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“In the next six months, as you did before, by August 6, we want to have on President Biden’s desk a new voting rights act in order — named after John Lewis — to restore the efficacy of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,” he added. “I think we can do it.”
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6 — 56 years to the day Clyburn vowed the new act would be signed into law.
“Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have that vote counted,” he said. “If you have the best ideas, you have nothing to hide. Let the people vote.”
There should be a national voter registry tied to your SSN. One vote. One match. All good.
and by Executive Order....Biden blames the Insurrection on needing better voting laws and protections.
No, the presidential election can’t be hacked
By Tal Kopan, CNN
Updated 4:29 PM EDT, Wed October 19, 2016
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1. Why is it unlikely the presidential election can be swayed by a hack?
The American election system is decentralized by design, with state, county and local governments all managing voting. Even though many precincts use voting machines, none are connected to the Internet, nor are they connected to each other.
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DHS plans largest operation to secure U.S. election against hacking
Joseph Marks 10/30/2020
The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division is mounting the largest operation to secure a U.S. election, aiming to prevent a repeat of Russia’s 2016 interference and to ward off new threats posed by Iran and China.
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DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016
Sean Gallagher - 4/10/2019, 12:20 PM
A joint intelligence bulletin (JIB) has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation to state and local authorities regarding Russian hacking activities during the 2016 presidential election. While the bulletin contains no new technical information, it is the first official report to confirm that the Russian reconnaissance and hacking efforts in advance of the election went well beyond the 21 states confirmed in previous reports.
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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
He's not wrong. I thought it well understood that the January 6th event was an extension of the "Stop the Steal" campaign. The Capitol rioters were upset because they believe the election was wrought with fraud. Given this campaign, Republicans and Democrats both have proposed new voting laws to address election integrity.
IDs would make sure every vote is matched and make the election easier to protect
Why are we risking the whole election over 3% more votes?
originally posted by: rnaa
a reply to: tonycodes
IDs would make sure every vote is matched and make the election easier to protect
ID's are ALREADY MATCHED. 34 states have Polling Day ID requirements of one kind or another, and the others match signatures. And all opposing parties are scrupulous in checking for invalid voters, especially in close elections. When recounts happen you can bet your life all candidates are examining every voter in the polling lists for errors. It bears repeating: THIS ALREADY HAPPENS - EVERYWHERE.
You are placing an additional burden on voting - placing an insurmountable obstacle on a class of voters is itself fraud on a much grander scale than one or two dead folks voting. You want to block 10 million LEGAL voters because of 2 graveyard voters? 10 million people vs. 2 people. A billions dollars to implement to stop 2 dead people voting? Really?
Why are we risking the whole election over 3% more votes?
That is rich.
In person fraud is less than 0.0000013%: approximatly 1300 cases of in person fraud over the last 30 years out of at least 10 Billion votes cast.
Suppressing those 10 million LEGAL voters is risking the election a heck of a lot more than the 3 fraudulent votes cast in this last election. (one guy illegally cast his mother's absentee ballot, and two dead voters cast a ballot - and all three were Trump votes).
Why do you want to denying 10 million LEGAL voters over 0.0000013% fewer votes?
Ironically, places like California don't require valid ID to vote.
34 states is 16 shy of all of them. That is about a 1/3 of the states in the US that do not verify.
Besides, why are they talking about voter suppression when we were supposed to have more people than EVER vote in 2020. It is all fear mongering BS.
There is no voter suppression. Anywhere. If you want to vote go vote. If anyone tells you they cannot vote they are either lazy or bull#ting you.
1. Gerrymandering
It helps to win elections if you can pick your voters instead of relying on them picking you. ...This is done through two separate strategies called “packing” and “cracking.” Packing forces more voters into a district that’s likely to be won by the opposing party, freeing up other districts to be more competitive. Cracking breaks up voters into multiple districts, dispersing their influence and watering down the vote for the opposing party.
2. Denying Felons the Right to Vote
It’s estimated that more than 6 million Americans have been disenfranchised by states that deny felons the right to vote. While some states only block voting for felons while they are incarcerated, 11 states take away a felon’s right to vote indefinitely.
Because of the massive inequality in rates of incarceration for minorities, denying felons the right to vote significantly impacts election fairness across the United States.
3. Voter ID Requirements & Intimidation
Currently, 34 states have some sort of voter identification requirements in place with 18 of those states requiring photo identification. Because they typically require a valid driver’s license, military ID or state identification card, these laws disenfranchise poor, urban, elderly and minority voters who are less likely to hold government-issued forms of identification. It’s estimated as many as 11% of the eligible voting population in the United States does not have an acceptable form of identification.
