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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.GOP state voting restrictions 'un-American,' Biden declares
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, BRIAN SLODYSKO and ZEKE MILLER PHILADELPHIA©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
91 Comments
bass4funk
I agree.
John-San
Voting on a Tuesday tell you who the USA government want to votes and who they don't want to vote. USA Government should make voting available between 00.01 am Saturday to 23.59 pm Sunday. No mail in, no postal.
Blacklabel
Why is there always a word in front of fraud? “Massive” “widespread” now “wide-scale”. How about there was no fraud in 2020? Why can’t that be said and why can’t we do something about it? Where is zero zilch nada guy?
can’t we just have a fraud feee election system using rules, processes and laws?
Blacklabel
According to a report published by FairVote, 27 recounts occurred in statewide elections between 2000 and 2015. Of those, 15 were held when the original margin of victory was of 0.15 percent or less. Three of the 27 recounts resulted in a reversal of the original election result.
bass4funk
Ok, that’s your personal belief you can believe that millions of Americans don’t and that’s why you’re seeing this change happening.
Now it will be, especially now that they can use their social.
Commodore Perry
Libs suddenly silent,
Anything wrong with these voting laws right now?
-Video surveillance of what are known as counties’ central counting stations where votes, including mailed ballots, and voting equipment containing vote tallies are delivered and eventually totaled up.
-Prohibition of local election officials from distributing applications for mail-in ballots to voters who did not request them.
-A committee of local election workers to compare a voter’s signature to “any known signature on file.”
-Moving all counties toward voting machines that offer a paper trail by producing an auditable paper record of ballots cast.
-Online tracker so voters can keep tabs on the status of an application to vote by mail and the processing of their ballot when it is cast.
bass4funk
Her words, it’s on video, she said that stupid thing, it yes, you can prove her wrong and she should apologize to the black community for making outlandish statements like that!
Dems were doing it for 60 years and Kamal STILL thinks blacks can’t do anything without the help of whites. This woman is unbelievable!
ulysses
Again a totally wrong statement which can be easily proven by a little research.
That's what the GOP relies on, the mentally weak will never check facts and keep reposting their lies!!!
lincolnman
Still lots of Trump supporters here screaming fraud....yet not one explanation why Trump's lawyers to include Giuliani all have stated under oath in court "this is not a fraud case" and "we are not alleging fraud"....
You say there's fraud, but Trump's lawyers under oath and under penalty of contempt, all state the opposite...
Explain that...
bass4funk
I am not talking about the election, you keep going back to election I am talking about future elections and going forward.
and this new voter law will ensure that this won’t happen on a wild scale and everyone should applaud this on both sides, if Democrats really loved freedom and democracy the way they say they do, then they would want to make sure that this voter integrity on both sides and that both sides want free and fair elections
bass4funk
I do, you don’t know me. Come on now! Lol
drinking coffee and creating fraudulent votes it’s like comparing a whale to a tick, what are you saying? ROLF?
No, they’re just mad that there’s really not that much that they can do at this point going into the next election, because they’ve been boxed in. The laws are going to slowly change and the Democrats can’t do anything about the 25 states and since most of the people and especially black Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID (as I stated earlier) and the police, that doesn’t sit well with the Democratic Party, at all.
Blacklabel
Still haven’t quite realized when it was that liberals changed fraud to be ok as long as it isn’t “massive”.
seems fraud prevention would be supported by both sides. Well unless you are the ones doing the fraud mostly.
bass4funk
Which means that’s about 1,143 too many, it shouldn’t be that high especially with this election that we don’t know the actual numbers, because we’re not given the numbers, and I’m still waiting which program that was, it should be easy for you to tell me so I could look it up, I want to watch it as well and I couldn’t find it. If you can’t I understand. But the main thing is that the Republicans are making it indeed a lot easier to vote by mail, all you need to do is to provide proper ID and if you don’t have that, you can substitute that with your social and that shouldn’t be a problem, since most Americans have one and I think everyone can be satisfied on both sides. You’re not forced to have an ID in at the same time for conservatives you can verify it with your social, so it’s a win-win for both sides.
