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"The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year's general election.

But it was the ballot signature verification measure's majority opinion — which stated there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution's Bill of Rights — that drew fiery dissent from three of the court's seven justices.

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14 minutes ago, bolt said:

 

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Pretty weak Bolt.  And so easily turned around to show a picture of DJT with lines like lock up Hilary and crooked Joe & Hunter, stack the elector college, stack the supreme court, censor free speech, censor education, add unrequired voting restrictions, if only we had taken the Capital that day, if only that laptop actually held anything...

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2 hours ago, bolt said:

 

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Who stacked the courts?  Oh ya Trump.

 

Who is censoring free speech?  Oh ya republicans.

 

Who is banning voters from voting or making it harder to vote?  Oh ya republicans.

 

Try harder 

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10 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

Who stacked the courts?  Oh ya Trump.

 

Who is censoring free speech?  Oh ya republicans.

 

Who is banning voters from voting or making it harder to vote?  Oh ya republicans.

 

Try harder 

 

But white Jesus.

 

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Tell us where in the US or even Canada you can just show up to a polling station without any ID, vote, and your vote is counted. 

 

In reality, every jurisdiction has a list of valid forms of ID.  In some jurisdictions you can cast a provisional vote with it counting if you can later produce identification. 

 

This whole voter ID thingy is nothing but bs.  If a specific ID is required, then it should be free and easy to get.  If you work 9 to 5 Monday to Friday, it should be easy for you to get.  The trick is that the same folks who push the voter ID laws are also folks who won't make it easily acquired.  They would force folks living in Abbotsford to travel into Surrey on a week day to get the ID.  Pretty hard if you don't drive.

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Just now, the destroyer of worlds said:

Tell us where in the US or even Canada you can just show up to a polling station without any ID, vote, and your vote is counted. 

 

In reality, every jurisdiction has a list of valid forms of ID.  In some jurisdictions you can cast a provisional vote with it counting if you can later produce identification. 

 

This whole voter ID thingy is nothing but bs.  If a specific ID is required, then it should be free and easy to get.  If you work 9 to 5 Monday to Friday, it should be easy for you to get.  The trick is that the same folks who push the voter ID laws are also folks who won't make it easily acquired.  They would force folks living in Abbotsford to travel into Surrey on a week day to get the ID.  Pretty hard if you don't drive.

 

It's black voter suppression, they don't even try to hide it anymore.

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2 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

 

But white Jesus.

 

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It took the Trump camp less than 10 Minutes to start making comparisons to Jesus bring tried and convicted as well.

 

Absolutely insane

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1 minute ago, Warhippy said:

It took the Trump camp less than 10 Minutes to start making comparisons to Jesus bring tried and convicted as well.

 

Absolutely insane

 

It is, but it's actually their reason for most things now. 

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19 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

 

It is, but it's actually their reason for most things now. 

I remember something about idolatry in the Bible being a bad thing.

 

It's almost like...they don't follow it

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28 minutes ago, the destroyer of worlds said:

Tell us where in the US or even Canada you can just show up to a polling station without any ID, vote, and your vote is counted. 

 

In reality, every jurisdiction has a list of valid forms of ID.  In some jurisdictions you can cast a provisional vote with it counting if you can later produce identification. 

 

This whole voter ID thingy is nothing but bs.  If a specific ID is required, then it should be free and easy to get.  If you work 9 to 5 Monday to Friday, it should be easy for you to get.  The trick is that the same folks who push the voter ID laws are also folks who won't make it easily acquired.  They would force folks living in Abbotsford to travel into Surrey on a week day to get the ID.  Pretty hard if you don't drive.

Absolutely, both the US and Canada know exactly who their citizens are and its all checked and verified. It has nothing to do with election security. 

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It's a law that goes back to the States founding and has been modified a number of times.  TRUMP is a convicted felon and could qualify for removal from the WA ballot.  Not like this will really matter though.

 

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/plot-twist-for-trump-wa-has-a-law-against-felons-running-for-office/

Plot twist: WA has a law against felons running for office

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I'd just like to point that Republicans tend to be "tough on crime". The fact that this dude got convicted on 34 charges, which includes Trump deliberately fudging his taxes, should mean something, right?

 

But ah... i guess that tough on crime attitude doesn't matter, so long as it's not one of their own.

 

We've seen plenty of Democrat politicians engage in shady/illegal activity as well, so partisan politics has nothing to do with this post. It's the hypocrisy of politicians in general, particularly those people who claim to be good for society.

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Just now, PureQuickness said:

I'd just like to point that Republicans tend to be "tough on crime". The fact that this dude got convicted on 34 charges, which includes Trump deliberately fudging his taxes, should mean something, right?

 

But ah... i guess that tough on crime attitude doesn't matter, so long as it's not one of their own.

 

We've seen plenty of Democrat politicians engage in shady/illegal activity as well, so partisan politics has nothing to do with this post. It's the hypocrisy of politicians in general, particularly those people who claim to be good for society.

 

I think this is a good point, PQ... We've already seen the usual cast of clownish performance artists, publicly stating what a "disgrace", or "outrage" this decision was....

 

Yet, we see exactly nobody getting up on their soapbox to defend Bob Menendez.... Heck, we hardly see anyone defending Hunter Biden, even though he's facing consequences that no average citizen would be facing....

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9 minutes ago, nuckin_futz said:

 

 

 

I think a lot of countries don't allow convicted felons to enter.  However, there is subjectivity regarding time since conviction and/or seriousness of crime that can see convicted felons getting a pass and allowed entry.  Canada is in this boat as well.

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