Beyond embarrassing, but they have to maintain the course now no matter what all the way to 2022 and then 2024, "we didn't lose, we were cheated, so lets take back what was stolen!". A spin on the same old grievance-tactics they love to use.
When you vote in Alabama, state law requires you to show a photo ID at the polls. For most folks, this means a driver's license, but other forms of government-issued ID are permitted: a military ID, a passport, or a student ID—among others—will do.
But the last few times Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl voted, he presented poll workers with an ID they had never seen before. To someone who had never seen a state employee ID, it could be mistaken for one, but it was not.
In a 2015 deposition, Wahls's brother Joshua said he and others in their family believe biometric identification—including photographs that could be used by facial recognition software—is the mark of the beast foretold in Revelation.
So Wahl and his family have manufactured their own IDs, and have been using them to vote, leading to multiple run-ins with Limestone County poll workers. When one such poll worker reported him to state officials, Wahl had country officials remove him.
Not only is this an abuse of power, but it is felony voter fraud in the state of Alabama.
Can you imagine being homeless and trying to get an id for voting? I needed a birth certificate, a social security card, two proofs of residence (utility bills and/or lease/mortgage) and proof of signature (cancelled check or credit/debit) card in order to get a Real ID. That would exclude so many people, or at the very least make it prohibitively difficult to obtain.
A place of residence or ID is basic for even participation in society though.
There needs to be some sort of bare minimums to prevent fraud. Otherwise what prevents a guy from Alabama from voting in California, or someone from Russia voting in a US election?
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
States should issue every legal resident a state voter ID, it should be free and the people who don't already have a state ID or drivers license where their picture could be taken from, an official should should come to the person's residence to take their picture.
In the case of homeless people, there should be centers where said homeless can go to get their free voter ID. Not the most ideal, but its something.
Republicans are against this though, they want less people to vote. They want it as hard as possible for minorities and poor people to get a voter ID.
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Which requires some proof of eligibility. Both at registration, and at the vote.
Obv no one is suggesting taking people at their word. Homeless are a problem in the sense they lack most of the proofs we take for granted.
But that still doesn't mean taking their word for it.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
QTard GoP Nominee Lied: Voted by Mail in Last 28 Elections
Up until this year, Mark Finchem, the conspiracy theorist, Stop the Steal, election-denying Republican candidate for Arizona Secretary of State automatically received his ballot via the mail since he was a Libertarian in 2008.
Despite that, Finchem has been a strong advocate of ending no-excuse mail-in voting for all Arizonans which has been in place for decades and used by at least 80% of the electorate. Last month, Finchem claimed during his debate against Democratic challenger Adrian Fontes, the former Maricopa County recorder, that he always votes at the polls. This is a lie.
"I don't care for mail-in voting. That's why I go to the polls," Finchem said. Finchem voted early and by mail in every single election since the 2004 general except for the 2007 City of Tucson general election. That is 28 of 30 total elections (including this year's).
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