Big win for voting rights in PA

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BoomerD

No Lifer
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The idea that a signature has to perfectly match in order to vote when it doesn't have to perfectly match in order to pay taxes is asinine.

I got a letter from my county election office notifying me that the signature on my ballot didn't match the signature on my driver's license...I had to submit a form with my signature and proof of identity in order to continue voting.
I really don't have a problem with it...it seems like in recent years, my signature has devolved into a scrawl...kind of a scribbly line.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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You need to include a big win for fascists and other Authoritarians who don't believe that the American public should be able to choose and vote for their own leaders.
You are delusional. For all the Democrats flaws, they try to win with ideas, not voter suppression or disenfranchisement. You don't see Democrats trying to make it harder for traditionally Republican leaning voters to vote.

As you follow your dictator adoring leader towards fascism, you just accuse others of what you are doing. Typical Trump tactic that works with his feeble minded base.

You just throw about terms and keywords you know nothing about, like ballot harvesting. As shown in this thread. That's what the fascist base of fascist leaders do. March ignorantly while goose stepping to dear leaders orders.
 
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You are delusional. For all the Democrats flaws, they try to win with ideas, not voter suppression or disenfranchisement. You don't see Democrats trying to make it harder for traditionally Republican leaning voters to vote.

As you follow your dictator adoring leader towards fascism, you just accuse others of what you are doing. Typical Trump tactic that works with his feeble minded base.

You just throw about terms and keywords you know nothing about, like ballot harvesting. As shown in this thread. That's what the fascist base of fascist leaders do. March ignorantly while goose stepping to dear leaders orders.
You obviously don't know about and understand the changes that the State of California has made to it's voting laws over the course of the last 12 years of so. The changes they made to insure the Democrats have a super majority and to insure that the Republican Party is dead in the State. The Democrats have virtually gerrymandered the entire State. There's a reason that over the course of the last 2 United State Senatorial elections in California the voters didn't even get a chance or a choice to vote for a Republican. That choice was removed from them by changes the Democrats and "independents" made to the rules.

There is your Democrat voter suppression and it's done across the entire State.
 

Ciber

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I hate signature verification on anything. It's pure bullshit. I once went to the bank and needed $10k+ and the damn bank did not want to give me my money because my signature did not match according to them, even though I had my passport and drivers license with me and also logged into the bank app and showed them all this, they still refused. They finally decided to give me my money when I told them I was going to call the cops and dialed 911.

This was a Bank of America branch.
 

nickqt

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I hate signature verification on anything. It's pure bullshit. I once went to the bank and needed $10k+ and the damn bank did not want to give me my money because my signature did not match according to them, even though I had my passport and drivers license with me and also logged into the bank app and showed them all this, they still refused. They finally decided to give me my money when I told them I was going to call the cops and dialed 911.

This was a Bank of America branch.
Using signatures as any kind of "security" in 2020 is dogshit-tier level stupid fuckery.
 
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ivwshane

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You obviously don't know about and understand the changes that the State of California has made to it's voting laws over the course of the last 12 years of so. The changes they made to insure the Democrats have a super majority and to insure that the Republican Party is dead in the State. The Democrats have virtually gerrymandered the entire State. There's a reason that over the course of the last 2 United State Senatorial elections in California the voters didn't even get a chance or a choice to vote for a Republican. That choice was removed from them by changes the Democrats and "independents" made to the rules.

There is your Democrat voter suppression and it's done across the entire State.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. You think politicians C, D, E, and F who got less votes than politicians A and B in the primary should be on the ballot, why? If they couldn’t make it in the primary why would they be on the ballot? Btw, the top two politicians are chosen by who gets the most votes and not by what party supporters picked.

The fact that republicans can’t get past the primary says more about republicans than anything else.

 
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Lezunto

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Imported Taj_Mahal wrote:

"Sorry i don't consider having to provide identification is stopping people from voting. I also don't think that having reasonable regulations in place to prevent voter fraud and illegal ballot harvesting disenfranchise any voters."

There is little voter fraud in the United States. Republicans have long sought to limit the voting strength of its Black, Latino and Native American or younger citizens by shutting down state offices close to minority areas that offer required I.D.'s.

The Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law issued a report called “The Truth About Voter Fraud.” This investigative summary found that most reported incidents of voter fraud are actually traceable to other sources, such as clerical errors or bad data matching practices, the report said.

The report reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud, and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent. Given this tiny incident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely, the report noted, that an American “will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.”

So, Imported Taj_Mahal, your worries about voter fraud are overblown.

Because the real problem is Voter Suppression, stopping legal and eligible U.S. citizens from casting a ballot by closing voting sites or moving them miles away from places where it is known citizens don’t own a lot of cars.

Or simply lopping off hundreds of thousands of voters from the state rolls of bonafide voters , usually supporters of the Dem Party, of course by falsely claiming they moved, died or never voted. Or worse, owe money.
 

ch33zw1z

Lifer
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You need to include a big win for fascists and other Authoritarians who don't believe that the American public should be able to choose and vote for their own leaders.

States choose the president, did you forget were a constitutional republic with an electoral college?