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Home Front: Politix

AG Garland pledges to fight voter ID laws, election integrity measures

2024-03-04

[FoxNews] Garland appeared in Selma, Alabama Sunday alongside Vice President to mark the 59th anniversary of Blood Sunday.

That’s the Democrats: still fighting loudly about an issue resolved by the Republicans two generations ago.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in Selma, Alabama on Sunday where he pledged to fight voter ID laws and other election integrity measures that he deemed "discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary."

Their appearance marked the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama.

Speaking at a Selma church service to mark the anniversary of the attack by Alabama law officers on civil rights demonstrators, Garland recounted the history of voting rights since the end of slavery – a history which, he told the crowd, has "never been steady" for Black Americans and "other voters of color."

He lamented that in recent years, certain measures such as voter ID laws and redistricting maps have made it harder "for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect the representatives of their choice."

"Those measures include practices and procedures that make voting more difficult; redistricting maps that disadvantage minorities; and changes in voting administration that diminish the authority of locally elected or nonpartisan election administrators," Garland told worshippers at Selma's Tabernacle Baptist Church, the site of one of the first mass meetings of the voting rights movement. "Such measures threaten the foundation of our system of government."

Garland said the DOJ was "fighting back." He pointed to having doubled the number of lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, and his legal challenges to state and jurisdictions to implement when he deemed "discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements. Polls consistently show that huge majorities of Americans favor voter ID.

"That is why we are working to block the adoption of discriminatory redistricting plans that dilute the vote of Black voters and other voters of color," he said, later adding that the DOJ "recognizes the urgency of this moment."

Garland's remarks come at a time when illegal immigration into the country is at historic highs.

Posted by:Skidmark

#13 An interpreter is available at the polls for Spanish speakers unable to read the ballot questions in English. Same for blind or otherwise disabled.

When I challenged this the last time around I was soundly thrashed by the poll watchers, verbally.

What was revealed later...the interpreters were volunteers from a NGO sponsored Spanish speaking
congregation church. They would get the voters nicely settled and relaxed, then tell them which boxes to check.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-03-04 14:59

#12 Anyone who is too lazy and/or stupid to get an ID is too lazy and/or stupid to vote.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-03-04 12:53

#11 It's easy, pass a law that states must mirror rights requirements, so if you need an ID, background check etc for buying a gun, it's the same for voting:)

Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-03-04 12:34

#10 UN out of USA.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2024-03-04 11:35

#9 UN rights chief calls for 'non-discriminatory' US election

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-04 11:29

#8 ^ What it shows lefties is that the SCOTUS must be subverted.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-03-04 11:23

#7 ^^^ That shows how corrupt lower courts are now.

Posted by: Beldar Uneter3543 2024-03-04 11:22

#6 Supreme Court just disapproved Colorado issue on Trump, 9-0.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-03-04 10:30

#5 Take "mail-in" out of the equation. Absentee ballots must be collected at the voter's residence by a deputy sheriff will verify legal residence and valid ID at that time. Narrow time window for valid ballot pickup, no post-election deadline ballots accepted.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-03-04 10:20

#4 It is as they say Super, it isn't who gets the most votes it's who does the counting. And that is where the cheating seems to be happening according to the data. 3am spikes in demoncrat vote counts is pretty common nowdays.

Posted by: DarthVader 2024-03-04 10:19

#3 For elections, I work the polls in a location that has two precincts. Everyone that comes in presents a license that we quickly scan a provide them with a ballot that is also scanned which locks the system so that they can’t get more than one. Thoth precincts are racially, ethnically, demographically and economically mixed. Everyone has a license or State ID. If it is expired, they get a provisional ballot. I don't know of any homeless folks at our polling location although there are certainly some in town. All of them have ID as smoking, drinking and welfare benefits are predicated of identification. What Garland is saying is demonstrably false and also a red herring. A low percentage of cheating is done a polling locations. The majority of illegal ballots for fake or ineligible ballots are absentee where ID is not an issue. In person cheating is probably more prevalent in states that facilitate issuing licenses to illegals.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-03-04 10:00

#2 ^ Or drive a car or fly or travel overseas or....

Posted by: Frank G 2024-03-04 09:16

#1 It's like Blacks can't buy tobacco or alcohol.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-03-04 08:45

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