Voter ID also provides one thing we never mention, verification that one is OLD ENOUGH to vote. Same as getting into a club or driving a car or buying tobacco. Verification that you are the person you say you are and that you are of age.
Voter ID? 🧐Heck, our library demands ID. 📚The grocery store demands ID if I want any adult beverages. 🍾The cable company wants ID. 📺Good grief! They hate that we are onto them. They are running out of arguments 😃
So why is no one crying that taking an airplane flight is disenfranchising these people they purport to care about, like the elderly, the disabled, or minorities? Don’t they have a right to visit their grandchildren or family too and have a quick way to get across country in an emergency free of the hassles of the alternate choices? While I know many of us didn’t like it, we can’t even fly today with just a license. You need a Real ID. It boggles my mind that the left has ANY supporters of their ridiculous views on voter ID. Basically it’s a clicky group that only cares about getting their selfish way, not principles, and who hates MAGA for taking away their power batons over the rest of us. They don’t want fair elections they want elections that they win at any cost. They would elect Hitler himself if it gave them back their power.
Fire! I love it; every single minute of it! TAW-Trump Always Wins, as the infamous Jeff (C & C) Childers says almost every day! Hahahaha, blah, blah, blah...The DemonRats are a mere meme at this point. Running around, chasing their proverbial rat tails, while the rest of us laugh hysterically at the morons brains splattering the walls with bits and pieces of Libtard grey matter.
"who hates MAGA for taking away their power batons over the rest of us." Nicely said, Juju! There are way too many of us wide awake to their shenanigans (nice way of saying mischief/deceitful), and Grumpster/Bad Orange Man isn't going to take it one minute longer! Hee, hee, hee...the jig is up!
Did you hear about the voter rolls in the Communist Republic of Cali trashing millions of so-called "inactive voters?" Yes, millions have been removed from the voter rolls! Guess how many have been removed-3.1 million. Guess how many votes the Kackling moron won by in the 2024 election-3.2 million! Oops, sorry...
California went 60/40 ish for Trump in 2024 yet only 13% of their representatives are Republican. If they want to talk about disenfranchisement, we can sure have that discussion. Seems to me that there are a LOT of republicans not being fairly represented there. I agree that it will be super interesting to see what happens there if mail in balloting becomes required. I mean... California voted for Nixon and Reagan, sooo.
Newsom is going to redistrict the state even further so that there will be near zero Republican representation after Abbott's decision in Texas. Gerrymandering is good for the Dems until the Republicans start doing it, then it is practically treasonous and every red state Republican should be hung by his neck until death. The hypocrisy is so damned obvious and of course the MSM will have nothing to do with it, so half the country will still be ignorant of it (maybe more than half, who knows.)
Newscum can do all the Dem gerrymandering he wants and the state will still be firmly in Democrat control. Any CA Republican district where the Republican wins is usually turned over anyway after 3 weeks of “counting” (finding and manufacturing Dem ballots).
We finally have a Citizens Redistricting Commission to stop politicians from choosing their electorates. I strongly oppose Newsom's grab to return power to the politicians...
And 41 for Trump is questionable given the crooked SOS Jenna Griswold, Dominion, and Colorado elections being all mail in ballot(plus same day registration, etc brought to you by the Dems). I know having lived there for over 4 decades and having enough of it to get out of that Dem run 💩hole a few years ago.
CS was very conservative when I grew up there because there is so much military, which is I’m sure what’s keeping it relatively sane. I went to CU Boulder in the late 80s and it was crazy liberal even then. In fact, that’s when I realized I was a conservative.
It wasn't long ago that voters OVERWHELMINGLY VOTED TWICE for marriage between a man and a woman, and stood until Newsom (as mayor of San Francisco) broke the law by marrying two men. It then went up to a closeted gay judge who ruled against the proposition saying it was unconstitutional.
Seems to me there's some chatter about reviewing the Oberjefeld ruling by the Supreme Court, with it possibly having the same outcome as the abortion ruling in having it decided at the state level, and not at the federal level.
But yes, it wasn't too long ago in California where gay marriage was banned! And without voter ID requirements, you never know who is going to cast a vote now....
