MAGA woman doesn’t have a clue about voter ID--or fraud
Christine from Texas didn’t know SAVE Act requires birth certificate, thought only drivers’ license needed. But then she defended it anyway.
Christine from Dallas lit up the phones on my SiriusXM program yesterday.
As with many MAGA callers, she claimed she just happened upon the show and just had to call in to correct me on some supposed falsehoods.
First she claimed studies showed that requiring voter ID didn’t suppress the vote, when in fact there are studies showing that onerous demands under some state laws do suppress the vote.
But that’s beside the point, I explained. Democrats do support voter ID—they’ve included it in voting rights bills—just not forms that burden people and cost them money. And I explained that the SAVE Act doesn’t accept a driver’s license.
Christine didn’t know that and seemed to be surprised. And that was the time for her to say, “Okay, I’m misinformed. Thank you for your time, good bye.”
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Instead, when I told her that you need a birth certificate or passport to register to vote, she defended getting your birth certificate, refuting that people lose their birth certificates or that many women, for example, are forced to jump through hoops because they changed their names from their birth name when they got married—which Christine herself did.
And she claimed driver’s licenses can be fake, though she couldn’t provide me with any stories of people using fake driver’s licenses to vote. She also couldn’t answer why a birth certificate couldn’t be forged either.
But the bottom line— Christine couldn’t produce any evidence of voter fraud, because it is so rare and has never affected the outcome of an election. There was much more in this exchange, so check it out.
Some of these people, like Christine—who was much more polite than most—almost seem reasonable.
Until they’re not, locked in the MAGA cult.
Watch the clip and let me know your thoughts!
I could not listen to her. There was something so enragingly smug about her. Made my skin crawl!!
I sent this to you on Bluesky while listening to Christine on your show. This sums up the idiotic, BS the Republicans are pushing with this “Save Act”
With the technology at their fingertips, never before has our Government had the capability to know so much about a person living in this country. There is no such thing as private personal information anymore. They want to charge people to register to vote, which is clearly a poll tax.
“The Government already has all the documents the SAVE Act requires.
The Government ISSUES birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees, death certificates, passports, naturalization docs, etc.
They already know where we live.
THEY ALREADY KNOW IF WE ARE A CITIZEN AND WHERE WE LIVE.
Why ask us for what they already have? Why not just look in their files and send Voter ID cards to everyone that qualifies FREE OF CHARGE?” —Sheryl Rice