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Antifar
11/01/18 2:55:02 PM
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/north-dakota-native-americans-votes-stolen.html
On Oct. 14, Dion Jackson mailed in an absentee ballot application for the upcoming election. Jackson, an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Tribe who lives on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, is an American who is qualified to vote. But on Oct. 22, he received a letter explaining that his application had been rejected. The street address that Jackson had listedthe one that appears on his state-issued IDwas invalid, the letter explained. If he did not take further action, he would not be allowed to vote in the midterm election.

There is no street sign identifying Jacksons street. There is no number on his house. A state database identifies his street as Unknown2. Jackson would not be permitted to vote because, according to the state, he has no real address.

Jacksons struggle is currently playing out across North Dakota. A stringent new law that requires all voters to prove their residential street address has placed an immense burden on Native Americans in the state. Many live on rural reservations in houses with no residential address, rendering them incapable of casting a ballot. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a lower court decision upholding this rule, over a pointed dissent by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now Native American voters are back in court, asking a federal judge to grant them relief. This time, they arent just arguing that the law makes voting more onerous. Theyve demonstrated that the law may make it impossible for them to vote at all.
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For decades, North Dakotans could vote with a valid residential or mailing address, which allowed rural tribal voters to use their P.O. Box as identification. After Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp triumphed in 2012 by fewer than 3,000 votes, Republicans altered the law. Heitkamp won with strong support from Native Americans, so the GOP passed legislation that targeted their access to the franchise. The new law compels voters to present an ID at the polls that lists their current residential (not mailing) addressor, if voting by absentee ballot, provide one that corresponds to a state database.

U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland blocked that requirement in April, citing its discriminatory and burdensome impact on Native Americans. He noted that if the law takes full effect in November, it will prevent about 5,000 Native American voters from casting a ballot. Yet the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Hovland by a 21 vote in September, allowing the state to enforce its residential street address rule for most voters. At the end of its opinion, however, the majority signaled that it was open to more limited relief: If any resident of North Dakota lacks a current residential street address and is denied an opportunity to vote on that basis, it wrote, the courthouse doors remain open.

The plaintiffs in this latest lawsuit take the majority at its word. Using maps, photographs, and GPS, they explain the bind that North Dakota has placed them in. There are no street signs to identify the roads on which their houses are located. In some instances, the state has given them conflicting information about their residential address. Consider these quandaries:

Leslie and Clark Peltier are enrolled members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who live on reservation trust land. Their rural home has no address. During the 2012 election, a county representative assigned them the address 10296 40th Ave. NE, with no town or ZIP code. When they obtained drivers licenses, the state identified their town as Belcourt, North Dakota, 58316. But the secretary of states database lists their town as St. John, North Dakota, 58369. They cannot vote unless they resolve this discrepancyyet they have no apparent way of doing so.

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Burgess
11/01/18 2:55:29 PM
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It's not even real.
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littlebro07
11/01/18 2:56:01 PM
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Fuck you, North Dakota.

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I4NRulez
11/01/18 2:56:24 PM
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Antifar posted...
For decades, North Dakotans could vote with a valid residential or mailing address, which allowed rural tribal voters to use their P.O. Box as identification. After Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp triumphed in 2012 by fewer than 3,000 votes, Republicans altered the law. Heitkamp won with strong support from Native Americans, so the GOP passed legislation that targeted their access to the franchise. The new law compels voters to present an ID at the polls that lists their current residential (not mailing) addressor, if voting by absentee ballot, provide one that corresponds to a state database.


Oh those crafty republicans
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Unimpressed
11/01/18 2:56:55 PM
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Antifar posted...
After Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp triumphed in 2012 by fewer than 3,000 votes, Republicans altered the law. Heitkamp won with strong support from Native Americans, so the GOP passed legislation that targeted their access to the franchise

This is absolutely ridiculous that it's allowed to occur
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Were_Wyrm
11/01/18 2:57:42 PM
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Only in the south...
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Hawaiian_punch
11/01/18 2:59:19 PM
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The new Jim Crow
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Solid Sonic
11/01/18 3:00:14 PM
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So they got butthurt and undermined the voting population difference that saw a Democrat elected?

