Posted on 04/10/2025 8:23:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
The View co-host Sunny Hostin has claimed that voter ID laws disproportionately harm Black Americans and women, while asserting that fewer voter restrictions would allow more people to participate.
During an episode of The View‘s official podcast, Behind the Table, Hostin discussed how voter ID laws make it difficult for poor people to vote.
“The reason Democrats don’t want voter ID is because they make it much more difficult for elderly people, people who don’t travel… poor people don’t have cars, don’t have driver’s licenses,” Hostin claimed.
“It’s sort of a vestige, I think, of post-slavery laws where black people had to prove their right to vote, and oftentimes they couldn’t vote because they couldn’t pass some crazy test.”
Hostin then argued that women are also adversely affected by voter ID laws because their passports may “reflect something that’s different on your birth certificate or on your driver’s license.”
“Really the bottom line is voter suppression,” Hostin declared.
Watch:
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Currently, 35 states require identification to cast votes, with 23 of those requiring identification that includes a photograph.
Earlier this month, Wisconsin voters enshrined the state’s voter ID law in its constitution—a major win for Republicans and advocates of election integrity.
Wisconsin requires voters to present a valid photo ID to cast a ballot. The recent approval elevates this requirement to the level of a constitutional amendment.
State Senator Van Wanggaard, a co-author of the measure, said earlier this year:
“I am unwilling to let this basic election integrity measure be overturned by the state Supreme Court.” “The only way to ensure this stays the law of the land is to put it in the constitution.”
The measure, which cleared two consecutive legislative sessions in the GOP-controlled Wisconsin Assembly and Senate, specifies that voters must provide “valid photographic identification” but does not outline specific acceptable forms of ID.
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the victory:
“VOTER ID. JUST APPROVED IN WISCONSIN ELECTION. Democrats fought hard against this, presumably so they can CHEAT. This is a BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS, MAYBE THE BIGGEST WIN OF THE NIGHT. IT SHOULD ALLOW US TO WIN WISCONSIN, LIKE I JUST DID IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, FOR MANY YEARS TO COME!”
However, she almost makes a good point here:
women are also adversely affected by voter ID laws because their passports may “reflect something that’s different on your birth certificate or on your driver’s license.”
Sometimes, a woman must jump through more hoops for an ID if her surname changed when she married, and especially if she divorces, remarries, or changes surnames again.
At worst, she might have to show extra documents, and the process might be delayed. But, she should be able to get an ID.
Elizabeth Taylor must have been a nightmare................
I’m 70 years old.
I have to show ID to get my meds.
I have to show ID to buy spray paint.
I have to show ID to get money from my bank account.
I have to show ID to get on an airplane.
I have to show ID to mail a package at the Post Office.
I have to show ID to pick up a package at the Post Office.
Cool... now ask her about 2A permits...
Back to the lazy canard of “blacks can’t get IDs” drivel.
Bkacks thus can’t drive, fly, buy tobacco or alcohol, get a passport, open a bank account, etc.
Sucks for them.
Really. The ID patch is just across the street from the cotton patch.
LOL. Once, in an MVC, I witnessed a very attractive older woman go through that process, trying to explain her multiple names and documents. She was married, divorced, married again, divorced...
Awesome. Thanks for posting.
Would love to see him show that to those retarded leftist whites.
:-)
Tell It Right wrote:
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Anyone who thinks poor people don’t have ID haven’t been in the grocery checkout when the “poor” people buy alcohol.
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Bingo!!!
Anyone ever bring up that point when someone complains about poor people not being able to get IDs?
Tired of Taxes wrote:
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Hostin consistently insults all kinds of people.
However, she almost makes a good point here:
women are also adversely affected by voter ID laws because their passports may “reflect something that’s different on your birth certificate or on your driver’s license.”
Sometimes, a woman must jump through more hoops for an ID if her surname changed when she married, and especially if she divorces, remarries, or changes surnames again.
At worst, she might have to show extra documents, and the process might be delayed. But, she should be able to get an ID.
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Re: lady with numerous name changes-
If an extra document doesn’t exist because the county records burned up, then there’d be a problem.
I know someone in that situation.
Tired of Taxes wrote:
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LOL. Once, in an MVC, I witnessed a very attractive older woman go through that process, trying to explain her multiple names and documents. She was married, divorced, married again, divorced...”
And did she get her ID, did they accept the documents she had?
I assume she got her ID, but I didn't witness that part.
I was too busy having problems of my own. At the time, our state had just added more documents to the list of those required for a driver's license. There was mass confusion at the MVC that day. Everyone was complaining about the new requirements. After waiting for hours, I was denied a license because some of my documents had a middle initial, but other documents didn't. So, I had to go home and return with more paperwork. I was able to renew my license, though.
I hope everything was resolved for your friend. There will always be some situations that cause a problem or a delay. One of my kids had trouble because the county misspelled his name on a document. But, eventually, everything was resolved.
This statement is repeated up every time “voter ID” comes up. Democrats, Liberals, Progressives all think that black and poor people are complete idiots.
I know a lot of people. All races and all ethnicities with varying socio-economic standing. Every single person that I know or have ever been acquainted with has a valid form of identification.
Every.
Single.
One.
I’m glad you were able to get it sorted out.
/SPIT
It was Thomas Sowell who once said that the closest modern day blacks get to picking cotton is removing the cotton ball from a medicine bottle.
We all stole it from Redd Foxx.
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