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Friday, August 17, 2012

Jon Stewart looks at reality and let's us see its ridiculousness

Mediaite

Stewart Rips Voter ID Laws As ‘The Price You Pay For Something That Doesn’t Happen’

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by Andrew Kirell
In a segment titled “Cockblock the Vote” Thursday night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart tore into Republican-backed voter identification laws in Pennsylvania and Ohio, which he branded as two different attempts at “suppressing Democratic turnout.”

“Voter fraud is an enormous issue with more than exactly 10 documented cases of it in the entire country alone,” Stewart deadpanned, “just since the beginning of the millennium. That’s .000000284% of all votes. So you can see why Pennsylvania would want to enact a voter ID law that one study claims could potentially disenfranchise around 9% of the entire Pennsylvanian electorate. But that’s the price you pay to prevent something that doesn’t happen."

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-rips-voter-id-laws-as-the-price-you-pay-for-something-that-doesnt-happen/

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