On 3/25/2022 6:02 PM, Jon wrote:
There wasn't any voter fraud.
If you didn't have a valid voter ID card, you didn't get to vote.
Guess which communist sympathizing party and quasi-legal
"advocacy/activist" organization is responsible for the voter ID cards vanishing.
Party: D____rat
Organization: AC_U .
[Cross-posting removed]
LOL, don't you dummies *ever* get _anything_ right? Think about
it. Come on, strain real hard. Do you think those non-existent voter
cards would have had a photo? From the Complete Dummies Guide:
History
Voter ID laws go back to 1950, when South Carolina became the first
state to start requesting identification from voters at the polls. The identification document did not have to include a picture; any document
with the name of the voter sufficed. In 1970, Hawaii joined in requiring
ID, and Texas a year later. Florida was next in 1977, and Alaska in 1980
to become the first five states in the United States to request
identification of some sort from voters at the polls.[20]
In 1999, Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore attempted to start a pilot
program that required voters to show IDs at the polls. His initiative
was blocked by Democrats and the NAACP, and was stopped by court order.
His administration had spent and mailed $275,000 worth of free voter ID
cards to residents in Arlington and Fairfax counties.[21][22]
Afterward Republican-dominated states have worked to pass laws for voter
IDs, ostensibly to prevent "voter fraud", which studies have shown is "vanishingly rare."[15] Opponents say that many of the provisions of
such laws are a conspiracy designed to disadvantage minorities, poor and elderly, many of whom have tended in recent years to vote Democratic, so
the Republicans are deriving political benefits from their voter ID
campaign. In 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote
Act into law, which required all first-time voters in federal elections
to show photo or non-photo ID upon either registration or arrival at the polling place.[23]
In 2004, Arizona passed a law requiring voters to bring a state-issued
photo ID to the polling place. Similar proposals were discussed in
various other states and were passed in some cases. In several states, a person's citizenship status is noted on their photo ID.[24][25]
An Indiana law requiring a photo ID be shown by all voters before
casting ballots went into effect on July 1, 2005.[26] Civil rights
groups in Indiana launched a lawsuit, Crawford v. Marion County Election
Board, that reached the Supreme Court in 2008. The Court ruled that the
law was constitutional, paving the way for expanded ID laws in other states.[27][28]
In 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (WI Act 23) and Ohio Governor
John Kasich enacted similar laws. Texas Governor Rick Perry placed a
voter ID bill as an "emergency item" in 2011, allowing legislators to
rush it through the process.[29] Jurisdiction over Texas election
procedure had been given to the Department of Justice, which was
required to pre-clear the law for approval. The Texas law recognized government-issued photo identification and weapons permits but not
college IDs, resulting in criticism that the law was unfavorable to
young voters, who trend liberal, while favorable to gun owners, who
trend conservative.[30] Rhode Island passed a voter ID law in 2011; it
is the only state with a Democratic-controlled legislature to do so.[31]
In South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley enacted a 2011 law requiring government-issued IDs at the polls, which included provisions for the
issuance of free IDs. Haley made a one-time offer to arrange for voter
ID applicants to be driven to issuing locations.[32] The ID requirement
was blocked by the Justice Department.[33]
Wisconsin's Voter ID law in 2011 provided free IDs to people who did not
have them. But in practice, state employees at the DMV were instructed
to provide the IDs for free only if people specifically asked to have
their fee waived.[34] The requirement to show photo ID had been declared
in violation of the Wisconsin Constitution and blocked by state and
federal judges, but those decisions were overturned by the Wisconsin
Supreme Court and later the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.[35] Weeks
later, the U.S. Supreme Court again blocked the law for 2014.[36] On
March 23, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the ACLU, effectively upholding the 7th Circuit's decision Wisconsin's voter ID
law as constitutional.[37]
Pennsylvania's voter ID law allowed various forms of photo
identification cards, including those held by drivers, government
employees, in-state college students, and residents of elder-care
facilities. Voters who do not possess these forms of identification can
obtain voting-only photo IDs issued by the Pennsylvania Department of
State through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
(PennDOT).[38] A judicial order on October 2, 2012, blocked enforcement
of Pennsylvania's law until after the 2012 Presidential election.
Following a trial in the summer of 2013 and a six-month delay,
Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard L. McGinley struck down Pennsylvania's
voter ID law on January 17, 2014, as violative of the constitutional
rights of state voters.
He noted that required alternative voter IDs were available only through
71 PennDOT Drivers Licensing Centers across the state. Five of the 71
DLCs are located in Philadelphia, nine counties have no DLCs at all, and
DLCs have limited hours: in nine counties they are open only one day per
week, and in 13 counties they are open only two days per week. The court
ruled that the Pennsylvania Department of State provided too little
access, no financial support to provide IDs to those without access, and
no alternatives to obtaining the required IDs. Judge McGinley found that
this leaves about half of Pennsylvania without DLCs for five days a
week, imposing a significant barrier to obtaining Pennsylvania's "free
ID".[39] Photo IDs are not required to vote in PA.[40]
Voters in Minnesota rejected a voter ID proposal on the 2012 general
election ballot by a margin of 54–46%.[41] It is the only such ballot
defeat for a voter ID law in the country."
TB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws_in_the_United_States#:~:text=Voter%20ID%20laws%20in%20the,elections%20in%20the%20United%20States.
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