| Let’s Get Serious About Voter Suppression | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 19 2012, 01:22 AM (5,160 Views) | |
| kennyinbmore | Aug 17 2012, 01:03 PM Post #151 |
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How is this semantics?
That's plain English
Post the link where it specifically says the law only applies to black wards. Edited by kennyinbmore, Aug 17 2012, 01:04 PM.
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| Mal | Aug 17 2012, 01:05 PM Post #152 |
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Ken you just want to argue over nothing. If most of the black voting wards in Ohio supported the Republicans, the voter suppression law would not have been extended to them, is that easier for you to understand. |
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| kennyinbmore | Aug 17 2012, 02:13 PM Post #153 |
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I'm not arguing, I'm just showing how you lied
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| Mal | Aug 20 2012, 06:40 AM Post #154 |
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Good luck with that Kenny, I did not know you were that petty. More Republicans being caught out admitting that they do not want a high voter turnout from Black voters. An Ohio GOP election official who voted against the weekend voting rules that enabled thousands to cast ballots in the 2008 election said Sunday that he did not think that the state's early voting procedures should accommodate African-Americans. "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine," Doug Priesse said in an email to the Columbus Dispatch Sunday. "Let's be fair and reasonable." Priesse is a member of the board of elections for Franklin County, which includes Columbus, and chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, on Wednesday ordered all 88 counties in Ohio to allow early voting Monday through Friday, until 7 p.m., during the final two weeks before the election. Weekend voting, however, will not be allowed.Weekend voting helped 93,000 Ohioans cast ballots in the final three days before the 2008 election. Black churches promoted taking "your souls to the polls" events on the Sunday preceding the election, an option that will be unavailable if Husted's ruling stands. (The Obama administration has sued Husted to restore the final three days of early voting.) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/19/doug-priesse-ohio-early-voting-_n_1807434.html |
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| kennyinbmore | Aug 20 2012, 08:43 AM Post #155 |
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Feel free to carry on with your whining Mal. This is my last post in the thread. So for the last time, no one can keep me from voting or anyone else who gives a shit about voting. |
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| catdaddy25 | Aug 21 2012, 12:04 AM Post #156 |
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That's not whining ! The bigest whiner's on this entire site are those who cry about Obama 24/7. Now that's whining ! |
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| Mal | Aug 21 2012, 06:17 AM Post #157 |
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Voter fraud is in reality a politically constructed myth intended to further complicate the voting process and reduce voter turnout. People need to step up and get voter photo ID, know the changes in law in your area, vote early, join campaigns to stop racist voter supprssion. The Republicans are trying many ways to steal this election. In the first few months of 2011, 34 Republican stronghold states have proposed voter ID laws. Despite the fact that over 21 million Americans do not have government-issued ID, even drivers licenses, voter ID laws have become law in Alabama, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Mississippi. In Pennsylvania, it has been estimated that the voter ID law under challenge in the courts could result in disenfranchising over 750,000 citizens, mostly elderly, poor, and persons of color who do not have "acceptable" government identification cards. In Florida, the U.S. Justice Department is suing the Florida Secretary State to stop the purging of up to 180,000 names of registered voters, based upon a comparison of outdated information such as drivers license applications. In its letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detner, the Justice Department stated that Florida's voter purge could, "have resulted in native-born citizens, including a decorated World War II combat veteran being sent letters demanding that they affirmatively prove their citizenship." Similar suit from the U.S. Justice Department against South Carolina and Texas are also pending. |
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| Mal | Aug 21 2012, 02:30 PM Post #158 |
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Get serious about voter suppression and know your rights. Find out where voting laws have changed, get out the vote and register new voters. Black people will be the most affected by this and we need to be ready. http://www.866ourvote.org/state |
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| G. A. W. | Aug 21 2012, 03:55 PM Post #159 |
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When KS voted a couple of weeks ago, it was said that the voting turnout was more than expected. I'm just stating that the voter id law did not prevent or lower the amount of individuals who showed up, to vote. I have no idea what percentile of the black American populace lives in Kansas (I should look that up, I'm now interested in knowing....) but apparently, it was not an issue "here." I have no idea what it will do for the other states..... Just sharing information. |
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| G. A. W. | Aug 21 2012, 03:58 PM Post #160 |
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I found it.... http://elections.mytimetovote.com/kansas.html Census Data -- KS Percentage of Black 5.90% |
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