Looking for ways to protect their massive and effective voter fraud operations, Democrats have found another group who supposedly are “oppressed” by voter ID laws.
The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law released a report this week saying about 24,000 transgender voters in 10 states with government-issued photo ID requirements for voting could be prevented from casting ballots in November because they don’t have an updated ID that reflects their current gender.
That represents about 28 percent of the transgender population in Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia.
“Transgender people who have transitioned face additional burdens to acquiring or updating identification that would fulfill voter ID requirements because they must comply with the requirements for updating the name and gender on their state-issued or federally-issued IDs and records,” wrote study author Jody L. Herman.
I would think that after spending thousands of personal or taxpayer dollars to get genitally mutilated, updating a free Government ID would be a snap. But no doubt some Obama-appointed radical judge will consider this a valid argument; just as they routinely accept the Democrat argument that their voters are too lazy and stupid to get Government ID’s.
Millions of gender-stable women every year get married, change their names on a whim of custom and get new ID cards in time for voting, or successfully vote with their old names. I an not seeing this as a real problem.
Since it’s not the govt’s job to make sure people vote & jump through whatever simple hoops to arrange to do so, this small & overstated demographic is on its own. Even among Dems, concern about the estrogen box crowd is going to be limited & the Dem voter fraud mantra has about worked itself out.
The Dems are running out of non-issues to offer their base.
Anyone who’s full time probably got the proper ID as act 1 of their new lives.
I know I did.
For anyone who isn’t, you either remain in “guy mode” to vote (y’know, what you do every day you’re not full time) or you go as yourself and take along additional paperwork. If you can get on the plane with what you have, you can vote with it.
And I happen to *know* I could get on the plane with a five year old passport photo – the TSA was shocked as hell to see it, but they accepted it nonetheless.
What confuses me, though, is the absolute nutcase claiming discrimination is the *point*. I mean, seriously – trans* people are the only ones who even have a case at this point, and nobody was even giving any thought to the idea that 28% of seven state’s 0.3% of the population might have trouble voting – let alone that being the Mustache-twirling Evil Plot all along.
This seems to be a typical argument of the left. Because person A would be adversely affected by the law, we must rescind the law, no matter what the consequences.
By their own estimates, the total number of transgendered people amounts to about 0.3% of the total adult population. That’s 3 out of one thousand. Which means the lack of their votes isn’t even enough to trigger a recount in over 99% of elections.
“I would think that after spending thousands of personal or taxpayer dollars…”
And hundreds of hours–which directly contradicts the usual leftist narrative of “oppressed minorities who cannot find time to get voter ID cards”.
Yet at the same time many large Democratically-controlled (there’s an oxymoron for you) city election boards routinely certify ballot returns where nearly 10% of all precincts reported not-one-single-vote for the Republican candidate for President of the United States. WTF??
Not one? Not a measly three? …or ONE vote??!! …Not One?????? Really?
This is the same Party that in 2000 claimed that hundreds — no, thousands — of confused little-old Jewish ladies MISTAKENLY-voted for G.W. Bush and Pat Buchanan?
Not One??
And how many of these people don’t have ID? My guess is most of them drive and if they are going to drive that license has to reflect the new gender.
I live in lily white NH where they passed a voter ID law 2 years ago.
Holder didn’t sue and to date I haven’t seen anything about transgender people being turned away.
The real Voter ID scare for leftists is that it can be tied to license scanners and those with felonies can be auto removed, and those with warrants can be pinged for arrest.
Furguson grants amnesty for 24,532 arrest warrants of past year.
“he was offended by a fine he received ($200) for spitting on a police officer”
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/09/14/political-appeasement-ferguson-missouri-grants-amnesty-for-arrest-warrants/
Here are those moderate muslims you keep hearing about but never see a floats with infidels being hung, the jihad flag and pointing guns at people.
http://pamelageller.com/2014/09/photos-nyc-muslim-day-parade-2014-pro-terror-march.html/
Hey, the Dems have no intention of letting even the smallest chink in their vote fraud armor be allowed to happen. No matter how laughable the lie, it’s absolutely an imposition to have ID to vote, even though you need ID to cash checks, to rent a car, etc.
Leftist dogma and reality never, ever intersect.
I’m about 99% sure the mannequin in a noose is meant to represent a faithful Muslim being cruelly oppressed by the infidels and their pseudo-Muslim lapdogs.
In other words, the hanging effigy isn’t a threat against non-Muslims, but rather a slander against non-Muslims, implying that we’re all eager to lynch defenseless Muslim women at the drop of a hat.
(See also: Jews use the blood of Arab children as an ingredient in matzos.)
they will still have the same social security number
Ted, it’s worse than that. They not only claimed that these voters mistakenly voted for Buchanan, they wanted a recount in those counties to discover the mistaken ballots. Really? How the hell can you tell if a ballot that clearly shows a vote for Buchanan is actually a vote for Gore? How??
You and I know the answer: they were fishing for extra votes to overturn the result. Why else do recounts only in heavily Democrat districts instead of state-wide?