May I please request that you refrain from making your readers look at Oprah AND Kamala in the same post? I had to skip breakfast. Thank you for your attention to this matter. ☺️
Again, anyone espousing asinine ideas like voter id is racist or exclusionary should be kicked from the conversation and never heard from again.
We spend too much time arguing with people on things that are logically basic and self-evident.
Giving idiots or the compensated (looking at you MSM) the time of day when they're clearly compromised/captured and making bad faith arguments is silly and a waste of time.
“The problem is Trump is Trump.” That’s a feature, not a bug. Imagine maintaining this pace until the midterm elections and seeing that the Democrats and Enemedia have been reduced to a blubbering pile of incoherent screaming and crying refuse. Keep shouting at the sky and taking the 20 side of 80/20 issues Dems. The more they advocate for insanity the more they push away normies from supporting them. This is what I voted for!
I live in Royal Blue Maryland (Democrats Rule). When I presented my drivers license instead of just saying my name, to Voter Roll person (She/Her) during the 2022 mid term Election, I was told to put my drivers license away. I know it was a racist move presenting my license. I know it showed my “privilege”. I know it showed I was probably the only Republican in the room. But, I defiantly presented my drivers license anyway.
Just north of you in PA - I try to show mine too. They're not interested.
By the way, western MD has TONS of Trump signs around. I saw a lot more Trump than Biden signs whenever we crossed into your state. There could be hope!
A return to paper ballots is a must, I say this as a (mostly) retired engineer from the tech world so I know electronic systems can always be gamed.
Naomi Wolf had put together a ballot bill, that was looked at in several states before the last election, but it was shot down by Democrats in each state.
Thank you for addressing this issue. I work the provisional ballot table in my state. Many people do not realize what has happened. The media told them that the Biden election was fair and the small pockets of problems would not really make a difference anyway. In reality it was fraudulent and we have 4 years of decisions that were illegally made with the stroke of an autopen by an unelected, faceless “presidential administration” while Biden was eating his pudding before his afternoon nap. There was devastating worldwide harm and people have died. Entire books could be written about the loss of liberty and damage to the world. President Putin clearly stated last Friday that the Ukraine war would not have happened if Trump had elected in 2020. President Trump has shut down 6 wars in 6 months! Consider how just one country, Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, has been destroyed. Elections have consequences and fraudulent elections have devastating consequences. There must be accountability.
So sick of Gavin and Prickster and all these whiny Dems pulling their holier than thou crap. I know both sides are power hungry and get that, but can u imagine if cackles was in office right now?
Well it woudl be funny for sure - just to see some people did. Jenna is about having fun and that is a lot of the reason I love reading her commentary.
When I lived in NH, I had to show my ID every time I voted. I walked into the polling location (our local fire station) and greeted Mary Jo at the desk, who found my name in the book and asked for my ID. She knew me - but I still produced my ID every. single. time. Now I live in PA. I had to show it the first time I voted and then never again. I take it out. I ask to show it. They don't want it. It's mind boggling to me.
Pennsylvania is the #StateOfCorruption. The DemocRATs in Harrisburg, including the current and past administrations, are the worst of the worse, in my opinion. As another example of the insanity here, I have to show my Driver's License--and the salesclerk has to scan it--to buy beer at the local grocery store. And I am in my eighth decade of life and obviously over the age requirements! But to vote, no ID required. Madness.
I thought it was pretty insane that I had to show my ID to the clerk who was young enough to be my daughter just so I could buy beer. I remember way back in the early 2000's (we had lived here then, and later moved to NH, then back to PA) we couldn't even buy beer at a grocery store - had to get it at a distributor and could only get full cases. If we wanted just a six pack, we had to go to the local bar and buy 6 beers to go. Because THAT made so much sense!!
When I was in Kansas for training, I went to the local grocery store for supplies and was amazed at the selection of beer and wine available. No ID required, at least as I recall.
