The conundrum for the left is that they create dependency in order to have a permanent voting base. However, the very qualities they have to cultivate in order to create that dependency include laziness and lack of motivation. Hence, they come up with schemes to register people to vote at times when they already have to do some other necessary function, like getting a driver's license. If these people are too lazy and unmotivated to take the simple steps necessary to register to vote, they are likely to be too lazy and unmotivated to go out and vote.
Piggybacking voter registration on driver's license applications helps to get them registered, and the real significance of that is that it enables the vote fraud machine. If 40% of the registered voters don't show up because they are too lazy, then the election can be decided based on fraud. This is why voter ID is so important, and why liberal judges are busy declaring voter ID laws "unconstitutional" (despite the Supreme Court having already ruled on the issue).
They'll show up for free stuff. They are at least that motivated.
Then there is the crony class, the leaders of it, as well as the workers who benefit from the programs.
Then there is pretty much ALL of the government employees. They aren't going to vote themselves out of a job either.
Add in the press to take the soccer moms, bingo.
For decades, I always voted absentee (being in the military and overseas).
In 2012....I was physically in Virginia and decided to go and vote. My station opened at 7AM and I was there at 6:45. The line? There were near 500 people in front of me. I stood in line for almost 60 minutes. Folks were friendly and it wasn’t a bad weather day. But for a lot of folks....they don’t have time to stand around and play this game.
My brother lives in a small rural area of Ala and they open up at 7AM and there’s rarely more than twelve people there. He walks in....votes, and goes onto work.
We got into a discussion one day....over past relatives in Alabama and how the old method of voting was done at the county seat (in the mid-1800s) and you had to ride a horse or mule for four hours to reach there for the vote. There’d typically be whiskey before and after voting, and a long ride home after the event. If you posed this scenario today, of an all-day event, and eight hours on horseback for the whole day....95-percent of people wouldn’t vote.
This is what scares me...the blatant fraud. How can judges strike down voter ID laws when it’s settled law?
As a side note..how disgusting is it to assume a certain segment of society is too stupid to get ID.
In OR, WA state and CO, they don't have to go out to vote. Voting is by mail. This is a method rats are using to consolidate control. They passed it in CO shortly after taking over that state.