Posted by tecwrg on 8/31/2016 6:42:00 PM (view original):
This is one of the things that really cracks me up about libs. They see "voter ID" and think that it's some deep, dark, nefarious conspiracy to disenfranchise voters.
It's just a common sense safeguard to protect the integrity of an important process. A safeguard that people deal with almost every day.
Want to buy a six-pack? Show your ID.
Want to buy a pack of smokes? Show your ID.
Want to cash a check? Show your ID.
Want to take a flight from the local airport? Show your ID.
Want to register a car at the DMV? Show your ID.
Want to vote once a year? IT'S A ******* RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY!!!
I'm not saying it's a conspiracy***. I'm saying it's a law that I don't like. In the same way that I'm sure there are laws in place that you don't like,
***except for the North Carolina law. Mike's literate cousins to the north really did up a piece of **** there. They specifically researched ways to limit black voting and then tailored the law around the findings:
“The new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision” and “impose cures for problems that did not exist,” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote for the panel. “Thus the asserted justifications cannot and do not conceal the State’s true motivation.”
The judges noted that Republican leaders had drafted their restrictions on voting only after receiving data indicating that African-Americans would be the voters most significantly affected by them.
“We cannot ignore the record evidence that, because of race, the legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history,” they wrote.