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   MattB. to All   
   Re: Yes, we know that voter ID laws are    
   17 Mar 21 21:42:07   
   
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   From: trdell12345@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:11:06 -0700, Bill Flett    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 3/17/2021 4:42 PM, F. Mark Hansen , sleazy rent-skip   
   >chaser, possible polygamist and irrational gun nut, lied:   
   >   
   >> On 3/17/2021 4:18 PM, 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?   Whites in 2019  17,328,200, Blacks 8,244,000, and   
   Hispanic 10,174,200.   
      
   >>   
   >> It's not.   
   >   
   >It is.  It starts out being harder, and then racist assholes like you make it   
   >harder still.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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