Now, is voting any more of a sacred right than owning a gun? Because these same people want to make that as painful as possible. Same people, same people want to make owning a gun as painful as they can make it, and voting as painless as they can make it. ” “With studies suggesting that long lines at the polls cost Democrats hundreds of thousands of votes in November, party leaders are beginning a push to make voting and voter registration easier, setting up a likely new conflict with Republicans.” Now, what does voter registration have to do with long lines to vote? Voter registration doesn’t have anything to do with Election Day. But it will. Because if they get their way you’re gonna be able to do both on the spot. On the spot registration, you register, then you go vote, same thing, same time. Yep. That’s the next phase.
I thought also the last two presidential elections had pretty close to record turnout. Am I wrong about that? I am wrong about that? Well, the last was lower than the first one but relative to other elections is pretty high. My point is that, are you aware of people not being able to vote who wanted to vote? I’m not, either. I didn’t hear any stories about that. That’s my whole point. Why do we get this story now, February 5th? Long lines hurt the Democrats? This is all about existing legislation. Well, proposed legislation by Senator Gillibrand and the Supreme Court decision and same day registration and voting.
“White House officials have told Congressional leaders that the president plans to press for action on Capitol Hill, and Democrats say they expect him to highlight the issue in his State of the Union address next week. Democrats in the House and Senate have already introduced bills that would require states to provide online voter registration and allow at least 15 days of early voting.” So that’s why we have this story.