Posted on 05/10/2021 10:56:18 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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If there was any question about how hypocritical and partisan these efforts have been, let this latest move erase all doubt. For decades, expansive and uncomplicated voting by mail has been the main strategy for GOP dominance in Florida politics. Republicans spent years promoting mail ballots as a convenient and secure way to vote for Florida's seniors, but now they want to restrict that method, too. Why the sudden change of heart? Simple: a lot more Democrats -- specifically Black and brown voters -- started voting by mail.
It really is that basic. This law is a calculated effort to whiten up the electorate and dismantle the more accessible and convenient forms of voting that Black and brown voters have come to embrace. They know that if they make it harder for non-White people to vote, Republicans are more likely to win, as White voters in the state are overwhelmingly Republican, according to the James Madison Institute. And win, they have. In 2020, Republicans grew to near-supermajority status in the state legislature, picked up two congressional seats, and despite losing nationally, Donald Trump achieved the largest win in Florida for a presidential candidate in 16 years.
But winning is not enough for today's GOP. They believe if it ain't broke, break it. The slide to authoritarianism is a nationwide problem, but in a state home to many Americans who escaped autocratic regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and elsewhere, there's a particularly cruel irony to the anti-democracy tactics and outright betrayal of American values by the very same Republicans who campaign on platitudes about protecting freedom.
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Everyone get their hip boots out the BS this guy is shoveling is getting pretty deep.
Isn’t it racist to suggest that black people are incapable of showing an ID in order to vote?
Voting should be in person, on the day of the election, at the assigned polling place, with the voter’s ID presented and confirmed against the voters roll in order to vote.
If the voter can’t make it to the polling place, or doesn’t have an ID, or is not on the rolls, he doesn’t vote. Period. Only exceptions should for government personnel serving overseas, and maybe not even for them.
No vote-by-mail. No ‘same-day.’ No ballot harvesting. Maybe early voting with the same conditions above - in person, assigned polling place, ID, etc.
All voter enrollments should be purged every 10 years, after the census. All voters must re-enroll in person.
That still won’t stop vote fraud, but it would put a heck of a dent in it.
(Freedom isn't Free...)...DO NOT VOTE BY MAIL...Americans fought and won the Freedom to vote here and abroad...the least we can do is to physically vote at you polling place, don't leave your vote to chance by being lazy.
Of course it is...
Chris King has the IQ of an ashtray.
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If voter fraud’s stopped in Florida the races ‘too close to call’ will go randomly to both parties. As it is now democrats stuff the boxes when they know it’s not going to cause people to look too closely...
Democrats are afraid of fair and honest elections because they’re the party of criminals and cheaters. And CNN? Butt boys for white liberal ‘elites’.
CNN is silly propaganda.
By Voting “rights” they mean of course the “right” to commit fraud.
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