Posted on 12/31/2011 10:00:20 AM PST by yoe
Eric Holder’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an all-out war on voter-ID laws and other measures designed to safeguard the electoral process. Although Holder’s actions are purportedly to prevent African-Americans from being disenfranchised, the reality is that they serve the crass political purpose of ensuring that Holder’s boss gets re-elected next year.
In the past several years states have increasingly focused on measures to protect the vote. After years of the federal government loosening voting regulations, such as through the Motor Voter Act and the Help America Vote Act, the pendulum started swinging back at the state level.
The clearest example of this trend is through voter-ID laws. In 2008 the Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s landmark law requiring citizens to show that they are the person they claim to be by showing government-issued ID before casting a ballot. But to ensure that those without driver’s licenses or passports are not disenfranchised, Indiana provides free ID’s to everyone who applies for one. The court upheld this law, with the primary opinion written by no one less than liberal lion Justice John Paul Stevens.
Such laws combat voter fraud that we see on Election Day, especially in certain parts of the nation. In Washington State, King County suddenly “discovered” enough previously “unnoticed” votes for Democrat Christine Gregoire to edge out Republican Dino Rossi for Washington’s governorship in 2004. There are also examples from Wisconsin, Missouri, and other states.
Yet Holder has blocked South Carolina’s voter-ID law. DOJ argues that this law is different from Indiana’s because South Carolina is subject to additional federal oversight under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. (This is especially important because there are several federal cases challenging the constitutionality of Section 5.)
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He should know as the Obama 'War Room' has from the get go used the race card to both threaten whites and protect Blacks from answering to law. Obama was never vetted and still is not because of his race without which he never would have been elected.
If you’re against Voter ID, you are FOR VOTE FRAUD!
No shit Little Beaver!
Can Holder still be in office after the Fast & Furious flap.
He needs a jail cell. My dream is a vicious prosecutor that will make sure they all have thier day in court
Then union-elections are racist for requiring photo-id. Right???
ANY transaction that requires ID is racist.../s
Why doesn’t Holder just go for the gusto and declare that there will be “Vote Reparations,” wherein, because people whose skin color looked like his were not allowed to vote in the distant past, all people with that skin color now will get to vote as many times as they like in the upcoming and all future elections.
In Colorado you are required to have a photo ID drivers license to drive - racists!
To get through airport security you have to present a photo ID - TSA gay gropers are racists!
In order to cash a check at the local supermarket I have to present a photo ID, doesn't matter if I'm purchasing black beans or crackers - the super market is racist.
To require the man with his finger nuclear launch button to have a valid birth certificate is racist.
Its time everyone finally acknowlege that not every sheethead is white.
Yes he has.
As a South Carolinian, let's take a realistic look at how we nasty "Southerners" disenfranchise poor folks:
Poor folks don't have much money. At first we planned to charge for a state photo ID. But we relented and decided to give the IDs away for free.
Then the poor folks said, "But we have no transportation to get to the place where we can get our free photo ID." So Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina set up a special toll-free number these poor transportation-impaired individuals could call to have transportation arranged just for them. Last I heard, there had been 25 calls.
As you can clearly see, we South Carolinians have mounted a strong, vile, nasty campaign to disenfranchise as many poor voters as we possibly can.
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Everything Holder does is “racially motivated”.
More proof that the commie ‘RATS’ “Dumbing Down of America” program was a big success. Americans should be screaming for this maggot’s resignation and not worry about being called a “racist” for doing it.
At the time someone registers to vote (DMV, County Courthouse, political register’s office), have them fill out an application for a state ID card (provided they can prove they’re a resident of that state).
Problem solved.
There is only one reason for a person to be against voter ID. That is if they want to cheat.
IMPEACH NOW! Holder has to go I can’t imagine the trouble he will cause in an election year with his Boss down in the polls. (We have decided not to enforce crimes committed on white poeple)
part of the issue is, some people don’t really want to have to pinpoint their identity. because when you are collecting money from the state, you don’t wanna rock the boat. because you might have to be different people on different days.
then, I discovered here in FL, you have to lay out your whole fricken life to get a DL license. So the BS about disenfranchisement only applies to those discriminatory places like SC.
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