Democrat Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, who offers so little to voters and the American Republic that her main identity consists of being the ‘First Black Congresswoman from Virginia’ in her social media biography, said requiring identification to vote amounted to a ‘modern-day poll tax’ as she relived her grandfather’s voting experience nearly one hundred years ago.
For context, the Donald Trump-backed Save America Act would, among other things, institute mandatory voter ID in all federal elections. The premise for such a requirement is simple: voters on both sides of the political aisle do not trust election outcomes. As such, polls consistently show this issue crossing political lines and receiving widespread support from both Democrats and Republicans alike.
Nonetheless, the country-saving legislation is held up in Congress by corrupt Democrat actors and equally-corrupt RINO politicians who argue the bill would disenfranchise their beloved voting blocs of women and minorities. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), for example, said her rural state of Alaska would be impacted by requiring proof of citizenship. And so it was that she was echoing Rep. McClellan (D-VA) who said the burden of having and showing an ID was the same as making American voters pony up on election day.
“Voting rights are sacred, and many members of my family fought tooth and nail to be able to exercise that sacred right. And history may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme my great grandfather at the turn of the 19th century in the name of making sure that citizens voted and election integrity,” she began as she unveiled one absurd argument after another to defend her indefensible position.
“[He] had to take a literacy test and find three white men to vouch for his character. He got all the questions right, and because his name was on a list of people that the state of Alabama didn’t want to register to vote, the registrar said, and I quote, I need more questions, because this nigga got them all right. He got all of them right, and he registered to vote.”
“But my father, my grandfather, had to pay poll taxes to be able to vote in Tennessee, all of this was done to make sure that local election officials could deny people they didn’t want to vote, the ability to vote. And I took my oath of office on the Bible that my father kept his poll tax receipt, which is standing behind me, because he kept it in there because it was sacred right,” she went on.
“And I swore to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, all of it that includes the 24th amendment that banned poll taxes. And yet, the Save Act is a modern day poll tax, because every ID that you would have to use to register and to vote, with maybe one exception, costs money, and the one that isn’t is free is a military ID before our military who are overseas are not able to get home to register in person.”
“It’s an added burden. Rural communities added burden, people of color added burden, the 21 million American citizens that don’t have ready access to these documents. It’s a burden. The right to vote is sacred, and I will fight any effort to put more barriers in citizen’s way to exercise it. And that’s exactly what the Save Act does. That’s why I’ll oppose it,” she concluded.
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