Fixin’ To Lose--Red States. Red Herrings.
Earlier this year, I wrote about laws our state Legislature passed in their last session to solve problems that didn’t exist.
Statistically, you and I are much more likely to be struck by lightning while in the next door bathroom stall to a transgender person who just committed voter fraud, or sitting between an outraged counselor or therapist and a same-sex couple carrying concealed weapons in a college chapel pew than we are to fall victim to anything the Legislature has proposed or passed laws to protect us against.
Meanwhile, Tennessee continues to discriminate against, well, pretty much anybody who’s different from the straight, white, middle-aged, insured, male Christians of the Tennessee General Assembly.
It appears we’re a national model for some.
Take rampant voter fraud. You know, the Tennessee law that protects us from the threat of in-person voter fraud by requiring state-issued photo ID to vote – you know, the law that makes it much harder for the old, the young and the poor to vote. In 2012, a Carnegie-Knight Initiative studying election fraud in all 50 states all the way back to 2000 found a total of 10 cases of voter impersonation nationally, one in every 15,000,000 prospective voters, .00000006666667 percent. In Tennessee, the number from 2000-2012 was zero.
Read more: https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2016/oct/28/fixin-to-lose/