My wife and I are "Blue Blood" addicts. Well, she's a Tom-Selleck addict (but so am I). You can't watch that show without thinking--a lot--"Day-um, Trump needs a deputy commissioner for public relations like Garrett Moore to point out how his sometimes-rash reactions will play out in the press and subvert his intentions." And sometimes there's a fight, and sometimes Garrett's wrong, but most of the times, he persuades Tom Selleck of a better approach.
If I'd got the chance, here's how it would've gone down.
Me, playing Garrett, to Tom Trump: "Boss, you don't even HAVE to use the words 'CHEAT, FRAUD, or HONESTY.' The MESSAGE is Simple: Just tell 'em, 'Every, single vote is precious because every single voter is precious, and trials have established that some precious votes were in effect nullified by criminals voting more than once because they could. To protect precious voters, who I know would do the same for me, I am taking this common-sense step to ensure that no one ever gets a chance to vote more than once ever again.'"
Trump, to me: "Garrett, I love ya, man! Go over to Trump Tower and take a nice chair from the lobby. No, a sofa."
Two years ago the head of orange county elections in Florida was primaried. Why? Because he exposed a mail-in ballot scheme by the democrats. They were going to do what California does....ballot harvesting. I've heard the same, old, tired arguments for over a decade. But now. It will no longer work because most of the people that run our elections are non white. My polling location, no whites allowed. Except liberal white women in power. Of course they don't say this but their actions speak louder than words. So.....they have no where to go. And how many local officials have been arrested for mail in ballot fraud? Tons in the local media. So, there's that. I dare them to start that nonsense again about disenfranchised voters...
Ideally, I'd like Congress to pass a law requiring ID and citizenship, no machines, paper ballots, no mail-in ballots, clean voter rolls, votes handled at the precinct level for all federal elections. Since the Constitution gives states SOME power as to the means to conduct an election at their level.
But I think there have been too many in congress who have been recipients of favorable election outcomes, if you catch my drift. They just don't want to have to run an "honest" campaign.
I'm no constitutional scholar, but it seems to me that congress legislating the changes needed is superior to EO. FWIW. And thank you for the kind and reasonable question!
We've now had a sequence of administrations who out-did themselves out-executive-ordering each other's. There's the knock against "ruling by EO." It brings, as they say on teevee, "temporary relief," and represents--calling a spade a spade--the executive branch's impatience with the legislative. Radicals prefer "legislating from the bench" from similar impatience, but for more semi-permanent results.
If there are any scholars reading along, I'd be curious to know "which side started ruling by EO." (Pretty sure I know the other one, but would accept a surprise.)
According to copilot (I know, I know) the EP was an executive order and was presented as a war measure to free slaves in the rebellious Confederate States, under Lincoln's authority as Commander-In-Chief during the Civil war. It did not apply to slave-holding border states loyal to the Union.
“In what rational universe do you actually campaign against honesty in elections—unless, of course, honesty is the very thing you’re terrified of?”
Key word “rational universe”
We are living in clown world. Or perhaps the Truman Show is more like it.
Nope, it’s Clown World. It’s just that it’s getting so obvious that Normies are starting to notice.
Voter ID also provides one thing we never mention, verification that one is OLD ENOUGH to vote. Same as getting into a club or driving a car or buying tobacco. Verification that you are the person you say you are and that you are of age.
And now, thankfully, even more states are demanding ID in order to access online porn…about damn time.
Perfectly stated.
Voter ID? 🧐Heck, our library demands ID. 📚The grocery store demands ID if I want any adult beverages. 🍾The cable company wants ID. 📺Good grief! They hate that we are onto them. They are running out of arguments 😃
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So why is no one crying that taking an airplane flight is disenfranchising these people they purport to care about, like the elderly, the disabled, or minorities? Don’t they have a right to visit their grandchildren or family too and have a quick way to get across country in an emergency free of the hassles of the alternate choices? While I know many of us didn’t like it, we can’t even fly today with just a license. You need a Real ID. It boggles my mind that the left has ANY supporters of their ridiculous views on voter ID. Basically it’s a clicky group that only cares about getting their selfish way, not principles, and who hates MAGA for taking away their power batons over the rest of us. They don’t want fair elections they want elections that they win at any cost. They would elect Hitler himself if it gave them back their power.
