Progressives are right about voter ID

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Progressives are right about voter ID

17 December 2016

George Rebane

This evening the latest report from Fox News on the Michigan recount just came in, and I’m sad to say that progressives have been right all along that requiring voter IDs diminishes the minority voice and vote. The latest piece of evidence comes in from Detroit, a solid minority leftwing city under Democrat rule forever. It again turns out, as in many such elections in urban ghettos, that voter IDs would have lowered that city’s black vote and diminished the voice of another minority community. The data supporting that conclusion is beyond compelling.

You see, the just completed recount unequivocally showed that Detroit had tallied more votes than the number of its resident voters. If Michigan had instituted a voter ID law, then all those extra votes would never have been counted, and the aspirations of those African-American folks would have been suppressed more than ever.

Facts are facts, and RR hereby admits the error of its ways in claiming that blacks would get more votes in jurisdictions where you had to document your eligibility to vote, and that you had not voted anywhere previously. That said, we will now gather our wits, reflect on our error, and henceforth do our best to soldier on.

Posted in Critical Thinking & Numeracy, Happenings, Our Country, The Liberal Mind

2 responses to “Progressives are right about voter ID”

Russ

18 December 2016

It’s Official: Clinton’s Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California.
Democrats who are having trouble getting out of the first stage of grief — denial — aren’t being helped by the fact that, now that all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
To those unschooled in how the United States selects presidents, this seems totally unfair. But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton’s advantage all but disappears.
As we noted in this space earlier, while Clinton’s overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clinton’s huge margin of victory in one state — California — where she got a whopping 4.3 million more votes than Trump.
California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton’s margin of victory was bigger than President Obama’s in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama’s 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/its-official-clintons-popular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/
California Democrats,Trump won the the other 49 states so get over it! As Obama said, “Elections have consequences.”

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George Rebane

20 December 2016

Dear Reader – Note the utter silence on this post from the Left. But do expect them to resume their hew and cry that there is no voter fraud (therefore no need to verify or vet voters) at the earliest opportunity, while ignoring all the hundreds of reporst of hanky-panky from the last election.

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