Saturday, March 20, 2021

Photo IDs Are Not About Election Integrity

  • From the supposedly pro-life party.


    A woman was convicted of voter fraud for casting a provisional ballot in 2016. They convicted her for the same reason she had to cast a provisional ballot. Her vote was never even counted. OMG! Voter Fraud! Look, look, over here! Don't look over there!


    Voter ID laws are strictly aimed at people who vote Democratic. Polling places have long used other means to verify that the person voting is who they say. Trump's vision of busloads of illegal aliens voting plus people who vote and then put on a mustache and vote again is just delusional. Voter ID laws. Add in just a few of the many other tools of radical conservatives:
  • gerrymandering,
  • eliminating voting places and creating long lines,
  • purging of voter registrations of likely Democrats,
  • not letting people vote who owe the government money (poll taxes),
  • blocking former prisoners from voting,
  • restricting of early voting (fewer days and hours, no voting on Sunday),
  • restricting absentee voting,
  • misinformation such as the mailing of incorrect voting times or days,
  • eliminating drop boxes (or creating illegal 'private' drop boxes),
  • voter intimidation (think watchers with guns),
  • refusal to adequately fund election security (hacking)

If you think voter ID laws are about honest elections, think again.