House Democratic leadership is bringing out the big guns against a Republican bill set to be voted on next week that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections, Axios has learned.
@#5 ... Gotta be tough to have to keep coming up with new ways to cheat to win ...
Yeah.
For example, the Trump-backed Senate in Wisconsin. Didn't even appear to live in Wisconsin until he announced.
Eric Hovde transferred $2.3 million DC home to his brother before launching US Senate run (February 2024)
wisconsinindependent.com
... The Republican has lived mostly in California since 2018 and leading up to his decision to run for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin. ...
What is the phrase? I learned it long ago.
Oh yeah....
Carpetbagger
en.wikipedia.org
... In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, and were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain. ...
And, for the record, I've no problem with requiring voter-ID provided that such a requirement is put into place without a desire to restrict political views.
When I vote, I show my driver's license (which has the Real ID star, btw). One of my neighbors is an election worker. I've spent many holiday parties at her and her husbands house. yet, when I go to vote, she asks me for my ID. I like that.
But Connecticut has not put into place voter ID to affect political views.
Unlike...
U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org
...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."[emphasis mine]
The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."
The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....
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