* Scripts are made by my own hearing. They might include many mishearing & typo. I'm asking for understanding about my poor English. Thank you.
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We are finally in an election year. So for main story tonight, let's look out voting. The cornerstone of an American democracy. The unshakable principle. The everyone should have an equal vote even idiots. Even this guy.
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Now I know it's painful but he's vote should count as much as yours. It should count as much as the president's. That is what America is all about. Now in recent year, some states have made voting easier for instance three states now hold their elections almost entire by mail, and thrity states plus D.C. now let you resister to vote online.
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Sadly, others have gone in the opposite direct because depending on who you are and where you live you may face new obstacles to voting this November thanks to among other thing the Supreme Court decision to weaken Voting Right Acts. For instance, since 2011 seven state have curtailed early voting and thriteen have added requirement to voters show some kind of ID at the polls, and the lawmakers pushing those voter ID law claimed that they have just simple common sense measures.
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It is common sense that you would use your picture ID to protect integrity of the voting process.
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It's an ID. Everyone has an ID. The people that are homeless, the people that go to vote they get sick, they go to the hospital, they buy..buy stuff. They need ID.
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And even if you try to obtain an ID just in order to vote, it can be difficult. This story about the Pennsylvania woman went through when her state ID was in effect. 68 years old Duglas Clark was turned down three times applying for her Pennsylvania voter ID card and every time she says the state wanted another document. Original birth certificate, original social security card, then she needed her husband's death certificate when a clerk demanded proof of her married name. You feel like why am I going through all these things. I'm not a Bin Laden's wife.
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Wait, Bin Laden's wife. That's a strange way to frame it. Why not saying Osama Bin Laden was AMAL-AL-SADAH's husband or Siham Sabar's husband or Khairiah Sabar's husband. Hashtag Osama Bin Laden and Hashtag Feminism. Yet none of these difficulties seem to trouble legislators like Wisconsin's Joel Kleefisch who argued for a strict ID law by pointing out his state photo ID requirement to buy sudafed.
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I find it frustrating that so many of the same people who today are telling us that the photo ID is just too gosh darn much to maintain integrity of the ballot and those same people, two sessions ago, made sure those same people, many of the same people in this room made sure two sessions ago that you have to have photo ID to buy stuffy nose medicine.
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Ok. Ok. Couple of things there. First, that bill designed to help curtail Wisconsin's meth problem and second the voting is a right. If you've taken away you ruined democracy. If you've taken away someone's sudafed the only thing you will ruin is their sleeves and in some part of the country the offices that issue ID are hardly ever open. In 2012 the study found that Wisconsin, Alabama, and Mississippi fewer than half of all ID issuing offices in the state are open five days a week. And a Sauk City in Wisconsin just a few district over from where that business casual Kevin Smith lives. The ID office is only open on the 5th Wednesday every month and only four month in 2016 even have 5 Wednesday. Oh don't worry. There is a rhyme. March, June, August, November have 5 Wednesday but remember if you come on days not those fuck you ? fucking closed.
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(Cannot hear due to the loud applause.) You know ?? studies have shown these restrictions tend to disproportionately impact African American and Latino voters. Texas for instance, experts found that African American voters were nearly twice as likely to lack voter ID. Latinos were nearly half times as likely. It's just one of those things white people seem to be more likely to have. Like sunburn or an Oska nomination. So, what are we doing this? If you listen to legislators who helped pass these laws that are say they are necessary to prevent fraud. Here is a co-sponsor of Texas's voter ID law. Debbie Riddle.
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The very freedom of our nation is based on the integrity of our ballot box and if danger so ...?? voting can occur. That means your vote can be stolen and simply showing an identification is not too much to ask. Are you sure about that though? Don't ate fisher on the subway is not too much to ask. Never start the Facebook status 'that moment when' is not too much to ask. Requiring ID can actually asking a lot. And as the fraudulent elections well let's look at that for a moment because while American history is littered with vote-buying, vote-tampering, and ballot box stuffing. Voter ID doesn't prevent those crimes. The only crime prevent is voter in personation. One person showing up to the polls, pretending to be someone may not. which is pretty stupid crime cause you have to stand in the line, at a polling place and risk five years imprison and a 10,000 dollar fine or to cost one probably not consequential extra votes. In terms of pointless crime is right up there with forging a Bed Bath Beyond coupon. So lot of trouble with low reward. And yet people insist that this happens a lot.
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Without photo ID, what do you freak would happen.
