Posted on 03/26/2021 2:20:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Over just a few hours Thursday, Georgia's Legislature and Gov. Brian Kemp drew the first battle line in the high-stakes struggle to decide how American voters will cast ballots in the future after the pandemic-ridden election of 2020.
The Republican-controlled state put itself firmly in the camp of voter ID requirements, limited drop boxes and expanded weekend voting. And depending on the eye of the beholder, it was either a win for election integrity or a return to the era of Jim Crow voter suppression.
And the debate may be coming soon to a ballot box near you, as conservatives like Heritage Action for America and liberals like Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight gird to fight the issues in all 50 states and in Congress, likely all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Georgia's actions Thursday "helped galvanize an election integrity movement surging toward restored trust & confidence in elections where it's easy to vote & hard to cheat," the conservative Susan B. Anthony group crowed.
Countered Abrams on Twitter: "Now more than ever, we need federal action to protect voting rights as we continue to fight against these blatantly unconstitutional efforts that are nothing less than Jim Crow 2.0."
Democrats are pinning their hopes on the federal legislation known as H.R. 1, which would create federal mandates outlawing voter ID requirements and permitting widespread mail voting, while Republicans are turning to their GOP-controlled legislatures in the key battleground states and possibly the Supreme Court for a final verdict.
Where that battle ends, nobody knows. But almost everybody is certain it will be fought in the shadows of the 2022 election for Congress and the 2024 presidential contest, potentially setting the ground rules for a generation or more of voting.
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Fighting out of the blue corner, we have Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock: two committed Marxist ideologues who will stop at nothing to get their way.
“Fighting” out of the red corner, we have the Georgia GOP (a/k/a “a bunch of wussies”).
Great.
If ID not required, then absolve me of ID requirements for driving, the bank, boarding flights....
Are they implying that minorities are too stupid to get ID?
Oh please. Everyone knows exactly what it is. The RATs seek permanent totalitarian control of every aspect of life.
It can’t be won because it’s utter BS.
Are ID requirements for Covid vaccines a racist attempt to keep Covid vaccines away from African Americans?
Exactly!!
Are these “vaccines” being given out with NO PROOF OF ID??
I have no idea, as I refuse to partake in their experimental agent.
I don’t see any need for the voter registration offices to be open on a Saturday and zero need as to Sundays. Most towns and villages across America have their offices closed on both days and it would be a big overtime expense to have the clerk’s office open, especially as the registrations ramp up about 2 months prior to the election dates.
Just seems like common sense to most people.
75% of voters support it, per Rasmussen.
Voter suppression......a word that’s been bandied around for years to get sympathy for those who like to cheat so they have to put race and suppression in everything they do. I grew up in Jim Crow......voter suppression was REAL back then. They could kill you at will, they charged a poll tax on you......lots of voter suppression in real time. There’s not a person in this country since the Civil Rights Act that cannot vote, that anyone that’s an American citizen has that right. But like the left does so well, they have to put it in a dark light (no pun intended) for those who have been OPPRESSED by the Demonrats for generations to think old white Republicans are gonna keep them down and not let them vote. That’s what we have to fight every day.......
In Canadian elections you need government issue photo ID and your name and address on the voter list or you don’t vote.
“Is ID requirement a voter suppression tactic”
Only for the illegal votes.
If I don’t need an ID to vote, then I shouldn’t have to carry it while driving, flying, hunting, etc.....Like we can’t see through them not wanting people to have an ID to vote!.... If people can’t figure out or manage to get an ID then they have no business voting and likely wouldn’t know how anyway. It’s blatantly obvious why they are against it.
A little late GA state legislature. Where were you in 2020 when you let 3 races get stolen?
Fixing the barn door After the cows come home?
Smells of Gov. Kemp CYA to get reelected. Abrams will beat him in 2022. He’s already her puppet.
You need an ID to visit a doctor, to buy cigarettes, alcohol, to travel, to drive, to have a bank account, this is utter BS and the republicans for DECADES have done NOTHING!! Voting needs to be ONE DAY give everyone the day off and be done with it!!
I think Owens will run for governor and he is unbeatable unless of course it is stolen AGAIN!!
It'd be nice. On the other hand the other side has the governor and the Secretary of State claiming the election was virtually fraud-free.
Obviously this should have been the standard decades ago.....equally obvious Representatives don’t care.
Seeing as we are about the only nation on earth that doesn’t require voter ID.. “SHIT UP.. THAT’S RACIST”
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