Posted on 12/07/2011 10:32:01 AM PST by jazusamo
A Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday on the House floor that Republican legislators around the country are purposefully trying to deny blacks the right to vote by pushing for voter identification laws.
“It’s no coincidence that a disproportionate number of these affected voters come from communities of color as well as the poor, the elderly and students,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), a former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
“Having been born and raised in Texas, this certainly looks like a poll tax to me, which those of us remember as a way to prevent African Americans from voting. These voter ID laws have a partisan agenda: seeking to disenfranchise and deny specific populations of voters before they have the opportunity to elect their representatives in government.”
She also said the laws are meant to change election outcomes by “turning the clock back to the days of Jim Crow.”
Lee is the latest Democrat to charge that laws requiring people to show a valid ID to vote are aimed at suppressing the black vote to get better results for Republicans in the 2012 elections. Republicans including Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) have said ID laws are needed because there are several examples of voter fraud, such as the discovery that ACORN was registering non-legal voters.
Last month, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz openly accused Republicans of trying to rig the 2012 elections by passing voter ID laws.
On Wednesday, Lee charged that the ID laws would prevent 1 in 4 blacks from voting, and 1 in 5 Hispanics and Asian Americans. She also said the laws are a return to the voter suppression that was seen in the controversial 2000 presidential election.
“I came to this floor years ago, after the stolen presidential elections in Florida and Ohio, to protest the results of those two elections that were filled with voter suppression,” she said. “It worked for Republicans before, and so legislators in 42 states in this map of shame have doubled down on these strategies to make it harder for certain communities to vote.”
On Wednesday, Lee charged that the ID laws would prevent 1 in 4 blacks from voting, and 1 in 5 Hispanics and Asian Americans. She also said the laws are a return to the voter suppression that was seen in the controversial 2000 presidential election.
Preposterous, though it will help stop ineligible voters and people from voting more than once.
Exactly, the Democrats don’t like the law because it makes it harder for the dead to vote and other people to vote twice.
It will prevent 1 in 4 black votes, and 1 in 5 hispanic and asian votes - not voters. Which tells us (though she didn’t intend to) that 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 ballots cast from these groups are fraudulent.
It will prevent 1 in 4 black votes, and 1 in 5 hispanic and asian votes - not voters. Which tells us (though she didn’t intend to) that 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 ballots cast from these groups are fraudulent.
I say Democrats deny blacks the righ to succeed.
What she is doing is endorsing Democratic ballot box stuffing.
How can merely asking for an ID stop any eligible voter from voting.
As far as Barbara Lee sounding like Cynthia McKinney-—have you ever listened to anyone from the Black Congressional Caucus speak?
They all sound like Cynthia Mckinney with the exception of Allen West . The Black Congressional Caucus is the Klan with a Tan, As racist as any skinhead.
Yep, that was the election they tried to not count the military ballots, but that didn’t seem to bother them.
Anythuing thing the Dremorats say is 180 degrees from the truth. Intelligent people know that.
To hell with them, no Id, no vote
we all knew that this was coming, the tactic of scare mongering the blacks and hispanics to get their vote out.
We know the MSM will start saying how much better the economy is going now.
Talking points will be “we were not ready for the economy being that bad and so it took us longer to fix but now we see an improvement and we don’t want to go back to what got us into this mess “
We know the left will now say republicans want to get rid of SS, medicare etc but they know no republicans want to do that and the only person up there who does is not a republican anyway, it is Ron Paul.
So it’s score the elderly, the blacks, the hispanics.
Then the unions will send their flyers out every day to the addresses of union members saying a bunch of lies to get the unions out to vote.
Teachers will be getting students out to vote and be telling parents how bad the republicans are in their area and for congress.
The media have not got out of kissing their messiahs arse yet so they will carry on but dig deeper on republicans and some channels will deny AD’s on their networks again saying it is too divisive.
While people look away the move on’s and other groups will be getting dead people on the rolls again, they will use our tax money for their election , they will be ready for a massive election fraud and tell illegals to vote.
Meanwhile the DOJ will have in place their racist lot to go after republicans and their areas, but ignore their illegal voting
SO SO PREDICTABLE .
how do they cash their welfare checks without an ID??????
Hah!
I don’t know if every member of the CBC sounds like Cynthia but you make a good point. :-)
As far as her comparing this to a poll tax she’s just plain goofy, the states passing these photo ID laws offer a free ID if a person can’t afford one.
If you're talking about providing ID and proof of address in order to vote, the "affected voters" will be people who don't exist. I guess that's a core Democratic constituency.
Barb’s people get arrested all the time, they have to show ID for that. They get government help all the time, they have to show ID for that.
They have ID. But if they have to show ID, they can’t just claim to be someone they aren’t.
They have to show ID for liquor, check cashing, any bank teller transaction, when a cop asks for it, when welfare workers ask for it, to get medical prescriptions at Walgreens, all this stuff requires ID and somehow Barb isn’t calling all this stuff as a way to prevent black people functioning in society. Show who you are to vote and somehow this is a burden most blacks can’t handle?
Nobody’s buying it. Sorry. In the rare cases people don’t have an ID and are poor it’s made available for free. That’s in all the legislation I’ve ever seen passed requiring photo ID for voting. Therefore, NO POLL TAX. Everyone pays for their ID otherwise, we’re all ‘burdened’ having to pay for state ID or licenses, Barb.
Sorry, I searched but I guess I took to long to post.
The county that I live in has ALWAYS requested ID before you’re allowed to vote. I have NEVER heard of any problems with this requirement.
Some people might say she is talking out of her butt,because her head knows better.
These people get elected in gerrymandered districts, because no one with a brain would ever vote for them.Check it out.
LLS
Exactly correct.
Even Eric Holder and his JustUs Department are fighting these photo ID laws, shows just how corrupt this Obama administration is and they're blatant about it.
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