{"id":8767,"date":"2011-10-25T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=8767"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:10:47","slug":"an-interesting-supporter-of-voter-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=8767","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Supporter Of Voter Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday the Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0posted an article about\u00a0former Alabama congressman Artur Davis, an African-American Democrat, who has recently changed his position on voter identification laws.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve changed my mind on voter ID laws \u2014 I think Alabama did the right thing in passing one \u2014 and I wish I had gotten it right when I was in political office,\u201d Davis wrote in an October 17 op-ed published in the Montgomery Advertiser.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every person in America has probably heard a story from a friend or relative that they went to vote in an election and were told that they had already voted. Laws that require voters to show identification will greatly reduce that kind of voter fraud.<\/p>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

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Democratic activists say the new laws aren\u2019t needed, and the the ID requirements will make it harder for poor people, Hispanics or African-Americans to vote. In Alabama, the new law \u201cis about suppression, not protection,\u201d Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell said in September.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s really no evidence of reduced voter turnout,\u201d said Republican\u00a0Scott Gessler, Colorado\u2019s Secretary of State, in an interview<\/span><\/a> with The Daily Caller. \u201cBut that does really stop the left screaming about it because, in part, it is a wedge issue they use to get people to vote.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopefully the American people have figured this out!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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