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© Thomson Reuters 2021.U.S. Republicans block Senate Democrats' voting rights bill
By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
68 Comments
Commodore Perry
People need license to drive a car, buy a gun, in the US. They should need one to vote. Cut down on the rampant voter fraud that led us to this point.
The Dems with their critical race theory, and woke movement are destroying the basics of American democracy.
Simon Foston
P. SmithToday 07:43 am JST
I'm just waiting for "That's what we think about Democrats lol."
Actually, I think a bigger problem is the system that allows them to do this kind of thing.
Commodore Perry
P. SmithToday 07:58 am JST
Yeah of course there is zero evidence of Trump and Russian collusion.
bass4funk
Thank you, Mitch
bass4funk
For asking you need to have an ID???
It’s the other way around. Dems don’t call hospitals or the airlines racist for asking and requiring ID. See, this is why Democrats look stupid on this issue.
The Dems did it to Trump as well as trying to take him down. But that was acceptable? Why?
Looking at the House how it’s looking more promising and recent GOP wins, I don’t think so.
Commodore Perry
zichiToday 08:09 am JST
Really? So someone under 18 can buy a gun? They don't have to show id to prove they are of age?
bass4funk
That has absolutely nothing to do with voter registration, and ensuring clean and honest voting free from cheating and any irregularities.
Happy Day
Naked attempt by Democrats to make election theft permanent.
GdTokyo
Commodore PerryToday 07:55 am JST
driving a car is a privilege, not a Constitutional right. Buying a gun is the purchase of a deadly weapon not an act of citizenship and the requirements in many states are less onerous than for voting.
Voter ID laws have been designed to suppress voting of certain groups. Requiring a state issued ID in a majority black district that has only 1 ID issuing center that is open irregularly. Disallowing University IDs that are recognized for every other purpose.
There is ZERO evidence that there has been any voter fraud beyond an infinitesimal level. None, nada, nil, zip, zilch.
This is a solution in search of a problem. This is voter suppression pure and simple because when people vote, the GOQ loses. It happened in 2018. It happened in 2020.
In overwhelming numbers, Americans said no to Trump and gave Democrats the Senate (although I admit by less than I thought it would be.)
And the GOQ cannot even vote to debate protecting the most sacred right of Americans. I would say they’ve hit rock bottom, but we all know there is no bottom. There are no depths to which Mitch will not stoop to maintain power.
8T
Good move.
bass4funk
Code: Dems can’t cheat and makes it difficult to use the dead in an election and the ability to cheat twice.
How insulting! The majority of blacks do believe and support voter ID, it’s the Democrats they vote for that absolutely hates it.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/75-of-all-u-s-voters-69-of-black-voters-support-voter-id-laws-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-election-integrity-debate
We are talking about a National election.
Wakarimasen
Voter suppression is a myth. Anyone who wants to vote can do so pretty easily. Most important right in a democracy should require some effort and also be seen as honest and safe
stormcrow
Is it any wonder why Trump and his dopey followers love Putin so much. They're using today's Russia as a blueprint for what they'd like to see America become.
Let the people vote. What are you afraid of?
After all, it is a democracy, isn't it?
Jsapc
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/bipartisan-senate-report-shows-2016-trump-russia-collusion.html
Bipartisan Senate Report Shows How Trump Colluded With Russia in 2016
Jsapc
Still waiting on proof that there was any kind of massive fraud from democrats in any election. Please provide said proof.
Strangerland
Ahh, you don't like the way they vote, so you support the GOP's efforts to prevent them from being able to do so.
Very American of you.
GdTokyo
Americans in overwhelming numbers voted and Republicans lost in what Trump’s handpicked election security official said was “the freest fairest election in American history” He was then fired by Trump).
Mitch and the GOQ see the writing on the wall. So they and their minions at the state level are trying to change the rules and suppress the vote. For one simple reason: It’s the only way they can win beyond narrowly constructed congressional districts.
This is a naked power grab and he doesn’t even bother to hide it.
SuperLib
Pretty much sums it up.
Oh, and the fact that more points of registration, open polling places, and hours to vote hurts the GOP so they choose to make Democracy harder to give them a chance to keep winning elections as a minority party.
bass4funk
Yeah, sure. It just stops Dems dead in their tracks from cheating or attempting to cheat. Again, the majority of Americans and blacks support voter ID, you need an ID fro literally everything else, so this is no different. Yeah, it’s inconvenient for Democrats politically, but for democracy and free and fair elections, it’s the only sensible thing to do.