Sven Asai
An obsolete discussion. They have already won despite all biases or other hidden restrictions. That development over there will just only lead to a Latin-African drug and gangster hell and that’s it. If you give them more money showers, a refurbished infrastructure etc or not, only decides the speed of that. You don’t think so? They even can’t stand that speed themselves and sent Harris to tell them not to come. Yes, don’t come, because in fact you are already there. lol
Blacklabel
Those 1,328 were not from the 2020 election. The number of cases of fraud in 2020 election is still ongoing and about to significantly increase.
Jsapc
No, you obviously don't know what "massive" means.
Did you know that the FDA allows for up to 10 mg of rodent excrement per pound of coffee beans? That's 0.025%.
Now, do you what is 1328 instances of fraud are for 159,633,396 votes? 0.00083%.
There's a thousand times more rat poop in your coffee than there were fraudulent votes in the last election.
bass4funk
It was covering fraud in general from the last election
again, that is pause for concern and especially now with this election that just happened it was mail in voting on the rise now, we need to scrutinize more and ensure that voter integrity is upheld to the fairest standard for everyone and you still have not answered my previous question about the program where you watch that on, I’m still waiting.
ArtistAtLarge
Good for him.
bass4funk
I asked you which program was that that you were watching, that is exactly what I said.
Obviously Congress didn’t think so or they would’ve held him in contempt.
bass4funk
Well, that’s more than enough
Still that’s way too much
in other words just give it a pass, if it were the other way around, the Democrats would turn over every stone to make sure no one person could cheat on any level
I do, but I don’t think most liberals do….sadly.
Commodore Perry
Well, is anything wrong with these voting laws right now?
-Video surveillance of what are known as counties’ central counting stations where votes, including mailed ballots, and voting equipment containing vote tallies are delivered and eventually totaled up.
-Prohibition of local election officials from distributing applications for mail-in ballots to voters who did not request them.
-A committee of local election workers to compare a voter’s signature to “any known signature on file.”
-Moving all counties toward voting machines that offer a paper trail by producing an auditable paper record of ballots cast.
-Online tracker so voters can keep tabs on the status of an application to vote by mail and the processing of their ballot when it is cast.
Blacklabel
well we are about to find out how many as it has (a) been confirmed the vote totals dont match in Arizona (by how much, dont know yet) and (b) that the same ballots were scanned multiple times in Georgia as different batches have the same exact ballot included.
So standby.
Jsapc
People's votes don't matter if they're dead. Therefore, even one instance of unvaccinated death calls for obligatory vaccinations, so that every american's vote counts in the next election. It's just pure logic. Don't you want people to vote?! Shame on you.
bass4funk
Not if these news rules are implemented and the list is growing, 25 states already on board with implementing this and changing their election laws.
Jsapc
"1,328 proven instances of voter faud."
There were over 159 million votes cast in the 2020 election.
Do you know what percentage of 159,633,396 votes 1328 instances of fraud is?
Second question: do you know the meaning of the word "massive"? Or "widespread"?
SuperLib
The GOP will see short term gains by restrictions, but they are still doomed long-term.
bass4funk
The Dems are taking advantage of minorities, that comment that Kamala Harris made the other day about blacks not being able to find a Kinko’s to make a photocopy is just so infuriating, you can go anywhere and make a copy, I don’t know if she understands this. Black people are not helpless group of people that can’t go out and get in the car and find a copy shop, that is just racially insulting
Blacklabel
why are the razor blades in a locked case at the store? Why dont they just send you TWO ballots in case you make a mistake filling out one? then trust that you wont simply return both?
The voter fraud Biden voter said he didnt know he couldnt vote. Ok then, we prevent people in his status from being able to at all, by rules, processes and laws. Then for anyone who "doesnt know", now they CANT.
Obviously the fact that students could vote in more than one state and that it would be really hard to catch, and only much later after the election, concerned someone. so Prevention.
its ok though, Biden said today that only 150 people voted. so one vote is massive fraud based on that. Even 150 million is still wrong. Biden speech:
bass4funk
Sure.
