Guess what time it is? It's GOP voter suppression time!

[MRT144]

Maybe they should have authority to at least make the financial question moot so these asshats can't hide behind the veneer of bull**** of "REASONS! Totally non-partisan reasons! HONEST!"

What possible objection would one have for denying a pass through fund to ensure that polling places arent closed for financial considerations? They hate voting? they think it will cost more than an f-22 raptor?

[MRT144]

Ogie, are you seriously saying that what happened in NC was a good thing given all the considerations of the polling location? I know you and others like to obfuscate your opinions with legalism but how do you feel about this, really? You think this is a net benefit to voting in NC?

[Guynemer]

Second, no, we shouldn't make it easy as possible to exercise that right. We want to prevent fraud as well.

Please, please, please provide evidence of this fraud that conservatives are always talking about.

[MRT144]

Is JFK really going to be the 50 year old rallying cry of fraud?

[MRT144]

I want to live in a world where voter fraud is so pernicious and rampant that we have to restrict voting access (not improve methods of voting but instead make it harder to vote), but not so pernicious and rampant that the federal government must oversee the elections. HC is already there and he's pretty funny.

Make voting harder
???
Prevent fraud

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Ogie, are you seriously saying that what happened in NC was a good thing given all the considerations of the polling location? I know you and others like to obfuscate your opinions with legalism but how do you feel about this, really? You think this is a net benefit to voting in NC?

Rather nuetral on it. I don't see it as a legitamite excuse for not voting.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The federal governemnt has no authority to insert itself into the proper course of elections at the state save for those areas of that have been previously decided where civil rights violations were noted. (and that has seen a significnat hit per the latest SCOTUS rulings) Otherwise the feds are to leave the administration of the elections to the sovereign states.

Thus states have the authority to conduct their elections as they see fit otherwise, up to and including potential proportional allocation of electoral delegates.

Not entirely. If there are violations of Equal Protection (beyond simply civil rights violations, per VRA) in the voting, the Federal government can, judicially, step in (see Bush v. Gore for example).

[The Mad Monk]

Please, please, please provide evidence of this fraud that conservatives are always talking about.

Here's a quick one.

[PLATO]

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Fail

[MRT144]

Here's a quick one.

So in theory, HC would want to make it harder to vote for a larger amount of people to stamp out the small incidence voter fraud, most of which is unintentional.

[Ben Kenobi]

that state should have the federal government oversee their elections.

So then. Let's do the same for Washington state.

[MRT144]

So then. Let's do the same for Washington state.

They already kind of do oversee our elections. We vote by mail.

[Sava]

Republicans are scumbags. Their party is dying. They want to take America with it. At some point, they should just be labeled a terrorist organization. That's what they are.

[PLATO]

Republicans are scumbags. Their party is dying. They want to take America with it. At some point, they should just be labeled a terrorist organization. That's what they are.

You go there Khrushchev! Bang that shoe!!

[Hauldren Collider]

Explain to me how making it harder to get to a polling station prevents fraud any more than it prevents legitimate voting and I might agree with you.

It doesn't, and I wasn't defending it, but your comment was just claptrap posing as a sense of irony.