Commodore Perry
Trump recognized the problem of illegal voting.
After he was elected.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/17/no-voter-fraud-isnt-myth-10-cases-where-its-all-to/
Blacklabel
denied! At least voter ID isnt racist anymore.
All the people who said it was are claiming they never said that.
despite available video showing them saying it.
Blacklabel
these "expanded access" initiatives were not passed as laws, only as rules changed due to COVID.
COVID is done thanks for Trump giving us the vaccines.
So of course these temporary measures that helped Dems win in 2020 go away unless they are passed as law.
lincolnman
Ditch the filibuster.
It was useful when you you had both parties committed to democracy and our Constitution...but that is no longer the case...
The former Republican, now Fascist Insurrectionist Party, has gone to the "Dark Side", and favors autocratic rule and tyranny of the minority, just like in Russia, China, Iran, etc...
Fake cries of fraud, voting restrictions, cult-like adoration, cancelling all those who speak the truth....that's the new FIP party...and they have no place in a democracy...
Strangerland
The Republican line is that those people who voted for the other guy "want people in lazy boy chairs voting for the ones that control their health and income". Their dislike of how these people vote is their justification for impeding and in some cases removing their right to do so.
Strangerland
I wanted the vaccines to get out as much as Trump did, putting us on an equal level insofar as how much we had to do with getting the vaccines out. It's not like he did anything other than that.
Thanks to Biden for delivering them to the Americans who wanted them so fast that now the Americans are giving away the vaccines before they spoil. Actually, thanks to Trump for creating such doubt in vaccines that led to so many Americans not wanting them, they are giving them away to spoil.
See, I'm always willing to give Trump credit where it's due!
bass4funk
…and allow a power grab and a one party rule system? Be careful, to the Dems disappointment they did that in the Senate and now it serves the GOP, Democrats shouldn’t make that mistake again, listen to Manchin and Sinema they already see the writing on the wall.
True, but neither party has the right to a power grab.
Nothing of the sort, we can make the same accusations about the Democrats. Russia and China are loving this bickering. We need to stay focused, stop the TDS the country needs to be United and focus on Biden and this administration.
Well, the left whining is not going to get rid of the filibuster. The Dems need to understand this. They believe in fair elections, you submit an ID, very simple. If you’re admitted to a hospital you need to show ID, if you want to walk into Pelosi’s office, you need ID, voting is no different. Worked to elect the Squad, worked to help Obama-twice.
Commodore Perry
StrangerlandToday 10:13 am JST
My firefighter friends in the US got their first shots last December.
Thanks Biden for getting elected and making my friends realize they better get their shots fast before you give away all of America's vaccines to other countries.
plasticmonkey
I'd like to know from our Trump supporters the following:
Do you believe that voting should not be an undue burden?
Do you believe that the more citizens vote, the stronger our representative government?
Do you believe that congressional districts should be drawn so as to accurately reflect the will of the people?
Do you believe that the results of an election be based on a fair count of popular votes? Or do you believe the results should rest on the will of the legislature in power?
Do you believe it is morally right to spread disinformation about an election in order to sow distrust of election officials and the electoral process?
Wolfpack
Nicely done Republicans. Don’t let the Left hi-jack democracy.
lincolnman
We know that if the Pubs win back the Senate next year (fat chance), you'll be the first rooting to ditch the filibuster...
Explain why majority rule is a power grab...
Russia and China love the anti-democratic moves by the Repubs....imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
Hmmmm.....do you believe Italian satellites changed votes?
bass4funk
The same thing you guys said in 2010
Again, Manchin and Sinema don’t believe in a power grab.
Rhetorical question? Look at California and New York and understand why they’re leaving in massive numbers. Again, Manchin and Sinema are thinking Democrats, they know this could destroy the party and good on them for acknowledging impending political annihilation
But now Biden is President and they’re laughing at him, doesn’t inspire confidence as a supposed world leader, but we are talking about Joe Biden.
I believe everyone should have an ID and everyone should be a legal US citizen. Make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.
Jsapc
Can you prove that please. You keep saying it like it's a fact. Prove it.
Can you prove that there was massive cheating in any election please.
bass4funk
I did the last 4 days, check the other posts.
Can Democrats prove there is wide spread voter suppression especially involving the last 3 Democrat Presidential elections? Bet they can’t or we would have seen the evidence.
