Originally posted by Klaw
So I just saw this.So what's going to be the excuse now?
Expanded:
What if I don't have one of the six acceptable forms of photo ID?
The State of Georgia offers a free ID Card. An ID Card can be issued at any county registrar's office free of charge.
To receive a voter identification card at the county registrar's office, the voter must provide:
A photo identity document or approved non-photo identity document that includes full legal name and date of birth.
Documentation showing the voter's date of birth.
Evidence that the applicant is a registered voter.
Documentation showing the applicant's name and residential address.
OR
A Voter ID card can be issued at any Georgia Department of Driver Services office free of charge.
To receive a free Georgia voter identification card at Georgia Driver Services, voters must provide:
An original or certified document to prove WHO YOU ARE such as a Birth Certificate or Passport.
Your SOCIAL SECURITY CARD.
Two documents showing your RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS such as a Bank Statement or Utility Bill.
If you've had a NAME CHANGE, then you'll also need to bring a document to prove that, such as a Marriage License.
Signed Affidavit.
Evidence that you are a registered voter.
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Can't tell if you are required to have all of these documents or just one of the options listed.
Originally posted by Klaw
Your arguments are circular and silly, as that requires someone to travel, which they may or may not be able to do and another ID to begin with, which they may or may not have. Which tells you exactly how these new laws are aimed to greatly impact a certain segment of people.
The point is that GA should be mailing every Georgian a voting ID, if they require it for someone to exercise their right to vote. This isn't like obtaining driver's license which is a privilege, voting is a right. Learn the difference.
If they had been really concerned, they would have gone public long before March 25. They would have announced publicly that they would contribute nary a dime to any legislator acting to narrow voting access.If they really were involved during the drafting, then they wouldn’t be caught flatfooted now.
Delta Chief Executive Ed Bastian said March 31 that he’s just now had the time to “fully understand,” thanks to “discussions with leaders and employees in the Black community, [that] the bill includes provisions that will make it harder for many underrepresented voters, particularly Black voters, to exercise their constitutional right to elect their representatives.”
Delta and Coke haven’t been entirely missing in action on voting access. Coke gave employees a paid day off to vote on election day last year. Delta and Atlanta-based Home Depot encouraged employees to volunteer as poll workers.
But most of their actions have been after the fact. Neither company has committed itself to withdrawing financial support from the state legislators who perpetrated the voting bill. Indeed, the only entity that has put its money where its mouth is has been Major League Baseball, which pulled the All-Star game out of Atlanta.
Nevertheless, their weak-tea statements—along with those of more than 200 corporations and a group of 72 Black corporate executives opposing vote-suppression laws—elicited a spectacularly hypocritical reaction from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
“My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics,” McConnell said, warning of “serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order.” (Whatever that means.)
As Legum points out, McConnell has accepted more than $4.3 million in corporate contributions in just the last five years. If they truly stayed out of politics, that would be the cost to him. But they won’t, because they almost always get what they want out of politics—tax cuts, lax regulations, indulgent enforcement, etc. etc.
Delta, Coca-Cola and Georgia’s other major employers could have stopped that state’s measure in its tracks, if they had had the spine to do so. Coke didn’t reply to my request for comment, and Delta referred me to Bastian’s March 31 statement.
In America’s election system, money talks and big business has a gold-plated megaphone. With voter suppression laws in the hopper in 47 states, corporate America will have many more opportunities to makes its voice heard.
The time to pretend that they were surprised by the implications of the Georgia law is long past. The very fact that it was under consideration was damning evidence of its purpose; to think otherwise bespeaks an implausible naivete.
“We need to take more seriously,” Hill says, “that lawmakers have a good idea of what the impact of this law will be.”
Originally posted by Robtard
Your arguments are circular and silly, as that requires someone to travel, which they may or may not be able to do and another ID to begin with, which they may or may not have. Which tells you exactly how these new laws are aimed to greatly impact a certain segment of people.The point is that GA should be mailing every Georgian a voting ID, if they require it for someone to exercise their right to vote. This isn't like obtaining driver's license which is a privilege, voting is a right. Learn the difference.
You have to travel to vote (unless you're mail in voting).
Everything takes time and/or money.
So I'm not sure what you're issue is.
Originally posted by Trocity
Forms of acceptable ID include a FREE ID card that you can get from multiple places....?LOL.... wow. So they think minorities are poor AND lazy...
They're are poor White people that these laws will affect too, but they're not the majority and not the target. More like collateral damage.
Keep defending shit behavior though as you usually do with your silly strawmen arguments.
Originally posted by Klaw
Requiring ID to vote is not "shit behavior."It is common sense.
In Canada, I have had to provide ID to vote and to get healthcare every single time.
And almost nobody here thinks it's racist.
Only Leftists think that.
Already covered it, you ignored.
Anyhow, I do hope this has a cascading effect and more and more companies and organizations pull of of GA, thereby forcing the GA Republicans to rethink their bigoted laws.
Originally posted by Robtard
They're are poor White people that these laws will affect too, but they're not the majority and not the target. More like collateral damage.Keep defending shit behavior though as you usually do with your silly strawmen arguments.
White people affected are "collateral damage". Lmao.
You think having to walk somewhere to get a free ID is Jim Crow, dude. I'm not defending shitty behavior, I'm genuinely perplexed why this is such a big deal. Its free.
Originally posted by Trocity
White people affected are "collateral damage". Lmao.You think having to walk somewhere to get a free ID is Jim Crow, dude. I'm not defending shitty behavior, I'm genuinely perplexed why this is such a big deal. Its free.
When something disproportionately affects one group over another, yes. Keep ignoring that.
Okay, but the ID is free. Mailing someone their free ID would be convenient, but what if they don't have an address they can receive mail from? And if you're doing mail in voting, do you not have to go somewhere in order to mail your vote in? Thats okay, but going somewhere to get a free ID is too much to ask?
If you do it online, you need access to a computer. If you don't have one, you have to go to a library or somewhere that does. Is online voting also considered racist?
Believe it or not, I'm trying to understand, it just seems bizarre.
One more time I guess: If the GA government is going to require 'X' for someone to exercise their right to vote now, then the government needs to provide that to every citizen and the government needs to take full responsibly in that requirement being provided. Otherwise these laws tend to negatively affect certain groups over others.
Changing laws so that only online voting is allowed would be bigoted as it would disproportionately target certain groups over others. eg our older seniors
Originally posted by Trocity
Okay, but the ID is [b]free. Mailing someone their free ID would be convenient, but what if they don't have an address they can receive mail from? And if you're doing mail in voting, do you not have to go somewhere in order to mail your vote in? Thats okay, but going somewhere to get a free ID is too much to ask?If you do it online, you need access to a computer. If you don't have one, you have to go to a library or somewhere that does. Is online voting also considered racist?
Believe it or not, I'm trying to understand, it just seems bizarre. [/B]
Biden did claim minorities don’t know how to use the internet.
Don’t you find it funny the low bar white people sets up for black people?
Shit is damn sickening.
Originally posted by SquallX
Biden did claim minorities don’t know how to use the internet.Don’t you find it funny the low bar white people sets up for black people?
Shit is damn sickening.
Seems like you fell for your Rightist fake news agian: "could not find any evidence of Biden having made these remarks in any media reports, nor on the White House website" -snip
What's actually crazy, is when Rightist make actual bigoted comments about Black people, you handwave and excuse that shit away.