Florida's Election Officials Questionable Behavior During the Recount is Harming Rick Scott

[Final-Fan]

NightlyPoe said:

Final-Fan said:

No, I won't excuse this blatant goalpost-shifting.  The North Carolina legislature requested and received racial data on many forms of IDs; in other words, data on which IDs whites were more likely to have (and lack) and which IDs blacks were more likely to have (and lack).  Then they passed a law that, as I understand the court's ruling, removed as legitimate voter ID exclusively forms of ID that blacks were least likely to lack.

It is not goalpost shifting.  As I said, that is one single datapoint.  Just because someone in the legislature asked for such data does not mean that we can just assume that the whole process was tainted.

Near as I can tell, all the usual forms of photo IDs were allowed.  The most common one available in other states appears to be student IDs, but that seems reasonable.

I haven't followed the Ohio case, though I have heard of it before; but take care that you don't let your personal bias against early voting color your view.  My understanding is that a thing that is done by a hypothetical corrupt legislative body to disadvantage the other party's voters can expect to be struck down as discriminatory if that motive is provable, no matter whether there is a reasonable motive that some other hypothetical pure-hearted legislative body could have done the exact same thing for.  Let me know if you believe that understanding is in error.

Certainly.  However, a presumption of guilt has emerged on the left based on there being "No voter fraud" and the conclusion that voter suppression is the only reason these laws exist.  Therefore there's a ratchet effect where voting laws can only become incrementally loosened, but cannot be tightened up.

1.  And were all the blocked forms of ID not "usual"?  Unless this is the case I'm not seeing any reason to think it was coincidence. 

2.  I wasn't aware that popular opinion decided court cases.  And I suspect you'd also dispute that popular opinion is on the Democrats' side.