Yikes.
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Balrog0
11/01/18 3:00:44 PM
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Were_Wyrm posted...
Only in the south...


i c wut u did thar
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BLAKUboy
11/01/18 3:01:19 PM
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I really just don't understand any of this. Like, Republicans realize they're just making it worse for themselves when Democrats inevitably regain control, right? They're not cementing power, only delaying the inevitable and multiplying the blowback.
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AsAnIndependent
11/01/18 3:02:14 PM
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Sounds a lot like wanting to get rid of the electoral college after losing a presidential election
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Unimpressed
11/01/18 3:02:57 PM
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AsAnIndependent posted...
Sounds a lot like wanting to get rid of the electoral college after losing a presidential election

Stop being disingenuous, people have wanted to do away with the EC for years and years
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Tmaster148
11/01/18 3:03:01 PM
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BLAKUboy posted...
I really just don't understand any of this. Like, Republicans realize they're just making it worse for themselves when Democrats inevitably regain control, right? They're not cementing power, only delaying the inevitable and multiplying the blowback.


They aren't long term thinkers. And even if this does work longterm they only invite violence as they silence the voices of the people.
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King_Hellebuyck
11/01/18 3:03:21 PM
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Its so fucked up how disenfranchising voters is an ingrained part of the Republican Party.
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AsAnIndependent
11/01/18 3:03:30 PM
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Unimpressed posted...
AsAnIndependent posted...
Sounds a lot like wanting to get rid of the electoral college after losing a presidential election

Stop being disingenuous, people have wanted to do away with the EC for years and years

yes democrats have always said its unfair
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Doom_Art
11/01/18 3:03:52 PM
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BLAKUboy posted...
I really just don't understand any of this. Like, Republicans realize they're just making it worse for themselves when Democrats inevitably regain control, right? They're not cementing power, only delaying the inevitable and multiplying the blowback.

In their minds the name of the game is making it so the Dems never get power again

That was the whole point with their plan to gerrymander themselves into power after winning in 2010
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Tmaster148
11/01/18 3:05:11 PM
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AsAnIndependent is a 4 karma alt fyi. Probably one of the usual suspects who has their main on lock atm.
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Solid Sonic
11/01/18 3:06:09 PM
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AsAnIndependent posted...
Unimpressed posted...
AsAnIndependent posted...
Sounds a lot like wanting to get rid of the electoral college after losing a presidential election

Stop being disingenuous, people have wanted to do away with the EC for years and years

yes democrats have always said its unfair

Well I don't like "all-or-nothing". It needs to be proportional in some fashion to the voting population. Instead Florida gets a 1% margin and 29 votes go to one candidate. It's nonsense.

We should not be a pivotal electoral state when our population is firmly swing.
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Unimpressed
11/01/18 3:06:30 PM
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AsAnIndependent posted...
Unimpressed posted...
AsAnIndependent posted...
Sounds a lot like wanting to get rid of the electoral college after losing a presidential election

Stop being disingenuous, people have wanted to do away with the EC for years and years

yes democrats have always said its unfair

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/electoral-college-favors-republicans-democrats-geographically-concentrated/

That's a strongly right website
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AsAnIndependent
11/01/18 3:09:02 PM
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11/01/18 3:10:36 PM
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Solid Sonic posted...
So they got butthurt and undermined the voting population difference that saw a Democrat elected?

Yikes.

Red states have been doing this ever since 2011 after the red tsunami in 2010. It started as payback for minorities voting in Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
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Bio1590
11/01/18 3:10:46 PM
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The election should not be allowed to proceed in North Dakota until this is settled in a court of law.
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butthole666
11/01/18 3:32:34 PM
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Literally none of the checks and balances that are supposed to be in place are enforced anymore
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Solid Sonic
11/01/18 3:33:42 PM
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What would "just put some street signs up and numbers on your house, damn, it's not that hard" fall under as a reply?
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Jerry_Hellyeah
11/01/18 4:23:12 PM
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butthole666 posted...
Literally none of the checks and balances that are supposed to be in place are enforced anymore

I had the same issue in rural rural rural West Virginia. Took 2 days and a single phone call to get figured out, but why do things through the proper legal channels when crying injustice gets you attention and "support"?

