False Comparisons & Censorship at Think Progress Org
Nice headline. More of the usual nonsense at Thinkprogress.org. Loaded, false premise headlines to make a non-argument that ends in playing the race-card. The article at thinkprogress also has a comment section, full of the circular logic of the leftists, and heavily censored. I started with a link on Voter ID at the Carter Ford Commission and their recommendations for better elections. I replied to another comment, and after that, ALL my further posts are blocked and disappear. CENSORED
Here is the requirement to get a Gun License in Texas-
' Under State law TXDPS must conduct a fingerprint based State and FBI
Criminal History background check as part of the application process for
both original and renewal applicants'
All
Original CHL applicants are required to submit fingerprints to TXDPS as
part of the complete CHL application. CHL applicants must submit
electronic fingerprints regardless of whether the applicant submits a
paper application or an online application.
Original CHL applicants must continue to sign the CHL-6 "Photo
Holder/ID Signature" form and return it with two (2) passport photos
regardless of the method used for fingerprinting; however,
signatures are not required on the back of the photos.
(Note: The photo taken at the time of electronic fingerprinting is for
identification purposes only and will NOT be used for application
purposes.)
Texas Dept of Public Safey - Gun Licensing Now Compare that process to a student ID.
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By Aviva Shen on Jul 6, 2012 at 5:25 pm
'On Monday, the Department of Justice and the Texas Legislature will
square off in court over Texas’ contentious voter ID law. A three-judge
U.S. District Court panel will hear the case, which could challenge the
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Texas is one of nine states that must get any changes to their
election law cleared by the DOJ under the Voting Rights Act due to a
history of discrimination. Texas flunked the test; as Assistant U.S.
Attorney General Thomas E. Perez
wrote in his letter to the Director of Elections, “According to the state’s own data,
a Hispanic registered voter is at least 46.5 percent, and potentially
120.0 percent, more likely than a non-Hispanic registered voter to lack
this identification.”
The law, SB 14, requires voters to show one of a very narrow list of
government-issued documents, excluding Social Security, Medicaid, or
student ID cards. Gun licenses, however, are acceptable.
The DOJ found that
Texas’s SB 14 will “disenfranchise at least 600,000 voters who
currently lack necessary photo identification and that minority
registered voters will be disproportionately affected by the law.”
As of the 2010 Census,
non-Hispanic whites have become the minority in Texas, shrinking to
45.3% of the population from 52.4%, while Latinos accounted for 65% of
Texas’s population growth over the past decade.
But Latinos are not the only people hurt by the restrictive bill.
People who want to vote but don’t have an ID will have to pay a fee to
get one, like Jessica Cohen, whose
story
ThinkProgress documented in November. After she lost her identification
during a robbery, the only way to get a voter ID was to pay a fee to
Missouri officials in order to obtain her birth certificate.
On Monday, Texas will defend the law as a necessary measure to prevent voter fraud. Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX)
argued
that “Texas has a responsibility to ensure elections are fair, beyond
reproach and accurately reflect the will of voters.” But the
San Antonio Express-News
reported that fewer than five “illegal voting” complaints involving
voter impersonations were filed with the Texas Attorney General’s Office
from the 2008 and 2010 general elections in which more than 13 million
voters participated.
The Texas voter ID law isn’t the first the DOJ has had to combat.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder noted,
“The past two years have brought nearly two dozen new state laws and
executive orders, from more than a dozen states, that could make it
significantly harder for eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.”'
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Leftists are left with the RACE-HUSTLE for Obama2012 |
From the Carter Ford Commission:
Second, to make sure that a person arriving at a polling site is the same one who is named on the
list, we propose a uniform system of voter identification based on the "REAL ID card" or an
equivalent for people without a drivers license. To prevent the ID from being a barrier to voting,
we recommend that states use the registration and ID process to enfranchise more voters than ever.
States should play an affirmative role in reaching out to non-drivers by providing more offices,
including mobile ones, to register voters and provide photo IDs free of charge. There is likely to
be less discrimination against minorities if there is a single, uniform ID, than if poll workers can
apply multiple standards. In addition, we suggest procedural and institutional safeguards to make
sure that the rights of citizens are not abused and that voters will not be disenfranchised because
of an ID requirement. We also propose that voters who do not have a photo ID during a
transitional period receive a provisional ballot that would be counted if their signature is verified.
An ID was the recommendation for the
Jimmy Carter and James Baker led commission.
Were you surprised to find out that 100 democracies have voter id but that fact is NEVER mentioned in the leftist media?
The hustle is all the progressives and leftists have. Rule by fiat, divide by class or color and conquer the truth with messaging from your Leftist media surrogates.
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