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Republican voter suppression acoss this country! Lets see how far that goes!
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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 2288984" data-attributes="member: 55299"><p>You must be proud of your Governor, Brett636.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/mike-pence-walks-10-nuns-out-of-the-voting-booth/" target="_blank">Mike Pence walks 10 Nuns out of the Voting Booth - Greg Palast</a></p><p></p><p><em>In 2008, 10 nuns walked into a voting station, a place where they had been voting for decades, and they were told “Scram sisters” because Indiana had just passed its voter ID law. It was the first state in the nation that said you had to have a photo voter ID. So the nuns proudly showed their drivers licenses, except that the licenses had expired because they were all in their eighties and nineties. But they hadn’t expired. Nevertheless, they were told they couldn’t vote because they needed a current state ID, even though there’s no reason why. <strong>There’s no logic for any voter ID because in the 100 years in which records have been kept, not one single person in a 100 year history of voting in Indiana — not one — was found to have used someone else’s identity. </strong>In other words, using identify theft to cast a vote. Because you are going to the hoosegow for a very long time, at least 5 years under federal law and more under state law. But, nevertheless, this was the first voter ID law. This is the voter ID law that Justice Scalia provided the fifth and deadly vote in favor of, saying that it was constitutional and okay under the Voting Rights Act. Now, the Voting Rights Act itself has been killed by the former Scalia court</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 2288984, member: 55299"] You must be proud of your Governor, Brett636. [URL="http://www.gregpalast.com/mike-pence-walks-10-nuns-out-of-the-voting-booth/"]Mike Pence walks 10 Nuns out of the Voting Booth - Greg Palast[/URL] [I]In 2008, 10 nuns walked into a voting station, a place where they had been voting for decades, and they were told “Scram sisters” because Indiana had just passed its voter ID law. It was the first state in the nation that said you had to have a photo voter ID. So the nuns proudly showed their drivers licenses, except that the licenses had expired because they were all in their eighties and nineties. But they hadn’t expired. Nevertheless, they were told they couldn’t vote because they needed a current state ID, even though there’s no reason why. [B]There’s no logic for any voter ID because in the 100 years in which records have been kept, not one single person in a 100 year history of voting in Indiana — not one — was found to have used someone else’s identity. [/B]In other words, using identify theft to cast a vote. Because you are going to the hoosegow for a very long time, at least 5 years under federal law and more under state law. But, nevertheless, this was the first voter ID law. This is the voter ID law that Justice Scalia provided the fifth and deadly vote in favor of, saying that it was constitutional and okay under the Voting Rights Act. Now, the Voting Rights Act itself has been killed by the former Scalia court[/I] [/QUOTE]
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