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Their "Da colored shouldn't vote" schemes are for electing conservatives. Only.
Jim DeMint: Voter ID Helps Elect 'More Conservative Candidates'
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Thursday, 4/28/2016 10:45 am
Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina senator and Tea Party firebrand who is now the president of the Heritage Foundation, became the latest in a string of conservatives to admit that restrictive voting laws such as voter ID requirements are an attempt to help Republicans win elections, telling a St. Louis radio host yesterday that voter ID laws help elect more conservative candidates. Talk radio host Jamie Allman asked DeMint about Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffes move to restore the voting rights of people in the state who had served time for felonies, a draconian restriction that disproportionately affected African-Americans by design. DeMint responded that McAuliffes action was awfully suspicious and tied it to what he claimed was a Democratic plan to get votes from illegals and through voter fraud. Well, its awfully suspicious coming into a big election in a state where its actually pretty close, he said. I mean, states can decide who votes, but the governor themselves without legislative action, that seems over the top to me. I havent seen an complete analysis here, but the left is trying to draw votes from illegals, from voter fraud, a lot of different things, so this kind of fits right in to trying to find another group that they can basically count on to vote their way. So its really a bigger issue, he added, and thats why the left fights voter ID or any kind of picture ID to know that it is actually a registered voter whos voting. And so its something were working on all over the country, because in the states where they do have voter ID laws youve seen, actually, elections begin to change towards more conservative candidates.
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)have everybody vote and let the chips fall where they may.
WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)Volaris
(10,271 posts)And no one will notice the much larger and more evil crime of ELECTION TAMPERING that your engaged in. Republican Projection 101.
I don't care if (or how many) Mickey Mouses there are registered to vote, because not one of them is actually going to show up to cast a ballot. This is a non-existant issue that only exists in the addled minds of Republican VOTERS, because I don't think even Republican elected officials believe a word of this nonsense. More pandering to the Idiot segment of the general population.