Also, why does everyone keep saying you need an ID from the DMV. You can actually use your SS# to complete your Absentee ballot. Again, who walks around this country that doesn't have a Social Security number?
The Georgia bill actually allows 13 different ways to prove your eligibility to vote.
What you need varies from state to state. I think most everyone would agree that we should sufficiently identify a voter. Any disagreement stems from what is necessary to satisfy that threshold and if a voter should be required to obtain at a cost a specific ID that they wouldn’t otherwise need strictly to cast a vote.
so why is the argument around this law (one of those) around needing an ID. IDs will be issues for free (no cost) and/or you can use a SS, which I'm fairly sure has zero cost (as i've gone through this process twice in the last 4 years for my kids). Agreed, if you put a charge associated to voting, you are disenfranchising people. I do not see an issue with there is zero cost associated to it and every american should have a SS or DL or Passport and if you dont have any of those things, you can get a free voter ID.
So you'd probably agree that no cost for the ID is pretty reasonable, no?
So do you have any problem with the Georgia voter law? Or that it's reasonable for anyone to characterize it as Jim Crow?
I’m not familiar with the entirety of the law. If the law makes for a no cost ID to vote than that portion of the law I would classify as positive.
Please read the legislation. There is a ban on providing food or water to prospective voters who are in line. This kind of ignorant post does not help the debate.
When you say both sides sit down and work on something, isn't that how legislature works? If it were up to ONLY the Republicans in GA do you think this law is different?
not true. you read the law. Water can and will be provided to prospective voters. Voters can also bring their own water and snacks. Also prospective voters can walk 150 feet and get free water and food.
Lol. So people aren't allowed to bring water? People can't call for door dash to bring them water? The county can't provide water?
BANNING WATER***
dude that doesn't make any sense whatsover.
Intent, Copernicus. White, Georgian, rednecks, are pissed off that they just got schooled in an election by "them damn negros" they've been trying to keep down for hundreds of years.
You are quite possibly the dumbest person on this board.
Got it, so everything is racist. Must've been impossible for my parents who came from Cuba to get ID cards, go to school, get jobs, build a business and become successful with such oppressors like Nixon, Ford and Ronald Regan in power. I'll need to ask them about how the republicans made it impossible to succeed as minorities. I'll get back to you.
by his train of thought anyone who puts forth gun regulation bills are anti constitutional and anarchists.
You seem to really enjoy including imaginary language disparaging black people that wasn’t uttered by anyone else. It’s pretty offensive, to be honest. You should stop.
Are you completely oblivious to the history of placing any, and all, blockers up to disenfranchise black voters?
8 pages of the same question not being answered and people just yelling "whiteys"
Trump wasn’t a good candidate.
All those people who believe so much in social participation through voting but don’t have the ability or desire to get any of the many acceptable forms of ID... just totally disenfranchised.*
I would think that the desire to have an ID would be greater than the desire to vote because it allows you to do all sorts of things you otherwise couldn't do.
White people started listening to the racist white people in government that said blacks and hispanics are incapable or too dumb to get an ID or register to vote via internet and believed it. It's too bad we don't have video evidence of our current president being a racist, if only that existed **
www.nbcnews.com
Wow. Can't believe that guy was the biggest electoral loser since Hoover. Also crazy that his party is at its biggest deficit in affiliation since 2012. Oh well.White people started listening to the racist white people in government that said blacks and hispanics are incapable or too dumb to get an ID or register to vote via internet and believed it. It's too bad we don't have video evidence of our current president being a racist, if only that existed **
"the problem is institutional racism in america" - Joe
While also being the person who drafted the bill that led to the mass incarceration of black people, which is now what is mostly referenced as systemic racism in our govt. Geez.
Now if only there would have been a member of government who would have forgiven most of the people in prison on drug related crimes, that were put in prison because of this bill.
Criminal justice reform finally has a chance in Congress. Here’s what the bill would do.
Analysis: Thousands of well-behaved prisoners would win freedom earlier under the bill.
Man, dem racists and dem whiteys
