Posted on 06/04/2014 4:30:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act was passed in to law nearly five decades ago…The real voter fraud is people trying to deny our rights by making voting harder in the first place.”
President Barack Obama, 2014 National Action Network Convention in New York City.
Though many believe them to be an effort at voter disenfranchisement, a recent poll suggest most Americans are actually in support of voter identification laws, perhaps making them harder to combat. A total of 31 states have active voter ID laws. Many others have had their attempts to institute the laws stuck down and state court with opponents citing little to no evidence of fraud in past elections and the potential of the laws to disenfranchisement the elderly, young people and many voters of color. For what it’s worth, A FOX News poll released last week found strong support for voter ID laws in every major demographic, including black respondents and Democrats. The poll asked, “Supporters of these laws say they are necessary to stop ineligible people from voting illegally. Opponents say these laws are unnecessary and mostly discourage legal voters from voting. What do you think?” How Do Most Americans Feel About Voter ID Laws?
According to the poll, seven in 10 registered voters are in favor of identification laws.
Perhaps it’s no surprise but opposition to the laws is highest among black respondents at 46 percent. The poll did find however that a slim majority, 51 percent of black voters, support them.
The poll surveyed 1,025 registered voters and margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent. Read more.
All NAACP elections in all cities require IDs. FACT.
Well those blacks are all racist.
“All NAACP elections in all cities require IDs. FACT.”
Do they require racial purity test? If I claim that my great, great grandmother was black can I join and vote?
as I have so often said -
You fight like heck for years to get equality and civil rights. Heads are busted. People are killed.
And then,
10M illegal aliens sashay into the US and displace you “like that!”.
Yeah, I’d be for voter ID too, were I a black person. And vote Republican also.
“All NAACP elections in all cities require IDs. FACT.”
Do they require racial purity test? If I claim that my great, great grandmother was black can I join and vote?
The ONLY people really opposing Voter ID are Democrats strategists. Democrat rank-and-file people, INCLUDING BLACKS, all have ID (otherwise they couldn’t get their goodies or otherwise function in society) and cannot figure out what the big deal is.
That is RAND PAUL looks like such an IDIOT when he beats up Republicans for wanting to require voter ID. It really angers me, as Rand looked really promising a year ago, but has now totally collapsed as presidential material.
Voter I.D. IS racist! Only white people have to show I.D. to vote.
Obama and fellow 'Rats have been spewing this demagogic nonsense time and again, appealing to now archaic but historically-based sensitivities with respect to black voting rights. Only those of whatever color who think they are somehow entitled to vote multiple times in the same election can oppose voter ID.
I've seen previous poll results showing that over 60% of black voters support voter ID. I'm a little surprised at this 51% figure here. Perhaps if the question were worded a bit differently, black voters would have even a more positive opinion on voter ID.
I would bet most blacks are not pro-sodomy, too.
Thanks for the ping!
Blacks? Who cares what they want. They are just props for the DOP to use to cry racism as they fight a never-ending battle for rigged elections.
Pure lies from Obama.
Only voter suppression I’ve seen is on his side, the Black panthers in Philly.
You should need ID to rent a carpet shampooer but not to vote? Please. There is not one real argument against voter ID laws, only lies. This is one of the most black and white (pun intended) issues there is.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
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