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richardhutnik said:
Kasz216 said:
Jon-Erich said:
I'm not sure how I feel about this law. How do you distinguish between those who are lazy and leech off society as opposed to honest people who may be collecting unemployment, but who have trouble finding a stable job? Between mid 2009 and mid 2010, I was unemployed. I didn't choose to be that way. The place I worked at closed down. I collected unemployment for a year. I honestly couldn't find a job. I don't think it would have been fair to deny my right to vote (even though the 2010 elections took place after I found a job).



Scott Brown doesn't actually want people on welfare to note vote.  That's just taking out of context the fact that Scott Brown is angry that a specific action is being taken, that wasn't before to go way out of the way to help his opponent with government funds... by the other candidates daughter.

An analogus situation would be if John Kaish in Ohio suddenly passed a massive government funded initative to register rural voters.

 

The initiative was to register people on welfare to vote, in order to be compliant with federal requirements, by getting them ballots.  In short, don't spend tax dollars to enable people to vote.  Why?  Because these individuals in the assessment of Scott Brown, are individuals who are opposed to his campaign.

Except that doesn't make them complient with Federal Requirements... what would of did that was better training of the welfare offices who were messing up.  Which is what every other State Demos sued was forced to do.

Mass is the only state that Demos demanded send out voter registration ballots.  It's also the only state where one of the groups officer's mothers was running for senate.  It's also really the only state with a hair thin election.

 

As for Welfare recipents voting Democrat.  That's not really Scott Brown's belief, that's just basic demographic polling.

The "welfare" poor tend to vote liberal, while the "working" poor tend to vote republican.

It's actually the strongest correlator of which way a poor person will vote politically if I remember correctly.