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Walberg: People who can't afford a $200 Passport, "they shouldn't be voting" (audio)
Blogger and Town Council Meeting ^ | February 21, 2025 | Steven in Monroe

Posted on 02/22/2025 6:51:10 AM PST by madison10

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To: madison10

Walberg who? Do you mean that middle aged actor?


21 posted on 02/22/2025 7:15:46 AM PST by lee martell
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To: madison10
NO ONE should have to pay to

That isn't what that seems. It is positive identification of the voter.

22 posted on 02/22/2025 7:15:49 AM PST by GingisK
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To: madison10

Those who think that poor people shouldn’t be allowed to vote have probably never been poor, and are almost arrogant beyond redemption.


23 posted on 02/22/2025 7:17:38 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: madison10
I agree with that, but no one should have to BUY a passport.

Ah, yes, lets increase taxes to cover that. You can't reduce waste in government by extending its services. If a passport (or voting) is less important to you than the price of a cell phone, then it is best for the Nation that you just don't vote.

24 posted on 02/22/2025 7:18:34 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Dr. Sivana
it doesn’t show current address

Look again.

25 posted on 02/22/2025 7:19:25 AM PST by GingisK
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To: null and void

Everyone does not need a passport. They should not have to buy a passport. Walberg was talking without thought, again.

This, the way it sounds from Walberg, boils down to a poll tax. Poorer people cannot afford this.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text/ih78


26 posted on 02/22/2025 7:19:31 AM PST by madison10
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To: madison10

The UK brought in voter ID laws but also provided a way to get free ID https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-id


27 posted on 02/22/2025 7:20:27 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: madison10
And I repeat:

Perhaps a free voter ID card with biometrics, and duplicate biometrics are flagged as voter fraud if they are used to attempt to vote multiple times, with instant arrest/detention...

28 posted on 02/22/2025 7:21:14 AM PST by null and void (We can only do what seems rational and decent...and INEXPENSIVE... because we’re broke!)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands
Those who think that poor people shouldn’t be allowed to vote have probably never been poor...

It isn't about that. This is about positive proof of US citizenship.

29 posted on 02/22/2025 7:21:30 AM PST by GingisK
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To: virgil

I live in a red county of a blue state. Yhey never miss a trick in tacking on an extra fee.


30 posted on 02/22/2025 7:23:12 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: madison10

OK...
Why do passports expire?


31 posted on 02/22/2025 7:25:25 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: BipolarBob

It’s O-S-C-A-R.


32 posted on 02/22/2025 7:25:58 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: BipolarBob

Must be Mark Wahlberg. He was good in The Italian Job.

That restaurant Wahlburgers was pretty good too.


33 posted on 02/22/2025 7:27:18 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: null and void

Standing in line to vote multiple times is so 20th Century.

Today, voter fraud happens when mail-in ballots are counted for ineligible people and or duplicated by machine.


34 posted on 02/22/2025 7:27:57 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: madison10

The title and the article are misleading. Deliberately so. I am not familiar with the SAVE Act. IF it requires a passport only it’s stupid, and a waste of time. I doubt it is that. It is probably a voting ID act that allows passports too but accepts other forms like State/Federsl ID. Dims would ask only about the part that could be exclusionary due to cost. He is not wrong that if you cannot come up with ID you shouldn’t be able to vote. As always, haters twist things.


35 posted on 02/22/2025 7:30:32 AM PST by 1malumprohibitum (I’m )
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To: madison10

Walberg is my congressman, I did not vote for him. This POS voted for that huge CR last year, FISA for ten years, billions to the Ukes, Johnson, and so forth. He turned to a hardcore RINO, voting for the lesser of evils is over and has been for years. Pretty sure this type voting by constituents is mostly the reason MI lost both the state house and the state senate for the first time in decades.


36 posted on 02/22/2025 7:30:56 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: joe fonebone
Why do passports expire?

To keep the photo up-to-date.

37 posted on 02/22/2025 7:32:26 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

I think every citizen should be voting. What I dispise about the tax system is not only don’t about 48% pay no tax, some get more money back than they paid or owed. IRS is not a welfare system.


38 posted on 02/22/2025 7:32:58 AM PST by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now!)
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To: madison10

Very.


39 posted on 02/22/2025 7:33:19 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: madison10

I don’t know who Walhberg is, but I don’t support “democracy” either, at least how the word is thrown around today

I support limited government, strict limits on it, and clearly enumerated rights which shall never be infringed

Given enough time, money, public debt, and propaganda, all so-called democracies will eventually vote for tyranny


40 posted on 02/22/2025 7:36:01 AM PST by PGR88
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