John Bolton - November 19, 2024


No Voter ID When You Vote？! That's Crazy!


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Voter ID in Canada is much easier than it is in the United States. Here in Canada, you don't have to show your ID before you can vote. But the far-left in the U.S. argue that voter ID is a racist issue.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John down in my basement, not at my regular seat, it's later in the day right now.
00:00:05.720 And I was enjoying a cup of tea. I don't drink coffee later in the day as I do in the morning.
00:00:10.220 And I got an email this morning, I'm at my computer, and I thought this would be a teaching
00:00:14.800 moment for people in the United States who are on the left. Now the email came from
00:00:20.840 Alberta Institute. Now the Alberta Institute sends me these emails every week telling me
00:00:26.380 what's going on in government, what's happening in Edmonton at the Alberta legislature. And they
00:00:30.840 sent me an email today about a specific topic that's rather contentious in the United States.
00:00:35.540 And seeing that they just went through an election, this might be a teachable moment for the far left
00:00:40.180 and the loonies in the United States. Now, after the election, there was lots of information that
00:00:47.540 Kamala Harris only won in states that didn't have voter ID. So I looked up online to see if this
00:00:54.240 was true. And there's lots of places where you can look this up. But I came to a website called
00:00:57.720 Verify This. And I verified this on some other websites as well. But there are 14 states that
00:01:04.500 don't require voter ID, meaning there's 36 states that do of some sort. Okay. Now, Vice President
00:01:12.140 Kamala Harris won 12 of them. So she won a vast majority. Now she didn't win in Nevada and 0.95
00:01:17.360 Pennsylvania. Donald Trump won those. So people would say, well, look, she won pretty much all the
00:01:23.300 states that don't have voter ID. Well, you could say that, but you could also say the reason why
00:01:28.360 she won those states was because they're far left states. That's why they don't have voter ID. And 1.00
00:01:34.740 those people were going to vote for her anyway, even if they would have had to show voter ID.
00:01:39.240 But the left is always saying that voter ID is racist. For some reason, they seem to think black
00:01:43.940 people are too stupid to get identification. And that's not the case. Which brings me to the email
00:01:49.180 I got from the Alberta Legislature and Alberta Institute today. And this is what it reads.
00:01:55.080 And I'll explain what happens when we vote here in Alberta. The Alberta government is considering
00:01:59.440 adding citizenship status to driver's licenses as part of an effort to enhance election security.
00:02:05.280 Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally said it would help ensure voters are Canadian citizens.
00:02:11.060 Premier Danielle Smith highlighted concerns over potential foreign interference,
00:02:14.900 emphasizing the need to strengthen trust in elections. Although the proposal is still in
00:02:20.180 the early stages, Nally's office noted it is part of a broader plan to modernize registries.
00:02:25.700 So let me explain what happened the last time I voted in a provincial election or in a federal
00:02:30.280 election, but I'll go with the provincial one just to give you an idea. Here in Alberta, Canada.
00:02:36.620 I had to vote at a school. It was basically across the street from where I used to live here in Calgary.
00:02:41.480 So when I went in the front door of where they had the polling place, somebody came up to me who
00:02:49.080 worked with the election and asked me for my identification. Okay. So I walked through and I
00:02:55.500 got to the door of the gymnasium where you voted. And I stood there with a bunch of other people. And
00:03:00.840 another person came up to me and they said, may I see your identification? And I had to show my ID.
00:03:05.960 Then when I got into the room and I got actually to the table where they handed me my ballot, paper ballot,
00:03:13.000 by the way, they asked me for my identification and they found me on a list and they scratched my name
00:03:19.800 off. And that's what happens when you vote here. Everybody has to show their identification. And the
00:03:25.800 last time I did it, I had to show it three times. And just imagine how easy our elections go here. We know
00:03:33.720 very quickly, there's no, not a lot of recounting unless it's really close in some ridings here in
00:03:38.860 the country, but nobody gets concerned about voter ID here. So I think it's an absolute necessity
00:03:45.640 in every place to have voter ID. Most countries in the world, you have to show ID before you vote.
00:03:53.340 So maybe the United States and those 14 states that don't have voter ID will change their ways. And in the
00:03:58.900 next election, you'll have to show your ID before you can vote.
00:04:02.680 Thanks for watching.