Posted on 06/01/2021 11:14:22 AM PDT by richardb72
Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections – warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story – of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned.
A database on voting rules worldwide complied by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, shows that election integrity measures are widely accepted globally, and have often been adopted by countries after they've experienced fraud under looser voting regimes.
Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe -- a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy -- all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote. The exception is the U.K., and even there voter IDs are mandatory in Northern Ireland for all elections and in parts of England for local elections. Moreover, Boris Johnson’s government recently introduced legislation to have the rest of the country follow suit.
Criticisms of the British leader’s voter ID push are similar to those heard in the U.S. The Scottish National Party claims his voter ID push targets “lower income, ethnic minority and younger people” who are less likely to vote for Johnson’s conservatives and therefore represents “Trump-like voter suppression.”
Yet despite such pushback, Britain looks set to follow countries in Europe and elsewhere with stricter voting regimes, few of which temporarily relaxed any of their voting rules during the pandemic. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
It is easier to vote in any U.S. state than to rent a hotel room in any U.S. jurisdiction. I don’t want to hear the vote suppression whine.
How is your blog "News"?
What caused you to excerpt it?
Do you need a job?
The BBC was pretending that American election reform laws requiring IDs etc are “racist” and “extremist”.
guess mlb won’t be playing the all-star game in those countries either!
Those racist Europeans!/s
bkmk
The only reason to oppose it is if you intend to cheat.
They know that voter suppression mantra is a lie. The truth is they want a system where they can cheat.
Don’t try to inject logic into this situation, racist.
But none of them let African-Americans vote.
So they are practicing voter suppression on steroids.
/s
But, but black people are too stupid to be able get photo ID.. Just ask the democrats, they’ll tell you../s
Let’s argue for copying the election system from some country the Left always mentions as superior.
Sweden, Norway, Canada, Germany, etc.
Yeah, those countries don’t have lying crooked democrats.
Australia has had compulsory voting for the past 100 years or so and there is no requirement to show ID.
Voter fraud isn’t a hot button issue here as with over 90% of the eligible voters voting in every election it makes cheating more difficult. Plus voting is all paper based (no voting machines) and voting day is always on a Saturday (as opposed to a Tuesday in the US). Also there is the allure of the ‘Democracy sausage’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage).
That said, with elections occasionally coming down to a handful of votes in a handful of seats, the idea of voter ID comes up with similar divides (conservatives for, leftists against) and similar arguments for and against.
I think Election Day should be a holiday NO MORE voting for weeks ahead of time!!
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