Judah, Please don't confuse the little boy with facts. He just gets petulant and whiny.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> "you got data on that or are you just blowing it out your ass as usual. I >> mean real hard data, some citations would be nice. I'm waiting..." >> >> Do a search of cf-community and you'll find plenty of discussions based on >> analysis. >> >> For an example, one is voter id. Progressives argue that it hurts >> minorities. They show no evidence of this and ignore evidence that states >> that have implemented it have shown no differences in voter turnout. In >> fact, some states showed increases in minority voting. > > No evidence of this? Of course there have been studies done on the > topic and they are well done and evidence-based. Try the Brennan > Center study, for starters: > http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voting_law_changes_in_2012/ > > And then there is the common canard, "Why can't everyone just get the > id they need to vote?" which is addressed in this study: > http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/the_challenge_of_obtaining_voter_identification/ > > And, of course, there is the fact that the bulk of voter id-related > laws (and certainly the most draconian of them) have all been passed > since 2010. You say that there is evidence that they can increase > minority voting? Interesting...considering that there have not been > any major general elections since the passage of the bills. Kind of > makes you wonder where those "numbers" you casually refer to actually > come from. > > Republican-led state legislatures, in a coordinated fashion, jump on a > bandwagon to introduce identical or nearly identical voter id laws > across the country, all at roughly the same time. People pushing these > laws all admit that they cannot point to any actual historical voting > fraud to speak of and cannot point to any identifiable fraud that > would likely be prevented after passage of these laws. Quantitative > studies (which I reference above) show the large number of voters who > would be disenfranchised and how/why they would be disenfranchised. > > Now, explain to me again how this is all about protecting the > integrity of out voting process? > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353777 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
