Politics Trump claims Americans need IDs to buy groceries

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  1. MarAzul

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    Not really. Check out a place like Oxnard. Check out the number of votes cast in the resent election(s)
    Awful high voter participation percentage wise for a City thought to be 170k citizens. A place that is thought to be 65% Hispanic,
    but it sure looks like more that when you go to one of the malls.
     
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    The ballot box at the city office parking lot where I drop off my voting ballot never checks my ID...mail in ballots are going to be hard to ID check if you ask me..but I don't believe for a second that foreign votes are the problem in this country...
     
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    Me either. Just another excuse for Trump to give for why he didn't win the popular vote.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Interestingly, a few years back a close family member (who shall remain nameless) was too disinterested to vote, so his wife voted for him, signed his name and mailed his ballot in. The local precinct actually caught it and put his tit in a wringer (so to speak). He was banned from voting for a year or two and was cautioned that he would be in more serious legal trouble if he did it again. So.......some precincts DO pay attention and I have to doubt that voter fraud is a serious problem, at least in Oregon. I’m more concerned about uninformed voters casting their ballots based on skewed or false information. That is where I distrust the Russians......along with Republicans and Democrats....and the media in general. The “truth” is what they all say it is, facts be damned. And we get to sift through a pile of horse shit, trying to winkle out what’s real and what isn’t. And nobody wins except the swamp.
     
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    I don't know what the Russians actually did, but I suspect they were way more successful than their wildest expectations might have projected. They have damn brought us to the level of chaos where half the population wants Presidential election invalidated.

    And the main point of the next elections is to get it done.
     
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    I think the Russian interference has pointed to lobbying for votes more than changing votes...they ran campaign adds and financed rallies and published internet spin to influence the election...all in all only 17 percent of people under 30 who are eligible to vote actually vote...the problem is in getting young americans to the polls to begin with. Our voting turnouts are pretty pathetic from the younger generation.
     
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    My wife could never pull off my signature...she has beautiful handwriting and I have a very hard to copy signature.
     
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    Most of the time they accept cash.
     
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    I've got a terrible hand tremor. I just sign an X or get my wife to sign.
     
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    ...without which they refuse to sell you groceries.
     
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    So what? you realize how many "Hispanics" are citizens of this country? Welcome to California ….where most of the the cities have "Hispanic" names and most of the population is actually "Hispanic"......
     
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    No adult currently allowed to legally vote in America is without or unable to get valid photo ID.

    If they don't have ID it's because they aren't here legally or they stopped carrying it because they have warrants out for criminal behavior.

    Any other story is nonsense.
     
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    not because of US membership though....Trump requires "membership" to play golf at his country clubs....gated communities require the same to use their swimming pools....bit different than requiring ID cards to buy groceries, which can be purchased all over the place with cash anyway
     
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    pretty sure I agree with you here...I don't know how anyone not registered to vote could get access to a voting ballot but I'm not up on Texas laws about such things having never lived there
     
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    Not true yet.

    And California is definitely a freak when compared to the rest of America.

    According to 2015 US Census Bureau estimates, California's population was 72.9% White, 6.5% Black or African American, 14.7% Asian, 1.7% Native Americans, 0.5% Pacific Islander and 3.8% from two or more races. By ethnicity, 38.8% of the total population is Hispanic-Latino (of any race) and 61.4% Non-Hispanic (of any race). Hispanics are the largest ethnic group in California.[18]

    As of 2015, California has the largest minority population in the United States. Non-Hispanic whites decreased from about 76.3 - 78% of the state's population in 1970[19] to 38.0% in 2015.[20] While the population of minorities accounts for 100.7 million of 300 million U.S. residents, 20% of the national total live in California.[21][22]

    California has the highest number, and second highest percentage, of Asian Americans by state. Only Hawaii has a higher Asian American percentage than California. While New Mexico and Texas have higher percentages of Hispanics, California has the highest total number of Hispanics of any U.S. state. Hispanics are the largest single ethnic group in the state.[23]

    The largest named ancestries in California are Mexican (25%), German (9%), Irish (7.7%), English (7.4%) and Italian (5.8%); there are 65 other ethnicities with sizable populations in California including Albanians, Australians, Canadians, Haitians, and Somalis as examples. Both Los Angeles and San Francisco have large numbers of residents with English, French, Italian, German, Russian and Scandinavian ancestry.[citation needed]

    California has the largest population of White Americans in the U.S., totaling 21,453,934 residents as of the 2010 census. The state has the fifth largest population of African Americans in the U.S., an estimated 2,299,072 residents. California's Asian population is estimated at 4.9 million, approximately one-third of the nation's estimated 15 million Asian Americans. California's Native American population of 285,512 is the third-largest of any state, behind Arizona and Oklahoma.[24] Other estimates place the Native American population of California at one million.
     
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    Precisely why I quit drinking coffee. I don't even drink cola.

    On a good day, which is about 5% of the time, if I'm very careful and write real slow, my signature is almost legible.

    I have to use two hands to hold a glass to drink out of. Ican barely use a fork. Yep, I tremble when I try to eat.

    It all happened shortly after I got back from Vietnam. My doctors say that's it's nearly certain that they'll never know why. I suspect that experimental drug they gave us that they said was for malaria prevention. Turns out it had nothing to do with Malaria. So, what was it used for? You tell me.
     
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    Who the hell that knows anything about anything drinks Hamms? That's the worst excuse for beer that I've EVER had and I've had a lot of beer.
     
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    I ask for ID every time I see that written on the back of the card. Mainly because a lot of servers/bartenders don't, and because of the extra attention given, my tip goes up.
     
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