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U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune:
Federal election observers can only be sent to five states in this year's U.S. presidential election, among the smallest deployments since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to end racial discrimination at the ballot box. The plan, confirmed in a U.S. Department of Justice fact sheet seen by Reuters, reflects changes brought about by the Supreme Court's 2013 decision to strike down parts of the Act...
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Friday the Justice Department's ability to deploy election observers had been "severely curtailed" by the Supreme Court's decision... Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, said federal observers are especially needed this year because 17 states have tightened restrictions on voting since the last presidential election.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Friday the Justice Department's ability to deploy election observers had been "severely curtailed" by the Supreme Court's decision... Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, said federal observers are especially needed this year because 17 states have tightened restrictions on voting since the last presidential election.
And don't forget your nightsticks — can't have the crackas voting the wrong way, can you?
Funny, how Obama's Justice Department dropped the only voter-intimidation/suppression case documented in recent history — as if that was curtailed by something too...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Funny, how Obama's Justice Department dropped the only voter-intimidation/suppression case documented in recent history — as if that was curtailed by something too...
Yeah, go figure, nobody came forward to complain that they were intimidated, making the case difficult to impossible. And in fact, throughout the history of the act, prosecutions have been rare to non-existent.
Meanwhile, others examples of actual voter suppression do exist, as well as death threats about a Mosque being used as a polling station in Florida.
But heck, even if we pretend all of that isn't a problem, the fact that voter turnout in 2014 was outright abysmal should make everybody take notice.
Maybe your post got modded down because you didn't provide any proof of what you said is true or not.
Was it a rant or was it the truth?
Back it up with something.
I invite you to imagine, David Duke and friends standing in front of a polling place somewhere, pointing a weapon at non-White would-be voters and telling them: "You are about to be ruled by a White man." This is precisely, what happened in Philadelphia.
False. Says Wikipedia:
The Justice Department has won their case already — and then asked the court to dismiss the default judgment in their favor. Whatever the problem was, it was not the difficulty of actual prosecution.
Ah, and here we go redefining terms — as if asking for a proof of eligibility is "suppressive". Nice try, but fail...
Completely off-topic.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
I have to wonder what language these Americans were speaking while living inside America for so long?
Keres and Navajo, according to this.
I call bullshit on this.
That's nice, but they went to court, and provided evidence.
Voter restrictions of various stripe tend to affect poor and minorities more than other groups.
What restrictions would those be? I'm not American, but from a quick google, it seems that all you need are:
1. Citizen of at least 18 years old
2. Driver's license # or last 4 digits of SSN
Why would this be troublesome for any particular group of people?
Getting an ID costs money in the US, so requiring an ID puts more strain on the poor than the working class.
The annual fee for a drivers license is around $35, a state-issued ID is around $30, and a passport costs $100.
When you're poor, that $35 could pay for 7 meals frugally made.
Social security cards are given out and replaced at no charge, but aren't generally accepted as an ID because they lack pictures.
They have imported MILLIONS of people into the US and put them onto various government benefits programs, and in places like California have given them driver's licenses and also put in place "motor voter" systems, while they have blocked all efforts to look for vote fraud under the banner of "civil rights". Every vote by an eneligible voter displaces the vote of a person whose vote was supposed to matter. It's easy to say "there's no evidence of fraud" when you work very hard to not look for any and use government to block attemtps to look for it.
They refused to prosecute BlackPanthers who showed up at the polls in paramilitary uniforms and armed with billy clubs. If ANY other group in America showed up at the polls with weapons and in paramilitary uniforms to intimidate people, they would have gone to prison.
They destroyed e-mail that were required by law to be preserved as government records as the State Dept, the IRS, and other agencies, thus setting a string of precedents about destroying evidence about Federal government policies and slective enforcement of law. Hillary's e-mails were only the tip of the iceberg. The IRS servers were in government custody when they were degaused while the IRS commissioner smirked his way through a congressional hearing, which is why congress is currently considering impeachment hearings for him. The only thing that may save him is that he will be gone in a few months anyway.
They have used justice department to sue states that try to ID voters with the bogus claim that minorities are incapable of getting photo IDs..... which is silly given that you need photo ID to ride on a plane, drive a car, or buy beer and this will only increase in response to terrorism. The last time I looked, minorities were having no more trouble buying beer than whites.
They have used Justice Department to sue states that try to look for voter fraud, and to bury actual cases that are forced upon them by the states. In 2013 just one county in Virginia (hardly ground zero for illegal immigration) discovered that several hundred illegals had registered to vote, and over 100 of them had in fact voted. According to law, they were given a chance to show that they were citizens - they did not. The cases were handed over by the election board to Eric Holder (then Obama's A.G.) who refused to act and who later held press conferences in which he claimed there was no evidence of vote fraud in America. In 2015 the Obama administration spent more money importing illegals into the country (under the guise of "family reunification" where they FLEW illegals INTO the US to unite them, rather than deporting the ones whho were here) than they spen looking for vote fraud. The Democrats have endlessly demanded that there is "no evidence" of vote fraud, as they have done everything they possibly could to block any attempt to look for it and to ignore it and destroy evidence of it when offered. They work very hard to not see what they claim does not exist. EVERYBODY knows full-well that poor immigrants and the 1st generation kids of poor immigrants vote overwhelmingly for Democrats when they are given the chance. If this is a mystery to anybody, they need their head examined.
One cannot find what one refuses to look for and refuses to see.
The same poor people you are whining about seem to have no problem providing an ID when signing up for government aid. Or renting a movie. Etc, etc, etc.
Just how many poor people don't have a driver's license? And in a lot of states a state-provided photo ID can be had for nothing. Hell, they'll even come to your house and take your photo and make you an ID card if you have no way to get to them.
Tempest in a teapot.
Using your example of NH an ID card is $10 and lasts for 5 years. That's $2 per year for voting. That's really cheap. And to go further, how does one live in a modern society WITHOUT a Government issued ID? I guess you never travel on an airplane. You do not set up utiltities. You never rent a car or tool. You don't have a bank account. You have no cell phone nor mailbox. Basically - you live in the woods as a hermit - probably not too interested in politics to start with.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!