Jsapc
No you didn't. Please post proof that Putin and Xi are "laughing at Biden", and/or not taking him seriously. Not opinion pieces, actual proof.
There is a whole wikipedia page dedicated to them. Amazing what you can find when you actually look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States
SuperLib
Closing polling places earlier doesn't prevent cheating. It just reduces the window people have to vote.
Blacklabel
Yeah that Biden claim about Georgia was false.
Biden Wrong on Early Voting Hours
GdTokyo
Um, no. No he did not. He claimed voter fraud. Put together a team. They met once. They found nothing and disbanded.
There is absolutely zero evidence of any kind of fraud in any organized manner.
And the fact that it would encompass a conspiracy on a scale requiring the acquiescence and the sustained silence of literally thousands of individuals from BOTH parties calls into question the basic cognitive abilities of those who believe this idiotic conspiracy.
Blacklabel
Drop boxes in Georgia, you say?
You now get to use these in all future elections where they never existed before without COVID.
Isnt this an improvement that allows more voting not less?
Zaphod
Oh my. These evil "republicans" blocked voting rights for non-existant people, dead people, double and triple people, non-citizens and more. What a crime to want some election integrity.
Blacklabel
I was directly responding to a false claim by Biden and posters here that the polls would close early, preventing people from voting.
"Closing polling places earlier doesn't prevent cheating. It just reduces the window people have to vote."
I wasnt summarizing the entire law for you. Firing of any election officials has nothing to do with preventing anyone from casting a ballot.
venze
Looks like the senate is not functioning with all the incessant partisan squabbles.
Soon, this could lead the whole national system to be mal-functional. Beware..
Blacklabel
also no more signature matching in Georgia. Isnt this great?
Well except for these people still claiming Black people cant get ID for some reason. I do believe every citizen has a social security number, at least.
lincolnman
Uh-huh...you'll be for it if the Pubs get the Senate back...
No, straight question - just answer it...
I'm glad you're acknowledging Biden is President - why won't Trump?
Uh-huh...believe Italian satellites changed votes - yes or no...
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pushed-italian-satellite-election-fraud-conspiracy-theory-2021-6
Peter Neil
Woah, let's back up here.
A drivers license is not proof of citizenship.
Let's get that sorted first.
SuperLib
We can debate a mistake by Biden all you want, but surely you aren't going to claim the GOP isn't restricting voting hours and access.
In fact, in Georgia, the GOP proposed eliminating voting on Sundays entirely. Like, the entire day.
In Texas they tried to push back opening hours on Sunday to 1 PM.
What stopped them? Democrats.
Why do you think the GOP tried to eliminate Sunday voting or restrict Sunday voting hours? Bass is of the opinion that these specific days and hours should be cut because that's them Dems prime weekly cheatin' hours.
What about you?
Blacklabel
Have you even read this law?
SuperLib
Why do you think Republicans are trying to reduce voting hours on Sundays or eliminating them entirely? And do you support their efforts?
SuperLib
Actually Trump claimed fraud when Ted Cruz beat him in the Iowa caucuses. Before he was elected.
“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!”
"Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified."
Trump claimed fraud when he lost the vote to Cruz, Clinton, and Biden. It's a pattern.
Jsapc
Please prove any of this massively happened during elections.
bass4funk
No, never was. I think most liberal policies are whacked but every now and then, they do have some decent ideas.
I did
And Biden is doing what again? We still don’t know yet, I don’t think he does either.
Huh? Anyway, by the next election, it’s going to be harder on Dems if they don’t get voter ID ready, but it seems more like they really want to lose the next election
Blacklabel
was it in the law? no it wasnt.
now you want to talk about what someone supposedly "tried" to do instead of talking about what the actual passed law says?
Blacklabel
lets ignore everything IN the law that makes it easier/better to vote and just try to talk about what isnt in the law? You do know, if they wanted it in the law, it would be there. nothing to prevent it.
By the way, why did Georgia just NOW remove 100,000 people from the voting rolls who are dead, didnt identify themselves properly or have moved?
When the governor was asked on TV last night why this was done, he said- because people who moved from Georgia, they voted in more than one state in the last election and this cant happen again.
ummmm whaaaaat?
SuperLib
Supposedly "tried"? They did try, and Democrats stopped them. I don't think you understand the meaning of supposedly or the use of quotation marks.
Anyway, you don't have to say if you support the GOP's attempts to reduce voting days and hours. And honestly, that's preferred to other Trump fans just making stuff up.
Have a good night.