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applegrove

(118,793 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:02 PM Apr 2020

Kentucky Just Made It Harder to Vote During Pandemic

Kentucky Just Made It Harder to Vote During Pandemic

April 15, 2020 at 3:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 116 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/15/kentucky-just-made-it-harder-to-vote-during-pandemic/

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Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode a veto of a new voter ID law by Gov. Andy Beshear (D), setting the stage for the requirement to be enacted for the November general election, the Washington Post reports.

Vox: “Meanwhile, if a Kentucky voter heads to the state’s webpage hoping to learn how to obtain such an ID, they will encounter a message telling them ID-issuing offices are closed.”

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Kentucky Just Made It Harder to Vote During Pandemic (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2020 OP
What a plan! Newest Reality Apr 2020 #1
Then they need to supply free ID to all registered voters. TheBlackAdder Apr 2020 #2
Absentee ballot requests are due by June 16th. saidsimplesimon Apr 2020 #3
Six word translation: DFW Apr 2020 #4
Deny people ballots and they may vote with bullets cagefreesoylentgreen Apr 2020 #5
That should go to the supreme court of kentucky, then. Even though it is currently controlled BComplex Apr 2020 #6
You knew the GOP would have to resort some manner of cheating standingtall Apr 2020 #7

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. What a plan!
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:06 PM
Apr 2020

That's the ONLY way the obsolete GOP can stay viable. They have to go thugs on the voters among other things as they hang like putrid dingle-berries from El Presidente's bulbous, behind of great authority in hopes of taking the system over completely.

Oh, but who can blame them? The dinosaurs didn't WANT to go extinct, either. So, desperate means will mean anything goes, no matter how down and dirty it gets.

BComplex

(8,066 posts)
6. That should go to the supreme court of kentucky, then. Even though it is currently controlled
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:22 PM
Apr 2020

by republicans, the writing has been on the wall there for some time, and what they're doing illegal as hell.

standingtall

(2,787 posts)
7. You knew the GOP would have to resort some manner of cheating
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:31 PM
Apr 2020

after Governor Beshear just restored voting rights to about 300,000 Kentuckians.

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