Ami Horowitz: How white liberals really view black voters

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300bps · 2022-01 · Recommendation

My favorite video on this topic: [VIDEO] They first go to Berkeley, California and ask a bunch of white people their thoughts on voter idea laws. "They're racist, african americans don't know where the DMV is, don't have access to the Internet" type of answers. Then they go to Harlem and ask people's thoughts on it.

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TechBro8615 · 2022-11 · Reference

"Black people can't get IDs" is a racist trope promoted by the Democrats, famously exposed as ridiculous in this "on the street" video: [VIDEO]

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brigandish · 2022-03 · Reference

> At least some of them is about proxy and postal voting. That has no relation to IDs. Firstly, that’s not true. As quoted above: > The vast majority of convictions have involved postal or proxy ballots, often in conjunction with attempts to manipulate the electoral registers by registering bogus electors or adding electors to the register at empty properties. That requires processes that are slack about identity . The requirement to prove/provide identity at certain points in the process would render these problems moot. If you wish to focus solely on in-person voting then say so, but that’s not the same as there being no relationship. Secondly, as with any conspiracy theory, you would have to: - show me how you knew their intentions without recourse to mind reading And with restpect to this particular case: - show how needing ID would reduce (legitimate) votes cast (I hope it’s not something like this[1]) - explain why increased security is a bad thing (taking into account the ease and low cost of this solution) It would be just as easy to claim that those who are against such measures wish to benefit from the fraud. That wouldn’t be possible without mind reading and I lack that ability. However, it does correlate , those against better election finance protections tend to benefit from them (Conservatives and Labour). Those against better proxy vote, postal vote and in-person voting fraud tend to benefit from it (Labour). In either case I don’t care, to improve the legitima

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