This is only discrimination against the lazy and entitled. WHAT A TRAGEDY.
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Bio1590
11/01/18 4:29:36 PM
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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...
butthole666 posted...
Literally none of the checks and balances that are supposed to be in place are enforced anymore

I had the same issue in rural rural rural West Virginia. Took 2 days and a single phone call to get figured out, but why do things through the proper legal channels when crying injustice gets you attention and "support"?

This is only discrimination against the lazy and entitled. WHAT A TRAGEDY.

So, IYO, Native Americans are "lazy and entitled"?
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RiderofHogs
11/01/18 4:33:17 PM
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Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?
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Bio1590
11/01/18 4:40:02 PM
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RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?

Why would they if they never needed to and won't need to?

This is going to get overturned.
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Blue_Dream87
11/01/18 4:48:44 PM
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RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?


Is it hard to do the same shit as before and use PO Boxes?
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RiderofHogs
11/01/18 5:00:39 PM
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Blue_Dream87 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?


Is it hard to do the same shit as before and use PO Boxes?

PO boxes can make fraud easier. Just name your roads and number your houses. Everyone else in the first world has no problems doing it.
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Bio1590
11/01/18 5:10:39 PM
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RiderofHogs posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?


Is it hard to do the same shit as before and use PO Boxes?

PO boxes can make fraud easier. Just name your roads and number your houses. Everyone else in the first world has no problems doing it.

I know plenty of people who don't live on reserves and their homes have no official addresses.
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QwelzaarKane
11/01/18 5:11:49 PM
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RiderofHogs posted...
Everyone else in the first world has no problems doing it.


You should maybe try reading the OP. At least the last two paragraphs.
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RiderofHogs
11/01/18 5:12:12 PM
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Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?


Is it hard to do the same shit as before and use PO Boxes?

PO boxes can make fraud easier. Just name your roads and number your houses. Everyone else in the first world has no problems doing it.

I know plenty of people who don't live on reserves and their homes have no official addresses.

Time to get with the times.
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sktgamer_13dude
11/01/18 5:13:03 PM
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Solid Sonic posted...
So they got butthurt and undermined the voting population difference that saw a Democrat elected?

Yikes.

Not the only time Republicans have done this.
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Bio1590
11/01/18 5:14:48 PM
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RiderofHogs posted...
Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?


Is it hard to do the same shit as before and use PO Boxes?

PO boxes can make fraud easier. Just name your roads and number your houses. Everyone else in the first world has no problems doing it.

I know plenty of people who don't live on reserves and their homes have no official addresses.

Time to get with the times.

See, funny thing is is that they don't actually need to because the Government in their area isn't run by corrupt pieces of shit.

Also, there is zero point in having street names and house numbers when you don't get mail delivered to your house.
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RiderofHogs
11/01/18 5:17:34 PM
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Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?


Is it hard to do the same shit as before and use PO Boxes?

PO boxes can make fraud easier. Just name your roads and number your houses. Everyone else in the first world has no problems doing it.

I know plenty of people who don't live on reserves and their homes have no official addresses.

Time to get with the times.

See, funny thing is is that they don't actually need to because the Government in their area isn't run by corrupt pieces of shit.

Also, there is zero point in having street names and house numbers when you don't get mail delivered to your house.

You still need to list where you live for official things, and voting should be one of them.
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furb
11/01/18 5:17:38 PM
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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...
butthole666 posted...
Literally none of the checks and balances that are supposed to be in place are enforced anymore

I had the same issue in rural rural rural West Virginia. Took 2 days and a single phone call to get figured out, but why do things through the proper legal channels when crying injustice gets you attention and "support"?

This is only discrimination against the lazy and entitled. WHAT A TRAGEDY.

RiderofHogs posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?


Is it hard to do the same shit as before and use PO Boxes?

PO boxes can make fraud easier. Just name your roads and number your houses. Everyone else in the first world has no problems doing it.


Not where my parents live in white as snow wv.

Their address, until like 5 years ago, was HC box number. Normal mailbox but short of the zip code, no geographic identifier.

It took the county government to assign physical addresses by inveneting street names.

