On today’s BradCast, another Republican run state appears to be blatantly violating federal court requirements on voting rights, just over one month from Election Day. [Audio link to show posted below.]
While Donald Trump and his businesses have continuously violated state and federal law, even as he calls for ‘Law and Order’ on the campaign trail as detailed, yet again, on yesterday’s program, Republican controlled states continue to violate federal court orders on voting rights. The latest appears to be Wisconsin who, as Ari Berman at The Nation reported, is systematically failing to supply voters with Photo IDs at Departments of Motor Vehicles as the state had promised the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in late August. That promise prevented the court from weakening or killing the GOP’s Photo ID voting restriction which has been found, over and over (and over), to disproportionately disenfranchise minority voters in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act.
Joining us to discuss the news — which has resulted today in a federal judge, on his own motion, ordering the state back in to court to explain themselves — is Kathleen Unger, President of VotersRiders.org. Her non-profit, non-partisan organization, as Berman detailed, visited 10 DMVs around the Badger State and found only 3 of them prepared to provide Photo IDs to voters who need them to vote within the promised 6 days. Many of the others said the process would take anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks at best, long after Election Day is over and after tens of thousands of voters will have lost their right to vote.
“These Voter ID laws are an unfunded mandate on citizens,” Unger explains, for minorities as well as seniors, students, low income voters and others who must take time off work and travel to get the very narrow type of IDs now required to vote in states where these laws have been allowed by courts to stand.
She offers details on the disturbing revelations discovered by her group during visits to WI DMVs with otherwise eligible voters, and what — if anything — can now possibly be done to correct the situation less than 40 days out from Election Day and with early voting already under way. She also hopes to point folks towards VoteRiders’ downloadable, wallet-sized Photo ID information cards detailing the laws in each state. Informed voters may be the only hope, as chaos in many such states on Election Day is, yet again, a very serious concern.
Wisconsin, as Unger and I discuss, is just the latest scofflaw “red” state to blatantly violate recent federal court requirements concerning voting rights, following on the heels of Texas, Kansas, Ohio and others.
Also today: Yet another major newspaper breaks with years of tradition by asking readers to vote against the Republican nominee; Trump unleashes a bizarre overnight Tweetstorm railing against (and lying about) his former Miss Universe, and Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report recapping what little climate discussion there was at Monday’s Presidential debate…
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Meanwhile Democrats leave the Borders Open to encourage illegals to vote, and sign up as many of this illegal’s to vote as they can. Without Vetting one of these death cult members. The reason there is no vetting is cause there is no VETTING, what the fuck you gonna do Brad Call Syria ask if MOhamad the Shootah has radical tendencies, like to chop a little heads and hands, rape and mutilate the women. Or maybe call Afganistan, gee is Mohamad got suicidal tendencies… come on god damn it, you really REALLY need to check yourself if you think there’s a fucking VETTING process for these death cult cavemen.
It is TREASON and resulting WARS made them want to migrate, but they CAN NOT STAY HERE, they can not be vetted!
Ask Diane Feinstein to get ISRAEL to take 110 k Syrians! There you have the SOURCE of the treason.
it’s desperate Leftist bs.
You’ll be shocked to learn that “URConfronted” is posting hoax nonsense. Here’s Snopes on that bullshit link he posted: http://www.snopes.com/clinton-v...-in-warehouse/
Apologies for his spam here tonight.
The-more-patriotic-than-thou-crowd mocks the oath to uphold the Constitution. And in the so-called Bible Belt, they too stop fellow citizens from voting. Yet, in the Tanak or Old Testament, which they supposedly believe, it is written, “But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 19:34, KJV) And they missed this part in the New Testament: “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” (Hebrews 13:2, KJV)
Photo ID is phony because it suffers from the Ivory Soap Problem–thirty-one POSSIBLE cases of voter fraud out of one billion votes comes down to 0.00000003 of 1%. And something that blatant should be the basis of a contempt citation against carrion.