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What a novel idea - requiring photo ID to vote. Great idea, UK!RE: The UK elections bill
Take first the proposal to introduce a requirement for a mandatory photo ID before you can place your vote. The campaign group Liberty has rightly described this as “a solution in search of a problem”.
We know democrats can come up with thousands of reasons a/k/a excuses against photo ID; however, based on democrat congressional hearings, democrats are constantly trying to come up with solutions for problems that never existed. Their first job is of course to convince us that a problem exists by investigating people, places, and things that have been investigated to death and cleared numerous times.
The effect of introducing this photo ID, however, will be to potentially exclude nearly 2 million people from voting, mainly young people and those on low incomes. Recent research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that low-income potential voters are six times less likely to have a photo ID than richer potential voters. Four in 10 of those without photo IDs say that they are unlikely to apply for the free voter ID card being offered by the government.
They offer free IDs, which the US should do if we don't already do yet lower-income people still won't get an ID...? Why not? Simple fix - tie it in with benefits - no ID, no benefits. That will get them in quickly to get their picture taken. But wait... don't you need to show ID when you go in to sign up for benefits? How bout using a thumbprint?
UK Operation Black Vote (OBV) -
What we do
Operation Black Vote’s work covers four main areas:
Political education: This aims to raise awareness and understanding of democratic and civic society through citizenship projects.
Political participation: This aims to improve engagement with civic society through local and national voter registration and other civic participation campaigns.
Political representation: This aims to increase political representation of Black and minority ethnic communities, through encouraging engagement; undertaking ground-breaking mentoring schemes; lobbying political parties and civic institutions on the benefits of representative bodies.
Promotion of equality and human rights: increasing the awareness of a progressive equality and human rights agenda.
Increasingly, our news and blog website has become an important media tool to inform, challenge and campaign.
24hr global communication means that we have to be media savvy - using the latest communication tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and our own blog and videos.
OBV however, never forgets that the most effective campaigning is through personal interactions. That means traveling around the UK, visiting schools and colleges, holding big and small meetings that mobalises individuals and communities to be part of the change process.
Many seemed to think that BLM = Buy Large Mansions :0
What we do | OBV
Damn glad to see that various AUSAs and the IRS are finally congratulating these criminal thugs in person.
Lastly, when will the US welcome at least 5 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing their home country in search of a new home, including a place to practice their hard work trades vs. seeking freebies like other groups from the southern borders currently invading the US? The least we can do here is to "accept our fair share", right?
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