Show them THIS
Posted on 10/20/2014 11:08:53 AM PDT by jazusamo
Lots of folks think Democrats oppose voter ID laws because they want to cheat and such laws interfere with their plans. That’s an attractive explanation, but it ignores the far more complex architecture of voter ID opposition. Here’s the real reasons Democrats oppose voter ID. Understanding these three reasons will help you decode the whole narrative behind voter ID.
1. Opposition to Voter ID Is a Base-Mobilization Tool.
Simply, Democrats and civil rights groups spend millions of dollars opposing voter ID because they are trying to scare minority voters into thinking that Jim Crow is back. If Jim Crow is back, then they better go vote in November. This was made starkly clear to me when I learned that a 3rd grade teacher in a government-run school was telling her students that Republicans were trying to take away the right to vote for black people, so they better get their parents to vote against Republicans. (Yes, that’s another story for another day, and yes I know her name and the school where she still teaches.)
Fear mobilizes people to vote better than does logic. If you can scare minorities falsely into thinking that they may lose their right to vote if they don’t vote for Democrats, they will vote for Democrats.
2. Voter ID Opponents Have the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations.
Leftist opponents of voter ID truly think minorities are less able to function in American life. I learned this when a Department of Justice Voting Section lawyer opposed to voter ID told me he thought blacks were more likely to forget their photo identification than whites were. Their lives “were more disorganized,” he said. This is a lawyer currently still working in the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. This is a perfect example of the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
And it isn’t just one crank lawyer at DOJ. The plaintiffs challenging voter ID and election integrity laws actually hired an expert to testify in federal court in voter ID cases that blacks were less capable of functioning efficiently in a daily routine and photo ID laws have a disparate impact on them. The expert called this idea the “calculus of voting.” For example, they have to take the bus more. Taking the bus, naturally, makes it harder to get photo ID.
The plaintiffs argue that voting “is largely a product of habit,” and blacks, well, their habits just don’t brook any interruptions to their habits, so they argue.
This is another perfect example of the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” Opponents of voter ID are genuinely afraid that forcing blacks to get photo ID will impose a burden on them they just can’t handle.
3. They Need Money.
Groups like the NAACP and ACLU are looking to justify their continued existence, decades after they won the fight. Opposition to voter ID helps them fundraise, and pay salaries.
So next time you wonder why Democrats oppose photo ID, don’t fall for the easy answer. Don’t think it’s because Democrats have organized cheating operations. The real answer is much more sophisticated, and much more sinister.
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Makes it harder to cheat.
Makes it easier to catch them cheating and over-voting?
The three reasons excerpted above are not even peripheral issues.
Democrats oppose voter ID because democrats greatly benefit from vote fraud.
“Makes it harder to cheat.”
Yeah, they completely overlooked the #1 reason didn’t they!
It is the true reason.
They are committed to electoral fraud. It is the card they hold in reserve when all else fails. There are a lot of ways to game the system and they practice all of them.
So next time you wonder why Democrats oppose photo ID, don’t fall for the easy answer. Don’t think it’s because Democrats have organized cheating operations. The real answer is much more sophisticated, and much more sinister.
Baloney. Its electoral fraud straight up.
Show them THIS
They don’t oppose ID for 0bolaCare or EBT, though, do they?
They must have that as a reason to oppose ID.
4. The dead cannot stand up for their own voting rights.
Good point, they’ll jump through hoops for that ID.
How writers can walk right past the obvious is amazing.
Just a few snippets from 2014 alone:
1) Michigan - “Voting Records Raise Questions After Mummified Body Found” (woman died in 2008 and is still voting)
2) North Carolina - “Massive Voter Fraud Discovered in North Carolina’s 2012 Election” April 02, 2014 - The North Carolina State Board of Elections has found thousands of instances of voter fraud in the state, thanks to a 28-state crosscheck of voter rolls. Initial findings suggest widespread election fraud”
3) New York -”Democrat NY City Coucilwoman Gets on Ballot & Wins Election with 81% Fraudulent Signatures” - Even though an investigation found a whopping 81 percent of the signatures were invalid, New York Supreme Court Justice John Carter (Democrat) ruled that Arroyo’s name could remain on the ballot.
4) New York – “New Yorker Votes 14 Times After Death” - Burwell is one of about 6,100 deceased people still registered to vote in Nassau County, a Newsday computer analysis shows. The former Wantagh resident, who died at age 74, is also among roughly 270 people that records show voted in Nassau County after dying.
5) Ohio – “Six-time Obama voter’s group received Obama administration grant” - Melowese Richardson admitted in 2013 to voting six times for Obama’s re-election while working as a poll worker in Hamilton County, Ohio.
I detect a pattern here.
I don't believe it's 'minorities' - most minorities don't fall for this type of obvious lie.
There's something white liberal elites know about blacks that (thank God) we don't know. They play them for fools over and over on issue after issue. "This time you're gonna get your piece of the pie"... and they fall for it.
It stands in the way of their seizing power by any means.
Points 1 and 2 and 3, make a whole lot of sense.
But, they should be points 2 and 3 and 4, and point #1 should be that, it affords the democrats a means towards voter fraud.
So, why is it that republicans can’t make the electorate see how democrats are the party of discrimination when it comes to voting, and everything else? Logically, the democrats should be losing the voter fraud argument, and voter ID argument, every time they come up.
Obviously they oppose it because it doesn’t benefit them, and they are all about themselves and acquisition/retention of power. It’s that simple.
What Republicans should be doing is promoting a communist party, or at least a heavily socialist party in the US. Challenge the left from their own ranks. Take from them the ability to shield their radicalism and characterize themselves as moderates. Take from them their false claim to the middle. Make them commit, and create division amongst them.
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