Trump wants voting restrictions

Posted by | December 9, 2016 18:31 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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It’s the typical Republican idea of trying to make it so fewer people vote.

Stumping for Louisiana Senate candidate John Kennedy, Trump urged supporters to help elect the Republican state treasurer to the U.S. Senate, a victory that would give the GOP a 52-48 majority in the upper chamber.

But the president-elect also recalled seeing extremely long lines in Florida during the state’s early voting period ahead of Election Day, suggesting “many things can go wrong” with so much time allocated to allow citizens to vote.

“They had that long early voting in Florida. It’s so long, and so many things can go wrong when you have that long period of time, right?” Trump told the crowd in Baton Rouge. “That long, long, long period. Used to be you’d have a day, you vote. Now you’re going forever. Weeks and weeks.”

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13 responses to Trump wants voting restrictions

  1. arc99 December 9th, 2016 at 18:49

    If we are going to restrict the time frame for the right to vote, then let us make it simple and apply the concept to other rights as well.

    How about this. No one can take delivery of a firearms purchase, except on those days when voting is in progress for any given year’s election. You can buy ammunition year round. If you have to wait for the polls to open before taking delivery of that brand new pistol, you could always use a slingshot and load it up with all the ammo you bought.

    Am I being facetious? Only to a point.

    There should be more days to vote, not fewer. If restricting rights based on a calendar is such a wonderful idea, then why should it not also apply to the 2nd amendment?

    • StoneyCurtisll December 9th, 2016 at 19:29

      Exactly~!

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  2. StoneyCurtisll December 9th, 2016 at 19:27

    The voting should last a week in every state, a single day, actually 12 hours or less to cast a vote is shameful…
    It’s no wonder voter turnout is so low.

    • whatthe46 December 9th, 2016 at 19:46

      and it’s very difficult to vote when they’ve closed more than 800 polling stations.

  3. Hirightnow December 9th, 2016 at 21:44

    Used to be, you took a leisurely 3 ½ days to travel from coast to coast, and paid a decent 40 dollars to do so.
    Used to be you had to avoid horse dung when crossing the streets.
    Used to be, you only had to decide between a few channel on the television.
    Used to be, you could expect a higher, more American death rate among infants.
    Used to be, you could rely upon the random crazed individual with a grudge against the system to take matters into their own hand, and

    Things used to be a lot different, I agree.

  4. Tommie December 9th, 2016 at 23:19

    Stop overcharging minorities in small crimes that a White person would get a slap on the wrist for!

  5. labman57 December 9th, 2016 at 23:47

    Trump and his cronies in Congress have demonstrated that the following comprise their key objectives during his first year in office:

    1) repeal the ACA

    2) privatize Medicare and Social Security

    3) eliminate workplace and environmental business regulations, and increase the length of the full-time wage-earner’s work week

    4) slash federal economic assistance for struggling middle class families and the socio-economically downtrodden (Medicaid, SNAP, Pell grants, school lunch programs, etc)

    5) cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy and major corporations

    6) raise taxes on everyone else

    7) make voting in national elections a privilege for the privileged few

    8) make English the official language and Christianity the official religion of the United States

    9) financially gut the public school education system

    10) prevent public school science classes from teaching real science, and prevent social studies classes from teaching accurate U.S. History

    11) outlaw public sector labor unions and neuter the political clout of private sector unions

    12) repeal federal and state minimum wage laws

    13) alienate women by outlawing abortion … period, by making it more difficult to obtain contraceptives, and by eliminating all federal funding for women’s preventative health care and domestic violence programs

    14) rounding up Latinos that they believe might be undocumented, loading them into cattle cars, and shipping them out of the nation

    15) alienate gays with their efforts to oppose marriage equality and defend homophobic intolerance in the name of God

    16) alienate urban African Americans by implying that this demographic group is inherently lazier than other Americans and that they prefer “government handouts” over earning a decent income

    17) persecuting Muslim Americans by characterizing them as terrorists

    18) increase defense spending and invade Syria, Iraq (again!), Iran, and North Korea

    19) transform the EPA into a branch of the American Petroleum Institute

    20) guns, guns, and more guns. Oh, did I mention guns?

    21) destroy our international trade agreements in the name of “nationalism”

    22) criminalize the free press whenever someone dares to be critical of the Trump Administration

    23) outlaw all forms of public protest that is counter to the policies being advanced by Trump

    24) transform U.S. foreign policy to assure that it is in the best interest of … Putin’s Russia

    25) Make America WHITE again

  6. Carla Akins December 10th, 2016 at 05:57

    Since when are registered voters akin to easily distracted toddlers?

    • bpollen December 11th, 2016 at 01:16

      Well, some of them voted for Trump, so… if the shoe fits…

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