Blacks are under Attack!

[kerikiwi]

My form of reasoning requires a modicum of common sense. And a constitution and a supreme court to strike down your hypothetical hyperbole.

A constitution and supreme court have nothing to do with the meaning of what you said, which was that a law establishing what constitutes a valid voter is not disenfranchisement.
My examples were indeed hypothetical, as are all examples until they actually become law.
But not hyperbole. After all, there once was a time when women could not vote. They were disenfranchised.
And blacks could not vote. They were disenfranchised.
If any definition of a valid voter excludes certain people, those certain people are disenfranchised.

 

[Toontown]

A constitution and supreme court have nothing to do with the meaning of what you said, which was that a law establishing what constitutes a valid voter is not disenfranchisement.
My examples were indeed hypothetical, as are all examples until they actually become law.
But not hyperbole. After all, there once was a time when women could not vote. They were disenfranchised.
And blacks could not vote. They were disenfranchised.
If any definition of a valid voter excludes certain people, those certain people are disenfranchised.

Then it is simply a matter of who we prefer to disenfranchise, and how.

Allowing illegal aliens and criminals to vote both defrauds and disenfranchises rightful voters by diluting their votes.

 

[leftysergeant]

Then it is simply a matter of who we prefer to disenfranchise, and how.

Allowing illegal aliens and criminals to vote both defrauds and disenfranchises rightful voters by diluting their votes.

You make an assumption that a lot of aliens are trying to register to vote. This would seem to me counter-intuitive. Why would they want to leave some sign of their even being here?

The new voter ID requirements will more often eliminate people who had voted before but who no longer have documentation even of their birth, if they had it to begin with. Black people are more likely not to have a birth certificate than are whites.

Those states that have newly-enacted voter ID laws seem in no hurry to make it easy for the elderly and disabled and working people to get the new IDs. That smells bad from the start.

If they are worried about voters registering multiple times, then get them new cards with a finger print requirement. Problem solved.