NC GOP official fired after comments made about Voter ID on The Daily Show last night

[Londo_Jowo]

If variations in names exist (like above), Texans need to show original documents or certified copies of their name change, via a marriage license, divorce decree or court ordered change. No photocopies are allowed. The state had been charging at least $20 to get a new version of these documents.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/texas-voter-id-law

Funny how you conveniently left off the part in your quote.

But Texas Secretary of State John Steen’s office announced these “Election Identification Certificates are available free of charge to qualified voters who do not already have an approved form of photo ID.”

 

[chucky2]

So you're OK with providing people with free ID's to vote, but voter drives to encourage people to vote or same day registration for those that have GOTTEN OFF THEIR ASS to come to actually come and vote isn't OK?

Spending public money to encourage people to vote? No. They are US citizens. Either they will vote, or, they won't. If they didn't, it's their own fault. We shouldn't be spending money other than normal and proper reminders of voting days coming up because people are too lazy to vote.

Same day registration? Where have they been the past 1000 business days since the past election? Suddenly, the day of voting, they realize they're either not registered at all, or, their registration is borked? The arguement their vote is so massively important as to require same day registration fails when you consider that if that is true, then their vote that is so massively important should have been so important to them that they took care of their registration far before election time.

Are there exceptions to this? Sure. Are they such a level that it screams racism or age discrimination or new resident discrimination? No.

This isn't a case of someone sitting in their house expecting to be able to vote while sitting on their couch. These are people that have actually made the effort to get to the polling place

As above, where were they the past 1000 days since the last election. Where have they been the 6 months before the election when election hysteria is in their paper, on the TV, on the radio, stuck in signage around town, it's coming up in every other conversation they're involved in? Suddenly, the day of voting, whamo, now their registration status is important to them?

Chuck

 

[ivwshane]

This interview basically summed up the real reason for the Voter ID, and we all know it. Was just nice to see a GOP official admit it

Yep, which is why the GOP quickly distanced themselves. Can't have the bullshit eaters see how the shit sausages are made!


On a side note; I love the idiot responses in this thread by people who don't understand te issue with a lot of voter ID laws. Their ignorance is directly proportional to how lazy they think "lefties" are.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

I know people just like that guy.

 

[ivwshane]

I know people just like that guy.

We all do, some just replied to this thread

 

[NFS4]

Yep, which is why the GOP quickly distanced themselves. Can't have the bullshit eaters see how the shit sausages are made!


On a side note; I love the idiot responses in this thread by people who don't understand te issue with a lot of voter ID laws. Their ignorance is directly proportional to how lazy they think "lefties" are.

I'm for Voter ID for this reason alone: when I go to vote at my polling place, they just ask my name and my address and then give me a ballot. No other information is asked. I could be anyone off the street.

That just bothers me.

 

[Matt1970]

Thank god the Democrats never allow the likes of a racist into their ranks.

Robert Byrd

Byrd led the Democratic caucus as Senate Majority Leader from 1977 to 1981 and 1987 to 1989, and as Senate Minority Leader from 1981 to 1987. From 1989 to 2010 he served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate when the Democratic Party had a majority, and as President pro tempore emeritus during periods of Republican majority beginning in 2001. As President pro tempore, he was third in the line of presidential succession, behind the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Not to bad for a KKK member huh? But then again he did say he was sorry. It's not like he let the N word slip out on National TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnO6ai0Ktro Opps. I guess a leopard can't change his spots, can he?

 

[AViking]

I think a national ID makes sense. Not for this reason though. We haven't even had 1,000 cases of voter fraud. There have been slightly over 2,000 alleged cases out of a couple hundred million ballets cast.

That's a thousandth of a percent. Statistically irrelevant.

Anyone who wants voter ID to eliminate voter fraud must think we're idiots.

 

[AViking]

Thank god the Democrats never allow the likes of a racist into their ranks.

Robert Byrd

Byrd led the Democratic caucus as Senate Majority Leader from 1977 to 1981 and 1987 to 1989, and as Senate Minority Leader from 1981 to 1987. From 1989 to 2010 he served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate when the Democratic Party had a majority, and as President pro tempore emeritus during periods of Republican majority beginning in 2001. As President pro tempore, he was third in the line of presidential succession, behind the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Not to bad for a KKK member huh? But then again he did say he was sorry. It's not like he let the N word slip out on National TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnO6ai0Ktro Opps. I guess a leopard can't change his spots, can he?