Fire! I love it; every single minute of it! TAW-Trump Always Wins, as the infamous Jeff (C & C) Childers says almost every day! Hahahaha, blah, blah, blah...The DemonRats are a mere meme at this point. Running around, chasing their proverbial rat tails, while the rest of us laugh hysterically at the morons brains splattering the walls with bits and pieces of Libtard grey matter.
"who hates MAGA for taking away their power batons over the rest of us." Nicely said, Juju! There are way too many of us wide awake to their shenanigans (nice way of saying mischief/deceitful), and Grumpster/Bad Orange Man isn't going to take it one minute longer! Hee, hee, hee...the jig is up!
Did you hear about the voter rolls in the Communist Republic of Cali trashing millions of so-called "inactive voters?" Yes, millions have been removed from the voter rolls! Guess how many have been removed-3.1 million. Guess how many votes the Kackling moron won by in the 2024 election-3.2 million! Oops, sorry...
Cliquey group 😁
Ahhh I was only two sips into my coffee and didn’t have brain cells firing yet. 🤣
I wonder what will happen in California if Trump actually succeeds at this? Maybe we’d discover the state isn’t so loony after all?
California went 60/40 ish for Trump in 2024 yet only 13% of their representatives are Republican. If they want to talk about disenfranchisement, we can sure have that discussion. Seems to me that there are a LOT of republicans not being fairly represented there. I agree that it will be super interesting to see what happens there if mail in balloting becomes required. I mean... California voted for Nixon and Reagan, sooo.
Newsom is going to redistrict the state even further so that there will be near zero Republican representation after Abbott's decision in Texas. Gerrymandering is good for the Dems until the Republicans start doing it, then it is practically treasonous and every red state Republican should be hung by his neck until death. The hypocrisy is so damned obvious and of course the MSM will have nothing to do with it, so half the country will still be ignorant of it (maybe more than half, who knows.)
Agreed! Also ME and MA have zero Republican representation but they also voted for Trump approx 60/40. Democrats are pure hypocrite.
Newscum can do all the Dem gerrymandering he wants and the state will still be firmly in Democrat control. Any CA Republican district where the Republican wins is usually turned over anyway after 3 weeks of “counting” (finding and manufacturing Dem ballots).
We finally have a Citizens Redistricting Commission to stop politicians from choosing their electorates. I strongly oppose Newsom's grab to return power to the politicians...
Same in CO…59/41 for Trump, and only 18 of our State Reps are Republicans. Shameful.
And 41 for Trump is questionable given the crooked SOS Jenna Griswold, Dominion, and Colorado elections being all mail in ballot(plus same day registration, etc brought to you by the Dems). I know having lived there for over 4 decades and having enough of it to get out of that Dem run 💩hole a few years ago.
Where are you? I grew up in the Springs, military family.
Springs is still pretty red, but slowly turning :(. In I’m NoCo. Solidly blue.
CS was very conservative when I grew up there because there is so much military, which is I’m sure what’s keeping it relatively sane. I went to CU Boulder in the late 80s and it was crazy liberal even then. In fact, that’s when I realized I was a conservative.
I think Arnold was Republican at the time he was governor as well.
"Screw your freedoms!"
To be fair, he wasn’t governor when he said that. But that was a truly horrible thing to say that will be a major part of his legacy.
It wasn't long ago that voters OVERWHELMINGLY VOTED TWICE for marriage between a man and a woman, and stood until Newsom (as mayor of San Francisco) broke the law by marrying two men. It then went up to a closeted gay judge who ruled against the proposition saying it was unconstitutional.
Seems to me there's some chatter about reviewing the Oberjefeld ruling by the Supreme Court, with it possibly having the same outcome as the abortion ruling in having it decided at the state level, and not at the federal level.
But yes, it wasn't too long ago in California where gay marriage was banned! And without voter ID requirements, you never know who is going to cast a vote now....
I guess there is 'holy matrimony' and 'another kind of matrimony' 🤔🙄
IIrc, Oregon only uses mail-in ballots. Look out Eugene-ites.😁
Same in WA.
