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OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
4/27/2016 9:00 pm

Last Read:
4/29/2016 7:20 pm

Brains from the Bench



For years we have put up with the non-sense that requiring a valid photo I D to vote somehow suppressed an individuals right to cast a ballot. Our lamestream media has bombarded us with tails of the disenfranchised multitudes mostly blacks and Latinos held at bay unable to be represented fairly.. In a 485-page opinion, a federal judge in North Carolina decimated the challenge to North Carolina’s Voter ID law and other election integrity reforms. Leaving no stone unturned, Judge Thomas D. Schroeder picked apart the claims by left-wing organizations such as the NAACP and League of Women Voters that these election integrity reforms violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The judge blew up the idea that Voter ID law doesn’t have a purpose. He noted that prior to the Voter ID law, poll workers served “as the primary gatekeepers to voter fraud,” yet remarkably they “had very limited means of determining whether the voter was the same person as the registrant.”

The judge also had choice language for those who bluster about “voter suppression”:

Plaintiffs have characterized the bill as a “monster voter suppression law,” focusing on the fact that it emerged at fifty-seven pages. However, in truth, most of [the law’s] changes -- some forty-two of the fifty-seven pages ( 74% ) -- have gone unchallenged in this case.

This bluster is typical, and revealing. A number of years ago the Obama administration itself approved a Voter ID law in (Lilly White) New Hampshire, but these groups didn’t offer a peep of criticism about that decision.

Instead of preventing minorities from voting in North Carolina, the judge found that African-American participation actually increased after the passage of the election changes. The 2014 elections saw an increase in voter turnout overall, with “African American turnout increasing more than other groups in 2014.”

One of the most revealing parts of the opinion is how the Court found the parade of witnesses and the case presented by the DOJ and left-wing groups to be thoroughly unconvincing.

One such witness, apparently “featured” by the plaintiffs, was Nadia Cohen, a high school student slated to start college at UNC Chapel Hill in Fall 2015. Ms. Cohen turned 18 before the 2014 general election, but she missed the registration deadline. According to Ms. Cohen:

I didn’t know there was a registration deadline. I didn’t know I could do -- I couldn’t do same-day registration. And it’s not that I don’t, like, pay attention to the news or anything. It is just my two main sources of information, which are my parents and my school, either didn’t know or didn’t tell me, or at least not with enough time.

Ms. Cohen was asked if she had researched the registration deadlines. She responded:

No. It’s not something that particularly interests me. I just assumed that it would be as it had been for my older brother and my older sister and my parents, you know, a convenient location, you know, I wouldn’t have to go out of my way. My parents registered when we moved to North Carolina and they got their North Carolina driver’s license. My brother registered in school. No one had to go out of their way to register, and I thought that, you know, it would be the same for me.

The court was shockingly, you know, not persuaded by this testimony:

Ms. Cohen makes clear that, for some, given the myriad of options available in the modern age, failure to register and vote is more a reflection of motivation than ability. In a very nice way the judge said IF YOU ARE TOO GOD DAM STUPID TO RESEARCH OR READ HOW IT'S DONE YOU ARE JUST TOO GOD DAM STUPID TO VOTE! This nation is in desperate need of some plain common sense and rejection of the hand wringing liberal "what if"ers ludicrous agenda.

OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/27/2016 10:56 pm

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No... The Judge left the laws standing intact and blew the bottom out of the DOJ's case, North Carolina I D laws stay


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/28/2016 7:06 am

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When the motto of a city is "Remember to vote and vote often!" There comes a point where change is needed and photo I Ds require more brains than most residents have to get them.


bychance4709 61M

4/28/2016 6:13 pm


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/28/2016 7:19 pm


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/28/2016 10:00 pm

    Quoting woodcarver2:
    Great article Bret-- keep the good news comin'!!!!
I will try my best. I am deeply disappointed that Bernie has scaled back his assault on the Benghazi Bitch.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/29/2016 7:20 pm

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I see the SC just shut down the wackos from Texas challenge to the law today too. This is long past due.