Racism and America

[real-human]

[swchandler]

I think that it's important to remember that registering to vote is a different process that actual voting during an election. Frankly, I have no problem requiring proof of ID when registering, because it's really a one time thing, unless you move out of state. Moving around within a state that you are already registered should be a simple as submitting a formal change of address form.

However, the Republican pressure to disenfranchise voters at the polls is where I have a big problem. If you are registered to vote, there should be no ID requirements. In the bottom line, voter fraud doesn't truly exist statistically, and Republicans are trying to manufacture a bogus problem that doesn't really exist.

[keycocker]

That is the key thing to remember.
Every part of this is pretending to stop Dems from illegal voting ,which is a partisan myth.
If you read the fake news you think voter fraud is widespread , so any measure is justified.
Frightening that so many conservatives accept this anti American stuff without question.
Once they convince you the nation is full of Commies ,they can start locking us up in camps.
Once they convince you Obama is a Muslim terrorist, they can overthrow the Gov. and put in Trump as dictator for life.
The facts on voter fraud are widely available, but Talk Radio Conservatives don't care.

The facts on Commies are widely available, too.
Will TR Conservatives not care when they begin rounding us up?

Ask the lady running for office in Arkansas. She is outraged that she has been taken off the voter rolls for the same reason she supported taking tens of thousands of others off in Arkansas.
They were suspected Dems so that was OK.

[keycocker]

Here is a news story on the GOP feelings about taking Republicans off the voter lists because of the laws they support. In brief, those laws should only apply to Dems.

"Arkansas Attorney General candidate Leslie Rutledge is crying foul over the cancellation of her voter registration form. Rutledge, the Republican nominee for Attorney General, was kicked off the voter rolls after it was discovered that she failed to cancel previous voter registrations in Washington, DC and Virginia, and re-register in Pulaski County when she moved. Pulaski County Clerk Larry Crane, a Democrat, said he was legally obligated to remove her after receiving a letter flagging this issue.

Rutledge and Republican groups are calling the removal a “dirty trick” that was politically motivated. But what happened to Rutledge is in fact very common, and becoming even more common after the state implemented a number of strict voter restrictions, including a controversial voter ID law being litigated in court Thursday.

Democratic Party chair Vincent Insalaco pointed out in his statement that “a thousand eligible voters had their absentee ballots thrown out earlier this year following the implementation of more rigorous voting guidelines.”

Indeed, Arkansas’ strict voter ID law caused chaos during the May primary. Voters were inappropriately grilled on their personal information at the polls. Many absentee ballots from legitimate voters were discarded because they did not include proof of ID.

Rutledge argued that she tried to register to vote in Pulaski County, but that the clerk’s office gave her a “change of address” form instead. “I don’t know if I made any mistakes except listening to the clerk and I should have insisted they accept my form when they refused it,” Rutledge told ArkansasMatters.com.

Voters around the country can sympathize with Rutledge on this point. Reports of confusion and misdirection by poll workers and elections officials emerged in several states during the 2012 election. In Ohio, for example, some voters have even been criminally prosecuted for fraud because they followed flawed instructions. During voter purges in Florida and Colorado, many eligible voters were removed for similar reasons Rutledge was; an outdated address or a typo was enough to flag voters as fraudulent.

The Republican National Lawyers Association has also come to Rutledge’s defense, expressing outrage that she was “systematically removed from voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election.” RNLA Chairman J. Randy Evans went on, “The fact is that it is a clear and unmistakable attempt at the most harmful kind of voter suppression in violation of federal law – removing a qualified female voter from the rolls notwithstanding her valid registration and actual votes in the last 4 elections in violation of her civil rights. Democrats should be embarrassed.”

Ironically, the RNLA has been instrumental in pushing mass voter purges across the country, specifically defending the right to purge voters within 90 days of the election.

Rutledge, however, is proud of her role in defending Arkansas election laws accused of discriminating against minorities and low-income voters.

[real-human]

[MalibuGuru]

http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/women-sue-bank-over-sperm-from-black-donor/ar-BB6T36u

I guess this lesbian couple's rainbow didn't come in the color they wanted.

[real-human]

http://news.yahoo.com/u-judge-blocks-pennsylvanias-execution-immigration-lawyer-230128965.html

[mac]

Those facts are so inconvenient. Ferguson is not an isolated example:

[techno900]

mac posted:

[isobars]