B = Broadcasting B/S

S = System

Trump has flip-flopped on almost every thing he has said...the man has no clear core values, shapes his world view moment by moment and is shameless about saying one thing today and the opposite tomorrow. His followers accept his inconsistency and his explanations for why he changed his mind and trust that since he's a rich guy, he must know what he's doing...the reality is that he's an uninformed blowhard who says stuff without thinking...the same followers who believe Trump's contortions would not tolerate shifts on much smaller scale from Dems...

It or not, these things happen.

The funny thing is, as red as this state is, I don't think it would impact election results, at least at the state and national level.

I'm at a complete loss to understand how having to present ID at the polls is construed as having ANY discriminatory effect on anyone and why the impact on blacks is somehow "disproportionate" ....

The liberals have no other way to stuff their ballot box, so they pull out the race card.

It's libertardism 101.

Sorry Drafter. I read the OP title and saw your name and the scotch came out my nose......

I'll read your thread in the morrow.....

Well, in Alabama counties that are 80% black with 60% unemployment and a high percentage living under the poverty line where someone would need to make a 100 mile round trip to get an ID, I would say that impacts people. And not just black folks, just more black folks in some of the few counties that might go Democrat. YMMV.

But their most adept power retention tool is gerrymandering...they are masters at designing voting districts that carve up blocs of Dems and turn majorities into minorities...

Guess it's all legal, except those rare instances of over-reach that are challenged in court and ruled unconstitutional...and as long as those states with small cities and large rural populations remain solid red, the GOP will continue to rule, at least Congress...the minority (in total population) ruling a majority...

this is being ignored and minimized here. Responses simply ignore these factors because ignoring the breakdown of voters affected leaves the simplistic "just get an ID".

Yeah, no problem for all of us, but we actually never read posts from those these hindrances do affect...rendering them invisible.

Let's be fair, though, Al. Dems perfected gerrymandering during the middle of the last century. The GOP learned from the left.

Nice deflection.

I'm just glad there are no poor white conservatives without ID.

We ignore things that are misleading, or perhaps even disingenuous in nature.

Requiring an ID to vote doesn't disenfranchise one race or even one social status more than another. We hear about the poor unemployed? Well it's likely they're on social assistance and would require a form of ID.

But more to the point: If I personally provided an ID to each and every one of them, how many would vote anyhow? I'll give you a hint. the number is VERY low.

So we allow for fraud and abuse because of some manufactured potential obstacle that makes a racial point where none actually exists.

Poor people vote all the time, and requiring an ID isn't the mammoth roadblock that some would lead us to believe.

Hell, I bet illiteracy and foreign language are bigger barriers but we don't hear about it because we can't blame it on the GOP.

Massachusetts born and bred.