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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
It’s generally the elderly and the minorities who are most affected by those policies, less so the youth. And behind the scenes in, say, Alabama, republicans are pretty clear that their aim is to reduce turnout among Black voters, not deter voter fraud (which is insignificant in the US).
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
What do you have to support that hypothesis? @QuixoticSoul
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@jackjjackson The last part? The presidents own commission is a place to start.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@jackjjackson As for the other stuff, well...
[quote]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.”
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.[/quote]
It’s basically GOP’s number one strategy in Alabama. The voter ID angle is just another way to get at it. Voter fraud is not a problem in AL, but black people viting is.
[quote]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.”
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.[/quote]
It’s basically GOP’s number one strategy in Alabama. The voter ID angle is just another way to get at it. Voter fraud is not a problem in AL, but black people viting is.