GOP says Clinton dividing Americans over voting rights

AP/Yahoo News ^ | June 6, 2015 | AP Staff

[Din Maker]

(Hillary) Clinton said Thursday in Houston that a group of current and former Republican governors pursuing the White House has "systematically and deliberately" tried to prevent millions of Americans from voting. Clinton said the changes were aimed at making it more difficult for minority and low-income voters to cast a ballot and outlined steps to expand access to early voting and allow universal, automatic voter registration for young people.

Republicans struck back Friday against Hillary Rodham Clinton's suggestions that they have attempted to disenfranchise voters systematically. They accused the Democratic presidential front-runner of running a divisive campaign and favoring lax controls on voting.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a potential GOP presidential candidate, said in Concord, New Hampshire, that Clinton didn't know "the first thing about voting rights in New Jersey," and simply wanted to have an opportunity to "commit greater acts of voter fraud" around the nation.

Another potential Republican rival, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, told Fox News that Clinton was "dividing America" and overlooking the fact that Ohio has 28 days of early voting while her home state of New York doesn't have any. Ohio had 35 days of early voting until he signed a law last year lopping off a week.

"What is she talking about?" Kasich asked. "Don't be running around the country dividing America."

[Din Maker]

This is all a ploy to try and up the Black Voter turnout. She knows that the number of Blacks who turned out for Hussein Obama in '08 and '12 will be NOT be turning out, in the same numbers, for her in 2016. I wish all States, that have Early Voting, only had it for 3 days.

[atc23]

Those are very serious charges - let's see the evidence -

Big Media - step up and demand the evidence from her

[entropy12]

Voting Procedures in Honduras, a Banana Republic!
(a re-write of excellent post by Gideon300)

I had the opportunity to go watch my wife, a

citizen of Honduras, vote in last year’s

presidential election in Tegucigalpa. It was a

real eye-opener, and I can only wish the US had

such a strict voting process.

Everyone in Honduras is required to vote in the

precinct which is indicated on their government

issued (free) photo ID card. Every citizen over

18 is required to have an national ID, and

everyone with an ID can vote. No one else, and

no one is registered as a member of a certain

party, merely a citizen. My wife’s precinct is

Barrio El Bosque, so she was required to go to

the Escuela de 14 de Julio (local elementary

school) if
she wanted to vote.

When we arrived at the voting place there were

hundreds of people milling around the street and

a long line was waiting to enter. The entire

scene was closely watched over by Army and

Policía Nacionál to make sure order was kept.

For the most part everything was quite orderly,

and people were polite to each other even with

the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd. After showing

ID, passing the guard and entering the school we

went to the main table in the courtyard where

they ran her ID through a computer and she was

given a little slip of paper that indicated her

name, her precinct, her “mesa” (voting area) and

“linea” number (her number on the voter

registration list). Every citizen is

automatically registered to vote, and their

name, Id photo and precinct number is on a list

posted in that precinct.

The “mesas” in this case are rooms in the

school, numbered in order to handle the hundreds

of people waiting to vote. Her mesa was number

8586, so after finding the room, there was a

list of all registered voters beside the door.

She checked her line number with photo, 235, to

make sure she is at the right door, the man

watching the door checked her ID against the

list, and let her in. She went to the table

inside the room
for a ballot, was checked again for ID and

compared it to the info and photo in the

registry, was given two ballots, one for

president and one for congress, and this time

they held her ID while she voted. I was allowed

in as a foreign observer, but was not on school

tables for privacy, so after voting she

deposited her ballots in the appropriate boxes,

was given her ID back and we left.

I wanted to take photos but no cameras were

allowed anywhere but in the street. No alcohol

is sold anywhere in Honduras from Saturday

through Monday, the day before and the day after

election.

They take voter ID, and potential vote fraud,

VERY seriously. All ballots are paper, and all

have the candidate’s info and photo. There are

eight official parties in Honduras, and the one

with the most votes wins. The police and the

army watch the voting very closely. One woman

was caught with an extra ballot, and was

immediately arrested. The Honduras news media,

which is quite politically unbiased, indicated

that both local and official foreign observers

found only three cases of vote fraud in the

entire country.

It was certainly an eye-opener for me! If this

is the difference between a the US and a Banana

Republic, then I’ll take a banana republic

election anytime.

[Din Maker]

Interesting.

[Kid Shelleen]

Liberals want everything for free for everybody EXCEPT voter IDs with pictures.

[Din Maker]

Big Media - step up and demand the evidence from her
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That probably won’t be happening.

[Vendome]

They have I.D. to cash their gubmint checks....

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Why ANY early voting at all? If you are out of town or country, plan ahead and get yourself an absentee ballot. Everybody should vote on the same day — far less chance for mischief and outright fraud. And nobody votes without an ID.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

FINALLY — Some Republicans growing a few pairs and fighting back. Hell must be freezing over today. Bush let himself be a punching bag for eight years and look what it got us — a communist muslim POTUS. Sure there is the dignity and decorum of the office, but the rats have SO abused that for the past decades that we just look stupid sitting back and taking it all the time.

[realcleanguy]

It’s interesting that Hillary is running on 1950 issues. Everyone cane vote. There is no voter suppression. She is also running on abortion rights. Toe vs Wade was passed in 1973. She is also running on income equality, while she demands more money per hour speaking than any CEO in the US receives.

So she really has nothing to run on.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for the wonderful description of voting in the Honduras. I had NO IDEA that it was like that. What a tremendous way to assure election integrity and honesty. I wish we had one-tenth of those precautions in the US.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Hillary is full of it in many ways. But on this issue she’s way out there. She calls out Ohio for reducing early voting from 35,to 28 days before election?, really??? This is her idea of vote surpression, if you only have 4 weeks of early voting instead of five??? She thinks people will buy that?

The MSNBC crowd may buy that but not me. Also her adopted home state of New York doesn’t have early voting at all. Maybe she should tend to her own adopted home state before she gets pissed off at what other states are doing.

[cripplecreek]

Its what democrats do.

Personally I think GOP held states should respond by ditching their winner take all electoral systems and only award electors according to districts won.

[MarkL]

The only reason to oppose voter ID is to allow voter fraud.

The Veritas Project stopped just short of breaking the law when James O’Keefe (sp?) would have been allowed to vote as “Eric Holder” in his home precinct. In North Kansas City, MO, the democrat machine stole the primary by breaking all sorts of state voting laws.

But #1 on the list is that it has been proven that Al Franken, the senator who ensured passage of obamacare, won his election by a very slim margin, while there were HUNDREDS of illegal votes cast, far more than the margin of victory.

The dems are the party of criminals.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Clinton is a fear-mongering, lying **itch.

[Lurkinanloomin]

tried to prevent millions of Americans from voting

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It’s more aimed at preventing millions of non-Americans from voting.

This is absolutely necessary since the government refuses to enforce the laws and deport illegal aliens.

[4Runner]

Thanks for that. It’s what I suspected, from now on the U.S. will best be known for plumbing the depths of idiocy and incompetence and bragging about them afterward. These other countries are more intelligent and civilized than we are. Since we decided intelligence and civility were racist and homophobic quantifications. Who knew?

[kenmcg]

Why don’t these spineless pubbies just come out and ask her to provide proof of American citizens who have been denied the right to vote?

[realcleanguy]

In California, except for absentee voting, it’s one day voting. One day. The state with the largest population and one of the most liberal allows only one day voting

[dandiegirl]

The Republicans for some reason can’t say that Hilary and the dens support fraud by being against voter i.d. That’s it plain and simple, but as usual they are too scared to say it.