Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 05, 2013

Please, seriously. I have to show ID to buy friggin allergy medicine, but not to vote? How is that Jim Crow? THIS is Jim Crow: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html

An alternative rerun:http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2004/07/26Sam visits her dad in Hospital.

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Mike

Of course, you mean Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al!

This run was only slightly entertaining when it was new and there was a national election. It is only worth skipping a second time around.

The going rate for the illegals to vote for Democrats is $20. They are picked up and bussed from polling place to polling place and vote under names of dead people who have not been expunged from the polls.

After going back and reading all the post for the last few day, I usually don’t go back so I only see a few, but to get back on track, I have decided to read GT but not the posts any more. Most are plain stupid and not worth the time. Thank you all.

I have enjoyed the voter suppression theme. Shakespeare said “much truth is told in jest.” We see here much truth told in comics. Everyone in legitimate journalism has already presented these facts on news and it is understood as the underhanded way, one of them, that GOP is using to win elections. GOP voters are really a fully deceived group of people, they can be convinced of any fairy tale no matter how unrealistic or low down it is, they buy it as an ethical action to win at any cost. Keep up the good work GT.

There’s a 4th way to steal an election… practiced in Florida. Contract with a private company to gather lists of documented felons from other states, then compare those names to the registered voters in your state then purge those from the voting rosters.

’ then purge those from the voting rosters.’.You forgot the next line: “and anyone whose name SOUNDS like those names.”.And let me save a dozen right-wingers the trouble:“But, but, I have ID, so why doesn’t everybody?”

@Alabama_Al — So if people want to vote but don’t because it’s too much work to go get an ID card, that’s Jim Crow? No, that’s just apathy. Their forebears faced lynchings, dogs, eviction, beatings, and other organized forms of persecution. They face…. the line at the DMV! The horror!

Calling ID requirements “Jim Crow” is an insult to those who faced the real apartheid of Jim Crow fifty years ago. Read this to see what REAL Jim Crow was: http://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm

I’m sorry, sir, but my list only shows a certain Mr. “Sas Scuatch” with a “c”! You’ll just have to go our main office, in Nome Alaska and register. Then go obtain a valid Texas driver’s license at the local Texas Department of Motor Vehicles located in Rio De Janeiro and try again next election!

Omnibus, read your civic book – the US is a constitutional republic. Many of the original patriots came from Europe to escape a church-state union. They wanted freedom of religion – not freedom from religion. Your rantings here are sooo typical of a mis-informed liberal mind.

No matter how many times it is repeated, it never gets through to the people who might profit from it: Every state has always required people to identify themselves at the polls. This has never been about voters identifying themselves. It has rather been about the method required. If voter fraud is such a problem, then why do we hear nothing about the need to keep the voting rolls up-to-date, and why do we hear nothing about ensuring that there are enough poll workers and voting stations to ensure that there are never long lines, and the poll workers can take the time to deal with individual voters as people and clear up confusions or doubts about identity without turning them away? And if positively proving who you are, and that you are entitled to vote, is not an undue burden on voters, why is it an undue burden on gun buyers? If these folks were consistent, they would be demanding a national (or even state-by-state) system of photo IDs for all people in the United States, to be carried at all time, requiring the presentation of these IDs to buy controlled substances or guns, to vote, to take a job, etc., etc. Such a system would make it very difficult for illegal immigrants as well as for fraudulent voters. Why no move in that direction? Because all these schemes are always targeted at specific populations! So Texas can accept a gun license as voter ID, but not a University of Texas student ID! State identity cards would be no more of a problem to the people they want to discourage than the systems they propose: but state identity cards would be a huge pain to all those middle-class folks who already habitually carry driver’s IDs, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party_voter_intimidation_case

Not just here, but, the strip’s author/owner determines what strip to run when, not GoComics.

Let’s call these laws for what they really are — Voter Suppression laws — with one goal in mind; fewer votes for Democratic candidates. For anyone who thinks voter ID (Voter Suppression) laws are needed, watch Jeff Daniels in the following clip: http://www.wupr.org/2012/09/06/the-tea-party-is-the-american-taliban/ with Jeff Daniels. Yes, this is a fictional TV show, however, based in fact; google Dorothy Cooper voter ID and you can see that she is indeed a real person in Tennessee, who, at age 96 and having been voting for 75 years, is now having trouble with her eligibility to vote under the TN Voter Suppression law.

BTW, I have worked as an elections clerk during several early voting periods here in Texas, covering about 12 days each time; voter fraud is just not as easy to pull off as folks would like us to believe. Over a 5 year period, covering two presidential elections, there were 86 instances of voter fraud out of ~196,000,000 votes cast — you do the arithmetic. Also, amazing how it is perceived that only Democrats would stoop to doing such stuff, when there are a lot of Republicans who obviously will do anything to gain/hold on to power, as witnessed by the Voter Suppression laws that they are passing. Give me a break!

SCOTUS dropped the ball in it’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act last week, plain and simple.

Of course, the Democrat way of voter suppression is to just post Black Panthers outside the voting place to keep the “wrong” people from voting…that’s so much better.

And people need to provide identification to get cable tv, why not prove who you are for elections?

Wow, two guys intimidated millions of Romney voters. What power!

I wonder why certain people don’t know that Democrats belong to the Democratic Party, not the “Democrat Party?” It would be as if you would refer to someone as a member of the Republic Party, instead of the Republican Party. It only makes them appear to be unaware of proper English language usage.

I thought that guy in front of me in the voting line needed a shave.

“Democrat party” is a sure sign of illiteracy, which is all I ever expect of republicans.

Testify, Jimmy Crow! Get back! Ow!

Dude, its just a comic strip. Calm down.

Swing baby, swing!

“Damn, you people are stupid!”

And your name calling is such a display of brilliance.

“It must be set up with NO political influence whatsoever !!”

And there lies the challenge …

Who ratted on them? Rush?