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Originally Posted by Gravdigr
Uh...I know I'm gonna regret this, but...
Why can't Democrats get photo IDs?
(I assumed you meant Democrats, instead of 'ppl in favor of democracy')
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Even FOX News is willing to report what is going on here.
FOX News
By Juan Williams
Published August 03, 2012
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GOP's fictional voter fraud charges aim to keep Democrats from voting
What is going on here is that the GOP is yelling ‘Fire’ when there is no fire.
Their goal is to reduce the number of Democrats casting ballots in the November election.
The GOP has created a fictional controversy about voter fraud
to hide the reality of efforts to suppress likely Democratic voters.
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The George W. Bush administration’s controversial firing of US Attorneys
was rooted in their upset that Republican appointees said
they could not find evidence of significant voter fraud to prosecute.
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But the reporters concluded that after five years only 86 people
in the whole nation had been convicted and most of those involved
misunderstandings of the rules, not intentional fraud.
<snip>
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But to address your question directly as to the reasons
Democrats are more affected by such laws than Republicans
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Their latest Brennan report shows that more than 10 million eligible voters live
“more than 10 miles from their nearest state ID-issuing office.”
Many of these voters do not have public transportation readily available to them
and many of the offices that issue the IDs are only open during weekdays
for limited hours when most people are working.
The report also says that copies of birth certificates needed to get these
ID scans cost between as much as $25.
It shows how marriage licenses, which are required for women whose birth certificates
only show their maiden name, can cost up to $20.
Adjusted for inflation, those fees are more than the poll tax in many
Southern states during the Jim Crow era.
Poll taxes have historically been used to disenfranchise minorities and poor people.
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