My parents home still does not show up on google maps or gps.

I do not know how it works in ND but bacl home, it took several years and thr county to do it.
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Bio1590
11/01/18 5:22:07 PM
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RiderofHogs posted...
Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?


Is it hard to do the same shit as before and use PO Boxes?

PO boxes can make fraud easier. Just name your roads and number your houses. Everyone else in the first world has no problems doing it.

I know plenty of people who don't live on reserves and their homes have no official addresses.

Time to get with the times.

See, funny thing is is that they don't actually need to because the Government in their area isn't run by corrupt pieces of shit.

Also, there is zero point in having street names and house numbers when you don't get mail delivered to your house.

You still need to list where you live for official things, and voting should be one of them.

There's places that allow you to vote using things like your electricity or water bill. Guess where those get mailed to?
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Jerry_Hellyeah
11/01/18 5:22:55 PM
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Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?

Why would they if they never needed to and won't need to?

This is going to get overturned.


THEY LITERALLY NEED TO NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. THAT IS WHY THIS TOPIC EXISTS DUDE.

Its not like these guys live in teepees. Its 2018. Having a fucking mailing address set up isnt going to kill anyone. Its laziness twisted into.....whatever this "outrage" is about. Racism? Classism? Yeah no.
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King_Hellebuyck
11/01/18 5:25:44 PM
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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...
Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?

Why would they if they never needed to and won't need to?

This is going to get overturned.


THEY LITERALLY NEED TO NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. THAT IS WHY THIS TOPIC EXISTS DUDE.

Its not like these guys live in teepees. Its 2018. Having a fucking mailing address set up isnt going to kill anyone. Its laziness twisted into.....whatever this "outrage" is about. Racism? Classism? Yeah no.

Its amazing watching people like you try to blame the people who are being disenfranchised.
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Bio1590
11/01/18 5:26:07 PM
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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...
Bio1590 posted...
RiderofHogs posted...
Is it that hard to create street names and addresses for a reservations?

Why would they if they never needed to and won't need to?

This is going to get overturned.


THEY LITERALLY NEED TO NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. THAT IS WHY THIS TOPIC EXISTS DUDE.

Its not like these guys live in teepees. Its 2018. Having a fucking mailing address set up isnt going to kill anyone. Its laziness twisted into.....whatever this "outrage" is about. Racism? Classism? Yeah no.

They don't, because this law is going to get overturned.

And they already have mailing addresses, that's not the issue.
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Tyranthraxus
11/01/18 5:29:51 PM
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BLAKUboy posted...
I really just don't understand any of this. Like, Republicans realize they're just making it worse for themselves when Democrats inevitably regain control, right? They're not cementing power, only delaying the inevitable and multiplying the blowback.

Once they lose their grip on gerrymandering they're done for good. They have to do everything possible to maintain that grip.
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AsAnIndependent
11/01/18 5:52:09 PM
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this is like complaining if they made a law saying you had to use #number 2 pencils
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Bio1590
11/01/18 6:10:55 PM
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More like if they made a law saying you could only use #2 pencils on tests now and there was a test coming up in a couple weeks and you had no opportunity to get #2 pencils.
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KYOJIROKAGENUMA
11/01/18 6:11:25 PM
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AsAnIndependent posted...
this is like complaining if they made a law saying you had to use #number 2 pencils

@AsAnIndependent

How is having to use a number 2 pencil anything like this situation?
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King_Hellebuyck
11/01/18 6:32:04 PM
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AsAnIndependent posted...
this is like complaining if they made a law saying you had to use #number 2 pencils

You mean its a pointless standard that should have no bearing on a persons ability to vote?
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The Great Muta 22
11/01/18 6:37:49 PM
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Perfect example ITT of Republicans defending making it more difficult for their fellow citizens to vote. You guys truly are shameless people
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AsAnIndependent
11/01/18 7:48:55 PM
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KYOJIROKAGENUMA posted...
AsAnIndependent posted...
this is like complaining if they made a law saying you had to use #number 2 pencils

@AsAnIndependent

How is having to use a number 2 pencil anything like this situation?

Its not unreasonable and helps legitimize all votes

And its not like this law just sprung up in the last week
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