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Obama campaign working to counter new voter ID laws
The Washington Post ^ | 19 may 2012 | Amy Gardner

Posted on 05/19/2012 9:01:34 AM PDT by mandaladon

President Obama’s reelection campaign launched a national drive Friday to counter new restrictive voter-access laws, which advisers said threaten his electoral chances in November.

Organizers will fan out in key swing states this weekend to teach volunteers and voters how to navigate a series of laws passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures imposing stricter identification requirements, limiting early voting and making it harder to organize voter-registration drives. It is the beginning of a months-long effort, campaign officials said, to combat what they described as a Republican effort to stifle voting among young people and minorities, two groups that traditionally tend to vote Democratic.

Republicans say the new laws are needed to protect against voter fraud and help make elections fairer.

The Obama campaign’s “weekend of action” is part of a field effort that in 2008 helped identify, register and turn out millions of new voters. Those new voters gave Obama wins in unlikely places, including North Carolina and Virginia, where young and minority voters helped make the difference. Turning out those voters again this year is key to the president’s reelection strategy, but it is also more challenging this year in part because of the new voting laws.

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To: mandaladon

I posted this a couple of weeks ago:

...”After you sign up for welfare, take your check and open a bank account. Then stop at the liquor store, then buy a pack of smokes, make a return at Walmart, pay with a check at the garage, buy a vendors license, buy a house, get a loan, pawn your stolen bling, buy a car, buy a gun, enroll your kid in school, stop at the ER and then stop at the county office to make a restitution payment and a child support payment so you don’ t go to jail. Then if you aren’t too tuckered out stop and vote...and show the same $&@”?;/ photo ID that you had to show when you performed all of the previous transactions and didn’t say a damn word”...


21 posted on 05/19/2012 9:47:01 AM PDT by Eagles6 (S)
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To: mandaladon

how does one by booze and cigarettes without a valid ID?


22 posted on 05/19/2012 10:01:08 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: SunkenCiv

ALL males 18 or older are required to register for the draft. In order to do so they MUST have proof of citizenship and an I.D.

So THAT argument won’t fly with at least half of them.


23 posted on 05/19/2012 10:08:31 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: mandaladon
Twenty-five percent of African American voters do not have a valid government-issued photo ID

So, instead of "fanning out to help them navigate ways around the laws" why don't they fan out and get these people valid ID cards. It would be cheaper in the long run, not to mention states would get some cash from the fees and they always like that!

Are 25% of African-Americans that afraid of having a driver's license or ID card? Or are they just stupid?

24 posted on 05/19/2012 10:24:15 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: ridesthemiles

25 posted on 05/19/2012 10:28:58 AM PDT by John 3_19-21 (Stand for something, or fall for anything.)
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To: unixfox
ALL males 18 or older are required to register for the draft.

Another law that is ignored unless you want a federal job.

For Example...I never registered. However, I did join the military, made it a career. Still don't have a draft card (although I am 57 and if I get recalled we are in deep kimchee)

26 posted on 05/19/2012 10:29:09 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: mandaladon

The government is cooking those numbers. One cannot even see a doctor without presenting photo ID. What about the purchase of beer and cigarettes? Welfare checks etc. Not to mention playing the lottery in most states.

These folks just want a way to cheat and destroy this country, and it seems to me they are winning. We have nothing but cowards representing us on the republican side. With the exception of only a few, they pretend to do their jobs with their heads in the sand.


27 posted on 05/19/2012 10:32:03 AM PDT by formosa (Formosa)
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To: mandaladon

I unfortunately live in the communist enclave of New York State which refuses to require voter ID. You need one for a library card and just this week when voting for a school budget it was required.

I thanked everyone of the ladies at the polling place for requiring ID.


28 posted on 05/19/2012 10:38:19 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: KansasGirl
You are exactly right. If the Democrats would merely voice their concern that perhaps minorities would be placed at a disadvantage, and maybe suggest measures that would minimize these disadvantages, their argument may be believable. But they are 100% against any measure that might help eliminate potential voter fraud, and this exposes their true agenda, which is perpetuating voter fraud.

Their argument that the general good of tightening voter ID laws is outweighed by the (IMHO) minor problem of some minorities being placed at a disadvantage in obtaining a ID does not hold water. Don't you think that a single call to a local Democrat office would mobilize them to come to their assistance in getting them down to the county seat to get their documentation? If people are not willing to do the simple requirements of citizenship, then they, in effect, shutting themselves out of the process.

29 posted on 05/19/2012 10:43:27 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: SunkenCiv; mandaladon

What a pack of lies and misdirection in that story! Their arguments are tissue thin and should be laughed into oblivion.

Every time we try to move back toward the Constitution and the Republic, these weasels toss up a bunch of idiocy and obfuscating hysteria.

We must make sure that those tactics no longer work for them.

I hope that they keep it up because the more they try to put this jive past us, the more we see through them and move to do something about their nonsense.

TEA Party ON!


30 posted on 05/19/2012 11:25:11 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: mandaladon

This only proves beyond a doubt that the only way a lib can win is by stealing an election.

They don’t even try to hide that fact. I think they are proud of it.


31 posted on 05/19/2012 12:33:49 PM PDT by SusaninOhio
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To: unixfox

Assuming Zero’s enforcing the draft laws, yes.


32 posted on 05/19/2012 3:10:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: TheOldLady

Yeah!


33 posted on 05/19/2012 3:11:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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This is all just a welfare Cadillac trunkload of happy horseshoot to fertilize their backyard herb gardens -

The DNC lefties and the NAACRAP claim baracks have 18% of govmint jobs -

Yet baracks are only 12% of the total US population

We are supposed to believe that many of those barack govmint workers do not have any ID?

Do they use digital online documents from Connecticut on their Playstations like Da One does?

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34 posted on 05/19/2012 3:28:43 PM PDT by devolve (------ ---- ---------toss_subhumans_in_Hannibal*s_wild_boar_pit----------- ---------------------)
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To: mandaladon

It will also curtail the most important block of voters, the zombo-Americans, who get up out of their graves just to vote Democratic and eat brains, which amounts to the same thing.


35 posted on 05/19/2012 4:09:44 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: mandaladon

ID laws are constitutional, says the Supreme Court.


36 posted on 05/19/2012 5:52:48 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: popdonnelly; mandaladon

The National Review, and I believe the Heritage Foundation, have long ago debunked this Brennan Center propoganda.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279991/new-myths-voter-id-hans-von-spakovsky#


37 posted on 05/19/2012 6:19:26 PM PDT by digger48
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To: mandaladon
"Twenty-five percent of African American voters do not have a valid government-issued photo ID exist only as fictitious names on voter rolls"

Fixed.

You cannot operate in 2012 America without some sort of ID, real or counterfeit. You cannot buy alcohol or tobacco, travel by plane or Amtrak, cash a check, get government assistance, or any of a number of things.

There may be some significant number of underclass males without photo ID, but that's only because they have an overriding desire to make it harder for the police to know who they are.

38 posted on 05/19/2012 7:29:10 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: mandaladon

I hate living in a Marxist banana republic. Flippin’ commies!


39 posted on 05/19/2012 10:43:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life. - Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)
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To: mandaladon
Are they also in favor of ending laws that require ID for gun and alcohol sales?

If asking for an ID at the polls is a violation of a person's rights, isn't asking for an ID when exercising my 2nd or 21st Amendment rights also a violation?

40 posted on 05/20/2012 3:32:33 AM PDT by darthxenu (Give peace a chance - end jihad now.)
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