In addition to identification requirements, studies show minorities experience widespread intimidation tactics at the polls. Nearly 10% of Black and Hispanic voters reported they were falsely told they did not have proper identification at the polls compared to less than 5% of white voters. Note: this is in contradiction of your assertion that 'If anyone tells you they cannot vote they are either lazy or bull#ting you.'
4. Undermining Election Security & Disinformation
After evidence emerged that many voting machines were vulnerable and accessible to hackers in the 2016 election, calls to ratchet up election security mounted. Most states have aging machines with flawed software that doesn’t provide a verifiable paper trail. Data suggests disinformation campaigns on social media were also part of active measures by Russia to influence the election and designed to specifically target African American voters.
However, calls for increased election security and social media accountability have gone largely unanswered, leading to speculation that the failure to secure America’s elections from foreign influence is an intentional voter suppression tactic. The Republican-controlled Senate thus far has refused to take up a single bill to address election security or to allocate funding to states to shore up their cybersecurity. The partisan divide was further underscored earlier this year (that is 2020) when GOP senators actively blocked two election security bills Democrats attempted to bring to the floor.
5. Polling Place Closures & Roll Purges
... purges are often conducted in a way that targets minority voters. As many as 17 million voters were purged from the rolls between 2016 and 2018, many of them in states with a long history of voter discrimination.
Closing polling places or restricting voting hours is another time-tested suppression tactic because it concentrates volume in densely populated areas and leads to long waits and frustration. Since the Voting Rights Act was undermined by the Supreme Court in 2013, more than a thousand polling locations, many of them in black southern communities, have closed. In Arizona 1 in 5 polling places have been closed in recent years while in Texas, it’s estimated as many as 1 in 10 polling places have been shuttered.
Labels are incorrect, often an attempt to tar and feather, group together and dismiss what is perceived as opposition. It did seem to serve a purpose of ended conversation on stop the steal, lest one be handed a dangerous LABEL. Thank you for your valuable post here, highlighting the importance of language here and how it’s used to manipulate.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: matafuchs
There should be a national voter registry tied to your SSN. One vote. One match. All good.
I agree, and with registration, one should receive a national photo ID card.
and by Executive Order....Biden blames the Insurrection on needing better voting laws and protections.
He's not wrong. I thought it well understood that the January 6th event was an extension of the "Stop the Steal" campaign. The Capitol rioters were upset because they believe the election was wrought with fraud. Given this campaign, Republicans and Democrats both have proposed new voting laws to address election integrity.
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That’s fallible, loaded with opportunity for human error. I’ve deposited checks and had the bank Manager confirm my id because of my penmanship or their poor eyesight, or maybe they didn’t like me. Hard to assign motive, but the opportunity exists for human influence and does not serve as any protection against potential influence.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: jjkenobi
Ironically, places like California don't require valid ID to vote.
But, they do require ID to register to vote, and they make you sign the voter polls registry, or your mail in ballot envelope, and they check to see that the signatures match, when we do vote.
working for an employer requires I file my I-9 and provide multiple forms of id as well. Nobody is calling that an obstacle to employment, or racist. Show the millions of Americans with zero form of id who will need to spend hundreds on id (state id is about 25 bucks). No action can be taken involving the government that does not require id. Your thought process is based on many false assumptions, but that’s obvious.
originally posted by: rnaa
a reply to: Rob808
Yes its fallible. Nothing is perfect, including demanding photo ID. Just because you have a plastic card with a picture on it what does that prove at the end of the day?. How many under age kids have fake IDs so they can drink?
The only thing a photo ID MIGHT be able to help controll is IN PERSON polling day fraud. How much of that actually occurs? Maybe 2 or 3 per election - across the entire country.
You are trying to make millions of law abiding Americans to spend hundreds of dollars (birth certificates, transportation, etc) to get IDs so they can vote. Most will say screw it and not bother. You are putting up barriers where none should exist.
There are much more widespread fraud scemes going on, schemes that do actually steal elections, like gerrymandering and polling station clusures. Why are you wasting you strength fighting against 2 or 3 invalid votes instead of thousands or millions of disenfranchised valid votes?
working for an employer requires I file my I-9 and provide multiple forms of id as well. Nobody is calling that an obstacle to employment, or racist. Show the millions of Americans with zero form of id who will need to spend hundreds on id (state id is about 25 bucks). No action can be taken involving the government that does not require id. Your thought process is based on many false assumptions, but that’s obvious.
