The NAACP has petitioned the United Nations to intercede on their behalf for what they believe to be an infringement on their voting rights. I wonder if the irony is lost on them. The U.N. consists of a band of murderers, thieves and oppressors; yet, this so-called human rights organization wants this rogue organization to help them circumvent our voting laws.
To understand what the NAACP is complaining about, you have to skip down to the bottom of an article published by the Guardian. Here is an excerpt:
The NAACP says voting rights are being whittled down at every stage of the electoral process. First of all, the registration of new voters is being impeded in several states by moves to block voter registration drives that have historically proved to be an important way of bringing black and Hispanic people to the poll.
Four states – Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia – continue to withhold the vote from anyone convicted of a criminal offence. In Florida, offenders who have completed their sentences have to wait at least five years before they can even apply to restore their right to register to vote.
Across the US, more than 5 million Americans are denied the right to vote on grounds that they were convicted of a felony, 4 million of whom have fully completed their sentence and almost half of whom are black or Hispanic.
You’re damn right! They shouldn’t be allowed to vote. These people have demonstrated a blatant disregard for their fellow citizens, and if the states dictate that these ex-cons have to wait for a specific period before being allowed to vote, then so be it.
Here is another nonsensical grievance:
Other measures have reduced the ease of early voting, a convenience that is disproportionately heavily used by African-Americans. Even more importantly, 34 states have introduced a requirement that voters carry photo ID cards on the day of the election itself.
Studies have showed that the proportion of voters who do not have access to valid photo ID cards is much higher among older African-Americans because they were not given birth certificates in the days of segregation. Students and young voters also often lack identification and are thus in danger of being stripped of their right to vote.
This has been easily disproved. Carolina Journal interviewed Hans von Spakousley on this very issue. Here is an excerpt:
von Spakovsky: That’s a completely bogus argument, and it’s been disproven in the courts, it’s been disproven in the polling place, and it’s been disproven in the public arena — public opinion. I mean, first of all, let’s start with the last one first. Voters overwhelmingly support photo ID, and the polls show that goes across all racial, ethnic, and age lines. So that includes African-Americans, Hispanics — they all support this. I don’t think they would support it if they thought it would keep them from going to the polls.
Second, Georgia and Indiana, for example, have the two strictest photo ID laws in the country. Look, there were lawsuits filed in those cases by the NAACP, the ACLU — all the same groups making these very same claims in North Carolina. They lost. They lost those cases. And in both cases, Indiana and Georgia, the federal courts made a point of saying in their decisions that after years of litigation, and after making these claims that there were hundreds of thousands of people who didn’t have photo ID, in both cases, none of the organizations that sued could find a single individual who didn’t have either photo ID or couldn’t easily get one under the free access to photo ID that the state set up. And that included the NAACP. In the Georgia case, they couldn’t find a single member of the NAACP who didn’t have a photo ID.
Also, if you look at the elections held in states with photo ID, like Georgia and Indiana, contrary to what the critics say, turnout in those states went up dramatically in the ’08 election. In fact, it went up more, increased more in those states than in some states without photo ID. And, in fact, the statistics that I’ve seen on turnout data show that the turnout, for example, of African-Americans went up significantly in Georgia. Also the same thing happened in Indiana. So the effects that people say will happen, they haven’t occurred.
As you can see the NAACP doesn’t have a leg to stand on. But what is disturbing, is their willingness to employ a band of third world dictators to force us to their will.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/05/civil-rights-naacp-voter-warning
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=8520
To understand what the NAACP is complaining about, you have to skip down to the bottom of an article published by the Guardian. Here is an excerpt:
The NAACP says voting rights are being whittled down at every stage of the electoral process. First of all, the registration of new voters is being impeded in several states by moves to block voter registration drives that have historically proved to be an important way of bringing black and Hispanic people to the poll.
Four states – Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia – continue to withhold the vote from anyone convicted of a criminal offence. In Florida, offenders who have completed their sentences have to wait at least five years before they can even apply to restore their right to register to vote.
Across the US, more than 5 million Americans are denied the right to vote on grounds that they were convicted of a felony, 4 million of whom have fully completed their sentence and almost half of whom are black or Hispanic.
You’re damn right! They shouldn’t be allowed to vote. These people have demonstrated a blatant disregard for their fellow citizens, and if the states dictate that these ex-cons have to wait for a specific period before being allowed to vote, then so be it.
Here is another nonsensical grievance:
Other measures have reduced the ease of early voting, a convenience that is disproportionately heavily used by African-Americans. Even more importantly, 34 states have introduced a requirement that voters carry photo ID cards on the day of the election itself.
Studies have showed that the proportion of voters who do not have access to valid photo ID cards is much higher among older African-Americans because they were not given birth certificates in the days of segregation. Students and young voters also often lack identification and are thus in danger of being stripped of their right to vote.
This has been easily disproved. Carolina Journal interviewed Hans von Spakousley on this very issue. Here is an excerpt:
von Spakovsky: That’s a completely bogus argument, and it’s been disproven in the courts, it’s been disproven in the polling place, and it’s been disproven in the public arena — public opinion. I mean, first of all, let’s start with the last one first. Voters overwhelmingly support photo ID, and the polls show that goes across all racial, ethnic, and age lines. So that includes African-Americans, Hispanics — they all support this. I don’t think they would support it if they thought it would keep them from going to the polls.
Second, Georgia and Indiana, for example, have the two strictest photo ID laws in the country. Look, there were lawsuits filed in those cases by the NAACP, the ACLU — all the same groups making these very same claims in North Carolina. They lost. They lost those cases. And in both cases, Indiana and Georgia, the federal courts made a point of saying in their decisions that after years of litigation, and after making these claims that there were hundreds of thousands of people who didn’t have photo ID, in both cases, none of the organizations that sued could find a single individual who didn’t have either photo ID or couldn’t easily get one under the free access to photo ID that the state set up. And that included the NAACP. In the Georgia case, they couldn’t find a single member of the NAACP who didn’t have a photo ID.
Also, if you look at the elections held in states with photo ID, like Georgia and Indiana, contrary to what the critics say, turnout in those states went up dramatically in the ’08 election. In fact, it went up more, increased more in those states than in some states without photo ID. And, in fact, the statistics that I’ve seen on turnout data show that the turnout, for example, of African-Americans went up significantly in Georgia. Also the same thing happened in Indiana. So the effects that people say will happen, they haven’t occurred.
As you can see the NAACP doesn’t have a leg to stand on. But what is disturbing, is their willingness to employ a band of third world dictators to force us to their will.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/05/civil-rights-naacp-voter-warning
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=8520
