“We are experiencing an assault on voting rights that is historic, both in terms of its scope and intensity,”
~NAACP
No, we’re not. Simply because authorities want voters to present a Photo I.D. at the polls and don’t want convicted felons to vote?
The NAACP is calling on the United Nations to intervene as it claims state governments are colluding to “block the vote” for minority communities ahead of the 2012 election — a charge those governments vehemently deny.
The nation’s biggest civil rights organization this week released a report that claimed a raft of new voting laws at the state level would disenfranchise minority voters. The report said 14 states passed 25 measures “designed to restrict or limit the ballot access of voters of color.”
The report catalogued several categories of laws that have been passed largely by Republican-dominated legislatures and which Democrats have decried in recent months as tools of voter suppression. The new laws include requirements to present photo ID at the polls, voting restrictions on felons and limitations on registration and early voting periods.
That isn’t all.
To start, the group is planning a “Stand 4 Freedom” rally this Saturday across from the U.N. headquarters. Supporters are being asked to sign an online pledge which, among other demands, calls on the United Nations to “investigate and condemn voter suppression tactics in the United States.”
In Tennessee, which has a photo ID law going into effect in January 2012, officials started offering free photo IDs at local DMV offices — for voting purposes only.
People in these states – of every ethnicity – passed these measures to protect the ballot box; to protect their rights. People can still vote by mail and vote early. The fact that the NAACP wants a foreign body to intercede in their behalf in our country speaks volumes about them as a group.
The difference between the NAACP and folks like me is, I think of all Americans as ‘us’. They think of Americans as ‘white’ and ‘black’ and ‘asian’ and ‘hispanic’… They’re fighting to divide us and keep themselves relevant. Good luck with that.
7. December 2011 at 10:18 am
It isn’t all about color. It’s about the NAA(L)CP being a wholly owned subsidiary of the National DNC. Without voter fraud on a massive basis there would only be a set of Democrat officials in the big cities. There would, for instance, not be a Senator Franken. Of course, without voter fraud Hillary would have won the Donk nomination, too.
Voter fraud is common in both the primary and the general elections. In this election there will be no real contest for the top slot on the Donk side so we’ll see a whole slew of Donks wanting to vote in the Republican primary to help push the weakest candidate as they did in places like Michigan where they helped McCain. But, there were local races so what to do? Oh, yeah, vote early and often.
7. December 2011 at 10:39 am
Yeah, I know; they’re using color. I’m sick of it.
7. December 2011 at 11:06 am
In Michigan we have had voter ID required for a few years now, voted on by the public and used during the last presidential election.
Of course Detroit put up a fuss about it when it passed, but no huge issues during the election voting.
7. December 2011 at 11:15 am
I see nothing wrong with presenting ID when voting. It’s the logical thing to do…
7. December 2011 at 2:32 pm
In Alaska we can get away with showing a current registered voter ID (unless it’s changed). I have no problem pulling out my driver’s license when asked. It seems kind of dumb, however, when I’m buying pipe cleaners and/or non-alcoholic beer. Who ever smoked a pipe cleaner?
7. December 2011 at 2:34 pm
Pipe cleaners? I wonder for which nefarious purpose they’re employed?
7. December 2011 at 5:46 pm
Yeah, I use them for really evil purposes in my classroom!!! Mwah-haa-haaa-haaa!
7. December 2011 at 7:20 pm
7. December 2011 at 7:42 pm
I have always had to show ID to vote – I guess they do not like having the option to see how many different polling places they can hit in a single day even if they already mailed in their votes – I was taught in grammar school that if you are convicted of a felony you will loose the right to vote – the kids are taught nothing at all these days except how to use drugs & have sex -
9. December 2011 at 11:16 am
It always comes down to the same tired, outdated, antiquated and noxious comments from the “other side” when it comes to election talk. If you’re against Obama, then you must be a racist because the man is black. (Technically, he’s half-white, so I guess we’re pirating against ‘our own’ in their pointed head opinion.
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Then when that line gets tired, they need to wheel out that we’re against Immigration (a country that is wholly made up of immigrants) and don’t want immigrants to vote, because they won’t vote “for” us. Because we’re too busy trying to get our white sheets their whitest for whatever rally they think we’ve got to get to.
Then we have to break out the tired speech about not letting the aged and inferm get access to polling centers, which is why THEY need to get buses to round ‘em up and get them to the polling centers so they can vote. Yep, you caught me. How’d you catch on so quickly bright eyes?!
Let’s see, so we’ve covered that we’re racist, we’re anti-immigrant, we’re against the old and the handicapped…what’s left for the argument? Hmm, if you strip away all the bullshit that they try to plow over our heads and tell us that it’s just a cloudy day, the same shit still stinks. We’ve got record debt. We’ve got record unemployment. We’ve got jobs being shipped overseas that need to come back to US soil. We’ve got money that ain’t worth a damn here, let alone anyone anywhere outside of the states. We’ve got rampant polarization among our own people (hello “Occupy” idiots?!). The government is so busy trying to convince us that the other guy is out to get us, that many fools are starting to believe it. We’ve got a government that SAYS they support Israel, but at every opportunity their touting Palestine, radicals and clerics that want nothing more than to destroy exactly what has made us great for over 200 years. And we still have the same ass-hat sitting in an Oval Office ‘of the people, by the people and FOR the people’ who continues to show his disrespect for this country and what it has stood for and embracing every culture that wants us to crumble to the ground like so much rubble.
So tell me…why can’t they come up with a rational, well-thought out argument to “defend” their viewpoint? Oh that’s right, there isn’t one. Got it.
9. December 2011 at 11:33 am
Thanks for that; I needed it!
9. December 2011 at 9:27 pm
I spent some years driving folks to the polls, before I became a Precinct Chairman. I never once asked anyone who they were voting for. This is the sort of thing that both parties used to do.
I really don’t understand. My side of the family was not just union, we were Railroad Union! My old man was in the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, my mother a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. There was some polarization between the Parties but it wasn’t like this. And the really funny thing is that the Republican Party was the Party of integration. Hell, it still is. Places where the Donks rule (and they do rule instead of govern) have worse schools, a lower standard of living, more people living multi-generations through the dole. And yet it is we conservatives who are told we are raaaaacist! Maybe it is raaaaacist to want people to live with dignity, I dunno. Hell, the way the Donks are pushing abortion through the black community, maybe it is raaaaacist to want people to live!
10. December 2011 at 7:44 pm
Yup, to all of the above.
Mike’s Dad was a railroad worker; even got his SS# through them.