Schumer Admits He’d Rather Shut Down Gov’t Than Require Voters Prove Citizenship
With spending running out and a government shutdown imminent, Schumer has made it clear how much he fears an election that can’t be rigged.
House GOP hates the Trillion-every-100-days debt the Dems are gleefully piling on. But many GOP are willing to negotiate a straight Continuing Resolution bill until the March of the next (hopefully GOP) administration in exchange for one concession in particular.
What is that one concession?
It’s one that Schumer is now rejecting… Election security.
“As I have said before, the only way to get things done is in a bipartisan way,” Schumer said. “Despite Republican bluster, that is how we’ve handled every funding bill in the past, and this time should be no exception. We will not let poison pills or Republican extremism put funding for critical programs at risk.” Last week, House GOP leaders revealed their version of a continuing resolution, which would provide funding for the federal government through March 28, combined with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a bill which aims to require individuals show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in elections for federal office and pushes states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls.
Oh, I dunno… Why do you suppose there would be any objection from the party that refuses to purge voter rolls, and whose past Presidents (JFK and LBJ) both have ballot stuffing scandals in their past… To say nothing of the irregularities so often cited in Biden’s Big Win?
What are Dems so afraid of?
It’s truly a mystery.
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Exactly how many irregular votes have been shown in the last 30 years? Have you recently tried to get a "smart" license? It is a bear for those who know the rules and follows them. It also takes one away from their worksite.
@daydeeo I am not sure why you are asking me this. The right to vote is inherent in our society! I have never understood why election day is not a paid day off? Luckily, most states have made voting early by mail, allowed without having to prove a reason to use this way to vote.
Courts Agree: Fraud by Voters at the Polls is Nearly Non-Existent The Fifth Circuit, in an opinion finding that Texas’s strict photo ID law is racially discriminatory, noted that there were “only two convictions for in-person voter impersonation fraud out of 20 million votes cast in the decade” before Texas passed its law. 2 In its opinion striking down North Carolina’s omnibus restrictive election law —which included a voter ID requirement — as purposefully racially discriminatory, the Fourth Circuit noted that the state “failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing in person voter fraud in North Carolina.” A federal trial court in Wisconsin reviewing that state’s strict photo ID law found “that impersonation fraud — the type of fraud that voter ID is designed to prevent — is extremely rare” and “a truly isolated phenomenon that has not posed a significant threat to the integrity of Wisconsin’s elections.” Even the Supreme Court, in its opinion in Crawford upholding Indiana’s voter ID law, noted that the record in the case “contains no evidence of any [in-person voter impersonation] fraud actually occurring in Indiana at any time in its history.” Two of the jurists who weighed in on that case at the time — Republican-appointed former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and conservative appellate court Judge Richard Posner — have since announced they regret their votes in favor of the law, with Judge Posner noting that strict photo ID laws are “now widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than of fraud prevention.”
@samueltyler2 I don't know where you live, but in the Boston MA area, I went to the DMV, filled out 2 forms which took less than 5 minutes, waited about 10 minutes for my turn at the counter (I timed it so they weren't busy) and spent less than a minute there. In all, including parking it was less than 20 minutes and 2 forms.
@joe438 Then your experience was totally different than mine. My wife and I tried twice. The first time they did not make appointments and we arrived at 9 AM, and we stood on line for over 30 minutes and were told that the line was cut off just ahead of us, since they "ran out" of spaces. The next time, we had appointments, but when we finally got to the counter, we were told they had no more "smart licenses," and despite having all of the required IDs received new licenses that state, not for use as Smart ID. So, we carry our passports when we need such.
@samueltyler2 I'm shocked that the MA DMV is ever more efficient and well run than anyone else's. It seems unreasonable to want people to switch to them if they can't issue them properly.
