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Originally Posted by einbert
I love your logic there TeflonDawg. One side is trying to manipulate the system to disenfranchise voters, the other side is trying to defend the right to vote. BOTH SIDES OBV CORRUPT LOL DEMOCRACY LOL VOTING
The Democrats are not defending the right to vote. Their defending their expected votes. Do you think they'd be taking the same positions they are now if somehow, in a parallel universe voter ID laws would disproportionately affect Republican voter turnout? They'd be the very people introducing these civil rights-violating laws!
A true profile in courage would stand up and say "Yes, let's get this done. BUT, we must implement in a responsible way that has as close to zero effect as possible on voter turnout." and would just as soon get to work in crafting a solution that ultimately puts the issue to bed. But no, here we are nearing another election and one side is muscling for votes and the other side is standing firm trying to preserve their own.
Obviously the Republicans are more culpable in this instance and in plenty of other instances quite possibly all of them, but don't sit there and act like the Democrats are interested in getting IDs to 100% of the population for the purposes of telling the Republicans to finally STFU about what effectively is a non-issue.
Solve the ****ing problem so gov't isn't using my tax dollars in the court rooms for the sole purpose of maintaining their particular voting bloc.
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Originally Posted by neg3sd
If they don't have an ID, they have a lot more problems than the need to vote.
All the money spent by the far left complaining about voter ID laws could have put to use to help these people get IDs.
And all the money Republicans force the Democrats to use in defense of civil rights are their own ****ing fault, because they bring it up every election for political purposes under the guise preserving the integrity of the election process. THEY start it, and THEY cost US money.
All this bitching back and forth from both sides and we pay the court costs for a circular, never-ending discussion every, ****ing, election.