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To: i-node who wrote (953429)	8/3/2016 5:58:35 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574879

I haven't followed this so I have no idea which it might be. Give us a %$#&ing break and try not to insult us. The Left constantly imputes racists behavior on the Right This is not a case of racism and exclusively a case of voter suppression targeted at people who vote democrat. On a slightly different point, the question of whether making it easier to vote -- black or white -- is a good thing. There is something to be said for making getting out to vote something you have to make an effort to do. Convenient, yes. But encouraging the uninformed to vote is not a good idea, IMO. The above, on the other hand, is racist. Al

To: i-node who wrote (953429)	8/3/2016 8:43:19 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574879

What matters is why. If the changes were solely to exclude black voters that is one thing. If the changes were to address administrative problems that is something else. I haven't followed this so I have no idea which it might be. Sure. And if it were only one or two, that would have been one thing. But it was a whole slate of things that were primarily done by people of color. Those activities used primarily by whites, like absentee voting, were left alone. And absentee voting is a growing area of voter fraud. Many orders of magnitude more than in person voter fraud. Yet no Republicans even discuss the issue with respect to voter fraud. It makes one wonder...