Bernie Sanders calls out 'coward' Republicans for voter suppression efforts in Alabama and beyond

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Not to mention:

DMV offices closing will not affect receiving voter I.D. card

​You can't make up how stupid this clown is. You really can't.


Gee, who is saying the above? Oh, the guys who are implementing the bullshit procedure? You're the heir apparent for the dumbest cocksucker on this forum-Festering Shit and Witless Willie are the longest lasting idiots, but you're even dumber. Why don't you explain how, if you need a driver's license to vote in state with only 4 DMV in the entire 50,000 plus square miles in the state, how that "will not affect receiving voter I.D. card?"
 

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Hey dumbfuck, you do realize Alabama has mobile vans that will bring them valid state issued ID's? The places they shut down were in very rural areas and would often have less than a dozen people come into their office on a daily basis.

Fuck youre an idiot.you follow up your Ben Carson moronic post with this crap..you are the worst of the worst.

As usual, you have no idea what you're talking about. Go fuck your mother.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2...ma-may-gotten-even-difficult-black-residents/

...Secretary of State John Merrill, Alabama’s head elections official, waved off any concern that the decision to shutter offices in predominantly Black counties would lead to disenfranchisement. According to AL.com, the satellite offices managed roughly 5 percent of driver’s license transactions. Alabamans can get photo ID cards at the county Board of Registrars office, he said.

“Every county has a Board of Registrars,” said Merrill, AL.com reported.



Merrill also touted Alabama’s mobile voter ID vans, saying that by October 31 the mobile vans will have visited every county in Alabama. He also said that the mobile vans would revisit counties, if requested. “If they can’t go to the board of registrars, we’ll bring a mobile crew down there,” Merrill said.
But how many people even know that they can get a photo ID card at the registrar’s office?
“People may not know they can go to a registrar’s office,” Susan Watson told me. “I found out reading the [AL.com] article. I didn’t know that.”
Although the secretary of state published a voter ID guide in March 2014, the fact that Watson was unaware voters could obtain photo ID at the Board of Registrars office raises questions about how effective Alabama has been in getting the word out about how Alabamans can obtain the requisite identification.
Watson also doesn’t think the mobile ID vans are sufficient. “It still puts a burden on people to take time off work and research and find out when they’re going to be there,” said Watson. “They don’t exactly make it easy.”
I, for one, had some trouble finding van visit schedules online. I was only able to find one source; it looks each county was visited once, and most times the visit didn’t occur over a weekend.
In any event, irrespective of whether or not the closures will further disenfranchise marginalized groups, the closures disproportionately burden already-burdened people, according to Watson. “If there’s a board of registrars open in the county they’re in, they can go there to get a photo ID card, but they sure can’t get a driver’s license there. They’ll still have to go to another county and take time off work,” in addition to paying potential transit costs the trip might entail, Watson said.
 

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How many people could this possibly effect? You have a year in advance. If voting means that much to you then you will get it done. Even in Alabama the libraries got internet access, right?
 

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As usual, you have no idea what you're talking about. Go fuck your mother.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2...ma-may-gotten-even-difficult-black-residents/

...Secretary of State John Merrill, Alabama’s head elections official, waved off any concern that the decision to shutter offices in predominantly Black counties would lead to disenfranchisement. According to AL.com, the satellite offices managed roughly 5 percent of driver’s license transactions. Alabamans can get photo ID cards at the county Board of Registrars office, he said.

“Every county has a Board of Registrars,” said Merrill, AL.com reported.



Merrill also touted Alabama’s mobile voter ID vans, saying that by October 31 the mobile vans will have visited every county in Alabama. He also said that the mobile vans would revisit counties, if requested. “If they can’t go to the board of registrars, we’ll bring a mobile crew down there,” Merrill said.
But how many people even know that they can get a photo ID card at the registrar’s office?
“People may not know they can go to a registrar’s office,” Susan Watson told me. “I found out reading the [AL.com] article. I didn’t know that.”
Although the secretary of state published a voter ID guide in March 2014, the fact that Watson was unaware voters could obtain photo ID at the Board of Registrars office raises questions about how effective Alabama has been in getting the word out about how Alabamans can obtain the requisite identification.
Watson also doesn’t think the mobile ID vans are sufficient. “It still puts a burden on people to take time off work and research and find out when they’re going to be there,” said Watson. “They don’t exactly make it easy.”
I, for one, had some trouble finding van visit schedules online. I was only able to find one source; it looks each county was visited once, and most times the visit didn’t occur over a weekend.
In any event, irrespective of whether or not the closures will further disenfranchise marginalized groups, the closures disproportionately burden already-burdened people, according to Watson. “If there’s a board of registrars open in the county they’re in, they can go there to get a photo ID card, but they sure can’t get a driver’s license there. They’ll still have to go to another county and take time off work,” in addition to paying potential transit costs the trip might entail, Watson said.

