Iowa Republicans could have demanded voter ID in their caucuses. They didn't.

[applegrove]

Iowa Republicans could have demanded voter ID in their caucuses. They didn't.

by Hunter at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/8/1481811/-Iowa-Republicans-could-have-demanded-voter-ID-in-their-caucuses-They-didn-t

"SNIP...........


Neither party [in Iowa] required any identification or proof of address to register to vote, or to caucus.

Iowa Republicans have pushed hard for years for a voter ID law for state-run elections. Because caucuses are a private party function, the party could have mandated an ID rule without the blessing of Democrats in the Iowa Legislature.

So if a voter ID law was so all-important, here we have a case where Republicans could have instituted such a rule with no Democratic obstruction whatsoever. As it stands now, by golly, anybody could waltz into a Republican caucus and caucus for one of their Republicans. How do we know Mr. Smith of Des Moines is not really Mr. Jones, of Elkader?



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[Blueguyinthesky]

1. They didn't want to suppress their own vote

I've always wondered how many Republicans might be disenfranchised by voter restrictions. I'm sure not everybody disenfranchised by them is a Democrat.

[Wounded Bear]

2. True...

But in Iowa in particular, it is unlikely that those laws will affect many of either party.

In general, across the country, they definitely target low income and minorities quite heavily, which would restrict Dem voters more than Rep ones.

[liberal N proud]

3. Are you advocating voter supression?

That is what voter ID amounts to.

[applegrove]

4. No. I'm pointing out that the GOP are hypocrites according to this article. When it comes to getting

their voters involved in voting...they are against ID laws. Seems that voter ID is only germane to them when Democrats are involved.