Bernie Sanders Exposes The Republican Fraud Behind Voter ID Laws Via New GAO Report

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Bernie Sanders Exposes The Republican Fraud Behind Voter ID Laws Via New GAO Report
By: Jason Easley
Wednesday, October, 8th, 2014, 12:16 pm


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) initiated the request with the GAO that led to the newly released report on voter ID laws. The report found that voter ID laws have nothing to do with voter fraud and everything to do with lowering election turnout.

According to a statement from the office of Sen. Sanders,

The Government Accountability Office report also found scant evidence of voter fraud that the new laws that ostensibly are designed to discourage.

The report was requested by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.). The senators asked the research arm of Congress to investigate what they called an “alarming number” of new state laws that make it “significantly harder” for millions of voters to cast ballots.

The report calculated the direct cost to would-be voters in the 17 states where voters must present a drivers’ license or other state identification at polling places. The price for drivers’ licenses ranges from $14.50 in Indiana to $58.50 in Rhode Island. The cost of getting a birth certificate needed to obtain a non-driver ID ranges from $7 in North Dakota to $25 in Georgia.

Focusing on two states with strict ID laws, Kansas and Tennessee, the GAO found greater falloffs in voter turnout in those states than in states without restrictive voting laws. The 2012 general election turnout compared to 2008 was as much as 3.2 percent less in Kansas and 2.2 percent less in Tennessee than in other states. The falloff was greatest among African-Americans, young people and newly-registered voters, the GAO said.

Sanders said, “We must make it easier, not harder, for poor and working people to vote and to participate in the political process. These state laws aren’t really intended to discourage fraud, they’re intended to discourage voting. The GAO looked at study after study and found no credible evidence of voter fraud having had any impact whatsoever on the outcome of any election in recent history.”

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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/08/bernie-sanders-busts-republican-fraud-voter-id-laws-report.html

[think]

1. k&R /nt

[Faux pas]

2. I Love You

Bernie Sanders!!!!!

[WillyT]

3. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. We need Bernie's fearless outspoken frankness and intelligence to wake up this nation.

Thanks for posting!

[rhett o rick]

5. You shirley are on the money.

[Scuba]

6. Calling it like it is. Love ya Bernie!!

[jwirr]

7. This is why Bernie is so loved by so many of us.

[on point]

8. we need a national voter act that applies to all states, not just the old south

and in that act specify what can and cannot be done. To make it constitutional make it apply to reps, senate and president specifically. Have a separate clause for in state races so that could be struck down separately if needed. My guess is that repuke states would find it too expensive to have two sets of standards and would just go with the national standards.

Include voting machine booths with records that can be audited and software that can be checked by outside experts.

[Plucketeer]

9. Bernie Sanders

A genuine beacon of hope for the enlightened!

[Jack Rabbit]

10. K/R

We should not consider legitimate any electoral victory by Republicans in states with racist voter laws in effect.

Let there be no acquiescence of this election fraud as there was in 2000. These fascists must be brought to justice.

[NoRWNJ]

14. This is a viable route to take!

Every such election that rests upon the suppression of voters needs to be contested in a court free from such bias!

[Jack Rabbit]

16. It's worse than that

Good luck finding a court without bias.

The highest court in the land is one where we already know the score:

Supreme Shysters 5, Justices 4.

It may be time to take matters into our own hands. We are the man on white horse for whom we have waited so long.

[Proud Public Servant]

11. But he's not a Democrat!!!

He should have let a Democrat make this excellent point about the suppression of Democratic votes. And just because no Democrats were actually making that point is no excuse. He's not a Democrat! How dare he point out the things our own craven, feckless leadership should be pointing out! Boy, he thinks he's so special...

[smokey nj]

15. Hilarious!

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[Dustlawyer]

13. This means that the legislators and the judges/Justices that pass and uphold these "Votor ID" laws

are the FRAUDS!!!!

Partisan rulings instead of the Rule of Law = HACKS!
Do you hear that HACK ROBERTS!!!

[Mnpaul]

17. Kris Kobach has a problem with the report

his letter may be found on pages 196,197
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/gao-report-voter-identification-laws-2014?inline=file

If lower turnout occurs after implementation of voter id, some of that may be attributed to the prevention of fraudulent votes

because he says so

and he thinks the report is faulty?

[Cha]

18. Thank you, Bernie!

mahalo, babylonsistah~

[MissDeeds]

19. Telling it like it is

Love you, Bernie!