The last paragraph makes no sense. How did they get a job without an ID in the first place? How do they cash their paychecks without an ID? How do they have a bank account without an ID? How did she get internet access to look up the van schedule without an ID (need one to use the library, or to sign up for a utility).
 

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Anyone who lives that far off the grid to have no transport, no internet and no photo ID probably isn't too interested in who the hell is in public office anyway.
 

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The last paragraph makes no sense. How did they get a job without an ID in the first place? How do they cash their paychecks without an ID? How do they have a bank account without an ID? How did she get internet access to look up the van schedule without an ID (need one to use the library, or to sign up for a utility).


Stop being logical.

This is what I meant before when I said it's nearly impossible to do a fucking thing without any form of identification. You're not going to find a place to work or live, which means no income or shelter, which means you're basically homeless. If you don't have one, I'd be very curious to know how they've gotten along this far without one.

There's only one reason dimocraps don't want ID as a mandatory part of the voting process. You can probably already guess what it is.
 

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The last paragraph makes no sense. How did they get a job without an ID in the first place? How do they cash their paychecks without an ID? How do they have a bank account without an ID? How did she get internet access to look up the van schedule without an ID (need one to use the library, or to sign up for a utility).

To seemingly make the assumption that one must have internet access and/or knowledge to be able to vote-not to mention that YOU know the employment/check cashing policies of all companies shows an incredible combination of arrogance and naivete. Plus, you don't know how to read: Watson, the person making the comments about the van scheduling-one visit, whatta joke!-is a bigwig in the ACLU, so I think we can safely assume that she has internet access. You live in your own little cocoon world, plus, you've carefully avoided discussing the obvious racial implications of 31 counties out 31 with large black voter voter registration being closed). No "head-in-the-sand" attitude there at all, right?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...r-confusion/qYHKjeGSURhMaxeYtJG6dI/story.html

Michael A. Cohen
Alabama ‘clarifies’ voter ID confusion


By Michael A. Cohen October 06, 2015
If anyone still doubts that the Republican push for voter identification is really about limiting the franchise of Democratic voters — and in particular African-American voters — the state of Alabama has helpfully cleared up the confusion.
In 2014, Alabama passed a law that required all of its citizens have a photo ID in order to vote. The state’s Republican leaders argued at the time that this was a necessary tool for stopping voter fraud, even though voter fraud is practically nonexistent not only in Alabama, but also pretty much everywhere in the country.
OK, but let’s for a second pretend that Alabama’s GOP-led state legislature had its heart in the right place and was truly committed to the free and legal right of all its citizens to vote — and that it in no way was trying to limit voting rights. How then does one explain the fact that Alabama is now closing 31 driver’s license offices that are predominately located in African-American communities?
Wait, did I say predominately?
Sorry, I meant to say: almost exclusively. You see, according to John Archibald, a columnist for the Alabama Media Group and Al.com, “Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their [driver’s] license office closed. Every one.”
So, to put this in more layman’s terms: The state of Alabama has, by law, made it more difficult for voters in its state to vote. According to the Alabama secretary of state, about 500,000 state residents in 2014 didn’t have a photo ID (that’s 20 percent of those registered to vote). The law disproportionately affects poor people who would find it the most difficult to get a photo ID (Alabama helpfully raised the fee more than 50 percent for getting a driver’s license) and, in particular African-Americans, who voted in fewer numbers in 2014 in places where voter ID laws went into effect. In Alabama in 2014, the state had the lowest turnout in an election since 1986. Now Alabama is closing offices where state residents can get a license with a photo ID and doing it almost exclusively in places where black people live.
It’s almost as if, when Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 2013 decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act and made Alabama’s Voter ID law possible, “Blatantly discriminatory evasions of federal decrees are rare,” he was badly mistaken.

 

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DaFinch..proving once again he is possibly the most clueless hack on the planet.

Go fuck yourself pussy.
 

