Breitbart) – On Thursday, Hillary Clinton waded into the
populist fight against voter ID laws and other state moves to prevent the
all-too-common voter fraud that has plagued elections for decades by calling
for automatic voter registration at 18 years of age. She also called to give
convicted criminals back their voting privileges.
In her speech at Texas Southern University in Houston,
Hillary attacked the 2013 decision by the US Supreme Court that
allowed southern states to finally escape the strangled hold that the federal
government had on their election laws.
Hillary also indulged all the same old unsupported claims
that Republicans and state lawmakers want to “take away” the vote from
minorities, saying, “All of these problems with voting just didn’t happen
by accident.”
Clinton said that she was fighting, “for the grandmother
who’s turned away from the polls because her driver’s license expired.” She
next intimated that she wants felons to be given their voting privileges back
when she said, “for the father who’s done his time and paid his debt to society
but still hasn’t gotten his rights back.”
Warming to her purely populist theme, Hillary continued
saying, “We have a responsibility to say clearly and directly what’s really
going on in our country. Because what is happening is a sweeping effort to
disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people, and young people
from one end of our country to the other.”
Hillary went on to claim that the Supreme Court
“eviscerated” voter laws, opening the door to suppress the vote throughout the
south.
She went on with more left-wing populism, slamming the
SCOTUS, saying, “We need a Supreme Court that cares more about protecting the
right to vote of a person to vote than the right of a corporation to buy an
election.”
But contrary to Hillary’s claims that “the poor” and “people
of color” are being “disenfranchised,” statistics don’t seem to buttress her
claims. Despite the fact that the very laws Hillary is defaming have been
enacted, these states have not prevented more poor, lower class,
or minorities from voting. And over the past few elections, these classes
have streamed to the polls in greater numbers than ever.
In 2012, for instance, blacks outvoted whites for
the first time on record. In 2015, the Senate’s Democrats got 20 million
more votes than the Senate Republicans. Additionally, there is no
evidence whatsoever that voter ID laws suppresses voter turnout.
Even The New York Times had to admit last year that voter
ID laws do nothing to curtail voting.
So, if the newer voting laws Hillary claims are so bad are
meant to depress turnout, they seem to have failed spectacularly.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/04/hillary-clinton-calls-for-automatic-voter-registration-at-18-wants-felons-given-vote/
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