May I please request that you refrain from making your readers look at Oprah AND Kamala in the same post? I had to skip breakfast. Thank you for your attention to this matter. ☺️
LOL and noted. ;)
LoL 🤣
4Freedom , thought the same thing 😂
Again, anyone espousing asinine ideas like voter id is racist or exclusionary should be kicked from the conversation and never heard from again.
We spend too much time arguing with people on things that are logically basic and self-evident.
Giving idiots or the compensated (looking at you MSM) the time of day when they're clearly compromised/captured and making bad faith arguments is silly and a waste of time.
Yes, Occam, on its face the strategy is: "When you've got nothing, at least you can delay."
You're dead on. Put a sign on the Democrats: "Do Not Engage. Do Not Resuscitate."
That would make a great meme
Hey! I'm a MEME-GUY! Just goes to show even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.
Methinks you just described the Democrats.
“The problem is Trump is Trump.” That’s a feature, not a bug. Imagine maintaining this pace until the midterm elections and seeing that the Democrats and Enemedia have been reduced to a blubbering pile of incoherent screaming and crying refuse. Keep shouting at the sky and taking the 20 side of 80/20 issues Dems. The more they advocate for insanity the more they push away normies from supporting them. This is what I voted for!
"Enemedia" - LOL! Love that MartyB!
I live in Royal Blue Maryland (Democrats Rule). When I presented my drivers license instead of just saying my name, to Voter Roll person (She/Her) during the 2022 mid term Election, I was told to put my drivers license away. I know it was a racist move presenting my license. I know it showed my “privilege”. I know it showed I was probably the only Republican in the room. But, I defiantly presented my drivers license anyway.
Just north of you in PA - I try to show mine too. They're not interested.
By the way, western MD has TONS of Trump signs around. I saw a lot more Trump than Biden signs whenever we crossed into your state. There could be hope!
Central MD is Royal Blue. Home of the Swamp.
We're only ever in western MD. We tend to avoid going east. :D
A return to paper ballots is a must, I say this as a (mostly) retired engineer from the tech world so I know electronic systems can always be gamed.
Naomi Wolf had put together a ballot bill, that was looked at in several states before the last election, but it was shot down by Democrats in each state.
Thank you for addressing this issue. I work the provisional ballot table in my state. Many people do not realize what has happened. The media told them that the Biden election was fair and the small pockets of problems would not really make a difference anyway. In reality it was fraudulent and we have 4 years of decisions that were illegally made with the stroke of an autopen by an unelected, faceless “presidential administration” while Biden was eating his pudding before his afternoon nap. There was devastating worldwide harm and people have died. Entire books could be written about the loss of liberty and damage to the world. President Putin clearly stated last Friday that the Ukraine war would not have happened if Trump had elected in 2020. President Trump has shut down 6 wars in 6 months! Consider how just one country, Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, has been destroyed. Elections have consequences and fraudulent elections have devastating consequences. There must be accountability.
So sick of Gavin and Prickster and all these whiny Dems pulling their holier than thou crap. I know both sides are power hungry and get that, but can u imagine if cackles was in office right now?
OMG what morons voted for "racist, fascist, and extremist on Jenna's poll?
🤣🤦♀️
Kaycee -- I was extremely tempted to vote that way just for fun :)
Well it woudl be funny for sure - just to see some people did. Jenna is about having fun and that is a lot of the reason I love reading her commentary.
They were probably just trying to get a reaction out of anyone that noticed.
They are still morons and idiots!
When I lived in NH, I had to show my ID every time I voted. I walked into the polling location (our local fire station) and greeted Mary Jo at the desk, who found my name in the book and asked for my ID. She knew me - but I still produced my ID every. single. time. Now I live in PA. I had to show it the first time I voted and then never again. I take it out. I ask to show it. They don't want it. It's mind boggling to me.
Pennsylvania is the #StateOfCorruption. The DemocRATs in Harrisburg, including the current and past administrations, are the worst of the worse, in my opinion. As another example of the insanity here, I have to show my Driver's License--and the salesclerk has to scan it--to buy beer at the local grocery store. And I am in my eighth decade of life and obviously over the age requirements! But to vote, no ID required. Madness.
