Next GOP voter suppression ploy targets students

[SummerMadness]

Next GOP voter suppression ploy targets students

College students voted at record levels in the 2018 midterm elections, paving the way for the Democrats' victory in key states — and some Republicans have taken notice.

From interfering with early voting, to irrational voter ID laws, Republican-led states have made extraordinary strides in preventing eligible people from voting.

Early voting on Florida’s college campuses provided access for nearly 60,000 voters to cast a ballot in the 2018 midterms. But a clause buried in a new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) could cause universities in Florida to think twice before applying to host a polling place in 2020. The bill, SB 7066, requires election supervisors to ensure that early voting locations "provide sufficient non-permitted parking to accommodate the anticipated amount of voters."

Now let's hear all the apologists complain about how non-permit parking is critical requirement for the right to vote.

 

[Ringo84]

Their ideas wouldn't pass muster with the American people in a fair election, so they have to rely on dirty tricks to maintain their stranglehold on power.

It's definitely something when they pretty much make it clear that the target of suppression efforts will be a group that voted in record numbers in the previous election. Not even trying to disguise the fascism anymore.
Ringo

 

[SummerMadness]

Their ideas wouldn't pass muster with the American people in a fair election, so they have to rely on dirty tricks to maintain their stranglehold on power.

It's definitely something when they pretty much make it clear that the target of suppression efforts will be a group that voted in record numbers in the previous election. Not even trying to disguise the fascism anymore.
Ringo

I think what's worse is their effort to disenfranchise people convicted of felonies in Florida. Even after the people voted overwhelmingly to give those who have been released from prison and/or completed probation their right to vote, the state attempts to add institute a poll tax to prevent poor people from voting. They are new tactics to create a New Jim Crow. Their actions on college campuses are designed to disenfranchise young people; voting should be easy, but ease of voting means Republicans will lose power.

 

[Ringo84]

I think what's worse is their effort to disenfranchise people convicted of felonies in Florida. Even after the people voted overwhelmingly to give those who have been released from prison and/or completed probation their right to vote, the state attempts to add institute a poll tax to prevent poor people from voting. They are new tactics to create a New Jim Crow. Their actions on college campuses are designed to disenfranchise young people; voting should be easy, but ease of voting means Republicans will lose power.

Exactly. It's very telling that the reasons for disenfranchising college students is spelled out in the article

(Edited to better reflect the topic)
Ringo

 

[AvilaSurfer]

This OP is hilarious.

 

[Hieronymus]

Having non citizens vote is suppressing citizens votes.
Students are mainly brainwashed, so the age to vote should not be lowered.

 

[Hieronymus]

Between caging children in concentration camps ...

That was Obama too.
Dems refuse to make changes.

 

[SummerMadness]

Exactly why I'm beginning to wonder if the modern GOP is compatible with our democracy here anymore. Between caging children in concentration camps to disenfranchising voters that might threaten their power, the national party has gotten far too fashy that I wonder if they can even be called Americans anymore.
Ringo

They're very much Americans, but their behavior is now like those black and white photos where we saw Americans doing horrible things to people they considered beneath them and less than human. Unfortunately, now they're in color with video in full HD.

Having non citizens vote is suppressing citizens votes.
Students are mainly brainwashed, so the age to vote should not be lowered.

Nothing written here has anything to do with the topic.

 

[carlv_52]

Having non citizens vote is suppressing citizens votes.

Thankfully that doesn't happen very often here in the US.

Students are mainly brainwashed, so the age to vote should not be lowered.

Why do you say that?

 

[Hieronymus]

Thankfully that doesn't happen very often here in the US.

Depends on the state.

Why do you say that?

Because it's true.

 

[SummerMadness]

Depends on the state.Because it's true.

Students voting on campus has nothing to do with your off-topic comments, so try to stay on the subject.

 

[Hieronymus]

They're very much Americans,

not citizens.

 

[SummerMadness]

not citizens.

Read the post before you reply. Your post here suggests you do not understand the discussion. Really, read what was written before replying as your statement is not even congruous with the quoted posts.

 

[Hieronymus]

Read the post before you reply. Your post here suggests you do not understand the discussion. Really, read what was written before replying as your statement is not even congruous with the quoted posts.

Letting only citizens vote is not voter suppression.

 

[SummerMadness]

Letting only citizens vote is not voter suppression.

Read the post before you reply, that's all I'll say.

 

[carlv_52]

Depends on the state.

Hmmm, but no states you can tell us about?

Because it's true.

QED. Can't argue with solid logic I guess.

 

[Arcangl86]

Depends on the state.

I'm not aware of any evidence it's a prevalent issue in any state.

Because it's true.

No it's not. For it to be true it would have to be a factual statement, and what the voting age should or should not be is a matter of opinion.

 

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