Here you go:
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
ulysses
donald's clown show of a legal team got laughed out of courts when they tried to take up their voter fraud claims. Now these incompetent lawyers face suspension and even disbarment for lying to the courts.
However there is no punishment for lying to the people, especially if you have a stupid base who will lap up anything as long it appeals to their divisive mindsets. Fortunately for the GOP there are no laws prohibiting them from taking advantage of the mentally weak!!!
lincolnman
Isn't this interesting...a former federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania is runnng as a Repub for Givernor, and is echoing Trump['s claims that AG Barr forbid any investigation of alleged fraud...
“I wanted to be transparent with the public and, of course, investigate fully any allegations. Attorney General Barr, however, instructed me not to make any public statements or put out any press releases regarding possible election irregularities,” McSwain wrote. “I was also given a directive to pass along serious allegations to the State Attorney General for investigation - I disagreed with that decision, but those were my orders.”
However, Barr comes out today and says that's a lie...
In an interview with POLITICO, Barr — who became a favored punching bag for Trump after the 2020 election — denied ever telling McSwain or others not to pursue fraud allegations related to the vote.
“It’s written to make it seem like I gave him a directive,” Barr said. “I never told him not to investigate anything.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/13/barr-election-fraud-claims-499519
MAGA-world can't seem to agree on anything...
And still waiting on an explanation why all these laws when Giuliani said under oath "this is not a fraud case"...
Blacklabel
nope. the topic is voting. and making sure that every person's vote matters. nice try though.
bass4funk
he didn’t lie, if he did then you would not be seeing a lot of changes to the voting system and again, they are made to simplify things into streamline the process, if you don’t have voter ID then you can use your social security number and that is not racist, how can that be, they thought of this contingency plan and it helps the process
With 50 years of his reputation at stake, I don’t think so, I know the Dems are trying to push this so hard and it’s actually not working anymore
which program was it again that you were watching?
Jsapc
Wow, you're so wonderfully righteous! Then you must also agree that one case of school shooting with an AR-15 is enough to ban all sales of semi-automatic weapons. And that one case of unvaccinated covid death is enough to implement forced vaccinations. And that one case of Capitol invasion by Trump supporters should be enough to bar Trump from running for any office ever again. All of this would be only fair for society.
SuperLib
Here's what you think you are saying: "We need more protection against the potential for fraud of students voting illegally."
Here's what you're really saying: "We need to add extra hurdles for millions of students to stop fraud that hasn't proven to exist."
You're hurting millions of good guys to catch one potential bad guy that you haven't even been able to find even exists.
All part of the GOP plan for minority rule.
Kaerimashita
At least the flying Dems are making a stand. And singing songs. And going on tv. And Kamala made an excellent speech on this topic. Joe is not alone jn decrying this attempt to subvert US democracy. Stop racism! Stop sexism! Stop all forms of voter discrimination, suppression and intimidqtion. I don't want to see the travesty of the last election when millions were prevented from or unable to vote and there weee so many allegations of irregularities.
Blacklabel
yes, to help prevent students from voting in both states, obviously.
even the Georgia governor said there were many people who voted in Georgia and another state as well.
SuperLib
Funny you should use this. One tactic by the GOP is to try to ban student IDs as valid forms of IDs for voting. Then you ban out of state driver's licenses next. It helps to create hurdles to get the younger from voting, which is part of the GOPs plan to keep minority rule since younger people tend to vote blue.
But we're pretty much past that now. IDs are the norm. Now the game is to reduce registration windows, polling places, voting hours, and anything that makes voting easier like drive-thru voting with IDs.
Blacklabel
we simply dont vote by having one person going around collection 100 ballots and dropping them off.
We dont vote at 2am. We dont put our ballot in some 24/7 box. We dont send a ballot to people who dont request them.
All of these things were put in place because people were supposedly scared to leave their homes and vote. this isnt how we have ever voted before.
If it had been necessary (or even legal in some cases) before COVID we would have done it this way. Now we need to return to legislatures passing laws for their states. Not partisan election officials trying to keep the COVID exception rules.
sunfunbun
There's nothing to understand from them. The voter fraud is fraudulent, quite obviously. Same with the denial of insurrection and their spitting on democracy in favor of Trump's autocratic ideals. They're all lies. He's got all the poor qualities of a terrible person...racism, bigotry, liar, etc., etc. and they support this horror of a human being.