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To seemingly make the assumption that one must have internet access and/or knowledge to be able to vote-not to mention that YOU know the employment/check cashing policies of all companies shows an incredible combination of arrogance and naivete. Plus, you don't know how to read: Watson, the person making the comments about the van scheduling-one visit, whatta joke!-is a bigwig in the ACLU, so I think we can safely assume that she has internet access. You live in your own little cocoon world, plus, you've carefully avoided discussing the obvious racial implications of 31 counties out 31 with large black voter voter registration being closed). No "head-in-the-sand" attitude there at all, right?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...r-confusion/qYHKjeGSURhMaxeYtJG6dI/story.html

Michael A. Cohen
Alabama ‘clarifies’ voter ID confusion


By Michael A. Cohen October 06, 2015
If anyone still doubts that the Republican push for voter identification is really about limiting the franchise of Democratic voters — and in particular African-American voters — the state of Alabama has helpfully cleared up the confusion.
In 2014, Alabama passed a law that required all of its citizens have a photo ID in order to vote. The state’s Republican leaders argued at the time that this was a necessary tool for stopping voter fraud, even though voter fraud is practically nonexistent not only in Alabama, but also pretty much everywhere in the country.
OK, but let’s for a second pretend that Alabama’s GOP-led state legislature had its heart in the right place and was truly committed to the free and legal right of all its citizens to vote — and that it in no way was trying to limit voting rights. How then does one explain the fact that Alabama is now closing 31 driver’s license offices that are predominately located in African-American communities?
Wait, did I say predominately?
Sorry, I meant to say: almost exclusively. You see, according to John Archibald, a columnist for the Alabama Media Group and Al.com, “Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their [driver’s] license office closed. Every one.”
So, to put this in more layman’s terms: The state of Alabama has, by law, made it more difficult for voters in its state to vote. According to the Alabama secretary of state, about 500,000 state residents in 2014 didn’t have a photo ID (that’s 20 percent of those registered to vote). The law disproportionately affects poor people who would find it the most difficult to get a photo ID (Alabama helpfully raised the fee more than 50 percent for getting a driver’s license) and, in particular African-Americans, who voted in fewer numbers in 2014 in places where voter ID laws went into effect. In Alabama in 2014, the state had the lowest turnout in an election since 1986. Now Alabama is closing offices where state residents can get a license with a photo ID and doing it almost exclusively in places where black people live.
It’s almost as if, when Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 2013 decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act and made Alabama’s Voter ID law possible, “Blatantly discriminatory evasions of federal decrees are rare,” he was badly mistaken.


So how do these people survive without an ID?

And I DO KNOW the employment policies of ALL companies in the United States. So should you.... When you get a job you HAVE TO BY LAW, fill out the DHS Government "Employment Eligibility Verification" form (Form I-9). You know the one where you have to give TWO (yes 2) form of government issued ID, one of which MUST be a government photo ID.

In case you dont know the law... here is the link http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-9.pdf
 

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Your blackcent needs work ;-)

I'm not real fluid in Ebonics, but the example of voter suppression is real. It's a story of one voter who didn't make it to the polls in 2000, and used by libtards and the libtarded media in nationwide stories about how the black vote was suppressed in Bush vs Gore. Their resident mayor even cited it in this forum.



PS: I obviously embellished just a tad, but that doesn't change the depth of their ignorance
 

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So how do these people survive without an ID?

And I DO KNOW the employment policies of ALL companies in the United States. So should you.... When you get a job you HAVE TO BY LAW, fill out the DHS Government "Employment Eligibility Verification" form (Form I-9). You know the one where you have to give TWO (yes 2) form of government issued ID, one of which MUST be a government photo ID.

In case you dont know the law... here is the link http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-9.pdf

NFL Trends...

Don't ask the difficult questions in here...you will get called a racist. Dontchaknow when you are a government leaching welfare food stamp sucking bum, you don't need an ID to do day to day tasks in your life. Things that don't require an ID

Waking up
Lighting up some bud
Laying on the couch
Munching on some Doritos
Surfing the web on your Iphone6
Headin out to the store to grab a 40
Charging some beer, cigs and snack cakes on the EBT
Chillin with other jobless, voter suppressed, no ID carrying Democrats
Watching American Idol
Lighting up some more bud
Sipping on some purple drank
Go grab another pack of cigs with the EBT
Check you balance
Bitch about deserving more money because of the inequities
Bake up a Digiorno pizza
Go to the welfare website and check the box stating you looked for a job this week with no luck
Go to bed
 

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NFL Trends...

Don't ask the difficult questions in here...you will get called a racist. Dontchaknow when you are a government leaching welfare food stamp sucking bum, you don't need an ID to do day to day tasks in your life. Things that don't require an ID

Waking up
Lighting up some bud
Laying on the couch
Munching on some Doritos
Surfing the web on your Iphone6
Headin out to the store to grab a 40
Charging some beer, cigs and snack cakes on the EBT
Chillin with other jobless, voter suppressed, no ID carrying Democrats
Watching American Idol
Lighting up some more bud
Sipping on some purple drank
Go grab another pack of cigs with the EBT
Check you balance
Bitch about deserving more money because of the inequities
Bake up a Digiorno pizza
Go to the welfare website and check the box stating you looked for a job this week with no luck
Go to bed

owning a Saturday Night Special
 

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So how do these people survive without an ID?

