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We are against voter ID laws because they disenfranchise many of the poor who vote. And before you even respond, not all poor people are on food stamps or welfare. Many states are required a new state issued ID and not just a drivers license. Some states are making it so that college students can only vote in their home towns and not at college.
Spoken like a true non-thinking lib who has no sense of his own.
Using an absentee ballot IS voting, so how is it not comparable? If you are a registered voter, then you can request a ballot and it will be sent to the address that the Voting Commission has on record, for the military it's a bit different. It is the individuals responsibility to update their information.
If students are residents in their state, then they can vote in their home of record. To become a resident of their college town/city, they must meet certain requirements such as having their vehicle registered or have a utility bill. Most college kids and young adults do not vote in local elections or even pay attention to local politics, and with politicians targeting colleges they seem to get spoon-fed their views.
S. Carolina attempted to implement voter I.D. laws and even offered to bus the poor, elderly, and others to get a state I.D. free of charge, but apparently that is still racist. Go figure.
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Originally Posted by HistorianDude
How do you check an ID via absentee voting?
Let's pretend all of that is true. So what?
Flaccid gestures do not ameliorate the intent of the law.
"So what?" Are you in elementary school? If you are going to refute my statement then at least make an attempt. As I stated before, the ballot is mailed to the address that an individual has registered with. Is it 100% fool proof? No.
Attempting to enforce the conditions that come with voting is up holding the law.
"So what?" Are you in elementary school? If you are going to refute my statement then at least make an attempt. As I stated before, the ballot is mailed to the address that an individual has registered with. Is it 100% fool proof? No.
Attempting to enforce the conditions that come with voting is up holding the law.
Actually if you look into the parameters of the real voting fraud over the last years it is not "ghost" voters...it is absentee ballots and gross stuffing of the voting system.
So if your interest was really in stopping voter fraud one would concentrate on perfecting the absentee and the operation of the voting system. But fixing fraud in the absentee system is not even on the scene.
Could it be that absentee ballots tend to be Republican?
Not at all. I am simply expecting you to actually make an argument rather than spouting off random assertions with no obvious implication. I ask the question because as far as I can tell what you said there was meaningless. "So what?" is not a rhetorical question. I am actually asking, "So what?"
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Originally Posted by lowrimol
If you are going to refute my statement then at least make an attempt. As I stated before, the ballot is mailed to the address that an individual has registered with. Is it 100% fool proof? No.
Worse than merely not being "100% fool proof," it doesn't even have the obvious checks of age or gender that you have in voter ID-less in-person voting. Anybody can fill out an absentee ballot.
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Originally Posted by lowrimol
Attempting to enforce the conditions that come with voting is up holding the law.
And suppressing the legitimate votes of your opposition is upholding corruption.
Only the disgusting left would make a claim that a law for all is racist.
Only the clueless would claim that any law for all is magically not racist.
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