Democrat Legislators Flee Texas

75% of Americans want more secure elections, requiring photo ID. Why do Democrats fight so hard against the will of the voters?
Elected Democrats are so determined to fight the will of the voters that they have fled their offices rather than lose a vote that would make elections more secure. Texas needs to change their legislative rules and permit votes without a full body and also recall legislators that refuse to serve.

FredHayek wrote: 75% of Americans want more secure elections, requiring photo ID. Why do Democrats fight so hard against the will of the voters?
Elected Democrats are so determined to fight the will of the voters that they have fled their offices rather than lose a vote that would make elections more secure. Texas needs to change their legislative rules and permit votes without a full body and also recall legislators that refuse to serve.

What poll would that be, Fred?

Let me turn the table and ask why do Republicans want to make it more difficult for people to cast their votes? Why do Republicans want to restrict access to voting? Do Republicans realize that if it's easier for people to actually vote, they will lose their power?

And don't start with "the will of the voters" mantra. Republican U.S. Senators have not represented a majority of this country since 1996.
nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/gop-sena...rity-since-1996.html
If you really want to go down that street, read that link and then tell me how the U.S. Senate represents "the will of the people."

Why do Democrats believe that Republicans want to make it harder to vote? Wouldn't that make it harder to elect Republicans in the Red States passing the laws that make elections more secure? Seniors are more likely to vote for conservative politicians, and also more likely to have out of date photo ID's. Republicans would be eliminating one of their most secure voter bases.

I don't agree with your statement that seniors tend to vote Republican.

nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/the-repu...-voters-problem.html

And yes, I've read a number of opinion articles that argue the Republican efforts to restrict the vote may come back to bite them in the a**

FredHayek wrote: Why do Democrats believe that Republicans want to make it harder to vote? Wouldn't that make it harder to elect Republicans in the Red States passing the laws that make elections more secure? Seniors are more likely to vote for conservative politicians, and also more likely to have out of date photo ID's. Republicans would be eliminating one of their most secure voter bases.

Why do Democrats believe that Republicans want to make it harder to vote?

This combined, mega-version of SB7 remains a voter suppression bill. SB 7 will make casting a ballot even more difficult, especially for voters of color and voters with disabilities, by eliminating drive-through and 24-hour voting and eliminating drop boxes where voters can submit their ballots. It adds and expands criminal penalties to the election code, while empowering partisan poll watchers to intimidate voters. It adds an entirely new provision that makes it easier to seek to overturn an election based on unproven allegations of “fraud.”

www.aclutx.org/en/press-releases/aclu-te...uppression-bill-sb-7

Democrats, they still believe minorities are incapable of voting if any thing at all is put in their way. If you believe that K, doesn't that make you the racist?

FredHayek wrote: Democrats, they still believe minorities are incapable of voting if any thing at all is put in their way. If you believe that K, doesn't that make you the racist?

Anything is put in their way? Really? What an incredibly incorrect and over generalized statement.

Historically, minorities have had difficulty voting, from Jim Crow laws to poll taxes, to employers not excusing them to go vote, to violent intimidation. I'm sure you remember that stuff. Even in the Texas bill, before it was removed, there was an effort to get rid of Sunday voting because that is when a majority of black voters went to the polls.

koobookie wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Democrats, they still believe minorities are incapable of voting if any thing at all is put in their way. If you believe that K, doesn't that make you the racist?

Anything is put in their way? Really? What an incredibly incorrect and over generalized statement.

Historically, minorities have had difficulty voting, from Jim Crow laws to poll taxes, to employers not excusing them to go vote, to violent intimidation. I'm sure you remember that stuff. Even in the Texas bill, before it was removed, there was an effort to get rid of Sunday voting because that is when a majority of black voters went to the polls.

And who created Jim Crow laws? The Democrat Party. And Joe Biden is lying when he equates these new laws to Jim Crow. And Joe knows Jim Crow laws because some of his favorite colleagues were Democrat segregationist senators. Some were even KKK members like West Virginia's Senator Robert Byrd.

So that negates everything ever done by Democrats. What a weak argument.

The question stands, Fred - Why are so many Republican legislatures passing laws to make voting more difficult? The answer, since no one here wants to respond to it, is the Republicans know that if more people vote, conservatives will be out of power.

How does it feel to witness history in the making? the EVOLUTION of a nation's governing guidelines.