committed. And win.

Violent crimes, maybe. But not non-violent.

@WuWei

Where and when are logistics issues with one set of rules. Are you under the impression that because you are of a certain race you have the right to vote wherever it is convenient for you? Or more convenient than for me?

Studies show that predominantly black communities have less access to voting than predominantly white.

SAC%20Voting%20Rights%20Compendium.pdf

@WuWei

Are black people as a group handicapped?

What do you mean by this?

[mobulis]

@WuWei

@BlueTex

How about we put the same restrictions on 2nd amendment rights as voting rights. You know, the state chooses where gun shops are located, hours of operation, the registration process to purchase guns and ammo at these shops.

Because the state isn’t manning the gun shops.

However that already happens with permits and the requirements are more onerous by an order of magnitude.

You want to try clever? Let’s make voters get a bgc, fingerprints, take a proficiency test, pay over $100 and wait months to get approval. And repeat the process every few years. Let’s make poll volunteers call the FBI and give them personal information and tell them which party. Let’s make them fill out a federal form and keep it on file for years in case the wrong guy gets elected so we can “trace it back”.

Let me know when you can kill with a vote.

[mobulis]

@WuWei

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

“Expand voters rights” to what? Who can’t vote?

The Who? Felons (who overwhelmingly, by percentage of population, are AA or Latino)

However there is also the where and when. Where people can vote and when they can do it.

Now you have a point of discussion. I am ready when you are. But that is not what he is whining about. And if you are going to claim disproportionality in prisons because of race, I am going to argue proportional to crimes committed. And win.

Where and when are logistics issues with one set of rules. Are you under the impression that because you are of a certain race you have the right to vote wherever it is convenient for you? Or more convenient than for me?

Are black people as a group handicapped?

Why shouldn’t it be more convenient for EVERYONE?

[mobulis]

@Hexenbiest

I think what people are asking, sorry if it was already answered trying to catch up what law is it that is keeping people of color to vote?

For the record I am white, my registered voting destination is 10 miles from my house, and for the last few years I have been using in mail in ballots.

My question is why don’t repubs want to make voting as easy as possible?

[Hexenbiest]

I am not sure what is making it more difficult to vote because of skin color? I am white full disclosure, my polling station is pretty far away as I live right outside of a major city and is around 10 miles away. 17 miles once I am at work which means I need to go either at lunch or after work to vote. I have to go through the nightmare like everyone else called the DMV and get and Identification made, which I just noticed a few weeks ago since that my license is expiring next month .

One of the things that helped me tremendously was mail in ballots, is this not available to minorities? What is it exactly that needs changed? I am still missing that part of the discussion just that republicans want to make it harder.

[Guilds]

@WuWei

During reconstruction, there was a lot of legislation passed while the seceded states were not yet back in the union and therefore unrepresented.

Johnson was very much a states rights POTUS. The former confederate states were basically given carte blanche to govern how they wanted. Creating precursors of Jim Crow laws. There was push back,(impeachment) but it failed.

And the south did rise again.

[Guilds]

@Guvnah

“Discriminate” as defined by libspeak.

Should we make it harder, or easier for American citizens to vote?