Lets talk about Strom Thurmond too. Or we can discuss the merits of the issue here instead of simply throwing feces at a wall and trying to make every thread about Republicans vs Democrats.

 

[marincounty]

Thank god the Democrats never allow the likes of a racist into their ranks.

Robert Byrd

Byrd led the Democratic caucus as Senate Majority Leader from 1977 to 1981 and 1987 to 1989, and as Senate Minority Leader from 1981 to 1987. From 1989 to 2010 he served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate when the Democratic Party had a majority, and as President pro tempore emeritus during periods of Republican majority beginning in 2001. As President pro tempore, he was third in the line of presidential succession, behind the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Not to bad for a KKK member huh? But then again he did say he was sorry. It's not like he let the N word slip out on National TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnO6ai0Ktro Opps. I guess a leopard can't change his spots, can he?

Last I heard this Democrat racist was dead. Do you have any living Democrats that are racists? Because the Republicans have plenty of them.

 

[Matt1970]

Last I heard this Democrat racist was dead. Do you have any living Democrats that are racists? Because the Republicans have plenty of them.

Ya he died whole 3 years ago. He was still a Senator and still elected President pro tempore of the United States Senate at the time of his death.

 

[chucky2]

I'm for Voter ID for this reason alone: when I go to vote at my polling place, they just ask my name and my address and then give me a ballot. No other information is asked. I could be anyone off the street.

That just bothers me.

This sort of freaked me out this past election. I'm standing there with my registration card and drivers license in hand in line, I'm next, walk up, the guy asks my name, I tell him...and, that's it? I'm free to vote?

I'm all for trusting people before they prove different, but it'd seem to me for important things like drivers license, voting, etc. we ought to have a trust but verify system. Just weird...

 

[Matt1970]

Lets talk about Strom Thurmond too. Or we can discuss the merits of the issue here instead of simply throwing feces at a wall and trying to make every thread about Republicans vs Democrats.

Oh you're going to wait till 32 posts in and claim the middle ground by going after my post. Ok. I agree though, Republicans and Democrats are just different sides of the same racist coin.

 

[boomerang]

Lets talk about Strom Thurmond too. Or we can discuss the merits of the issue here instead of simply throwing feces at a wall and trying to make every thread about Republicans vs Democrats.

Hey, I read that rapes in Sweden by Muslims immigrants are really skyrocketing. What's up with that?

 

[Phokus]

Oh you're going to wait till 32 posts in and claim the middle ground by going after my post. Ok. I agree though, Republicans and Democrats are just different sides of the same racist coin.

Lets review the facts:

1) TWO former RNC Chairman (one being as recent as during Dubya's presidency) admit the modern day GOP was founded by using a racist strategy of attracting southern white voters

2) The GOP's base of power is with Southern Whites even to this day

3) Only a retard (i.e. you) would deny the fact that the GOP engages in nefarious and racist activities like trying to reduce the number of eligible black voters as much as possible

4) You saying Democrats and Republicans are equally racist is as stupid as saying Democrats and Republicans are equally homophobic and xenophobic.

That's what you get when you have one party that's as diverse as homogenized milk.

You moron.

 

[Jhhnn]

Ya he died whole 3 years ago. He was still a Senator and still elected President pro tempore of the United States Senate at the time of his death.

Yeh, go for the false equivalency of denial. Pick one dead Senator, claim that justifies what modern Repub politicians are doing en masse.

Yelton didn't resign because of what he's done or what he believes, but rather because he expressed the true rationale behind the "voter fraud" hoax. Can't have that.

 

[zinfamous]

Oh you're going to wait till 32 posts in and claim the middle ground by going after my post. Ok. I agree though, Republicans and Democrats are just different sides of the same racist coin.

OMG but you're more racist!!

wtf are you such a child?

 

[shira]

What the hell is so hard about an ID?

This is totally the wrong question to be asking. All you need to know is that (1) there's essentially no voter ID fraud - a handful here, a handful there, certainly way, way, way below the the number of votes that would be needed to swing an election. And (2) there have been several studies that have concluded that voter ID laws will reduce the number of votes cast by minorities by an aggregate total of more than a million votes across the U.S.

So the CORRECT question to ask is: Given the above information, what possible justification is there for voter ID laws? And the only honest answer to that question is that voter ID laws are intended to reduce the number of Democrat votes cast.

 

[boomerang]

ID laws are intended to reduce the number of Democrat votes cast.

How many Democrat voters don't have ID?

