Posted on 06/17/2015 9:00:45 PM PDT by entropy12
He's also so often egregiously wrong, perhaps never more so than in his Monday column at the Hill. Williams is astonished that a recent poll, consistent with others, shows that over two-thirds of blacks support a photo identification requirement for voting. In the process, he cited perhaps the dumbest statistic I've ever seen on the topic, misrepresented a 2013 Supreme Court decision, and failed to understand that blacks may end up being most adversely affected if voter fraud ever become widespread.
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Juan Williams is dumber than a weed. Everything about this guy repulses me. NPR did the right thing....
Illegal aliens...
It’s the other third that votes multiple times along with the dead and illegals they are worried about.
Because the dims are replacing blacks with illegals.
So....two-thirds of blacks support photo ID to vote! So why the democRats oppose voter ID with ferocity?
Because they want votes from the other two-thirds.
Obama was raised by TWO Muslim fathers. Of course he wants as many Muslims to flood into the country as possible.
I don’t think Juan is all that dumb. He has the Rat talking points down pat every time I see him on Fox News.
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.
No. Only showing ID to vote is "amazing".
Says it all, doesn't it?
That is good account of voting integrity.
Ask yourself why the black culture of America refuses.
It is very obvious.
If Williams had any brains he would not be a democrat...
Add to your prescient list the following:
ID required to get healthcare at Doctor’s office & hospital to use health insurance.
ID required to sign up for welfare benefits & food stamps.
That is true! Even his own son is a republican. However Juan makes big bucks at Fox News acting as a liberal democrat because Fox wants to be known as “fair & balanced”.
He will always remain a liberal.
Some conservatives harbor a perennial hope that Juan Williams has finally “seen the light”, despite how often he has proven that hope wrong. Proverbs 26.11 was written for our pal Juan...
Let’s face it: Voter ID is a major obstacle to voter fraud which the left depends on to win elections.
Because brown is the new black...
Sounds about right - the bottom third is the victimized thug crowd and the rest really just want to get on in life. I saw a lot of Blacks with Romney yard signs before the last election - in S. MS (the supposed racism capital of the world...).
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