Merrick Garland spoke at an Alabama church, where he claimed that voter ID and the banning of drop boxes are discriminatory. Who is being discriminated against? Democrats who illegally either harvest ballots or fill out hundreds of ballots and then drop them in the illegal drop boxes. Or is it discriminating against Democrats who vote under different names at different polling places? Either way, it makes it tougher for Democrats to stuff the ballot boxes.
Garland said:
“The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, the right from which all others flow. It is a right that members of this community bled for.”
“And that is why the Justice Department is fighting back.” he said. “That is why, one of the first things I did as Attorney General was to double the number of lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division. ”
“That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements.”
“That is why we are working to block the adoption of discriminatory redistricting plans that dilute the vote of Black voters and other voters of color.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELRassmussen Reports found among 1,000 likely voters polled throughout the U.S.:
“Majorities of whites (74%), blacks (69%) and other minorities (82%) say voters should be required to show photo identification before being allowed to vote.”
But, is it really discrimination? The number of black and Hispanic voters is climbing every year. How about we look at Europe and what kind of laws they have? This is a real eye-opener.
"Should voters be required to show photo identification such as a driver’s license before being allowed to vote?"
1000 National Likely Voters – Yes
White – 74%
Black – 69%
Oth Non-White – 82%
All Voters – 75%75% Support Voter ID Laws https://t.co/NnqM90fgGi
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 28, 2021
How about Europe, which Democrats say we must emulate? There are 47 countries in Europe, and all 47 have voter ID laws. France uses paper ballots exclusively, but they manage to count all the votes on election night. This gives credence to the argument that states, which can take weeks to resolve, are using that time to manufacture votes.
So much ‘Jim Crow’ voter suppression. And the lone outlier government — the recently Brexited UK — has proposed a new law to institute ID requirements at the polls, too. Via Real Clear Investigations, a further piece of support for why common-sense integrity measures like this, while angrily decried by American ‘progressives,’ are in fact widely popular among normal people. It’s beyond reasonable to ask voters to confirm their identity and eligibility prior to allowing them to cast a ballot. Such commonplace provisions are the rule, not the exception among Western democracies:
Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections – warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story – of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned. A database on voting rules worldwide compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, shows that election integrity measures are widely accepted globally, and have often been adopted by countries after they’ve experienced fraud under looser voting regimes…Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe — a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy — all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote.
(Author’s note: Great Britain has initiated voter ID which now makes Europe unanimous on the subject)
Seventy-four percent of European countries entirely ban absentee voting for citizens who reside domestically. Another 6% limit it to those hospitalized or in the military, and they require third-party verification and a photo voter ID. Another 15% require a photo ID for absentee voting. Similarly, government-issued photo IDs are required to vote by 33 nations in the 37-member Organistion for Economic Co-operation and Development (which has considerable European overlap)…Despite the record of Europe and the vast majority of the rest of the developed world, congressional Democrats are pushing to remove identification requirements for voting. The House recently passed the For the People Act of 2021, which replaces state voter ID rules with a signed statement from the voter, and makes permanent the pandemic’s mail-in ballot voting. The mailing out of blank absentee ballots en masse would become a fixture of American elections…Meanwhile, efforts in Republican states to require voter IDs for in-person voting and absentee ballots have triggered boycotts from Major League Baseball and other corporations. Georgia’s new absentee provisions raised a ruckus despite being much less restrictive than much of the rest of the world. Anyone who wants an absentee ballot can obtain one. A reason need not be given, such as being out of town, but one must have an ID to get an absentee ballot.
#VoterID #VotingRights #BallotAccess