Trump and his supporters lie and lie and lie and then make up more narrative so they can lie. They're a cult and wasting time conversing with cult members who lie is an exercise in futility.
As one who critically thinks, there is none of it with Trump's cult, because they lie and have no desire to believe anything they don't want to.
Blacklabel
one case of fraud requires that. to eliminate whatever was abused to allow even one fraudulent vote to be cast by either side.
Thats your voter disenfranchisement that is always talked about. I voted legally, but someone else's fraudulent vote canceled mine? then why vote?
Also you want 24/7 voting by any/all methods possible or its voter suppression, right. If even one person cant vote in the way or at the time/location they want, Dems scream "suppression". So one fraud is the same as even one suppression.
lincolnman
So, Trump supporters, help us understand...
This Texas voting bill, and others sponsored by Repubs in red states, are to help protect against voter fraud that you and they allege occurred during the last election...
Yet when Trump's attorneys take this allegation to court, and are in front of a judge and are under oath, they state clearly that "This is not a fraud case" and "We are not alleging fraud"...
https://time.com/5914377/donald-trump-no-evidence-fraud/
So why are Repubs pushing these laws so strongly, when Trump's team has admitted there is no fraud?
Explain that to us...
bass4funk
Hmm. Seems like he didn’t.
bass4funk
Yes, they are.
Abbott said the issue will be re-visited and resumed again, it’s not going away, not to mention, if the Dems stay away, they have to BE AWAY a full 30 days and that means they can’t even attend other important legislative cases and have abandoned their own constituents, that’s going to be tough, if you leave the steak on the grill and don’t attend to it, it’s going to burn up, so the Dems put themselves in a serious predicament now.
Not to mention Joe is worried about who counts the votes. Another problem easily solved, you have both parties observe and do the counting again, make it fair across the board both parties should be present then no one can complain about the process
Jsapc
Please post proof that american elections are not "fair" or that massive fraud exists.
tjguy
I think the problem is that they are GOP rules.
Biden thinks the rules are "un-American"? OK, come up with a way to prevent voter fraud then that will ensure fair elections. Many of us also think that VOTER FRAUD IS ALSO UN-AMERICAN!
Both sides probably have some good points so let's put politics aside and come up with a fair solution.
Commodore Perry
GOP state voting restrictions 'un-American,' Biden declares
Voting restrictions already exist; those are un-American too?
A HUGE majority of Americans want new voting laws--more than 75% of Americans; are they Un-American?
lincolnman
Then maybe you ought to go be one of Trump's "great" lawyers because all of them, to include Giuliani, have said under oath that "this is not a fraud case"...
*In a recent Pennsylvania federal case, Giuliani alleged “widespread, nationwide voter fraud” in his opening remarks. But under questioning from the judge, he retreated. “This is not a fraud case,” Giuliani later admitted. In the same case, Trump lawyer Linda Kearns said explicitly that she is *“not proceeding” on allegations of fraud.
https://time.com/5914377/donald-trump-no-evidence-fraud/
Which is consistent with them losing 61 out of 62 cases in court...
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/trumps-failed-efforts-overturn-election-numbers/4130307001/
bass4funk
This new law also allows people to use their Social Security number for verification if they don’t have a valid ID, that would be another alternative if they don’t have any other form of ID. Every working American citizen has a Social Security Number. If you can’t provide ID, this would be the next easy step into properly and accurately identifying a person, so that should be ok with Democrats and less intrusive since almost all Americans have them. Problem solved.
Strangerland
"Sleepy Joe" is trolling the pubs!
They should respect it, they were pretty clear during Trump's term that his ability to stick it to the other team was what they respected most.
ulysses
The GOP wants to cancel the 2020 election, they want to cancel minorities, they want to cancel investigations into an insurrection……
The cancel culture of the GOP is out of control!!!
ulysses
The fear of minorities being able to vote freely is the only cause that drives the GOP followers.
