Hey, look who didn’t think voter ID’s were racist

This is weak bullshit.

@Johnny Reb: Your opposition is weak you provide nothing to prove your whiny accusation.

While One Wisconsin Now may have tried to score a quick political hit charging:

“Twenty years after Nelson Mandela was finally able to cast his vote in a country that had imprisoned him for a generation, we see here in Wisconsin that right to vote compromised as never before for the sake of partisan, political agendas.”

They managed to turn their own argument on its head by picking as an example the leader of a nation with far more stringent election controls than Wisconsin’s.

One Wisconsin Now Politicizes Mandela’s Death, Fails

The liberal group One Wisconsin Now is using the death of former South African president Nelson Mandela to call on Wisconsin elected officials – specifically Republican officials – to scrap efforts to implement a voter ID program. On Friday the group sent out a press release suggesting that Governor Scott Walker and lawmakers could honor Mandela best by stopping “their collective attacks on the right to vote.” But ironically, in South Africa you must possess a valid government-issued form of identification to register to vote and cast a ballot.

Mandela’s legacy of turning South Africa from a violently discriminatory country to a nation in which open and fair elections take place has earned him a place in world history. The South Africa he left behind has a constitution described by The Economist as “one of the most progressive in the world.” Signed into law by Mandela two years after his historic 1994 election, the document has been praised because it “enshrines a wide range of social and economic rights as well as the more usual civil and political freedoms.”

Whats more:

Voter registration in South Africa involves registering to vote on one of a handful of designated days or by making an appointment in advance at a Municipal Elections Office. According to the nation’s governing agency for elections, the Election Commission of South Africa, to register and vote you must meet three criteria:

Be a South African citizen;
Be at least 16 years old (you can only vote from age 18); and
Have a green, bar-coded ID book, ID smartcard or Temporary Identity Certificate (TIC).

Online voter registration and voting are not allows. “You have to apply for registration and vote in person with valid ID,” reads the government’s elections website. Two of the common forms of identification, passports and drivers licenses, do not suffice for election ID purposes.

Re the T-shirt: Mandela T-shirt: ‘Get an ID. Register. Vote’

To make matters worse for One Wisconsin, a picture of Mandela from 1998 finds the former political prisoner attending a rally at the start of the African National Congress 1999 election campaign wearing a T-shirt with the instructions: “Get an ID. Register. Vote.”

Truth, facts and reality are not leftist strongpoints.

Johnny Reb
YOU MUST EXPAND YOUR THOUGHTS, A BIT LONGER,