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No one is trying to make sure someone doesnt vote.
#9 | Posted by boaz
Really?
Florida Bans Voting Rights of Over 960,000 Citizens20% of Black men in Florida can't vote because they had been convicted of felonies. And when the people of Florida passed an amendment to restore their voting rights, the GOP changed the law to require that they must first pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to get that right back, even after doing their time in prison.
The overwhelming majority of this group, nearly 730,000 Florida citizens, have completed their sentence
www.sentencingproject.org
Pretty strange behavior for a "no one is trying to make sure someone doesn't vote" country.
We dont worry about Jim Crow laws anymore.
Yes, because they are now illegal, until the GOP SCOTUS says they are not
Racism is dead
#7 | Posted by boaz
That's some funny stuff! You're either completely disconnected from reality or a troll. Probably a bit from each column.
Post 9/11 Hate Crime Trends: Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Jews in the U.S. (2013)And it doesn't have to be racism. It can just be about making sure that people who will vote against them, regardless of their skin color, have a harder time getting IDs. Take a look at the map below and try to figure out which offices you'd close to make sure certain people can't vote.
harvard.edu
>Because we know how the GOP will then immediately make it next to impossible for those they disfavor to get those voter IDs.
[Bullsheet].
#3 | Posted by boaz
Because the example I gave of people doing exactly that in the past with Jim Crow laws is a figment of our collective imagination?
And because the GOP didn't immediately try to do exactly that a couple years ago?
Alabama Closing Many DMV Offices in Majority Black CountiesBut what are you going to believe? Your dogmatic refusal to accept political strategy realities, or your lying eyes?
After Alabama put into effect a tougher voter ID law, the state shuttered 31 driver's license offices due to a budget crisis. The closures will cut off access to one of the few types of IDs accepted.
eight of the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentage of non-white registered voters saw their driver's license offices closed.
www.governing.com October 02, 2015,
80+% of Americans support voter ID; Why dont Democrats?
Because we know how the GOP will then immediately make it next to impossible for those they disfavor to get those voter IDs.
Along those same lines, I bet huge majorities of the population believe that only literate people should be able to vote. It makes sense, right? Since someone who is too dumb to read probably shouldn't be able to tell the rest of us how to live by electing our leaders?
Hey Boaz, why don't you take this literacy test and let us know how you do: Louisiana Literacy Test
Below are just the first six questions, there's another 24 just like them. One wrong answer and you don't get to vote. You've got 10 minutes for those 30 questions. 20 seconds a question. Seems like plenty. Start!
From The Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
I googled this. The only ones who are reporting this are right wing "news" sites. Do you have anything mainstream or not Jeff??
#2 | Posted by LauraMohr
Hear you go!
Arby's announces first-ever 'Meatoberfest,' launches 'Meaterhosen' and 'Beefvarian Hat'
www.foxnews.com
Supreme Court UPHOLDS California PROP 50
No make it permanent. Blue states ending gerrymandering without red states agreeing to do the same was the height of stupidity.