Jsapc
I've been asking for proof of "massive fraud" from the start. For a few months, actually. Not "a little bit of fraud". "Massive fraud". Fraud that is big enough to sway an election. Fraud that is so big that it requires changes to the laws and new policies.
I know nobody here will be able to present said proof, because it doesn't exist, but I will keep asking for proof everytime somebody claims voter fraud is a widespread issue in America.
Jsapc
Here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States
Now, please provide proof of "massive fraud".
Kaerimashita
Apart from the content of the various laws, Ol' Joe's speech was a doozy. Biggest crisis since the civil war? Surely some mistake. Poor guy is really all at sea.
bass4funk
Then you need to make the same claim about voter suppression and the Dems can’t and Kamala insulting the black community by saying they can’t find an OfficeMax or Kinko’s is so absurd, it just makes you laugh.
Liberal policies don’t make sense either in this sense.
Blacklabel
I gave more than 70 cases related to thousands of votes just in 2020 the other day.
if give more, you just ask for more. Then you deploy the “it’s not widespread” or “it’s not massive” narratives.
Even 1 fraud is too many. as that steals 1 other persons legitimate vote from them.
Jsapc
Yes, you do need to. When you make an outlandish claim such as "voter fraud is massive", you need to be able to substantiate it with actual facts and numbers.
None of this word jumble makes any sense.
Blacklabel
Didn’t say “unconstitutional” which is the only thing that matters. The rest is just hyperbole and opinion.
Jsapc
No, it really isn't. Breitbart is a known pusher of actual fake news and conspiracy theories. The Washington post is a liberal-leaning actual news source. There is a gigantic difference between the two. But if you found any fact in the article I posted that is blatantly false, don't hesitate to refute it.
bass4funk
I don’t need to because I’m not a pollster or a politician that can view the data, but I will say this, if you want to make that argument, then you can make the equal opposite argument that voting suppression it’s also very rare. The liberal data that shows voter suppression, then you can show the conservative data that shows voter fraud is high.
DudeDeuce
Whatever let's them sweep the Jim Crow that they started under the carpet.
DudeDeuce
Great but Washington Post and Brennan Center aren't unbiased reporting sources. It is like me countering with a Breitbart article.
Jsapc
Please post proof that voter fraud is not ridiculously rare.
You obviously have data that the governmental agencies don't have. Share it.
bass4funk
No, it’s not, that’s why these measures are implemented
Because you can monitor more easily who goes, how many people and verify more accurately.
Well, no that’s not true. In fact, they’re making it more easy to vote and making it easier to vote by mail, the only problem is, they’re making sure people don’t vote twice, that they don’t allow dead people to vote, or their pets, or register in multiple states and to ensure they don’t get multiple ballots based on previous lived addresses. My own sister got 3 the last election and she could have filled them all out and submitted them and there would not have been a way to prove or verify any of the previous addresses as valid or invalid.
Jsapc
Yes, that will never happend because I don't work for the government or a newspaper and nobody appointed me to the task of finding out why people don't have an ID. If you pay me to do so, I'll gladly do it though. Should I give you my paypal? Until then, all we have are statistics and the work from actual journalists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a-photo-id-so-you-can-vote-is-easy-unless-youre-poor-black-latino-or-elderly/2016/05/23/8d5474ec-20f0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html
NOMINATION
Until you head into the Black community to ask people why they don't have an ID. We both know that this will never happen.
Jsapc
A great source of unbiased information, no doubt.
NOMINATION
I saw a YouTube video where a guy was interviewing Liberal Arts students a year or 2 ago. He asked students what they thought about Voter ID laws. Many of them, white students, tried to explain that these laws are racist because Black people can't get IDs. The same guy went to Harlem to interview Black people if they had IDs. Many of them laughed and asked why wouldn't they have an ID. They can't live without ID including driving a car, bank loans, buy alcohol and many other things.
Jsapc
You're right: they're just trying to suppress racial minoritie's right to vote.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-voter-suppression
Kaerimashita
Given all the noise around the last election, seems like clearer and more transparent rules make sense. Not sure why there is such a fuss about this - voting isnt that difficult for people who really want to vote.