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mwooldri

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48. Maybe I'm guessing but this voter disenfranchisement is a personal issue to him?

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 09:24 AM

Sep 2012

I watch bits and pieces of his show but didn't he say something like his mother was impacted by the voter ID law?

Voter suppression is too tame a word. It's dis-enfranchisement. Need a simpler word for it though. It's not the voting itself that is the issue, it is the registration IMO. That can be tightened up with no need for photo ID, and that can eliminate voter fraud. Along with stiffer penalties for illegal voting... that should kick it out. The stories I hear of voting fraud is around the candidates themselves dealing with underhand shenanigans to rig the election in their favour.

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Their answer would be OnionPatch Sep 2012 #21

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Maybe I'm guessing but this voter disenfranchisement is a personal issue to him? mwooldri Sep 2012 #48

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