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Like gun ownership and free speech, you have the right to vote in America. So, if the government wanted to make it harder for the bad guys to own a gun... why should the good guys have to suffer for it? Similarly, just because the government wants to prevent bad guys from voting, then why should the good guys have to suffer the consequences?
I'm pretty sure that you need an ID in order to buy a gun.
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Like gun ownership and free speech, you have the right to vote in America. So, if the government wanted to make it harder for the bad guys to own a gun... why should the good guys have to suffer for it? Similarly, just because the government wants to prevent bad guys from voting, then why should the good guys have to suffer the consequences?
I'm pretty sure that you need an ID in order to buy a gun.
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> Republicans play to suppress minority voters. What are they doing to suppress minorities?
Here are a few examples: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-voter-suppre... It is more than just requiring proper ID when voting. Turns out that you have to be on a list of pre-approved voters. There can be many reasons why you didn't end up on that list and many ways to bump you off. Its not like you show up on voting day, scan your ID, and the system magically determines your eligibility to vote based…
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Like gun ownership and free speech, you have the right to vote in America. So, if the government wanted to make it harder for the bad guys to own a gun... why should the good guys have to suffer for it? Similarly, just because the government wants to prevent bad guys from voting, then why should the good guys have to suffer the consequences?
I'm pretty sure that you need an ID in order to buy a gun.
Name one program the government has been In charge of where there isn’t some form of widespread corruption or bogged down by red tape. You want the government to give us a number like China? No thank you. I like my free will. It may be limited digitally, financially, and geographically, but I’m still happy with the government not assigning me a number.
Why are credit scores “racist” (as claimed by Sanders and Vox)? The outcomes being distributed differently among races does not make the methodology “racist”. The input factors into credit scores do not include race. Correlation to race, even if strong, is not causation.
It's a question of if the outcomes are distributed differently among races because the races represent truly different probabilities, or because the inputs to the model were already tainted against some race. For example, let's say you judge creditworthiness based on membership in a particular honors society, but that honors society doesn't exist at historically black colleges.
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Trump set up an entire committee to investigate voter fraud in the 2016 election and apparently found so little they were disbanded and never released their findings. And I’m not basing much of my world view on that guys unsubstantiated claims or three video clips posted on Project Veritas (a Conservative non-profit which receives funding from the Koch brothers). There’s a tweet from Governor Abbot talking about inve…
How do you even distinguish voter fraud from a regular vote after the fact? This seems impossible because the vote is anonymous and there is no ID requirement, so no wonder putting a number on it after the fact is hard. The source doesn't change the content of what they discovered, people caught red handed, or the statements made by officials such as NYC Democratic Commisioner Alan Schulkin.
I see no proof of people being caught redhanded and that’d be pretty easy to verify since voter fraud is a felony and they’d have a court cases.
It would take thousands of cases to sway most elections, so you’d need hundreds and hundreds of people to commit multiple felonies.
And yet somehow none of this giant conspiracy to manipulate voter fraud is leaking out? Seems implausible.
And they’d all need to assume identities of people already on the voter registration rolls.
So those hundreds of felons would have to somehow not take the vote of someone who would vote later that day, or someone who’d already voted.
This is a lot of work and a really grand conspiracy to keep under wraps.
It’s almost certainly easier, cheaper, and more effective to spread false narratives such as “voter fraud is a big issue and only Republicans care about the sacredness of _your_ vote” than it is to actually somehow find and organize enough people to make it worthwhile.
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Is it possible that it was due to warranted concerns that these groups were misusing the tax-exempt status?
It seems possible until you realize that the IRS publicly apologized for targeting them and paid a settlement to 427 of the organizations. Four hundred twenty-seven is far beyond any random accident or mistake.