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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue May 20, 2014, 01:50 PM May 2014

GOPer Suggested Voting Should Be Limited To Property Owners

DANIEL STRAUSS – MAY 20, 2014, 1:27 PM EDT

When he was on the campaign trail in 2012, Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) suggested that only property owners should be allowed to vote.

Yoho made the suggestion when he was running for Congress. The comments were flagged by Right Wing Watch on Tuesday.

"I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote," Yoho said at a speaking event at the Berean Baptist Church in Ocala, Florida. The crowd responded with applause.

At the same event Yoho also said that early voting via absentee ballots are a "travesty" and praised Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) for reducing the number of early voting days from two weeks to eight days.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-yoho-voting-property-owners

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GOPer Suggested Voting Should Be Limited To Property Owners (Original Post) DonViejo May 2014 OP

Holy crap. gollygee May 2014 #1

Yet another reason for South Florida to secede from North Florida superpatriotman May 2014 #2

global warming will take care of florida leftyohiolib May 2014 #4

And yet they deny they are in favor of voter suppression? LOL reformist2 May 2014 #3

They misspelled his name again. KamaAina May 2014 #5

That was my first thought, too Brother Buzz May 2014 #6

Hello, Mr. Strauss? Brigid May 2014 #7

You will notice it doesn't say HOW MUCH property you'd have to own jmowreader May 2014 #8

Define property Kber May 2014 #10

When they say property they mean "real" property, which means land and/or buildings jmowreader May 2014 #11

The GOP wants to limit voting Gothmog May 2014 #9

Vote by Mail is a travesty? How will soldiers vote then? ErikJ May 2014 #12

This is always what they have wanted. nt ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2014 #13

Praised Rick Scott ... lpbk2713 May 2014 #14

gollygee

(22,336 posts)

1. Holy crap.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 01:54 PM

May 2014

I feel like I say that a lot, but what? Really? A member of congress really believes that? That's just scary and horrible. Why not just say what he's really thinking, which is, "You used to have to be white to vote."

superpatriotman

(6,249 posts)

2. Yet another reason for South Florida to secede from North Florida

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 01:58 PM

May 2014

Cut the state in two just north of Orlando.

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)

4. global warming will take care of florida

Reply to superpatriotman (Reply #2)

Tue May 20, 2014, 02:08 PM

May 2014

reformist2

(9,841 posts)

3. And yet they deny they are in favor of voter suppression? LOL

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 01:59 PM

May 2014

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

5. They misspelled his name again.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 02:09 PM

May 2014

It's "Yahoo".

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)

6. That was my first thought, too

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #5)

Tue May 20, 2014, 02:12 PM

May 2014

GMTA

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

7. Hello, Mr. Strauss?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 02:16 PM

May 2014

This is Alexander Hamilton calling. I'd like my ideas back please, or I shall challenge you, sir, to a duel. Oh, wait . . .

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)

8. You will notice it doesn't say HOW MUCH property you'd have to own

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 02:21 PM

May 2014

I'm pretty sure some enterprising liberal who owns a large piece of rural land could subdivide his or her runoff pond into business-size plots and sell deeds to it for a buck apiece.

Kber

(5,043 posts)

10. Define property

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #8)

Tue May 20, 2014, 04:05 PM

May 2014

It doesn't have to mean land. If you own the shopping cart you carry your stuff around in, it's your property, right?

We all own something, if it's just the shirt on our backs. Anyone who shows up the the polls in something other than his birthday suit should be ushered right in.