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AbbeyRhode · F
LadyBronte · 56-60, F
AbbeyRhode · F
@LadyBronte I do, too. And it's not like they give a damn about minorities. If they thought for one minute that illegal aliens were voting Republican, you'd be able to see the border wall from Mars!
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@AbbeyRhode Nobody is actually worried about illegal aliens though. It’s just not a practical concern, in fact in-person voter fraud is remarkably rare. But from one of the architects of this bill we have things like this:
This is Alamaba we are talking about. Priority #1 for the GOP there is to lower black voter turnout, that’s just basic strategy. This isn’t their only strategy either, some are downright silly.
A state senator who had tried for over a decade to get the bill into law, told The Huntsville Times that a photo ID law would undermine Alabama’s “black power structure.” In The Montgomery Advertiser, he said that the absence of an ID law “benefits black elected leaders.”
This is Alamaba we are talking about. Priority #1 for the GOP there is to lower black voter turnout, that’s just basic strategy. This isn’t their only strategy either, some are downright silly.
The bill’s sponsors were even caught on tape devising a plan to depress the turnout of black voters — whom they called “aborigines” and “illiterates” who would ride “H.U.D.-financed buses” to the polls — in the 2010 midterm election by keeping a gambling referendum off the ballot. Gambling is popular among black voters in Alabama, so they thought if it had remained on the ballot, black voters would show up to vote in droves.
LadyBronte · 56-60, F
@AbbeyRhode You are soooo right!!! That wall would have been up yesterday!