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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I call Bull Shit!
We need a special prosecutor to look into France interfering with our elections!
Do the crime, do the time.
Jefferson S. will get right on that.
I read the whole page of comments and did not see this,
Actions have consequences.
Boo Hoo
Dang!
We need to QUIT puttin' folks in jail for CRIME and just set up a QUOTA system!
Trying to INTERFER!!!
“African Americans, who are overrepresented in the US penal system...”
That’s because blacks are vastly over-represented in the population that commits crimes.
The implication is that criminals are Democrats. We agree!
I guess all Europeans are permitted to vote in French elections.
Just more trash from trash.
You got that right!!
Isn't it funny how the DemonRats are always concerned about the voting rights of fringe, nefarious people like felons and non-US citizens (illegal aliens)? It's where they do their recruiting for the next group of plantation slaves. The blacks are getting wise to their lies, nearly 40% approve of the job PDJT is doing, so they need to look farther and under every rock for the next batch they can sweet talk, with our money in many cases, to get them to climb onto the DemonRat Wagon.
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AFP is famous for fiddling in politics the world over, typically with a liberal slant of course. They shine up to every socialist/communist/totalitarian in Southeast Asia.
It's a pity they don't call attention to the death spiral that their soy boy Macron is putting France into....?
Simple solution - Minorities should start a movement to not commit any crimes in order to drop that number so they can vote. Change gang initiations from murdering a rival to getting an "I Voted" sticker.
Dear France, our voting laws are none of your business.
When you have shown that you lack the moral character and judgment to follow the law, you should not be allowed to vote and influence the lives of law abiding people.
Did anyone ask for your birth certificate when you registered to prove citizenship? Did anyone ask for a criminal background check to prove you weren't a felon? I wasn't asked for any of these items.
All I had to do to register to vote was show acceptable state identification.
Laughable BS.
Don’t commit felonies and you will not lose your voting rights.
I do not buy the claim that blacks or minorities are somehow uniquely incapable of getting a state ID or that they don’t have them already. Its damn near impossible to live without a government ID of some sort as it is. It costs maybe $10 to get a state ID. In fact, most Blacks according to polls support voter ID.
Oh and as for the claim that requiring a state ID suppresses votes, I would say that every fraudulent ballot cast effectively denies a citizen of their vote by cancelling out their ballot. There is far far more voter fraud than there are non Felon US Citizens who can’t manage to get an ID and vote and who want to vote.
But blacks are eight times more likely to take a life than whites or Asians. So it seems to me they're overrepresented on the voting rolls, not on the prison rolls.
On top of which, 40-50% of prison inmates in France are Muzzys compared to 8-10% of the population. So come back to talk to us once you've got your own 4-to-1 imbalance with the Mohammedans straightened out.
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