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Editorial: Obama's black support at risk in voter ID states
Star Ledger ^ | August 23, 2012

Posted on 08/23/2012 3:51:54 PM PDT by SMGFan

For anyone who doubted voter ID laws are intended to keep Obama supporters out of the voting booth, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is enlightening. The poll finds President Obama beating Mitt Romney among African-American voters – 94 percent to 0. These are the voters most likely to be prevented from casting ballots in states with voter ID laws. In Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, citizens must produce a government-issued photo ID before they cast a vote. People of color are more likely to be disenfranchised by these laws since they are less likely to have photo ID than the general population. Ohio tried to restrict voting hours in urban districts only, until a national outcry forced the state to back down.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nj.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackvote; photoid; voterfraud; voterid
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What is with this "less likely" baloney?
1 posted on 08/23/2012 3:52:00 PM PDT by SMGFan
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Voter ID laws hurt racists? Who knew?


2 posted on 08/23/2012 3:54:00 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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94 to 0...??

B.S.

As is most to the other "stats" in this piece.....

3 posted on 08/23/2012 3:55:13 PM PDT by Osage Orange ("Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.")
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Are they saying black voters are too stupid to get a photo ID if they don’t already have one?????

Maybe the NAACP or the Black Panthers should start an education effort to let people know they will need an ID to vote. They don’t seem to have any problem getting people registered to vote now they can help them get ID’s


4 posted on 08/23/2012 3:55:47 PM PDT by slumber1 (Don't taze me bro!)
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The liberal media is being ridiculously racist when they strictly focus on black people in these stories. It’s like....well everyone can get voter ID’s except for really really old people and black people. What’s that saying? All these mea culpa’s have gotten old, especially when ID is literally required for everything nowadays.


5 posted on 08/23/2012 3:56:40 PM PDT by PhxTM06 (")
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"For anyone who doubted voter ID laws are intended to keep Obama supporters out of the voting booth, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is enlightening."

I doubt it. Voter ID laws are intended to keep fraudulent voters out of the voting booth.

All the NBC/WS Journal poll proves is that almost all fraudulent voters are Democrats.

6 posted on 08/23/2012 3:56:40 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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They can’t, or won’t produce ID becuase they’re either illegl or stupid. Race has absolutely nothing to do with it.


7 posted on 08/23/2012 3:57:06 PM PDT by onedoug
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How do they purchase beer?


8 posted on 08/23/2012 3:59:10 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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We have an ID law here in Michigan too. Plus we’re now being asked to check a box confirming our citizenship.


9 posted on 08/23/2012 3:59:27 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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A closed mind is a terrible thing to waste.


10 posted on 08/23/2012 4:00:17 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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"For anyone who doubted voter ID laws are intended to keep Obama supporters out of the voting booth..."

Is THAT what that law is intended to do? Keep Obama supporters out of the voting booth? Author doesn't have a high opinion of minorities does he/she? This mentality is demeaning to a free people.

Sick people.

11 posted on 08/23/2012 4:00:30 PM PDT by arkady_renko
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Maybe the NAACP or the Black Panthers should start an education effort to let people know they will need an ID to vote.

Get Joe Biden on it. "Y'all gwine haf ta git y'alls some ah-dee!"

12 posted on 08/23/2012 4:00:47 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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So if they’re not eligible to vote, they might run into difficulties-oh the humanity!


13 posted on 08/23/2012 4:00:59 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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Well, they’ve got two months to figure out how to get a photo ID. They better start doing some serious research on how it is done.


14 posted on 08/23/2012 4:01:21 PM PDT by MNDude ( Victimhood is the Holy Grail of liberalism)
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The laws just make cheating harder that’s all. Still, Obama’s Gay Marriage bid will do more to hurt him with black voters than anything the Republicans could do. I believe a lot of black will stay home on election day.


15 posted on 08/23/2012 4:02:08 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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Precisely!! The fact that reducing voter fraud cuts into the Democrat vote is an indictment of Democrats, not Republicans.


16 posted on 08/23/2012 4:04:20 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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“Disenfranchised” because you can’t produce the modt basic of IDs? How do you get disenfranchised for having to produce something even Obama requires at his events?

What about disenfranchising honest voters by allowing crooks to vote? What’s the greatest wrong?


17 posted on 08/23/2012 4:07:30 PM PDT by cpa4you (CPA4YOU)
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The secret to keep them voting for marxists is to keep them as uneducated as possible.
18 posted on 08/23/2012 4:07:44 PM PDT by oldbrowser
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Talk about an illogical agenda-driven screed!

While the author of this piece is SO concerned about these ID-less people being disenfranchised because they can’t prove they are who they say they are in order to vote, is he/she/it at all concerned over the fact that these same ID-less people also cannot cash checks, sign up for welfare, register for school, buy alcohol, rent an apartment, etc., etc.?

Or is the concern just a ruse because these supposed throngs of ID-less people are a pure fabrication invented for the purpose of trying to distract us from the fact that voter ID makes it that much harder to commit vote fraud?


19 posted on 08/23/2012 4:08:50 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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how can anyone be 18 and over & not have a photo ID? the only excuse is that they are either too lazy or an illegal alien.


20 posted on 08/23/2012 4:08:56 PM PDT by Ryan_Rubio_2016
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