Boothby is only calling out the inherent racism in your position on voting requirements. Gotta lower the bar so that you can get disadvantaged minorities to vote, right? Why do they need the bar lowered in the first place, especially when Boothby is right about how easy it is to exercise one's right to vote these days?
Boothby referred to a "certain demographic" as "dimwitted"...if you can't see the racism there's no point in even trading posts. I don't condone race baiting or stereotyping, but I know the difference between an ill advised comment and blatant racism...a couple of days ago taro used the word "dago" to refer to Mexicans (I think)...no biggie...sometimes the mitigating factor in these comments is the source's own stupidity and ignorance...but boothby and those who would recommend and double down on his remarks are racist, because his feelings are deeply held and passionately expressed....read his posts. If you recognize remarks aimed at your ethnic background and not his I have really nothing left to say to you.
On voting, I ask you in reverse...why do we need to raise the bar and make it more difficult for people to vote...these court cases have clearly demonstrated that there is no evidence of fraud justifying these laws? Read what republican officials have said about these laws in moments of regrettable candor...the intent is CLEAR...and it's not to prevent fraud.
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Former Senator Jim DeMint says that in states that have enacted strict requirements, “elections begin to change towards more conservative candidates.”
“Now we have photo ID, and I think photo ID is going to make a little bit of a difference as well,” U.S. Representative Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin said the evening of the state’s presidential primary. A former chief of staff for a Republican Wisconsin state senator told The New York Times in a story published Monday that he attended a meeting where GOP lawmakers “were literally giddy” over the suppression effects of the law. The staffer, Todd Allbaugh, says he resigned in disgust.
In summer of 2012, the Republican leader of the Pennsylvania state house said that voter ID “is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” (A judge blocked the law, and Obama won the state.)
Around the same time, Doug Preisse, the chair of the GOP in Franklin County, Ohio, told The Columbus Dispatch, “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine.”
In late 2012, former Florida GOP Chair Jim Greer told the Palm Beach Post that the motivation for shortening early voting—another common tactic in recent years—was to drive down black turnout. “The sad thing about that is yes, there is prejudice and racism in the party but the real prevailing thought is that they don’t think minorities will ever vote Republican,” he said. “It’s not really a broad-based racist issue. It’s simply that the Republican Party gave up a long time ago ever believing that anything they did would get minorities to vote for them.” (Florida Republican leaders are quick to point out that Greer pled guilty to theft and money laundering three years ago.)
In 2013, Don Yelton, a local GOP official in North Carolina said on The Daily Show that the Old North State’s strict voting law “hurts a bunch of lazy blacks who wants the government to give them everything.” He was compelled to resign.
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