Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: Julie Marie on November 05, 2012, 10:59:05 AM Return to Full Version
Title: Prevent Voter Fraud!
Post by: Julie Marie on November 05, 2012, 10:59:05 AM
Post by: Julie Marie on November 05, 2012, 10:59:05 AM
How to identify a fraud:
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftransgenderequality.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F11%2Ftruethevote.jpg&hash=74f826e86312d775a38955baa29c9f9e63286982)
From the NCTE:
A right-wing, Tea Party organization called "True the Vote" is training their volunteer poll watchers to target transgender voters. True the Vote's training manual features a transphobic image that claims transgender people are fraudulent voters and should be denied the right to vote.
LINK (http://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/tea-party-group-targets-trans-voters/#more-1976)
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftransgenderequality.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F11%2Ftruethevote.jpg&hash=74f826e86312d775a38955baa29c9f9e63286982)
From the NCTE:
A right-wing, Tea Party organization called "True the Vote" is training their volunteer poll watchers to target transgender voters. True the Vote's training manual features a transphobic image that claims transgender people are fraudulent voters and should be denied the right to vote.
LINK (http://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/tea-party-group-targets-trans-voters/#more-1976)
Title: Re: Prevent Voter Fraud!
Post by: Sarah Louise on November 05, 2012, 11:05:02 AM
Post by: Sarah Louise on November 05, 2012, 11:05:02 AM
I went to True the Voter site and saw nothing about transgendered.
Title: Re: Prevent Voter Fraud!
Post by: Kaelin on November 05, 2012, 11:13:43 AM
Post by: Kaelin on November 05, 2012, 11:13:43 AM
I think this thread may belong more in a politics-related board, rather than the general TG one.
Title: Re: Prevent Voter Fraud!
Post by: twit on November 05, 2012, 11:17:50 AM
Post by: twit on November 05, 2012, 11:17:50 AM
I think people need to try to be more objective when looking at the image. The burly guy in the dress is not trans, he is just trying to vote using someone else's name, namely the one on the the apparently cis woman's id.
Why must we see transphobia in every image of a burly dude in a dress? I think we go overboard in trying to shout discrimination and transphobia sometimes and its not going to help our cause. Its like the boy who cried wolf, sooner or later the wolf will come, but who's going to listen to a bunch of alarmists by that point and next thing you know, we're just another pile of wolf poop.
seriously.
Why must we see transphobia in every image of a burly dude in a dress? I think we go overboard in trying to shout discrimination and transphobia sometimes and its not going to help our cause. Its like the boy who cried wolf, sooner or later the wolf will come, but who's going to listen to a bunch of alarmists by that point and next thing you know, we're just another pile of wolf poop.
seriously.
Title: Re: Prevent Voter Fraud!
Post by: Sarah Louise on November 05, 2012, 11:26:59 AM
Post by: Sarah Louise on November 05, 2012, 11:26:59 AM
I'm agaisnt voter fraud from either side of the aisle.