I thought it was pretty insane that I had to show my ID to the clerk who was young enough to be my daughter just so I could buy beer. I remember way back in the early 2000's (we had lived here then, and later moved to NH, then back to PA) we couldn't even buy beer at a grocery store - had to get it at a distributor and could only get full cases. If we wanted just a six pack, we had to go to the local bar and buy 6 beers to go. Because THAT made so much sense!!
When I was in Kansas for training, I went to the local grocery store for supplies and was amazed at the selection of beer and wine available. No ID required, at least as I recall.
My wife and I are "Blue Blood" addicts. Well, she's a Tom-Selleck addict (but so am I). You can't watch that show without thinking--a lot--"Day-um, Trump needs a deputy commissioner for public relations like Garrett Moore to point out how his sometimes-rash reactions will play out in the press and subvert his intentions." And sometimes there's a fight, and sometimes Garrett's wrong, but most of the times, he persuades Tom Selleck of a better approach.
If I'd got the chance, here's how it would've gone down.
Me, playing Garrett, to Tom Trump: "Boss, you don't even HAVE to use the words 'CHEAT, FRAUD, or HONESTY.' The MESSAGE is Simple: Just tell 'em, 'Every, single vote is precious because every single voter is precious, and trials have established that some precious votes were in effect nullified by criminals voting more than once because they could. To protect precious voters, who I know would do the same for me, I am taking this common-sense step to ensure that no one ever gets a chance to vote more than once ever again.'"
Trump, to me: "Garrett, I love ya, man! Go over to Trump Tower and take a nice chair from the lobby. No, a sofa."
David: I nominate you for “the Garrett to POTUS” position. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I miss Blue Bloods. Maybe I just miss seeing Selleck…
Two years ago the head of orange county elections in Florida was primaried. Why? Because he exposed a mail-in ballot scheme by the democrats. They were going to do what California does....ballot harvesting. I've heard the same, old, tired arguments for over a decade. But now. It will no longer work because most of the people that run our elections are non white. My polling location, no whites allowed. Except liberal white women in power. Of course they don't say this but their actions speak louder than words. So.....they have no where to go. And how many local officials have been arrested for mail in ballot fraud? Tons in the local media. So, there's that. I dare them to start that nonsense again about disenfranchised voters...
I, like most of you, am tired of seeing all of these people running around enfranching themselves. ‘Nuf said.
-Chief Yells At Clouds
I'm torn here. I like the idea of secure elections. I deeply distrust the idea of government by executive order.
What would you prefer then? How would you do it? I’m interested in your recommended options. Respectfully.
Ideally, I'd like Congress to pass a law requiring ID and citizenship, no machines, paper ballots, no mail-in ballots, clean voter rolls, votes handled at the precinct level for all federal elections. Since the Constitution gives states SOME power as to the means to conduct an election at their level.
But I think there have been too many in congress who have been recipients of favorable election outcomes, if you catch my drift. They just don't want to have to run an "honest" campaign.
I'm no constitutional scholar, but it seems to me that congress legislating the changes needed is superior to EO. FWIW. And thank you for the kind and reasonable question!
We've now had a sequence of administrations who out-did themselves out-executive-ordering each other's. There's the knock against "ruling by EO." It brings, as they say on teevee, "temporary relief," and represents--calling a spade a spade--the executive branch's impatience with the legislative. Radicals prefer "legislating from the bench" from similar impatience, but for more semi-permanent results.
If there are any scholars reading along, I'd be curious to know "which side started ruling by EO." (Pretty sure I know the other one, but would accept a surprise.)
Off hand I know the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issue by Lincoln but there may have been earlier ones.
According to copilot (I know, I know) the EP was an executive order and was presented as a war measure to free slaves in the rebellious Confederate States, under Lincoln's authority as Commander-In-Chief during the Civil war. It did not apply to slave-holding border states loyal to the Union.
GAK! A Republican. And one unconstitutional on its face, freeing as it did slaves ONLY in the "states in rebellion."