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|    Chips Loral to All    |
|    Harris wants photo ID, but just for her     |
|    13 Aug 24 09:40:28    |
      XPost: seattle.politics, dfw.politics, houston.politics       XPost: chi.politics, dc.politics       From: loralandclinton@invalid.co              The hypocrisy is waist deep in Cackling Kameltoe:              https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/tueharris-campaign-requi       es-id-attend-her-rally-even-she-opposes-voter-id              Harris campaign requires I.D. to attend her rally, even though she       opposes voter I.D.              “Yet, we have seen in the state of Georgia, by example, anti-voter laws,       laws that have limited drop boxes and made it illegal to even provide       food and water to people standing in line for hours,” Harris said. But       getting into her rally required valid ID.              her campaign recently required that attendees present a valid       identification to RSVP for one of her rallies.              The event took place Friday at the Desert Diamond Arena near Phoenix,       Ariz. Ahead of the event, the campaign distributed an email requiring       attendees to RSVP and to present a government-issued I.D.              The requirement drew rebuke from conservatives online in light of       Harris’s past opposition to voter I.D. laws and other election integrity       measures.              “Democrat Principles In Action: Requiring a government-issued ID to       vote? Racist voter suppression!!! Requiring a government-issued ID to       get into a Kamala Harris rally? Perfectly reasonable,” former Arkansas       Gov, Mike Huckabee wrote on X.              President Joe Biden in 2021, tapped Harris to lead the administration’s       voting rights initiatives, a role in which she often criticized       legislative efforts to ensure that only valid voters cast ballots.              While running for president in her first campaign, however, she espoused       support for paper ballots as the best way to safeguard elections, making       the remarks in the context of Russian interference in the 2016 election.              “We have proposed that part of the investment in infrastructure has to       be upgrading the infrastructure of states around elections,” she said in       2019. “Because, guess what? As it turns out, for all that technology has       brought us, good and bad, the best and most secure way to conduct       elections? Paper ballots.”              “‘Cause, the way that I say it, kind of half-joking, ‘Russia can’t hack       a piece of paper,’” she added.              While on the campaign trail as Biden’s running mate, Harris maligned       "suppressive voter ID laws, racial gerrymandering, voter roll purges,       precinct closures and reduced early-voting days”, contending that those       measures had been “laser-targeted toward communities of color,”       according to Fox.              Since her appointment from Biden, moreover, Harris has heavily       scrutinized state-level efforts to limit mail-in voting and to otherwise       verify the legitimacy of a ballot or voter. Georgia, in particular, fell       into her crosshairs.              When the law was passed in 2021, Harris derided it as a “renewed attempt       to suppress the ability of people to vote” in an interview with the       Atlanta Journal-Constitution.              More recently in January, Harris met with voting rights advocates in       Atlanta, Ga., during which she advocated for the John Lewis Voting       Rights Advancement Act, a proposed expansion of federal voting rights       protections that ultimately did not become law.              While there, she pointed to what the White House called a “full-on       assault on the freedom to vote” from “extremists,” referring to       Republican-driven efforts to secure Georgia elections driven, in part,       by Trump’s criticisms of alleged irregularities.              “Yet, we have seen in the state of Georgia, by example, anti-voter laws,       laws that have limited drop boxes and made it illegal to even provide       food and water to people standing in line for hours,” Harris said,       according to the Georgia Recorder.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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