Posted on 11/24/2016 9:06:03 AM PST by kevcol
The League of Women Voters claims the election of Donald Trump for president was rigged because states enforced their voter ID laws.
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Sixteen states require have voter ID laws, and another 15 states permit voters to show some other form of ID. Nineteen states and Washington, D.C. have no ID mandate.
Despite the last-minute attempt to use the voter ID issue as a reason to claim that Hillary Clinton may have conceded too early because her voters were suppressed at the polls, 80 percent of Americans, according to Gallup, support showing a form of legal identification to prove one is eligible to vote for president of the United States.
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Trump took the rigging and kept on ticking.
I hope Trump pushes Voter ID for all Federal Office Elections.
Also set a standard to purge Voter Rolls of all the Dead Democrats.
It would be a good start. Automatic Jail Time and Fines for Voter Fraud including the damage done by the Illegal Invader Vote. Lock them up and Deport them after they serve their time.
Just one Illegal Invader stealing my Sovereign Vote is one too many.
The League of Women Voters has long been in a conspiracy to violate state and federal election laws. It’s leaders and many of its lesser members should do prison time.
What the League of Women Voters is really saying is that if unlawful persons register to vote and no one checks to see if they are legally able to vote, then the Democrats will always win.
Thanks for confirming what we know and why we are increasing the number of states to require voter ID issued by a government agency.
The other requirement that is increasing is to have the voter ID indicate the person is a USA citizen.
That’s how they did it for the census.
I think you can also get ID without necessarily being a motorist.
I am sick of the species argument that Voter ID laws adversely effect minorities and low income voters.
If it is such a burden then free all of us from providing ID for all things, from opening a bank account to collecting Social Security. Lets have all forms of ID banished to free all of us from an unreasonable burden now and forever.
Cry. Cry for me.
I want to taste your tears. They nourish me.
When only 20% of Americans feel the need for some form of ID to vote, and the other 80% say “ ID’s???. We don’t need to show you no stinkin’ ID’s !! that will be the end of this country.
If you can sign up for Obamacare and Welfare and Food Stamps and a driver’s license, you should be able to sign up for Voter ID. If you don’t, it’s because YOU DON’T CARE ENOUGH!
N. Carolina Voter ID was struck down and wasn’t in effect for this election.
They are back to the drawing board.
Under their theory, there should be no motor voter since fewer poor people probably have access to cars and/or are more likely to be in a position to drive without a license due to required fees, time, effort to get to the DMV or get time off to get a license, etc. Not saying that I believe this, rather that they change the narrative depending on the results they desire. We could as easily say that “motor voter is racist” since more minorities are in urban areas and people in urban areas often take public transit and have less need of a driver’s license. They believe they are so clever in twisting these narratives.
Can the US learn from relatively poor Puerto Rico? It has much stricter voter ID laws...
American Enterprise Institute ^ | 11/08/2016 | Mark J. Perry
Posted on 11/9/2016, 5:56:07 AM by cll
With permission, I am sharing an email below that I received from an American friend who recently moved to Puerto Rico and participated in his first election there today:Relating to the discussion about voter ID laws on a recent CD post featuring a video by filmmaker Ami Horowitz that investigated the commonly held belief by liberals in America that voter ID laws are racist and discriminate against the poor and uneducated, let me describe my first experience voting in a Puerto Rican election today.
First, you have to obtain a voter ID card before you are allowed to vote in Puerto Rico. The voter ID is a laminated photo ID with holograms and a bar code. It is a completely separate ID from your driver’s license. To get a voter ID, you go to a voter registration office with your birth certificate and another photo ID or your passport, as well as proof of being a Puerto Rican resident (e.g. a lease, property deed, or maybe a utility bill). The voter registration office is staffed by three people, one from each of the three major political parties so that all can watch one another.
Once you have your voter ID card, you can legally vote at your designated voting place. Before voting, they inspect your voter ID card, check the holograms under a black-light to verify it’s legal, and they scan the bar code. Then they scan your hands with a black-light to make sure you haven’t already voted (see below), and then you go in to the voting area to get your ballot. Before you get a ballot though, they first find your name on a list of registered voters. On the list, your name has your picture next to it, and they match this photo with the photo on your voter ID card. Then they then dip your finger in black-light visible dye (hence the earlier black-light scan) and only then do they hand you your voting ballot. The voting process in Puerto Rico is much more stringent than anything even proposed in the US, and is also effective at pretty much eliminating voter fraud.
So, if there were any real truth to the narrative that “voter ID laws harm vulnerable groups like the poor, the uneducated, and minorities” you’d think you would see it here in Puerto Rico with all these time-consuming procedures to first obtain a voter ID and then be thoroughly checked each time before voting. The median household income of $18,626 in Puerto Rico was about 67% below the US median household income of nearly $56,000 in 2015 (Census data here, see chart above). The high school graduation rate in Puerto Rico is 60% (compared to 83.2% in the US) and only about 18.3% of residents have a post-secondary college degree (compared to 42% in the US). And yet Puerto Rico has the highest voter turnout in the Americas. From 1972 through 1984, island turnout exceeded 80% of the voting-age population, and at one point more than 95% were registered. Between 1972 and 2000, Puerto Rico averaged 79% turnout in its national elections; only eleven US states had voter turnouts higher than 60% during that time, while 14 were below 50%. In 2012, voter turnout in the US was only 53.6%.
I have yet to meet anyone in Puerto Rico who thinks that the voter registration rules here are a bad idea or an undue burden. In contrast, there seems be to universal agreement among Puerto Ricans that the process is well worth the extra trouble and time to ensure fair elections.
One can only conclude that: a) those opposing voter ID laws are subtly racist/classist/elitist toward those they (incorrectly) view to be inferior and without the means and wherewithal to get a voter ID (see Ami Horowitz’s video), or b) the issue is just a smokescreen and those who oppose stricter voter ID laws really ultimately want to facilitate voter fraud and voting by non-citizens because they believe it benefits them politically in terms of obtaining and retaining power.
That damn League of Women Voters. The pretend they’re nonpartisan, but they’re sooo liberal.
Look up a book by the Collier brothers (James and Ken), called Votescam.
The brothers caught the LoWV rigging the election machines.
This was way back in the early 90’s.
Those pesky Voter I.D. Laws make it hard to commit voter fraud. How the heck does anyone expect the “Democrats” to win anything when those laws are enforced?
And there, in a nutshell, is the problem. We are not dealing with honorable people. You can't just fight occasionally, win, and get back to business. They are relentless.
And, for no good reason that I can see.
thanks. sorry.
I screwed up Maryland also.
Wisconsin went full voter ID for this election. Happy to put PE Trump over the top.
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