Noticed a sign for Gooper Severson for SOS

[geardaddy]

I think the design evokes a Confederate flag. Don't you?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It does, a bit.

Intentional or just clueless?

[geardaddy]

2. Your guess is as good as mine.

I just was just struck by it. I'm thinking it might be intentional. Maybe not by the candidate, but by someone on the campaign.

[dflprincess]

12. Subconscious

something bubbling up from his lizard brain.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Or maybe an intentional visual dog whistle.

Who knows with these guys?

[dflprincess]

14. That's possible

Playing to others' lizard brains.

[progree]

3. Side by side: Yup. A match.

[progree]

5. Secretary of State - doesn't that have to do with conducting elections and voting regulations?

Answer: yup.

I wonder what his position on voter ID was/is? (As if I have to strain my brain and then stick my neck out and hazard some wild-ass guess).

Maybe that's another reason for the dog whistle to the racists -- as Secretary of State, I will disenfranchise as many minorities, women, and other pesty demographics as I can. (Married or formerly married women: if you don't have the right government-approved id (in a state that requires it or may require it in the future), does the name on what identification you have match that on your birth certificate? If not, can you find your marriage certificate or get a copy?).

[ISUGRADIA]

6. Severson is a nutter

He still thinks that voter fraud is what won the election for Franken.

[geardaddy]

10. They just won't stop until they occupy

all the seats in the State Government.

[Mnpaul]

4. One difference

The confederate flag doesn't have the satanic inverted stars.

[progree]

7. Voter ID sparks fly in secretary of state race, MPR News

http://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/2014/10/voter-id-sparks-fly-in-secretary-of-state-race/

Voter ID sparks fly in secretary of state race, Tim Pugmire, MPR News, 10/20/14

Republican Dan Severson, who ran for the office four years ago, highlighted his proposal to create an “express lane” voting option for Minnesotans who voluntarily show a photo ID at the polls. Severson said he came up with the idea after voters rejected a photo ID constitutional amendment in 2012. [font color = blue] ((details, please, like how do you plan to slow down the non-express voters?))[/font]

... State Rep. Steve Simon, the DFL candidate for secretary of state, slammed Severson’s proposal. Simon said that kind of system would wrongly segregate voters in separate lines and leave some out in the cold.

“It’s a way to marginalize and to ostracize and exclude people who don’t have the kind of ID that he and others like him think they should have,” Simon said.

... Bob Odden of the Libertarian Party said he too thinks a voter ID requirement could help speed up voting. [font color = blue] ((uhh, by adding an extra step to the voting process? Mathematically not possible)) [/font]

[geardaddy]

8. It's funny how the Libertarian guy wants an ID to vote.

Isn't that depending the gubbmint?

[progree]

9. Yeah, I was surprised by that too. I guess libertarians are libertarians until they're not

Like Republicans -- for small government except when they're not -- womb control, end of life decisions, pot, war, govt. gifts to corporations ....

[dflprincess]

11. I once showed my ID at the polls to speed up voting

not because the election judge asked for it but because the poor guy had such awful hearing that, after the 3rd time I said my name, I decided it was easier to let him read my name off my license when he looked it up in the book. (He thanked me for "helping him out" and did remind me I didn't have to show ID.)


As a rule, though, the extra step, including the amount of time it would take people to pull out their IDs, (like the people who don't look for their wallet or checkbook until the cashier gives them the total) would not speed things up at all.

[Jenoch]

15. I think it is more likely a clueless situation rather than a racist situation.

[progree]

16. Well, at least we're not in North Carolina where they are more explicit

NC campaign flier has background lynching photo

Source: Greensboro News Record /AP

Multiple media outlets reported the fliers showed up Sunday at Kingdom Impact Global Ministries.

The flier read "Kay Hagan doesn't win! Obama's impeachment will begin! Vote in 2014."

Sen. Hagan is a Democrat locked in tight race with Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis.

The flier did not endorse any candidate and said it was paid for by Concerned Citizens of Cumberland County. There was no contact information for the group.

http://www.news-record.com/news/north_carolina_ap/nc-campaign-flier-has-background-lynching-photo/article_1e6c25b5-a678-5319-ae8e-66273a9aabc7.html?mode=story

Credit to: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014923656

By the way, myself, initially, I was doubtful that the Severson sign in your OP was deliberate, even after putting together my #3. But the more I think about it, and think of those f***wad RepubliCONS and their tactics and strategies and the way they talk amongst themselves (sometimes I've been amongst a bunch of muttering old white men who think everyone who looks like them thinks the same way -- being a muttering old white man myself, I can understand why they thought I was one of them ), the more sure I am that it is deliberate.