12-06-2018, 05:28 PM
(12-06-2018, 04:33 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Once again; I do not see how requiring ID disenfranchises the poor. Do we disenfranchise them from buying a drink?
You don't have to see it. The fact is it exists and Republican leaders know it exists.
Pennsylvania Republican House leader Mike Turzai admitted that the voter ID laws would allow Mitt Romney to win his State during the 2012 election. And there was no proof of any voter fraud that he could have been talking about.
Wisconsin Republican congressman Glen Grothman also said that voter ID laws would hurt Democrats despite the fact that there is zero evidence that Democrats commit voter fraud any more than Republicans.
Todd Allbaugh, a former Republican legislative aid quit his job over what he heard in a Republican caucus discussing using voter ID laws to suppress the vote of minorities and college students.
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Robert Gleason said that voter ID laws help suppress the number of votes Obama received in 2012. Again no evidence at all that Democrats committed voter fraud more than Republicans.
Republican consultant Scott Tranter called voter ID laws "part of the party's tool kit".
All of these people know that there is zero evidence that Democrats commit voter fraud more than Republicans. They know that voter ID laws suppress the vote of the poor who tend to vote more Democrat.
You can brag about your ignorance of how it works as much as you want, but politicians know exactly what the purpose of the voter ID laws are.
