Trump’s plan to make voters older, wealthier and whiter

Reuters Commentary ^ | 7-12-2017 | Scott Lemieux

[Sir Napsalot]

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Many Republicans legislators are insulated from even the fiercest political backlash because the political playing field is tilted strongly towards the GOP side. Now the White House is about to make it even more so with a scheme to shrink the electorate and skew it towards the GOP.

In late June, the Trump administration announced a series of measures to constrict the body politic, making it older, whiter, and wealthier - and therefore more Republican. The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is asking for detailed state data about voters. There already is evidence that merely asking for the data is stopping people from registering. Voting rights experts say that because voter rolls inevitably contain errors, such as still listing voters who recently moved, the Trump administration is likely planning to use these discrepancies to justify vote suppression efforts such as onerous identification requirements. (On Monday, while awaiting the outcome of legal challenges to the request and the refusal of some secretaries of state to comply, Trump’s commission put the request on hold.)

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Chasing imaginary voter impersonation, disenfranchising millions of eligible voters in the process, is not just an obsession of Trump’s. Republican lawyers are circulating the country urging state and local officials to purge voter rolls. Conservative lawyers are targeting districts with large numbers of racial minorities and few resources for legal defense. Republican state legislatures have also recently passed measures like requiring voters to present government-issued photo IDs and restrictions on early voting.

Republicans are doing everything they can to keep Democratic-leaning constituencies - people of color, the poor and young people - from voting. The party claims to have suddenly developed a peculiar fixation with election security, but it's plainly about constricting the electorate to protect Republicans from feeling voters' wrath over their unpopular policies. .......

[mewzilla]

Or just issue every adult American a passport. And require them to bring when voting for a federal office.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

See #16. I was curious, too. Far left kook, so naturally a political science professor at SUNY Albany. French Canadian, too, so probably a hard core socialist. I didn’t waste any time digging deeper than that as it tells you all you need to know.

[Kozak]

The dead, morons and illegals.

[mewzilla]

It gets better. Apparently the dude writes for The Guardian , too. Nuff said, eh?

Really interesting, isn't it, that Rooters doesn't provide that info to its readers.

[Sir Napsalot]

Right, I tried to find info on Lemieux, too.

Except that he’s a leftwing professor at some college, ‘regular’ contributor at Vox, etc.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Rooters being racist again.

[dsrtsage]

We may have 60% of the “uneducated” bumpkin vote (you know those guys that grow food, run the mines, or do other skilled labor. But they have 100% of the illiterate vote

[Moonman62]

Trump’s plan to make voters legal and give them the power to vote out the swamp rats.

[alloysteel]

Trump’s plan? Hell, Donald wasn’t even a card carrying Republican until fairly recently, and earlier, he was as likely to be donor to a liberal Democrat for office as he may have for any Republican, regardless of stripe. In fact, there is every chance, that if Bill Clinton had not come out of nowhere in 1992 and won the Presidential election that year, that Trump could have very well run for the Presidency as a Democrat in 1996 and won.

The search for a legitimate verified voter roll is apart from any political party, and should be the objective of any honest student of government by democracy.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"people of color"

Colored people.

FTFY.

[Harpotoo]

TDS at it’s finest:-)

[Harpotoo]

Another self loathing white dem:-)

[Cowboy Bob]

There already is evidence that merely asking for the data is stopping people from registering.

Why is that?

Isn't anyone curious to find out why?

[John Milner]

What’s wrong with old people? Is this guy an ageist? Doesn’t he know discrimination by age is illegal?

What’s wrong with being rich? Does he not get paid for his job writing this drivel? Is he hoping he can earn less or nothing and become homeless and poor?

What’s wrong with being white? White people can’t help it they weren’t born with the liberals’ preferred skin pigmentation. Doesn’t this make him a dyed in the wool racist?