'A lot of confusion': Virginia Republicans stumble over their own voter ID requirement

[Eugene]

Thanks to Rachel Maddow, who just covered this.

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Source: NBC News

'A lot of confusion': Virginia Republicans stumble over their own voter ID requirement

Nationally, the GOP continues to insist more election protections are needed. In Virginia, the fight has become internal.

April 29, 2021, 4:52 PM -04
By Alex Seitz-Wald

WASHINGTON — As Republicans across the country insist more laws are needed to protect election integrity, Virginia Republicans have found themselves in a bit of a voter ID quagmire.

At issue is a decision to quietly allow voters to participate in their complicated primary process even if they left blank parts of the application, including required fields that asked for their state-issued voter ID number and a signature, according to documents and an audio recording of a call obtained exclusively by NBC News.

Republicans in the state say the nominating contest has been a logistical nightmare.

And it comes as the Republican Party has largely embraced President Donald Trump's baseless rallying cry that rampant fraud cost him the election. He has insisted that every signature on a mailed ballot in Georgia be verified, for instance.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/lot-confusion-virginia-republicans-stumble-over-their-own-voter-id-n1265887

[cinematicdiversions]

1. Seriously it is not 1819 anymore.

Can both parties do away with this weird in person voting thing. I swear the Iowa caucus needs to be tied to a rock and thrown into a lake.

That said, it is good to see the chickens come home to roost for the Republicans.

[Pas-de-Calais]

2. Every state who passed these draconian

Infantile rules

Shot themselves in their proverbial foot

Every gop led state

[gratuitous]

3. Shopping dozens of solutions in search of a problem

Republicans can't point to any actual problems with the 2020 election, but they sure have a lot of ideas about what to do for the next election that doesn't involve them having to change their platform to attract more voters.