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Featured Appeals court strikes down 'discriminatory' Texas voter ID law

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  1. Revmitchell

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    Obama Admin Shows A Massive Hypocrisy With Its Voter ID Laws

    According to the Obama Administration if you believe that requiring a photo ID to vote makes you a "racist", however if you take that ridicules accusation to it’s final logical conclusion, then by extension those elected government officials including the president himself would be guilty of discrimination, in that currently every government facility requires a photo ID, before anyone can entire any facility.

    However, if the president truly believes that photo ID’s Laws are discriminatory then it’s incumbent that he should use his executive powers to eliminate all photo ID’s that require access to all government facilities…right?

    After all the Obama Justice Department has already blocked Texas’s voter ID, so at least they’re consistent, right? Well not really because that very same Justice department requires photo ID to entire their facility.

    Obviously consistency isn’t of concern to progressives. At a July 2012 NAACP event, NAACP President Ben Jealous claimed that requiring voter ID was “racist.” However, at that very same event, , the NAACP required photo ID in order to get into the event in the first place, so does that mean that Ben Jealous is himself a racist?


    http://www.usherald.com/obama-admin-shows-a-massive-hypocrisy-with-its-voter-id-laws/
     
    #21 Revmitchell, Aug 6, 2015
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    Opposition to voter ID laws make little sense to me.

    Honestly, who doesn't have a driver's license or state issued ID card?

    Makes no sense.
     
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  3. Salty

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    this might be a bit off OP, but I work in a C-Store.
    You would be surprised how many will come into buy booze or cancer sticks - unable to produce their Drivers license - leave - then hop in their car and drive away.
     
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  4. Revmitchell

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    It make plenty of sense if you understand that one political party wants illegals to be able to vote since they feel they would keep them in power.
     
    #24 Revmitchell, Aug 6, 2015
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    #25 TCassidy, Aug 6, 2015
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    Yes, a lengthy essay that attempts to prove the Supreme Court is wrong, the United States is wrong, and the Constitution is wrong when they all say:

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State (for) ________________________

    The first paragraph of the article even says,

    “What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?” The correct answer, according to the United States government, was, “The right to vote.”
     
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    ?

    So why is a 16 year old not allowed to vote?
    Why is a Criminal not allowed to vote?
    Why is a non-registered person allowed to vote
    ...
     
    #27 Salty, Aug 6, 2015
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    Fixed yer post.
     
    #28 InTheLight, Aug 6, 2015
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    Interesting. And yet the Justice Dept. has no problem with Black Panthers "monitoring" elections...holding nightsticks.
    LINK
     
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  10. InTheLight

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    Do you have a link showing the Justice Department "had no problem" with this?

    I know it's deplorable on the face of it, but is there any law saying a person cannot hold a stick in the outdoors?
     
    #30 InTheLight, Aug 6, 2015
  11. Revmitchell

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    "Holding a stick in the outdoors" such a characterization could not be less precise and more inaccurate.
     
    #31 Revmitchell, Aug 6, 2015
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    Agreed, but it is legally accurate. That is what the Justice Department would be asked to rule upon. Not intention.

    Edited to add: Would you be opposed to citizens with legal carry permits to stand outside polling places? Why or why not?
     
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    I have no idea where you get that from. Intent always comes into play.

    When it happens get back to me.
     
    #33 Revmitchell, Aug 6, 2015
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    It depends on what the signs they were carrying said. Guns by themselves don't scare me.
     
    #34 Bro. Curtis, Aug 6, 2015
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    "Under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ) brought a voter intimidation case against the Black Panthers,...

    But a few months later the Obama DOJ quietly dropped the charges and it all disappeared like a bad dream. Judicial Watch investigated and after suing the DOJ, obtained explosive documents that show Obama political appointees were intimately involved in the decision to dismiss the voter intimidation case against the Black Panthers. The documents directly contradict sworn testimony by Obama’s Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Thomas Perez, that no political leadership was involved in the decision."
    LINK
     
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    You obviously either didn't read the article or it went completely over your head. The article is doing exactly the opposite as you claim.

    Look, we already know you are not terribly bright nor do you have well developed reading comprehension skills, but the quote you posted states that US citizens cannot be denied the right to vote on the basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

    It does not establish that right. In fact, the only establishment of a right to vote found in the Constitution is found for the first time in the Fourteenth Amendment, which says that states shall lose congressional representation "when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime."

    So, according to you only men 21 or over have a right to vote and then they only have a right to vote for electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof?

    Duh!
     
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    So, according to you Nelson Mandela was a right wing Republican racist trying to suppress the black vote?

    http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2013/12/08/mandela-sported-voter-id-shirt-1998
     
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  18. Zaac

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    You're OBVIOUSLY confused as I didn't say anything about Mandela.

    Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk
     
    #38 Zaac, Aug 6, 2015
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    Okay, I will explain this real s l o w so you can keep up.

    Major Premise: You claim that requiring an ID to vote is Republican racists trying to suppress the black vote.

    Minor Premise: Nelson Mandela believed in requiring an ID to vote.

    New Major Premise: Nelson Mandela was a Republican racist trying to suppress the black vote.

    I know that logic is a mystery to you, but I have dumbed it down as far as I can. :)
     
    #39 TCassidy, Aug 6, 2015
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    Let me explain this real slow for you. If I didn't type it, you can save the ridiculous extrapolations.

    If I said the GOP, then I didn't say Mandela.

    Now I can draw pictures too if that helps your delayed comprehension.

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    #40 Zaac, Aug 6, 2015
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