Evening, John. 
Posted on 11/25/2016 2:57:07 PM PST by John Semmens
The League of Women Voters called for the election of Donald Trump to be voided on the grounds that the election was rigged. Chris Carson, president of the League of Women Voters maintains that "state laws requiring voters to show IDs before they are allowed to cast a ballot unduly restrict the franchise."
"The whole point of democracy is to allow the people to govern themselves," Carson said. "Limiting the franchise to only those who can prove who they are narrows the base and excludes those who can't or won't agree to identify themselves. This conflicts with the principle of the secret ballot."
Nineteen states and Washington, D.C. have no ID mandate. According to Carson, "this is the model the rest of the country should be compelled to adopt. Look at how many came to the polls in California where no ID has to be shown. Look at how big of a margin it was for Hillary Clinton in this state. Clearly, the mandate of the people is that she should be president. That she's not is a badge of shame tainting our democracy."
Whether a "no ID" system would validate or destroy the democratic process is a matter for debate. Critics of Carson's perspective estimate that in California alone at least two million non-citizens were allowed to cast ballots. That the participation of ineligible voters might dilute the effectiveness of citizens' preferences is a perspective shared by the 80% of Americans who support ID requirements. To Carson, though, "citizenship is an arbitrary demarcation. As President Obama has pointed out, non-citizens living in the country have a material interest in the outcome and they have a moral right to defend the time and effort they invested in infiltrating our borders from being negated by the xenophobic contingent who by accident of birth are citizens through no virtue of their own."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/207775-2016-11-25-semi-news-semi-satire-november-27-2016-edition.htm
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The key to satire is approaching the truth and sadly this does represent the thinking of many on the left.
Evening, John.
You really shouldn’t plagiarize articles from the Washington Compost.
Please keep bringing it on!
HA!
You left out the “living challenged”
B-r-a-a-a-i-n-s!
It is hard to categorize this as satire. 95% truth.
If we had a woman to vote for fine, but Hillary???...get real liberals. I would not invite her into my friendship circle ever. I used to trust these ladies as guides to offices and amendments but now will have to look for the League of Men Voters...
You forgot traditional voting patterns (multiple votes), disenfranchising the dead, and the opportunity to earn a little spending money.
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