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Originally Posted by GonadWarrior
After reflecting upon the many who died in order to ensure our right to vote, I have zero sympathy for anyone who claims it's "too hard" to get a fucking state ID. Apparently, voter fraud via Diebold is terrible, but voter fraud by those who use other methods is acceptable.
When our country was founded, only property holders could vote. It should still be that way in regard to votes on property taxes.
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Apparently fraud via bogus de-registration is acceptable.
And due to the wonders of the capitalist market economy, the costs of property taxes are distributed throughout society. Renters pay it through rent. Consumers pay property taxes for producers when they buy their products. Everyone pays.
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In Wisconsin, the Republican attorney general has been very busy purging the voter registration lists. 4,000 of 19,500 voters checked had been de-registered, including 4 of the Republican members of the cross-voters-off-the-list-board. Ma & Pa, who have been living in the same house for 5 years, have the same address on everything found they had been de-registered when they went to vote in Tuesday's primary. Apparently if you're listed as Jane Doe on one list and Jane Z. Doe on another, you get de-registered.
Wisconsin has same-day registration, so this is not going to matter too much to documented and propertied citizens with autos. It's going to bite people who might need a ride to the polling place, and who might not have the time to go back and get their papers, who might not even have papers. They have a right to vote, too.