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HOW THE GOP TRIES TO RIG ELECTIONS; Carl Davidson; Facebook; August 28, 2015.
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Carl Davidson (KD): “HOW THE GOP TRIES TO RIG ELECTIONS.
“See, this is how it’s being done....
“1) pass voter ID law
“2) close the places one would obtain an ID
“3) claim victory based on low voter turn out
“They either thing [sic] we’re stupid, don’t care or share some racist notions with them. Call this crap out for what it is.”
Mrs. Shannon (TS) is Chair of CommunistProgressive Democrats of America – PA 12th Congressional District Chapter [aka Beaver County Blue (Facebook version), aka Beaver County Reds]. KD’s contributions to the post were the first sentence and the final paragraph. Comments so far by KD’s followers are equally entertaining and thought out. Though not relevant to this analysis, you’ll find an interesting anti-football rant if you visit Mrs. Shannon’s Facebook page to confirm her comments above.
The inspiration for this post was a piece entitled “Alabama to close down 33 driver’s license offices October 1.” What KD and TS failed to mention is you have to go out of your way to claim you can’t get a photo voter ID card. See “Alabama Photo Voter Identification.”
I’m kind of surprised KD and TS didn’t go all in and claim the remaining four offices will be located in the only four places where Republicans live. In case you’re interested, AL’s overall black/white population is 26.2%/68.5% as per the 2010 census. In the four cities to host the final four offices, three are black majority and one is white majority, but eight points less than the state’s overall population. If closing the offices was some “racist” GOP plot to cut black voter registration/turnout, the GOP sure picked the wrong locations for the final four offices. I don’t know about AL, but, in general, Republican voters tend to be found in higher concentration in rural/suburban areas than in urban. In PA, the effect is referred to as the Pennsylvania “T.” You can read more about the photo voter ID issue here.
As for “some racial notions,” KD must be thinking about Rhode Island’s government, a former U.S. President, and a former 2016 presidential candidate. During the summer of 2011, Rhode Island passed a law requiring a photo ID to vote. RI voters reliably vote Democrat and Democrats held overwhelming majorities in both houses of the General Assembly. The governor was an independent, a former U.S. Senate RINO with high ADA Liberal Quotients. That governor, Lincoln Chafee, is now a registered Democrat who ran for President but withdrew. Further, at least as recently as 2008, leftist darling former-President Jimmy Carter supported a photo ID for voting.
Finally, what does President Obama think about photo voter ID? “‘Most of these laws are not preventing the overwhelming majority of folks who don’t vote from voting,’ Obama said during an interview with Rev. Al Sharpton.’ ‘Most people do have an ID. Most people do have a driver’s license. Most people can get to the polls. It may not be as convenient it may be a little more difficult. … The bottom line is, if less than half of our folks vote, these laws aren’t preventing the other half from not voting,’ Obama said. ‘The reason we don’t vote is because people have been fed this notion that somehow it’s not going to make a difference. And it makes a huge difference.’” In a fact sheet published by Mr. Obama’s White House, “In advance of Kenya’s March 2013 general elections, Yes Youth Can’s ‘My ID My Life’ campaign helped 500,000 youth obtain National identification cards, a prerequisite to voter registration.” FYI, Kenya requires national ID cards beginning at age 18 and the cards have both a photo and a fingerprint of the owner.
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