Posted on 10/14/2024 1:15:31 PM PDT by Robert357
The future of voting rights in the U.S. is on this fall’s ballot with the two major party candidates for president offering two starkly different paths.
Vice President Harris, the Democratic nominee, is calling for strengthening legal protections against racial discrimination in the election process and making it easier for eligible voters to cast ballots.
Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, is pushing for more restrictions to voting access that would likely disproportionately affect voters of color. The Republican nominee — who has refused to commit to accepting this year’s election results without conditions, while facing four felony counts connected to efforts to overturn the 2020 results and disenfranchise millions of voters — has also been fueling concerns about the rare and illegal practice of non-U.S. citizens voting in federal elections.
................About 1 in 10 adult citizens say they either do not have, or could not quickly find in order to show the next day, a document that proves their U.S. citizenship, with citizens of color more likely to say so than white citizens who do not identify as Latino, according to a recent national survey.
Still, Trump has been a major backer of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. In September, he called for a federal government shutdown unless Congress passed “every ounce of” the SAVE Act — a move that lawmakers ultimately avoided.
Providing some type of ID at the polls is already requested or required of voters in 36 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Surveys have found voter ID proposals to be popular, but studies show that cases of a person impersonating a voter at the polls are extremely rare and voter ID requirements are likely to disproportionately prevent registered Black and Latinx voters from casting ballots.
Doe anyone in the media understand why State Issued Drivers licenses unless they are the "enhanced kind" are no longer valid ID to be used on Domestic Airline flights or to enter federal building? Yes, the Real ID law was passed because of the problems with Motor Voter and because of the need to scrub voter rolls in various elections. I still remember the lawsuit in California and the Settlement Agreement where LA and the State of California reluctantly and kicking and screaming said they would sort of try and scrub their voter rolls.
This has nothing to do with "people of color" who are US citizens, it has everything to do with people who have no right to vote being allowed to vote by States in federal elections.
All funding for NPR should be removed in the next budget cycle by the House of Representatives.
Voting rights. Collectivist word play.
We are forced to pay extorted tax funding for NPR to undermine America while Soros and sons bought a chain of am radio stations which are already his outlets now.
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a controversial deal: it gives control of more than 200 radio stations to a group funded by Democratic mega-donor George Soros.
Republicans in congress are calling it an attempt to interfere in the election and the House Oversight Committee is investigating how the FCC handled the deal.
Voting rights to illegals, dead, out of state, people in coma, and just plainly nonexistent voters.
Kamala will protect your voting rights!
* Anybody can vote.I'm surprised that the Dems haven't yet argued for sending 20 million ballots to each of the 200 countries on earth. After all, we are all one big happy planet earth and everybody should have a stake in the USA elections.
* As many times as they want.
* No registration necessary.
* No ID necessary.
* Non-citizen does not matter.
* Age does not matter.
The Left lies about this to stir racial hatred and divide us.
Do Americans have voting rights if their votes are canceled out by illegals?
Giggles thinks illegals have a right to vote; Trump doesn’t. Doesn’t make for a very exciting article though.
>All funding for NPR should be removed in the next budget cycle by the House of Representatives.
That should have happened 30 years ago or more. They are a Leftist political propaganda operation funded with tax monies.
Amazing how voting rights to a leftists are not having to prove you are who you say you are when voting.
You forget about the franchise being extended to the deceased among us....
Voter laws are pretty specific and are fine as is. The problem is actually enforcing the laws on the books. It’s the same for the border and immigration laws. If the actually enforced the laws on the books there would be no problems.
..... Only one party is Constitutionally correct in their stance ....... Sadly all too many in this nation do not know which party is the one that is adhering to the constitutional values ...... This has become very generationaly problematic in the past few decades .....
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“...cases of a person impersonating a voter at the polls ...”
That is probably even rarer now, since voting by mail became so popular....
Why the hell does NPR continue to receive tax payer funds. Fire those liberal d^^ks and SHUT IT DOWN! NPR is a Democrat house rag no better than CNN or MSNBC, and is also not bothered by facts.
Well slap me upside the head! I completely forgot about the dead. Thanks for the catch.
It’s “stark,” according to that person who might hang out with Swalwell.
“President Donald Trump, on the other hand, is pushing for more restrictions to voting access that would likely disproportionately affect voters of color.”
Yes, it would “disproportionately affect voters of color.”
ILLEGAL voters of color!
They have NEVER been able to provide a single example of a lawful voter who was unable to vote due to these simple, common-sense laws that apply to everyone, equally.
The ONLY reason to oppose them is because they want to CHEAT.
This is the Democrat position on “voting rights”:
* Anybody can vote.
* As many times as they want.
* No registration necessary.
* No ID necessary.
* Non-citizen does not matter.
* Age does not matter.
I’m surprised that the Dems haven’t yet argued for sending 20 million ballots to each of the 200 countries on earth. After all, we are all one big happy planet earth and everybody should have a stake in the USA elections.
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You forget about the franchise being extended to the deceased among us....
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Well I did the math above equals 4 billion
so 40 million ballots/country is needed for all the Earth!
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