- Millions of Americans Lack ID. 11% of U.S. citizens – or more than 21 million Americans – do not have government-issued photo identification.
- Obtaining ID Costs Money. Even if ID is offered for free, voters must incur numerous costs (such as paying for birth certificates) to apply for a government-issued ID.
- Underlying documents required to obtain ID cost money, a significant expense for lower-income Americans. The combined cost of document fees, travel expenses and waiting time are estimated to range from $75 to $175.2
That is between 1.5 and 3.7 BILLION dollars out of the voters pockets just to obtain the ID. It does not include taxpayer dollars required to iplement it.
- The travel required is often a major burden on people with disabilities, the elderly, or those in rural areas without access to a car or public transportation. In Texas, some people in rural areas must travel approximately 170 miles to reach the nearest ID office. 'Free ID' is not free
- Voter ID Laws Reduce Voter Turnout. A 2014 GAO study found that strict photo ID laws reduce turnout by 2-3 percentage points,4 which can translate into tens of thousands of votes lost in a single state.
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- In-person fraud is vanishingly rare. A recent study found that, since 2000, there were only 31 credible allegations of voter impersonation – the only type of fraud that photo IDs could prevent – during a period of time in which over 1 billion ballots were cast. And most of those instances were simple honest mistakes.
- Voter ID laws are a waste of taxpayer dollars. States incur sizeable costs when implementing voter ID laws, including the cost of educating the public, training poll workers, and providing IDs to voters.
- Texas spent nearly $2 million on voter education and outreach efforts following passage of its Voter ID law.11
- Indiana spent over $10 million to produce free ID cards between 2007 and 2010.
none of the numbers you quoted have anything to do with getting just a normal state approved id, which is 25-50$ and required to you know, work and pay taxes.... collect tax returns. Voter outreach and education programs ste not the same as asking for say the same exact info that your employer asks for the I-9 form you filled out, but in your own prejudice you think that minorities somehow CANT do that. I’ve lived in the “inner cities” so your assumptions are false about me. Answer my simple question, is it racist or prohibitively expensive to require id for work and taxes?
originally posted by: rnaa
a reply to: Rob808
working for an employer requires I file my I-9 and provide multiple forms of id as well. Nobody is calling that an obstacle to employment, or racist. Show the millions of Americans with zero form of id who will need to spend hundreds on id (state id is about 25 bucks). No action can be taken involving the government that does not require id. Your thought process is based on many false assumptions, but that’s obvious.
YOUR thought process is based on many false assumptions, and that is obviously because you have made no attempt to study the issue.
ACLU Voter ID Fact Sheet
- Millions of Americans Lack ID. 11% of U.S. citizens – or more than 21 million Americans – do not have government-issued photo identification.
- Obtaining ID Costs Money. Even if ID is offered for free, voters must incur numerous costs (such as paying for birth certificates) to apply for a government-issued ID.
- Underlying documents required to obtain ID cost money, a significant expense for lower-income Americans. The combined cost of document fees, travel expenses and waiting time are estimated to range from $75 to $175.2
That is between 1.5 and 3.7 BILLION dollars out of the voters pockets just to obtain the ID. It does not include taxpayer dollars required to iplement it.
- The travel required is often a major burden on people with disabilities, the elderly, or those in rural areas without access to a car or public transportation. In Texas, some people in rural areas must travel approximately 170 miles to reach the nearest ID office. 'Free ID' is not free
- Voter ID Laws Reduce Voter Turnout. A 2014 GAO study found that strict photo ID laws reduce turnout by 2-3 percentage points,4 which can translate into tens of thousands of votes lost in a single state.
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- In-person fraud is vanishingly rare. A recent study found that, since 2000, there were only 31 credible allegations of voter impersonation – the only type of fraud that photo IDs could prevent – during a period of time in which over 1 billion ballots were cast. And most of those instances were simple honest mistakes.
- Voter ID laws are a waste of taxpayer dollars. States incur sizeable costs when implementing voter ID laws, including the cost of educating the public, training poll workers, and providing IDs to voters.
- Texas spent nearly $2 million on voter education and outreach efforts following passage of its Voter ID law.11
- Indiana spent over $10 million to produce free ID cards between 2007 and 2010.
Billions of dollars to fix a problem that doesn't actually exist in the real world. 31 cases out of a billion votes in 20 years.