Lots of folks think Democrats oppose voter ID laws because they want to cheat and such laws interfere with their plans. That’s an attractive explanation, but it ignores the far more complex architecture of voter ID opposition.
.... I think you are reading more into my request than there really was. All I am saying is
if you're going to state something as "facts", which still doesn't necessarily mean it IS factual if its from an article some place,
at least have the courtesy of giving us readers the source(s) you pulled your opinion and comment from. Hell, Trump doesn't even do
THAT ... he just makes up crap and states it as facts. Scary when you consider it coming from the "commander-n-chief". What if he decides to declare a nuclear threat by N Korea and issues an attack? See what I mean?
.... I can't speak for other states, but, I can about NC. NC is as radical as it gets when coming to voter
suppression and voter ID. Republicans gained a
trifecta control of the state government in 2010 with a Republican governor, and Republican general assembly. Being the year 2010 this also gave Republicans the authority to make
changes to voting districts,
voting requirements, etc, which they quickly did.
Republicans were quite aware, and stated openly, that they knew that they held the advantage IF voting turnouts to elections were low. Plus, each 10 years, the voting districts would get re-evaluated as to their specific boundaries. So, Republicans immediately implemented changes that they openingly bragged would
keep them in control of the state government for decades. Here's what they did:
• restructured the voting districts so the majority of the districts would encompass heavier Republican concentrations, thus more controlling chairs in the chambers of government. They gerrymandered the districts to "extremes" .... some people having to travel many miles to vote just because of the way the districts were structured.
• under the hidden agenda to suppress minority voting, they claimed that there was a lot of illegal minority voting in NC and they were going to construct voter ID laws that would stop fraudulent voting from happening. But, here's what they did: removed the "party line voting" option, eliminated same day registrations and on-campus college registrations, cut early voting days, hours, locations, booths, etc, on top of requiring several forms of voter ID to vote. Their real agenda was to simply create long lines on voting days so voters would get frustrated, turn around, and go home. It initially worked. When confronted with the charges, Republicans immediately spun the reason as "voter fraud" not "voter suppression".
.... On
five separate occasions, with at least a half a dozen federal judges, Republicans have refused to FIX the mess they created, each time waiting to start their "fixes" until just months before voting was to start, then declaring it was too late to fix the districts and undo the things they'd done earlier. So, through at least 4 voting cycles, Republicans have ignored the orders of the federal courts to fix the biased changes they'd made years earlier.
.... As for voter fraud, they
never have proven the large scale voter fraud that they have been declaring Democrats of doing in the state. However, in the
last two voting cycles, two different Republicans have been sent to prison for exactly what they have been charging the Democrats of doing. One was going around to the homes who had requested the
"absentee voting form", saying he was collecting the forms to help avoid their getting lost in the voting process. He also helped a lot of people fill out their forms AND even completed blank forms and signed the voters names. Then, he'd toss out the ones voting Democrat, or cast Republican votes fraudulently without the voters knowledge. Just so you know, in NC,
the absentee ballot is a matter of public record, so it was easy for this individual to get a list of those absentee ballots in his district.
.... Another Republican was in charge of a voting district and was
caught removing Democrat votes as they were turned in. They aren't sure how many fraudulent votes were affected, but the estimate is close to a thousand.
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