2016 Presidential Race

I'm confused, i thought the R's were the ones spitting hateful racist rhetoric.

 

but he's not in putins pocket doh ...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...p_organization_communicating_with_russia.html

 

that leak was in reference to the hacks of various dnc operatives, not the trump operated server

 

If by email dumper you mean unethical, criminal, liar and if by man baby you mean arrogant asshole, then I still go with the ethical choice with the most executive office experience. Being there is no changing your early vote in Florida I am going to have to be happy with my vote for Johnson.

 

Having all that executive office experience is kind of irrelevant when it can't help Uncle Gary tell the difference between Aleppo and a dog food.

 

Just another fool that only listens to MSM.
Did you bother to actually listen to his answer on what he would do in Syria? Have you bothered to read what his stance is on the issues? Of course you didn't because that would force you to think on your own.

 

that story makes the clintons look suspect as hell ... but she's not the one trying to implement policies that would benifit russia

 

Who did that deal benefit?

 

Cut gary some slack. Those interviews are tough when you don't know the questions beforehand

 

Nah she's just trying to implement policies that would benefit her Sunni handlers from the Arabian Peninsula. Apparently, her friendliness with Russia (the uranium deal, the reset button) is a thing of the past. Whoever pays the most at the moment, ya know? The Clinton way!

 

Carville is one creepy guy.

 

Please everyone, get out and vote. I can't believe this nonsense is going on
in 21st century America:

Slate


America Is Already in the Midst of a Voter Suppression Crisis


We didn’t even need to wait for Election Day.

By Mark Joseph Stern <http://www.slate.com/authors.mark_stern.html>


Grace Hardison.
100-year-old Grace Bell Hardison had her registration challenged in
North Carolina.



Voter suppression doesn’t only happen on Election Day. America is
already in the midst of a voter suppression crisis. Voters attempting to
cast an early ballot are being thwarted and lied to by Republican
officials—a problem that will likely escalate into chaos on election
day. This crisis is not unexpected; indeed, it’s been carefully planned
by Republican politicians since the turn of this century
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...10/the_gop_created_the_rigged_vote_myth.html>.
In recent months, federal courts have attempted to restore voting rights
in states where Republicans restricted or revoked them. But early voting
has already proved that these efforts cannot turn around years of
careful strategizing and disenfranchisement. The only remaining question
is how many qualified voters will have their ballots refused or
nullified under illegal Republican regulations.


In North Carolina, Grace Bell Hardison, a 100-year-old black woman, felt
the sting of voter suppression
<https://www.thenation.com/article/n...chise-a-100-year-old-african-american-woman/>.
Hardison’s voter registration was challenged in a scheme designed to
disenfranchise Democrats in Beaufort County. The county was once
required to submit all voting changes to the federal government due to
its history of discrimination against minority voting, but the Supreme
Court revoked this requirement <https://www.oyez.org/cases/2012/12-96>
in 2013. Since then, four individuals, led by Republican Shane Hubers
<http://www.thewashingtondailynews.com/2016/10/05/29-people-have-right-to-vote-challenged/>,
have attempted to purge 139 voters (most of them black Democrats) from
the rolls in Beaufort County by challenging their registration. Voters
whose registration is challenged are informed via mail and must appear
at a county board of elections or return a notarized form. Otherwise
their voting rights are nullified.



Following media attention to her plight, Hardison successfully restored
her voting rights. Other North Carolinians were not so lucky. Any
registered voter in the state can challenge
<http://www.thewashingtondailynews.com/2016/10/05/29-people-have-right-to-vote-challenged/>
another voter’s registration; in Moore County, the single person who
challenged nearly 400 registered voters just happened to be the
secretary of the county Republican Party. Nearly all of them were purged
from the voter rolls. Other counties are engaging in the same chicanery;
in Cumberland County alone, officials have purged 3,500 people
<http://www.usnews.com/news/national...rth-carolina-a-battle-over-voter-suppression>
from the voter rolls. They will face no resistance from a legislature
and governor who, in the words of
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...down_north_carolina_voting_restrictions.html>
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4^th Circuit, recently passed voting
restrictions that “target African Americans with almost surgical
precision.” The 4^th Circuit blocked many of the worst restrictions from
taking effect this election season—but Republican-controlled county
election boards have quietly continued to implement
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/us/politics/election-rules-north-carolina.html>
them by limiting the number of polling places and slashing early voting.

