{"id":42263,"date":"2021-06-02T11:59:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42263"},"modified":"2021-06-02T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:59:43","slug":"we-need-to-get-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42263","title":{"rendered":"We Need To Get On Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Gateway Pundit<\/a> posted an article about voter identification. Contrary to what the media would have you believe, America is one of the few nations that does not require some form of government-issued identification to vote.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe \u2014 a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy \u2014 all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote. The exception is the U.K., and even there voter IDs are mandatory in Northern Ireland for all elections and in parts of England for local elections. Moreover, Boris Johnson\u2019s government recently\u00a0introduced legislation<\/a>\u00a0to have the rest of the country follow suit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Criticisms of the British leader\u2019s voter ID push are similar to those heard in the U.S.\u00a0The Scottish National Party\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0his voter ID push targets \u201clower income, ethnic minority and younger people\u201d who are less likely to vote for Johnson\u2019s conservatives and therefore represents \u201cTrump-like voter suppression.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Seventy-four percent of European countries entirely ban absentee voting<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for citizens who reside domestically. Another 6% limit it to those hospitalized or in the military, and they require third-party verification and a photo voter ID. Another 15% require a photo ID for absentee voting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Similarly, government-issued photo IDs are required to vote by 33 nations in the 37-member Organistion for Economic Co-operation and Development (which has considerable European overlap). Only the UK, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia currently do not require IDs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

And as a result of that fraud, Mexico in\u00a01991 mandated voter photo IDs with biometric information, banned absentee ballots, and required in-person voter registration. Despite making registration much more difficult and banning absentee ballots,\u00a0voter participation rates\u00a0rose<\/em><\/a>\u00a0after Mexico implemented the new rules. In the three presidential elections following the 1991 reforms, an average of 68% of the eligible citizens voted, compared with only 59% in the three elections prior to the rule changes. Seemingly, as people gained faith in the electoral process, they became more likely to vote. Ultimately,\u00a0in 2006<\/a>\u00a0Mexico would revert to permitting absentee voting, but limited it to those living abroad who requested a ballot at least six months in advance. Claims of voting irregularities have occasionally arisen in later years, but they focus on\u00a0vote buying<\/a>, not impersonating others, or having non-existent people voting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…The case of Mexico undermines the idea that stricter voting rules lead to vote suppression, and so does some of the evidence from America. A number of states have in recent years instituted photo and non-photo ID measures, and found no statistically significant change in voter participation rates<\/a>. Other evidence suggests that black and minority voter registration rates\u00a0increased faster<\/a>\u00a0than whites after states implemented voter ID requirements for registration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

RCI (Real Clear Investigations) contacted both the Brennan Center for Justice and the ACLU, two organizations that have been at the forefront of the ballot access\/voting integrity debate, to ask them what they made of the more restrictive voting rules implemented elsewhere. The ACLU did not respond, and a Brennan Center spokesman said: \u201cAs a rule, we don\u2019t comment on other countries\u2019 voting systems because that\u2019s not our area of expertise.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes the facts are simply inconvenient.<\/p>\n

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