Posted on 08/27/2012 4:56:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
Appearing on a Now with Alex Wagner segment on voter ID laws today, The Nation magazine's Ari Berman insisted that the push for voter ID laws has been an incredibly recent phenomenon that is most certainly an anti-Obama, anti-Democrat push.
The problem, of course, is that it's simply not true, especially since a baker's dozen of states passed new ID laws prior to the rise of the Tea Party Republicans in state legislatures in the 2010 elections
"You look this has been one of the most significant changes since the 2010 election is the wholesale change in voting laws across the country," Berman [pictured below] complained. "More than a dozen states have changed their voting laws to make it harder for Obama's base to vote," he added, noting changes in early voting laws as well as voter ID as part of the anti-Obama push.
But according to the National Conference of State Legislatures [NCSL], "Voter ID has been a hot topic in state legislatures over the past decade. Since 2001, nearly 1,000 bills have been introduced in a total of 46 states."
Apparently there was a huge anti-Obama push in almost every state in the union back when the president was a mere state senator and a relatively unknown junior U.S. senator from Illinois. Who knew?!
From 2003 through 2010, 13 states passed "major legislation" to either enact new voter ID laws or to tighten up voter ID requirements, according to NCSL. One of those states, New Mexico subsequently "relaxed" its 2005 photo ID law in 2008 to allow "a voter to satisfy the ID requirement by stating his/her name, address as registered, and year of birth."
In 2011, "New voter ID laws passed in Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island and Wisconsin," while the states of "Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas tightened existing voter ID laws to require photo ID," NCSL noted. Rhode Island is a liberal Democratic state with a liberal independent governor, an inconvenient truth for liberals. And in the state of Mississippi, well, that was a case of the voters widely approving -- 62 percent -- a state constitutional amendment in favor of voter ID.
This year Virginia passed a tighter voter ID law, New Hampshire overrode their Democratic governor's 2011 veto, and Pennsylvania instituted a new photo ID law. That would bring the total of new ID laws to 24 since 2003, but still, that's half of the new laws having been passed before the rise of Tea Party-influenced state legislatures.
Finally!
An admission from the Left that Obama's base is either lazy, stupid, or dishonest.
Or all three.
Only Obama’s base would admit to being too lazy to pull out their photo IDs at the polling place, especially when they have to do it ten or twenty times. Dead people find it especially difficult.
“The Newsroom” did a hatchet job on Voter ID laws last night. A nurse asked the Anchor (in his hospital bed) when TV news would report that her 94 yo black grandmother was going to be disenfranchised from voting because she didn’t have a car and so didn’t have a drivers license. This outraged the anchor so much that he got up and left the hospital to report on this terrible situation. In the newscast he said that only Republican States had passed such laws, and since only 73 cases of voter fraud had been reported nation wide, Republicans were trying to suppress the black vote, not suppress fraud.
Very persuasive .... if you didn’t know the facts. And I wouldn’t bet that the average HBO viewer knows those facts.
Seriously time for USA purple fingers!
The Dems have convinced me that Blacks are like CHILDREN that need to be LED and taken care of because they can't do it themselves!!!!
Obama is trying to build his base with more Illegal intruders from our southern border regions.
We have had it with his ‘base’.
How much ID did all those kids playing in the Little League World Series ——ALL of them-—need to even get enrolled into Little League in the first place??
How much ID did the parents & supporters need to get onto the planes & fly to Williamsport & cheer for all of them.
When I go to renew my driver’s license this fall, should I tell the DMV that I shouldn’t need ID to get a driver’s license since I don’t need an ID to VOTE???
The largest political party (by number of registrations) in America needs illegal non-Americans to keep it afloat.
Says a lot about the current state of the Democratic Party.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.