"...putting security measures in that won't let everybody vote - but everybody shouldn't be voting."

[Nevilledog]

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Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
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Mar 11, 2021
1. Here's Arizona Rep. @johnkavanagh_az, who is pushing voter suppression laws through the state legislature:

"Republicans are more concerned about fraud, so we don't mind putting security measures in that won't let everybody vote -- but everybody shouldn't be voting"

Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
2. More @JohnKavanagh_AZ:

"Not everybody wants to vote, and if somebody is uninterested in voting, that probably means that they're totally uninformed on the issues. Quantity is important, but we have to look at the quality of votes, as well."

Voting-rights fight underway in Arizona as Republican lawmakers advance restrictive measures
Months after former President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress attempted to overturn Arizona's election results, Republicans in the state's legislature are advancing a series of measures that...
cnn.com

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/11/politics/arizona-republicans-voter-suppression-bills/index.html

[EarlG]

1. Jim Crow, plain and simple

"Quantity is important, but we have to look at the quality of votes, as well."

Maybe John Kavanaugh would like to bring back literacy tests?

https://www.openculture.com/2014/07/literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html

[gratuitous]

2. How grand it must be

Rep. Kavanaugh has powers that mere mortals can only dream of. He knows, without any external input whatsoever who wants to vote, who doesn't want to vote, a voter's understanding of the issues, and the "quality" of their vote. I'm sure we'll all be astonished (we won't be astonished) to find out which voters Kavanaugh deems of insufficient quality to be allowed to cast a ballot.

[catbyte]

3. Give me a goddamned break. The most ignorant, misinformed voters are that ones that

put him in office.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/study-watching-fox-news-actually-makes-you-stupid-235770/

[multigraincracker]

4. If not allowed to vote, they should be

exempt from all taxes. “No taxation without representation”. A principle this country was founded on.

[sanatanadharma]

5. The Republic of Uruguay actually believes in Democracy

Voting is mandatory in Uruguay and after the election, those who didn't vote have to show cause to the government (out of country, sick, dead, etc).

The search for quality government is best served by the quantity of universal suffrage and 'no-excuses' citizen skin in the game.
A government selected by half the voters out of only half of eligible voters is not representational democracy.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Women aren't smart enough to vote. Women are too emotional to vote.

Women are too intuitive and not logical. They cannot vote.

These are the kind of things men said before women got the right to vote.

[world wide wally]

7. Well, you have to admit that anyone who voted for this drizzle is totally uninformed.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Uninformed? What's next citizenship questions before voting? There goes the Trump base!