Give us an example of this happening. However, here in Texas, we have the King Street Patriots, a group of right wing thugs, who go to polling places in minority polling places to intimidate voters. And, yes, this does actually happen.
Then there is the method used in Florida in 2000, use the state police to keep “undesirables” from the polls.
Your point regarding needing ID to get cable TV. It’s quite interesting that here in Texas things like an college ID are insufficient, but a license to pack heat is just fine. Tell us again that there is not just one singular purpose to these laws — suppressing voting among demographic groups that are more likely to vote Democratic than Republican.
Let’s call these laws for what they really are — Voter Suppression laws — with one goal in mind; fewer votes for Democratic candidates. For anyone who thinks voter ID (Voter Suppression) laws are needed, watch Jeff Daniels in the following clip: http://www.wupr.org/2012/09/06/the-tea-party-is-the-american-taliban/ with Jeff Daniels. Yes, this is a fictional TV show, however, based in fact; google Dorothy Cooper voter ID and you can see that she is indeed a real person in Tennessee, who, at age 96 and having been voting for 75 years, is now having trouble with her eligibility to vote under the TN Voter Suppression law.
BTW, I have worked as an elections clerk during several early voting periods here in Texas, covering about 12 days each time; voter fraud is just not as easy to pull off as folks would like us to believe. Over a 5 year period, covering two presidential elections, there were 86 instances of voter fraud out of ~196,000,000 votes cast — you do the arithmetic. Also, amazing how it is perceived that only Democrats would stoop to doing such stuff, when there are a lot of Republicans who obviously will do anything to gain/hold on to power, as witnessed by the Voter Suppression laws that they are passing. Give me a break!
SCOTUS dropped the ball in it’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act last week, plain and simple.
Give us an example of this happening. However, here in Texas, we have the King Street Patriots, a group of right wing thugs, who go to polling places in minority polling places to intimidate voters. And, yes, this does actually happen.
Then there is the method used in Florida in 2000, use the state police to keep “undesirables” from the polls.Your point regarding needing ID to get cable TV. It’s quite interesting that here in Texas things like an college ID are insufficient, but a license to pack heat is just fine. Tell us again that there is not just one singular purpose to these laws — suppressing voting among demographic groups that are more likely to vote Democratic than Republican.