US District Judge lind edelman struck down at that contentious and
controversial 2011 voting law in Wisconsin now this was side back in 2011
by Governor Scott Walker
instituted new requirements for voter ID and at the time it was
perhaps the most draconian voter fraud legislation that we had
now places like North Carolina couple other states are passing the even worse
but this one has been struck down now
understand that for a little while now it has been suspended
but finally struck down and the quotes from the district judge
I think are are great for those of us who are freer and fairer and more
inclusive
a a democratic elections in the US and when you see your reasoning for why she
did this I think you'll be as optimistic as I am
so your summer quote she says the evidence at trial established that
virtually no voter impersonation occurs in Wisconsin
the defendants could not point to a single instance have known voter
impersonation occurring in Wisconsin it any time in the recent past
she was about to say it voter impersonation is occurring often enough
to threaten the integrity of the electoral process
that we should be able to buy more evidence that is occurring than we do
if for example voter impersonation is a frequent occurrence
that we should find more than two unexplained cases per major election
it was a voter arrives at the polls only to discover that someone has already
cast the ballot
in his or her name and so there she is I'm
knocking down some of the principal arguments that mainly republican
conservatives
have used to defend this voter ID law and so it's great to see that she is now
by
yeah I think this is a great ruling and she's basically
echoing what a lot of critics have said about these voter ID laws from the very
beginning
that there are instances a voter fraud that it's a non-issue
and the real reason why up the republican party primarily wanted to
push for these laws
ways to prevent people who typically vote for the Democratic
candidate promoting so just to give you an example a bad %uh
the main issue here course is the ID issue right so
some people might say well it's not unreasonable to ask for an ID during the
elections
but the timing was very convenient for the republican party because right was
right before the 2012 election
and also another thing to keep in mind is about 300,000 people living in that
state
do not have an ID no formal identification
and the majority of those individuals are actually low-income
so it's a little bit undue burden for them to get the ID and I'll tell you why
if you look at it the institutions that you go to to get an idea
obviously the DMV the DMV closes at 5 p.m.
right they had 92 DMV's in the state
only one of them is open over the weekend so let's say you are poor
you're working for hourly wage you will have to take time off work maybe use
your vacation hours maybe give up a day of work and not get paid that day
just to go to the DMV spend the day there to get that idea me not an undue
burden I case
I'm so it is a problem and when you really think about the way the law
actually ended up you have no instances a voter ID fraud
right I'm sorry no water fraud and at the same time you are
destroying or you are violating other people's ability to vote these are
eligible voters but now don't have the ability to look when
women using you out what you're looking for representation someone to represent
your beliefs and when you come from and
really help you out in this country so in that's there when you have to go to
the DMV
which is never open we need to and when you do you take time off work and all
these things
you got to lose touch of work is really gonna work piece or also
lowers your desire truly want to go out and vote to do something
and get involved because you don't believe it's never gonna happen has
never happened before
again the falls are certain group people the disenfranchised and let them
continue to be disenfranchised
that the one point out you that triggered that thought for me so they
won't give them a call
is already feel that way number two its arguments and multiple times that
the larger numbers which is probably five before from this happens it happens
with republicans
because they're too there's all wrapped up in this this idea
that oh my god the Democratic that people are out and they're destroying
our body by is their voter fraud the coming administration office from the
start tomorrow democracy is falling apart
often sizzle voting fraud in 2012
rocks every bit as a 56-year-old woman and I Nevada
she accepts the plea deal after committing voter fraud to the rest love
them a bird after trying to vote twice
us for sea border and are no more voting site in Henderson Nevada
and then she went to a second site and then when those poll workers that way
we have regular jury voted she adamantly said she didn't
and bored again got arrested and this is the reason
there's always been an issue for me I just feel the system is flawed
well seems like his word freedom working together as Yahoo brown plot yes or
things didn't she keeps internalizing decided that voter fraud is happy when
we go to this is Nicholas II
