VICE Gets SLAMMED For The DUMBEST “Voter Suppression” Sob Story EVER

‘Voter Suppression” is the talking point of the day for libs.

Any and EVERY Republican win on Tuesday will be blamed on “voter suppression.” You mark my words.

Anyway, Vice wants everyone to know about this HORRIFIC tale of “voter suppression.”

I had my:
• valid driver’s license
• student ID
• voter registration card
• a copy of my birth certificate
• my lease

and that still wasn’t enough. I couldn’t vote. https://t.co/GOUQlFWlRe

— VICE (@VICE) November 1, 2018

When I was preparing to vote in 2016, my wife and I were living in north Nashville while I was playing football at Vanderbilt University. We registered to vote—that went off without a hitch, because Tennessee has online voter registration. We found that very convenient and we didn’t really think too much more of it. We had valid Georgia IDs, and assumed we could use those at the polls to satisfy Tennessee’s voter ID law. My wife was born in 1995 and I was born in 1996, so we were both really excited to participate in something bigger than a local primary for the first time.

Then I read an article in the Nashville Tennessean on the state’s voter ID law, which had been changed in 2013. Unlike the previous version of this law, you had to have either a Tennessee state-issued ID or a federally-issued photo ID in order to vote. Under a previous version of this law, out-of-state IDs had been permissible, and even Memphis library cards after a lawsuit from some senior citizens. But that article made me realize: Oh man, I don’t think I can comply with the law.

Are you following?

Basically, these dolts didn’t want to have to have to pay for Tennessee registration and driver’s licenses because of the “pretty significant tax burden” (WAIT. I thought libs LOVED taxes?) so they figured they’d just skirt the rules to save some money. (Which is ILLEGAL, by the way.) Now they’re P*SSED that it doesn’t work like that…

I got kind of mad after that. I had fallen victim to a law that was specifically designed to make people like me not be able to vote.

NO, YOU IMBECILE. YOU’VE “FALLEN VICTIM” TO A LAW THAT MAKES SURE PEOPLE VOTE IN THE RIGHT STATE. OMG.

And I was frustrated because I felt like I’d satisfied the spirit of the voter ID law by showing my identity and my residency and my citizenship—the overly restrictive way in which the law was designed shows the bad faith that created it. The Tennessee GOP pushed for this restrictive voter ID law and it succeeded in keeping to at least two people from voting.

Oh, for CRYING OUT LOUD.

Your little scheme to not have to pay your proper taxes ended up backfiring. CRY ME A RIVER. Are we supposed to feel bad for this moron?

FFS. Not being able to use a Georgia driver’s license to vote in Tennessee is not voter suppression. https://t.co/TOqheB0MvM

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) November 2, 2018

“UH HUH! WAAAAAH!”

Common sense is less common than you might imagine. pic.twitter.com/vt1vBMGcT2

— The Based Peoples Robot (@Red_Eye_Robot) November 2, 2018

What was so difficult about getting a Tennessee ID card? And thereby complying with their requirement. I did not see an explanation of it being an insurmountable problem so your article comes off as a whinge of self-disenfranchisement

— Critical Thinking (@philosophicweb) November 1, 2018

“I TRIED TO VOTE WITH MY WALGREEN’S REWARDS CARD WTF” he continued.

PS: Georgia resident tried to vote in Tennessee. https://t.co/eGTsSI5oGd

— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) November 2, 2018

idk how it works in Tennessee, but most states stipulate that you cannot legally be a resident of the state if you simultaneously claim residency of another state. That’s how it was in Indiana when I went to school there, at least.

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 2, 2018

I’d have more sympathy for his plight if he didn’t signal that he *knew* he could claim Georgia residency but chose not to for financial gain. Fair decision! But there are tradeoffs. pic.twitter.com/hoLE1RoUWE

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 2, 2018

*Tennessee I mean.

In any case, I’m not seeing anything in the article stopping him from voting absentee in his actual state of residency.

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 2, 2018

You:
• had multiple opportunities to become a resident of Tennessee
• decided it was more financially advantageous for you to remain a resident of Georgia
• now want to have a say in Tennessee issues and elected officials
• willfully lack insight

— adam m noles (@AdamMNoles) November 2, 2018

This is from another piece by the same author in 2016. Not good for his case. pic.twitter.com/Esh4hJp4SE

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 2, 2018

“WE PLANNED TO MAINTAIN OUR VOTER REGISTRATION AND RESIDENCY AT MY PARENT’S HOME, OUR PERMANENT ADDRESS IN GEORGIA.”

HIS words, folks.

Is he legitimately this IDIOTIC?

I moved to Arizona in January. It took me 35 minutes to switch my license and registration, and register to vote in Arizona. I voted in the primaries without ANY issues. It’s NOT. THAT. HARD.