2018 Midterm Election Thread

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volinbham said:
A Dem candidate for circuit court judge (in Birmingham) was just ruled ineligible because she does not live in the county ( a requirement). Dems are claiming this is voter suppression since Dems don't have a candidate now. Crazy.
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Snowflakes 😂
 
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luthervol said:
That is an answer. Try to pay attention.
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Come on.... It's a simple question.

What's inherently racist about a law that attempts to verify names and addresses and allows 26 months to fix discrepancies and doesn't remove the right to vote in the interim?

If there is disparate impact, doesn't that say more about the intent of the registration process than anything else?
 
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GAVol said:
Come on.... It's a simple question.

What's inherently racist about an anti-government fraud law that attempts to verify names and addresses and allows 26 months to fix discrepancies and doesn't remove the right to vote in the interim?

If there is disparate impact, doesn't that say more about the intent of the registration process than anything else?
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GAVol said:
Come on.... It's a simple question.

What's inherently racist about a law that attempts to verify names and addresses and allows 26 months to fix discrepancies and doesn't remove the right to vote in the interim?

If there is disparate impact, doesn't that say more about the intent of the registration process than anything else?
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As stated in the answer I posted, a large portion of the rejections came from voter registration drives. It seems as if the origin of the registration was know by the person in charge of processing the registration. MAYBE, those were processed a little more "thoroughly". I read that a missing hyphen or the maiden name included was enough to reject. I never said it was INHERENTLY racist. If so, surly it would have already been tossed.

Read the link above posted by evillawyer.
 
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luthervol said:
That's a great safeguard. To the degree that it's used in that fashion and no one is being denied the right to vote, it's great. To the degree it is being used to intentionally and disproportionately reduce the vote of certain demographics, it's horrible. It certainly seems to have a disproportionate impact.
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its horrible they are given 25 months to correct the mistake and can still vote?
 
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luthervol said:
As stated in the answer I posted, a large portion of the rejections came from voter registration drives. It seems as if the origin of the registration was know by the person in charge of processing the registration. MAYBE, those were processed a little more "thoroughly". I read that a missing hyphen or the maiden name included was enough to reject. I never said it was INHERENTLY racist. If so, surly it would have already been tossed.

Read the link above posted by evillawyer.
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maybe they ran across several mistakes from said drive, and that caused them to look at them more closely. Maybe the drives should do a better job signing people up. Government forms have to be filled out a certain way, if they aren't they are rejected. It has nothing to do with your skin color, but everything to do with how well you fill out a form.
 
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LouderVol said:
maybe they ran across several mistakes from said drive, and that caused them to look at them more closely. Maybe the drives should do a better job signing people up. Government forms have to be filled out a certain way, if they aren't they are rejected. It has nothing to do with your skin color, but everything to do with how well you fill out a form.
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Sure. Voter suppression is a myth. We have a long history, especially in the south, of open and welcoming registration and voting.
Or.......attempted suppression of the poor and minority vote has been going on since the nation's very first election.
Not sure which it is.
 
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LouderVol said:
then fill out the forms correctly. that's all it boils down to. No racism there to have the same standard across the board.
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That’s the lunacy here. More stringent requirements hold to get a drivers license or other government ID. But if you cannot correctly answer and write down “do you know your name and where you currently live” then somehow that’s now minority suppression?!
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
That’s the lunacy here. More stringent requirements hold to get a drivers license or other government ID. But if you cannot correctly answer and write down “do you know your name and where you currently live” then somehow that’s now minority suppression?!
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It goes with Luther’s and Clearwater’s assertion that black people are too stupid and poor to get an ID. They’re also too stupid to register to vote. Yet, other people are racist. Lmao
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
That’s the lunacy here. More stringent requirements hold to get a drivers license or other government ID. But if you cannot correctly answer and write down “do you know your name and where you currently live” then somehow that’s now minority suppression?!
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There's opposition to this on the right, but I wish we just automatically registered people to vote when they got a driver's license or ID and then made them show it at the poll.
 
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GAVol said:
I understand the history, but honestly is there anything easier to do at this point than to register to vote? In GA, they even ask you about it when you get a driver's license.
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They have made it easier. Probably about as easy as it needs to be. That's why people looking to suppress the vote have to find other avenues. (exact match) Not saying it's rampant, just more rampant than illegal voting. The guise of stopping illegal voting is used by some as cover to suppress poor and minority voting. We're talking relatively small numbers here. My take is that for every would be illegal vote that is stopped, 3 legal votes are stopped. Some say, "it's just not worth the hassle".........

Many of you instantly just thought - then they shouldn't be voting anyway. Which just proved my point - in a way. The disenfranchised are most likely to fall into this category, as everyone knows.
 
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tumscalcium said:
It goes with Luther’s and Clearwater’s assertion that black people are too stupid and poor to get an ID. They’re also too stupid to register to vote. Yet, other people are racist. Lmao
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Moving you to an 81. I think Clearwater had you pegged.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
That’s the lunacy here. More stringent requirements hold to get a drivers license or other government ID. But if you cannot correctly answer and write down “do you know your name and where you currently live” then somehow that’s now minority suppression?!
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lol.....Like I said earlier. Sometimes I've had to sign using my middle initial, but I rarely do otherwise. My voter registration wasn't evaluated for that exact match. Some were.
 
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luthervol said:
Sure. Voter suppression is a myth. We have a long history, especially in the south, of open and welcoming registration and voting.
Or.......attempted suppression of the poor and minority vote has been going on since the nation's very first election.
Not sure which it is.
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really the only argument is for the poor. everything on top of that is just window dressing. and of course its going to be worse for the poor. always has and always will be. Doesn't matter what socialist paradise you dream up, having less resources than others will make your life more difficult. Thankfully we live in a system where you can improve your situation, unlike whatever socialist paradise you dream up.

the system gives the same chance to everyone. just because the success rate by economic class varies doesn't mean the system is wrong.
 
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luthervol said:
Unless, a missing hyphen is overlooked on one but not the other.
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good luck proving intent on that. I doubt it is one person supervising this. I doubt Kemp is calling people into his office saying "look out for ethnic sounding hyphens, we have to stop these people, but white names, let that slide." or anything of the sort.
 
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