In Wisconsin, Zack Moore, a 34-year-old black man, faced voter
suppression head on
<https://www.thenation.com/article/w...-the-photo-ids-required-to-vote-in-november/>.
(The linked piece, like the above piece about Grace Bell Hardison, is by
Ari Berman of the/Nation/, who’s been doing remarkable work reporting on
voter suppression.) As required under Wisconsin’s stringent new voter ID
law
<https://www.brennancenter.org/press-release/wisconsin-photo-id-law-leads-long-lines>,
Moore went to the Division of Motor Vehicles to obtain a photo ID to
vote, presenting a photo ID from his previous state of residency, a
Social Security card, and a pay stub addressed to his home in Wisconsin.
It wasn’t enough: The DMV demanded his birth certificate. When he told
them it was lost, DMV officials told him to drive to Illinois and obtain
a new one. As an alternative, Moore entered the ID Petition
Process—which would not provide him an ID before Election Day.
Eventually, a federal judge had to intervene
< to ensure
that Moore could acquire the necessary ID. At least 2,200 other
Wisconsinites
<http://journaltimes.com/news/state-...37-b3cc-958b3e46ca5f.html?platform=hootsuite>
are still waiting on the IDPP to provide them an ID. Countless other
Wisconsin voters have already been denied
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat..._strikes_blow_to_wisconsin_voter_id_law.html>
the requisite ID because they lack a birth certificate.


In Texas, Molly E. Neck saw voter suppression in action
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/us/elections/voter-id-laws.html?_r=0>. When
Neck went to vote in San Antonio, she saw a sign declaring that all
voters must present a valid ID before casting a ballot. That was simply
false: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5^th Circuit struck down that
requirement
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...led_illegal_under_the_voting_rights_act.html>
in August, allowing voters with no ID to sign an affidavit attesting to
their identity instead. Texas officials have already been caught
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ourt_supervision_for_flouting_id_ruling.html>
violating this ruling by misleading voters about ID requirements in
official voting materials, leading a judge to place the state under
court supervision. But individual counties continue to falsely inform
voters that an ID is necessary to vote. A federal judge ordered Neck’s
county
<https://www.texastribune.org/2016/10/28/early-voting-issues-texas/> to
comply with the order and remove the false signs. But there are 254
counties in Texas. Judges and voting rights advocates will not win this
game of whack-a-mole; it is inevitable that some voters will continue to
be lied to by election officials.

In Indiana, police raided a black voter registration drive
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/indiana-voter-fraud-investigation_us_580a6cafe4b000d0b156a21a>
on the flimsiest of pretexts
<https://theintercept.com/2016/10/04...office-following-fraud-accusations-from-gop/>
and indefinitely halted its operations, blocking as many as 45,000 votes
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...police-raid-registration-program-in-indiana/>.
In Georgia, Republican officials refused to process
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d2caa-84e6-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html>
as many as 100,000 voter registration applications and moved a
predominantly black county’s polling precinct from a gym to a sheriff’s
office. In Ohio, a federal judge blocked the state’s efforts
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/09/23/voter-roll-purge-ruling.html>
to purge 2 million people
<https://www.thenation.com/article/a...tens-of-thousands-of-democratic-voters/?nc=1>
from the rolls—but officials are now refusing to reinstate
<https://thinkprogress.org/ohio-does...rs-back-to-the-rolls-1865f1056567#.u9v3x4cb9>
many of the purged voters.

Of course, it’s not just states and counties unlawfully planning to
disenfranchise voters. Political operatives and Donald Trump are
currently colluding
<http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2016_1030_16_cv_02645.pdf>
to intimidate minority voters; the Trump campaign has explicitly boasted
<https://thinkprogress.org/trump-cam...-before-election-day-3db053837f44#.qyv00x8i5>
of its “major voter suppression” efforts to drive minorities away from
the polls. Trump has urged his supporters
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._constitutes_illegal_voter_intimidation.html>
to become “election observers” at minority-heavy polling places, and
they’ve taken the hint: In Ohio, one man explained
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/po...-followers/LcCY6e0QOcfH8VdeK9UdsM/story.html>
his plans to engage in “racial profiling” and stop “people who can’t
speak American” from casting a ballot.



Ron

 

What's wrong with having a photo ID in order to vote? Why do we need photo IDs at all then?

I'd go even further and require a proof of citizenship.