Posted on 04/14/2020 3:53:20 PM PDT by bitt
Virginia will no longer require voters to show a photo ID prior to casting a ballot and the state will join a handful of states across the nation in making Election Day a state holiday, Gov. Ralph Northam (D) announced Sunday.
Northam said he signed a series of bills aimed at expanding access to voting.
“Voting is a fundamental right, and these new laws strengthen our democracy by making it easier to cast a ballot, not harder,” Northam said in a statement Sunday. “No matter who you are or where you live in Virginia, your voice deserves to be heard. I’m proud to sign these bills into law.”
Northam signed a bill replacing a state holiday, Lee-Jackson Day, that honored Confederate generals with a state holiday designated for Election Day.
He also signed a bill repealing Virginia’s voter ID law and a bill expanding access to early voting.
The new bill allows for early voting 45 days prior to an election without a stated excuse; Virginia previously required absentee voters to provide the state with a reason from an approved list.
Another bill extends in-person polling hours by one hour, keeping polls open until 8 p.m. rather than 7 p.m.
All the measures passed earlier this year in the Democratic-controlled legislature.
Democrats won control of both the state Senate and House of Delegates in the 2019 elections.
The new laws were lauded by top Democrats in the state legislature.
“We need more access to the ballot box, not less,” state Sen. Louise Lucas (D) said in a statement. “I am so proud to be a part of new laws that expand access to voting and make our Commonwealth more representative of the people we serve. Today is a historic day.”
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What a piece of traitorous garbage. Have Virginians lost their moral compass and their spines? They are going to let this filthy piece of excrement open the door to voter fraud WIDE so his beloved illegal alien criminals can pull the D lever. No one saying a thing, just let it happen. Bye, Virginia.
Panic
No need. That's what the illegal immigrant population is for. That's what this is all about allowing illegals to sneak under the wire and vote for the Democrat who will promise to raid the treasury the most.
Requiring all voters to provide photo identification at their voting place in order to vote
Favor: 80%
Oppose: 19%
https://news.gallup.com/poll/194741/four-five-americans-support-voter-laws-early-voting.aspx
If 2021 goes well for Virginia Republicans, they need to pass the photo ID requirement right back.
Voting is NOT a fundamental right. It is an earned right for law abiding citizens. The fundamental rights are...
Life
Liberty
Property
"Why are we the only industrialized nation in the world without universal healthcare Voter ID?
One thing I agree with, make election day a holiday, and end absentee and early voting.
The Democrats aka Demoncrats are bound and determined to sweep the 2020 elections through voter fraud.
Saw this yesterday. The democrats are pulling out all the stops to win the election. It is far from being limited to Virginia. Anyone who is paying attention can see that they intend on using every method to cheat. Why would they being doing this in VA. Threatening to sue in Nevada to fully corrupt their voting. Cuomo already had his way in NY by enacting early voting and every other method the democrats use to cheat. Others can add more to the list.
It is happening under everyone’s nose, but most refuse to see it. Cheating is the only way they can win, and they have the entire system under their control. It is now rigged right from the voter registration process to the ballot box(which is now an apple bin) to the state software that tallies the votes.
They also have the entire MSM in their pocket. They have Facebook, Twitter, and Google, Who are going manipulate all social media. They have already banned so many conservative accounts, and they will be banning a lot more. And maybe the biggest thing on their side is that no-one wants to be labeled a kook by claiming any kind of conspiracy is occurring. Well go ahead and call me a kook!
If someone with extreme influence does not come out and tell it like it is then republicans are going to loose it all during the next election. Even president Trump will go down in flames because the real vote won’t count for anything.
We very truly are going to become a Banana socialist dictatorship during the next election if something is not done to stop this cheating.
KKK black faced baby killer rolling you over Virginia, time to storm the capitol, no?
Democrats will exploit every weakness in our electoral process. If they can’t find a weakness, they’ll make one by any means necessary. No voting except in person. Don’t allow anymore convenience voting. You’ll just get your vote stolen.
Every citizen that can vote, has some kind of state id today.
Its not hard to prove who you are.
If democrats believed they’d be harmed and losing elections from it, they’d be demanding the same id for guns, ammo, and anything else they do not like.
He just gathered another 50,000 votes here in northern Virginia from the illegals, H1-Bs, and green card residents.
Governor MF Cheater.
Communists always cheat.
Now Virginia is full of illegals and transplants from places like New York and New Jersey. The Northern urban areas are packed with these types in addition to federal employees. A perfect storm.
What else in our world do people NOT need identification for?
Suck it up Virginians. You voted the libs into office, now recall or live with it.
I think that is a good strategy actually, use their own force against them, by voting in overwhelming numbers for Republican candidates, make them challenge Voting fraud.
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