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   Bill Flett to Mattb   
   Re: Yes, we know that voter ID laws are    
   18 Mar 21 07:09:44   
   
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   From: notgenx32@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/17/2021 8:35 PM, Mattb wrote:   
   > On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:18:44 -0700, Bill Flett    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 3/17/2021 3:06 PM, F. Mark Hansen , sleazy rent-skip   
   >> chaser, possible polygamist and irrational gun nut, lied:   
   >>   
   >>> On 3/17/2021 1:24 PM, Bill Flett wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> It isn't.  The *real* rationale behind voter ID laws, as opposed to the   
   fake   
   >>>> (smokescreen) reason, is transparently racist.   
   >>>   
   >>> To say voter ID laws are racist is to say that some races   
   >>> are less able than others to conform their conduct to the   
   >>> law.   
   >>   
   >> No.  It is not saying that.  Those are your words.   
   >>   
   >> The problem is that it is already inconvenient enough for poorer people,   
   who are   
   >> disproportionately racial/ethnic minorities, to get the ID.  Then racist   
   >> assholes like you make it even harder by locating the ID issuing offices far   
   >>from places that have large concentrations of poor minority voters, and by   
   >> restricting their operating times to absurdly short hours.  This is the   
   racist   
   >> design.   
   >   
   >   
   >    You do know there are more whites below the poverty line than Blacks   
   > or Latinos?   
      
   Not as a percentage.  A much higher percentage of blacks and Hispanics are   
   below   
   the poverty line than whites.   
      
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