that single anymore twice just like the Zazzle democrats not preparing a
same billing cycle this a named Max command a new Mexican man sorry live in
Mexico
and he bought it did obtain a second reading about the Nazi was just testing
system to see people could get away with calling twice
no you couldn't get arrested instead now the last thing about our first lady I
was
I love this part of it her plea deal to see at the admits she did wrong
24 Larsen and and I 81 2048 one dollar this year to pay restitution
100 hours community service and stay outta trouble on a complete impulse
control course
statue at the yeah like the embarrassing accent that he had to
yes a point for a lot of things pretty devastating yeah a good start
so wouldn't in after all the things happen these
deep it's never gonna and Northern Command say from Iraq San Ramon
that dumbass you do that too yeah it by I switched
at some point lead absorb what we've already seen yet and looking it's great
that they that they caught those two people but honestly if they hadn't
I'm pretty sure the candidate that they were snoring didn't win or lose by one
vote we probably wouldn't okay
from but we we have we have great cause over the past ten years to question the
integrity of our voting systems
but not for me regular Americans trying to game the system it's from the people
who manufacture the electronic voting machines EVM
I don't think it'll probably one person in New Mexico tries to go and vote twice
I do think it's a problem if scientists and academics have shown how easy it is
to hack these are machines wirelessly
and you see them being sold on eBay where they can then be
reverse-engineered
big but that is exactly what we should be protecting against
and i wanna talk in particular not to the the lives and the downs who are
watching this because I think they understand the the
and its rationale behind why the republicans are trying to do this but to
the Conservatives
cool water the system to be safe and feel like it could be
sorted gained by a corner something like that even though acorn was doing fake
registrations that did not then have any chance to translating into fake votes
like why is it then that in North Carolina they allow you to use your gun
license as identification but not college
ID as identification right and like understand when they do that and the
disenfranchised there was about those college voters
not just disenfranchising dirty hippies are disenfranchising College Republicans
as well
and they're telling those young conservatives but we don't care enough
about your vote a chance
it being outnumbered by College Democrats you understand you gotta
understand why they're doing this and I know that
that four conservative like they tend to be I would see more anxious and more
fearful about the world they fear violence enough to carry guns around
and I understand there's an approach that the voting system in be worried
about these things but
it is simply a lie to say that it's on secure or that and security
can be exploited by regular people is really quick I mean you mention the
whole fear and paranoia thing I mean
there been a few studies at this point the talk about the fear centers
a people's brains and those who have a larger a big deal I tend to be
conservative
and the Makena amid allies of course the part of the brain bad
is the fear Center the part where paranoia and I can't let your
no matter how many times has been shot down as again by this judge business
said that this judge
you read her up her judgment on our lease her arm
I guess is a decision on in I was thinking leave
on its great seems to breathe she saying this basic
honest truth why is that general honest truth
so refreshing to hear you don't hear that often in politics yeah
and it's great that she said what she said because this is now then can become
precedent for future decisions and looking ahead to those like we said this
is being struck down
and Wisconsin but they're still even worse ones in places like North Carolina
and so I in advance of those potentially being challenged ACLU Voting Rights up
project director says
this is a warning to other states that are trying to make it harder for
citizens to vote
this decision put them on notice that they can tamper with citizens
fundamental right to cast the ballot
the people in our democracy deserved and demand better
a professor at UC Irvine also saying about the best possible opinion that up
speaking about this is it decision saying it's the best possible opinion
their opponents a voter identification laws could hope for
in some this is a huge victory for voter ID opponents but time will tell if this
ruling survives
and with the supreme court that we have perhaps a wealthy family
I I like you up boy doesn't have optimism
I don't believe is gonna police image to spread further I mean all trust other
states
that judges are gonna really go on the side with because really there
comfortable in the building of the people who are doing the bidding of the
people give money
now and there will be one more people voting in the first place nobles who
should be
represent the people who are you