Do Voter ID Laws Actually Result in
Disenfranchisement?
American Thinker,
by
P.F. Whalen
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
8/6/2020 1:10:40 PM
Last Thursday, President Trump whipped up another firestorm by suggesting that November’s general election should be delayed, citing potential voter fraud due to extensive mail-in balloting as his rationale. With this latest controversy, we should expect to see not only pushback on Trump’s idea, but a revitalization of the promotion of new -- and the criticism of existing -- various voter ID laws around the country. According to our friends on the Left, such laws are unfair, unconstitutional, and even racist. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asserted that voter ID laws are “silencing the voices of American voters.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IdSpud 8/6/2020 1:16:56 PM (No. 501907)
I certainly concur with the last sentence of OP's comment. If this country doesn't get a handle on illegal voting, there will be no more legitimate elections.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/6/2020 1:29:41 PM (No. 501923)
It disenfranchises those who are not legally allowed to vote. Bummer on that.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/6/2020 1:30:21 PM (No. 501924)
Only if one is deaf, dumb, blind, can't read or write and doesn't take a good picture, even with a top quality camera.
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Well, obviously not. If they did, Democrats would be in favor of them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MMC 8/6/2020 1:56:46 PM (No. 501947)
Try getting unemployment without id- or welfare check- or hospital stay..
It is a buzz word- meant to manipulate the sheeple- which is does...
#purplefinger #pictureid
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 8/6/2020 2:11:07 PM (No. 501954)
What needs to be done is a system of voter ID that once that ID is used, it can't be used again. Such a system could have been set up years ago.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/6/2020 2:13:32 PM (No. 501955)
NO and Hades NO!
If an ID is required to do a host of day to day things to Identify the person, it is very consistent to require the same to VOTE. The Democraps have invented this BS about how that is somehow bad...a typical BS Democrap move!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/6/2020 2:21:24 PM (No. 501959)
Voter ID laws disenfranchise those illegally voting, which is why the Democrats are against it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 8/6/2020 2:50:00 PM (No. 501980)
Refuse to get a picture ID equals no voting for you.
Throw the computers out they are to easily programmable to give the results the programmer wants, then erase all evidence of fraud in the computer memory. I was a programmer years ago and we had a program that allowed you to go into any memory address and change the byte/bytes their without ever leaving any evidence behind that it had been changed. Nothing on the disc in read only memory or in random memory, or the computer operating system memory.
When America was founded everyone showed up at the voting place in person using paper ballots or they didn't vote. Voting was a hard won fight of enormous odds against people who wanted freedom. Any voter who wants to be certain votes are counted correctly should be allowed to help in the counting in groups of four voters, two from each party to check and verify accuracy. Votes should be placed in bundles of 1,000 and numbered on the back of each vote the bundle number assigned using permanent markers.
Today's Marxist communist tyrants are using reverse psychology on people trying to convince everyone that every person regardless if they show up in person or not to prove who they are can vote. This is what allows vote fraud. Their can be no fraud when every voter must show up in person if they want to participate in our hard fought for right to vote.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 8/6/2020 2:55:44 PM (No. 501986)
OP's got it right, but in addition, NO vote harvesting, NO absentee ballots unless confined to a hospital bed with a doctors written affadavit, ONE day voting, PICTURE id, if'n ya ain't on the voter roll ya don't get to vote....we have to stop this fraud..and yes, demodumbs, there is voter fraud, you know it and you are behind it...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/6/2020 4:09:34 PM (No. 502013)
Voter ID laws only silence the ILLEGALs. If you are an American citizen, not the slightest barrier.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/6/2020 4:31:02 PM (No. 502024)
Voter ID laws have been challenged many times and well written laws are upheld. Studies show NO disenfranchisement. So the answer is, of course, of none of the dem claims are true.
The dems haven't made a legitimate claim about any poor treatment of anyone in decades. It's all a fraud to rabble rouse. It's the only thing they actually accomplish.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/6/2020 4:52:34 PM (No. 502031)
If the Democrats had anything to do with them, they do.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/6/2020 5:21:41 PM (No. 502043)
Illegal voting disenfranchises legal voters.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 8/6/2020 6:40:49 PM (No. 502073)
NancyP believes in her heart that everybody, living or dead, and their beloved pets, have a right to vote democrat as many times as they wish.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 8/6/2020 7:18:05 PM (No. 502086)
this started big time in 2000..
hanging chads... childs play
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
coyote 8/6/2020 7:51:07 PM (No. 502099)
The difficulty to vote arguments are absurd, but have the Democrats ever disliked an absurd argument? Not if they it benefited them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/6/2020 9:43:28 PM (No. 502113)
Voting should require the same level of 'documentation' as buying a gun.
No more, and no less.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chase9365 8/6/2020 10:30:19 PM (No. 502140)
I as a white person am a bit insulted that the powers that be in the Democrat party think that my relatives that are black and half black are so incompetent that they don't have an ID or know how to get one. Believe me they know how to do that and a whole bunch of other stuff! Including defending our country!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/6/2020 10:32:51 PM (No. 502142)
Ms./Mr. Whalen. Trump asked a question whether the election should be moved back. He did not make a suggestion. And while St. Thomas Moore was murdered by those who heard the King's question, 'Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?', I do not think anyone would take a question from Trump as a command let alone a 'suggestion'.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/7/2020 5:07:48 AM (No. 502269)
That pig Piglousi and her freak show of demonrats just want every election to be predetermined for a demonrat "win".
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Not only should a FEDERAL voter's ID card be required, voters should have their thumbs dipped in ink afterwards. Penalties for vote fraud should include permanent loss of ALL voting rights along with time in federal prison. Make the penalty so onerous that NOBODY will take the chance of cheating!!