 

[SheHateMe]

bennyhill.mp3

 

[DominionSeraph]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-350-Salvatore-Ferragamo-belt-Barneys.html

A black college student who had saved up money from his part-time job to buy a designer belt at Barneys department store was pounced on by police 'because he could not afford to make such an expensive purchase', according to a new lawsuit.
Trayon Christian, 19, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday for unspecified damages against the Madison Avenue store and the NYPD who wrongly accused him of fraud.
Mr Christian, who lives with his mom in Queens, had decided to splash out on a $320 belt by designer Salvatore Ferragamo after seeing one of his favorite music stars, Harlem rapper Juelz Santana, wearing the accessory.


However once he had paid for the belt and had left Barneys on April 29 this year, the fashion-loving teen was grabbed by undercover officers on the street.
According to the civil rights lawsuit, the 19-year-old was asked 'how a young black man such as himself could afford to purchase such an expensive belt'.

A Barneys store employee had asked the 19-year-old for ID when he used his Chase debit card to buy the belt. Mr Christian showed the clerk his state ID.
The store cashier then subsequently called the police to claim that the purchase was a fraud, according to the lawsuit.

Officers took the teenager, who is an engineering freshman at the NYC College of Technology, to a local precinct.
Mr Christian once again showed his ID, debit card and receipt for the belt.
Officers still refused to believe the teenager.
'In spite of producing such documentation Christian was told that his identification was false and that he could not afford to make such an expensive purchase,' the suit states.
Finally Chase bank was contacted who verified that the debit card belonged to Mr Christian.
It was only then that he was allowed to go after spending two hours in a holding cell, the suit claims.

So we need to change that political cartoon to match the realities of blacks in a culture with endemic racism.
"I think you're a criminal. Show some ID. I don't believe this, so you're under arrest."

When the authorities hold blacks to a more exacting standard than whites with blacks being saddled with the presupposition of wrongdoing with the burden being on them to prove their bona fides while whites get the benefit of the assumption of legitimacy with the burden being on the authority to prove different, placing additional hurdles within the system does not affect the two the same.

 

[Doppel]

That image is true.

Some of this was partly taken out of context to be frank, his "lazy blacks" followed immediately after him condemning whites for not getting IDs.

 

[Matt1970]

Lets review the facts:

1) TWO former RNC Chairman (one being as recent as during Dubya's presidency) admit the modern day GOP was founded by using a racist strategy of attracting southern white voters

2) The GOP's base of power is with Southern Whites even to this day

3) Only a retard (i.e. you) would deny the fact that the GOP engages in nefarious and racist activities like trying to reduce the number of eligible black voters as much as possible

4) You saying Democrats and Republicans are equally racist is as stupid as saying Democrats and Republicans are equally homophobic and xenophobic.

That's what you get when you have one party that's as diverse as homogenized milk.

You moron.

Having a Klansman Senate Majority Leader and President pro tempore (third in the line of presidential succession) as recent as 3 years ago is a pretty big other side of the same coin. I guess I am a moron for not giving him a free pass.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

That image is true.

Some of this was partly taken out of context to be frank, his "lazy blacks" followed immediately after him condemning whites for not getting IDs.

Yeah, "the whites" vs "a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything." Even his attempt at impartiality is woefully bigoted.

 

[woolfe9998]

Thank god the Democrats never allow the likes of a racist into their ranks.

Robert Byrd

Byrd led the Democratic caucus as Senate Majority Leader from 1977 to 1981 and 1987 to 1989, and as Senate Minority Leader from 1981 to 1987. From 1989 to 2010 he served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate when the Democratic Party had a majority, and as President pro tempore emeritus during periods of Republican majority beginning in 2001. As President pro tempore, he was third in the line of presidential succession, behind the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Not to bad for a KKK member huh? But then again he did say he was sorry. It's not like he let the N word slip out on National TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnO6ai0Ktro Opps. I guess a leopard can't change his spots, can he?

Is this going to be a standard brain dead talking point of conservatives for the next 1000 years every time it comes up that a republican said something racist? Every time a conservative acts racist, you'll post a photo of Byrd? What an embarrassment, to have nothing of substance to say. It has absolutely zero logical or factual relevance to the topic at hand. This sort of desperation is worse than saying nothing at all.

Anyway, the racism of in the comments linked by the OP is secondary to the fact that he openly admitted the reason for the voter ID's laws is to suppress democratic voters. But then, we already knew that, and so do you.