Election Reform

Panich52

(5,829 posts) Mon Jun 8, 2015, 10:59 AM Jun 2015

5 ways Republicans make it harder to vote and easier to buy elections

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The right-wing movement that decries bureaucracy in fact loves red tape and barriers to democracy, in order to keep "them" from the polls.

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5 ways Republicans make it harder to vote and easier to buy elections (Original Post) Panich52 Jun 2015 OP

Here in Florida, being registered to vote is fairly easy. It is keeping your name on the djean111 Jun 2015 #1

"onerous-to-get ID" - reason it counts as suppression, even virtual poll tax Panich52 Jun 2015 #2

And this is why registering everybody to vote is just a small first step. djean111 Jun 2015 #3

djean111

(14,255 posts)

1. Here in Florida, being registered to vote is fairly easy. It is keeping your name on the

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 11:03 AM

Jun 2015

registration rolls, having the correct and onerous-to-get ID, and getting past the signature checkers that is the problem.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)

2. "onerous-to-get ID" - reason it counts as suppression, even virtual poll tax

Reply to djean111 (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 03:35 PM

Jun 2015

In TX, percentage of fraud that would be caught by photo ID: .00000013

2012 analysis showed only 10 cases nationwide. One source said the percentage "not show up on a percentage chart (at least on one piece of paper)"

Many have to miss work to apply, even additional days just to get proper docs. Some of those docs cost money. That's the equivalent of a poll tax.

Bottom line is that photo IDs are a solution to a non-existant problem. A convenient fear-mongering to gain support for voter suppression. Because GOP fears democracy.

djean111

(14,255 posts)

3. And this is why registering everybody to vote is just a small first step.

Reply to Panich52 (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 03:42 PM

Jun 2015

The voter suppression is not the registering to vote issue, it is getting the necessary ID to get permission to vote. Or finding out that your name has been struck from the rolls, or your signature is not exactly the same as the time you got your ID. Florida just wipes swathes of voters from the rolls for all sorts of things.

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