Posted on 11/03/2018 9:42:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Millions of Americans will be barred from casting ballots in Tuesday’s crucial midterm elections due to electoral rules at the state level, which effectively exclude many minority voters to the detriment of Democrats. […]
Nearly six million Americans are excluded from voting because they are imprisoned, on parole or awaiting sentencing.
African Americans, who are overrepresented in the US penal system, are four times more likely to be unable to vote than the rest of the population, according to The Sentencing Project, a non-profit organization. […]
There is no national identity card in the United States. Instead, each state defines what documents can be used as identification at the polling station. And according to the American Civil Liberties Union, an influential civil rights organization, several states have imposed restrictive rules since 2010.
North Dakota has since 2016 required its residents to present a document with proof of a street address. But the state is home to thousands of Native Americans who live on reservations in rural areas with but a single post office box. They might be turned away at the ballot box, where Heidi Heitkamp — a Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 2012 by just 3,000 votes — is campaigning to keep her seat. …
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Restrictive “Laws” keep millions of Americans from voting [les fausses nouvelles
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Being too lazy to get an ID, is just one of a handful of reasons that someone shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Amazing that when the ACLU, et al, sue over this crap and the states show that they offer the services for free and in some cases, will come to you, they quickly change to something else. It’s getting old.
About a year ago, I sat and watched a college student go and mingle with NY City blacks...posing the questions of where their polling place was, and if they had an ID. Out of about twenty people on street tested...every single one knew the poll location and had an ID. So he asked the same group...do you know anyone who doesn’t have an ID....most just laughed. They pointed out...if you want booze or have to pick up prescription drugs...you have to have an ID.
It’s time to have some national discussion on this ID business and prove that 99-percent of America has some form of ID. I can understand the folks who live under bridges, the prison population, and maybe the nutcase crowd....lacking an ID, but virtually everyone else has an ID.
Millions of Americans can’t vote? I think it’s more like, BILLIONS!
Recidivists wouldn’t vote anyway. A few of the rehab’d ones probably would, but they wouldn’t give Democrats any big edge.
Midterms will be ‘most secure’ elections in US history: DHS chief
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Posted on 11/03/2018 8:05:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3702680/posts
What I like to ask my liberal friends who want felon voting rights restored, is if they are now rehabilitated, should we give them second Amendment rights as well. They usually say no,
we tried natl id cards - the Dems shot it down. We can’t even get them to agree to a rule of showing DLs at polling places.
French population is 55MM and their incarceration rate is 100 per 100,000 or 0.1%. America’s population is 325MM or 6x that of France. Since France’s population is 6x smaller than the US, the comparative rate of French incarceration would be 6 x 0.1% or 0.6%, while the US rate is 680 per 100,000, or 0.68%
France’s incarceration rate is in line with America’s. But if the author had bothered to do a little math, he would know that. Now he just looks stupid.
The French have yet to understand how small they are compared to the USA. They’re barely the equivalent of 2 Colorados, or one Texas shrunk in the wash. We certainly don’t need lectures from them on how to run a country 17x the land mass.
And these froggy Euro Peons are concerned about who gets to vote in America because...?
My suggestion would be that if it is really that damn important to you to vote, maybe you should give up committing felonies.
The article seems to imply that criminals are overwhelmingly democrat. That makes sense, but doesn’t justify why they should be able to vote.
Boo hoo.
Life sucks sometimes.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
“Since France’s population is 6x smaller than the US, the comparative rate of French incarceration would be 6 x 0.1% or 0.6%, “
Every American should pay an annual tax, multiplied by the number of dead American ancestors they are estimated to have. All their ancestors will be enrolled in the auto-vote program. Officials will determine how the ancestors would be likely to vote, and register the corresponding votes faithfully.
Maybe we should ship them all to France and the Frogs can give them citizenship there
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