And I DO KNOW the employment policies of ALL companies in the United States. So should you.... When you get a job you HAVE TO BY LAW, fill out the DHS Government "Employment Eligibility Verification" form (Form I-9). You know the one where you have to give TWO (yes 2) form of government issued ID, one of which MUST be a government photo ID.

In case you dont know the law... here is the link http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-9.pdf

Complete and utter horseshit: first of all, you conveniently "forgot" that not all voters are in the work force, as the following two articles touch upon. Also, I notice you carefully avoid discussing the 31 counties being shut down, any reason for that? C/mon, sit there with a straight face and say that you think that fact is neither unusual nor unfair...


http://www.aarp.org/politics-societ...012/voter-id-laws-impact-older-americans.html

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-17/voter-id-is-bad-for-republicans-too
 

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Not unusual nor is it unfair. It's cutting wasteful government spending, and also still providing the same services online and also in person with a service van.

And how are those people that aren't in the workforce surviving without an ID? What's their source of income? How do they live day to day life without one? What is their source of income and how do they get that income without an ID?
 

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Not unusual nor is it unfair. It's cutting wasteful government spending, and also still providing the same services online and also in person with a service van.

And how are those people that aren't in the workforce surviving without an ID? What's their source of income? How do they live day to day life without one? What is their source of income and how do they get that income without an ID?


At least you got him to admit dimocraps are most worried about their largely unemployed voter base.

I also like his first link is from the AARP. As in, retired persons. As in, the kind who once held jobs. That means they must have had IDs at some point to show they were legally permitted to work in this country. Remember my link about how easy it is to renew them?

You...can...not...function in this country without some kind of ID (unless, of course, your income is earned illegally...is that the next group dims will try to cater to?)
 

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Gee, who is saying the above? Oh, the guys who are implementing the bullshit procedure? You're the heir apparent for the dumbest cocksucker on this forum-Festering Shit and Witless Willie are the longest lasting idiots, but you're even dumber. Why don't you explain how, if you need a driver's license to vote in state with only 4 DMV in the entire 50,000 plus square miles in the state, how that "will not affect receiving voter I.D. card?"

Retard:

You don't need a driver's license to vote

There are not "only 4 DMV's in the state"

And the article explains how anyone who needs a voter ID card gets one. For example "All 67 counties in Alabama have a Board of Registrars that issue photo voter I.D. cards."

That's how, you utterly embarrassing fucking moron.
 

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Also, I notice you carefully avoid discussing the 31 counties being shut down, any reason for that? C/mon, sit there with a straight face and say that you think that fact is neither unusual nor unfair...

Can you read, retard?

"the 31 part-time satellite locations that are closing accounted for less than five percent of all of the Alabama driver license transactions ALEA performs. "

Do you know what that means, dumb fuck?
 

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So in sum:

There are no actual "voter suppression" efforts

You don't need a driver's license to vote

Anyone who wants a voter ID card can go to the registrar in their county or the state will supply a mobile van to bring a voter ID card to your home.

And this fucking idiot is screeching about this.

Hilarious.
 

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Not unusual nor is it unfair. It's cutting wasteful government spending, and also still providing the same services online and also in person with a service van.

And how are those people that aren't in the workforce surviving without an ID? What's their source of income? How do they live day to day life without one? What is their source of income and how do they get that income without an ID?

31 out of 31 counties that are not likely to vote for the county in power having their DMV eliminated? And, is it usual for ANY state-even a small one or a sparsely populated-to have only 4 DMV in the entire state? And, you DID see the part where those mobile vans you guys are slobbering over have visited some counties exactly ONCE, right? You appear, at first blush, to be at least remotely reasonable, but by claiming those things you show that you're a liar and/or clueless.

As far as how do the people described, first of all, many of them have ID, just not PHOTO ID, which you keep conveniently keep forgetting. Not to mention, their source of income is none of your business, maybe they have off shore income, like Romney.
 

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Retard:

You don't need a driver's license to vote

There are not "only 4 DMV's in the state"

And the article explains how anyone who needs a voter ID card gets one. For example "All 67 counties in Alabama have a Board of Registrars that issue photo voter I.D. cards."

That's how, you utterly embarrassing fucking moron.

What part of the following article do you not understand, you inbred, living-in-your-mama's-basement, fly infested, lying sack of shit?

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/state_says_it_will_close_all_b.html

Also, what part of "According to the Alabama secretary of state, about 500,000 state residents in 2014 didn’t have a photo ID (that’s 20 percent of those registered to vote)." do you(and other brain dead closet racist babbling about "how many people can this law affect?") not understand, you brainless cocksucker?azzkick(&^Loser!@#0Slapping-silly90))^^:):madasshol:kissingbb:fckmad:
 

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