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Posted on 06/06/2012 8:11:05 PM PDT by 6ft2inhighheelshoes
In order to stymie new and proposed requirements that voters present photo identification at the polls, top Democrats cry rivers over those who would become disfranchised for lack of ID cards. If they really cared about these people — of whom there may be millions — Democrats would join Republicans to ensure that they receive ID cards for everyday use.
Instead, leading Democrats use vicious racial rhetoric to hammer those who simply want voters to prove they are who they claim to be.
“Some people want to put their Confederate flags up again in Virginia,” former NAACP director Benjamin Chavis hissed. At a January 31 rally in Richmond, Chavis accused state lawmakers of trying to “lynch democracy.” The city’s Democratic mayor, Dwight C. Jones, added: “The fact that there’s a brother in the White House is just so unsettling to people.” According to Representative Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), pro-photo-ID Republicans are “turning the clock back to the days of Jim Crow.” Last July, former President Bill Clinton told Campus Progress’s annual conclave in Washington, D.C.: “There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today.”
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But only on Election Day do these divisive Democrats seem concerned about those without ID cards. The other 364 days of the year, these men and women are undocumented citizens. Absent photo ID, these disconnected Americans do not participate fully in the American experience. Those without photo ID cannot open bank accounts. They may not board passenger jets. They are not supposed to ride Amtrak trains. They may not purchase cough syrup containing ephedrine and other methamphetamine precursors. In Illinois, they may not buy Drano. In fact, they may not enter the Justice Department to denounce photo-ID rules without first showing photo ID.
Race-baiting Democrats apparently couldn’t care less about these undocumented citizens. If they did care, they would lead a common-sense effort to provide photo-ID cards to every American adult who needs one. By displaying ID cards on Election Day, these politically enfranchised Americans would curb potential and actual ballot fraud and boost confidence in the voting system.
Beyond Election Day, these freshly documented citizens would be socially enfranchised. With photo-ID cards, they could cash checks, fly, visit government buildings, and do plenty more that documented citizens accomplish daily.
“It’s perplexing how so many groups complaining about voter ID laws have the funds to register voters, educate voters, and transport voters to the polls, but never budget anything to rectify ID problems,” declared Deneen Borelli, one of my fellow advisory-board members of Project 21, a network of market-oriented black thinkers.
Civil-rights organizations and other groups that rail against photo-ID rules “should dedicate their resources to help people get IDs rather than complain about laws that have passed,” says J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department voting-rights attorney and author of the legal-policy page-turner Injustice. “That’s what they did in 1964. But it’s harder to raise funds off of accomplishments rather than complaints.” Adams introduced me to the challenge of credentialing America’s undocumented citizens.
This year should see the first American Photo-ID Day. Local and state government offices should open on, say, the first Saturday after Labor Day, allowing citizens to secure free ID cards and even register to vote. Where necessary, the same volunteers for civic groups, unions, the Tea Party, the GOP, and the Democrats who deliver voters to the polls in November should drive people without IDs to motor-vehicle bureaus and other participating institutions. Thus, undocumented citizens will become identifiable voters . . . and documented citizens.
If Democrats give a damn about these disengaged Americans, they will implement this idea. And if Republicans do not embrace something that reduces voter fraud while boosting the life prospects of those with the least, then they truly are the Stupid Party.
— New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
Why? Did they require photo ID to vote back then? Liberals really do say stupid things, and the "news" media enables them by not calling them on stupid statements like the one above.
I LOVE THIS IDEA!
Let’s get behind it 100%. Talk it up big-time! The Democrats will freak!
And whhhhhhhhhyyyyy???
Because it is flat out obvious to anyone who hasn’t just fallen out from a tree that it never was about disenfranchising legitimate voters. Democrats hate voter ID laws for one reason, and ONLY one reason — THEY MAKE IT HARDER FOR THEM TO CHEAT!
Can’t buy a handgun from a licensed dealer, with no ID. In some states you can’t buy ammo without an ID.
Can’t get an EBT card without ID.
We need to help these people!
That brings back bad memories of Jim Crow days in Mississippi and Alabama when black voters were not allowed to vote ten times on the same day.
If some people are so public-spirited that they are willing to go to more than one polling place and vote, shouldn't they be applauded for doing the work that lazy people who don't go to the polls won't do?
If citizens shouldn’t need ID to vote, why do they need ID to buy a gun?
We need to equalize the Right to Vote with RKBA. Just showing ID at the polls isn’t enough. Election fraud is very serious and can have much more far reaching consequences than any person with a gun.
WE must enact the same background check system for voting as is used for purchasing a firearm. The voter needs to fill out a 4473 form and an instant background check done to verify that the person is not a prohibited person and resides in the precinct where the voting is occurring.
The Left claims that the background check on firearms is NOT an infringement. They cannot say that the same applying to voting is.
If they don’t like it, they can repeal the 1968 GCA.
The Demonic-rat party has a history of stealing elections and this is just one of their techniques.
I can not drive onto a military base without a photo ID. This is in accord with the rules of our government. However, this same government says that I “CAN VOTE” without a photo ID.
The corruption is like a fish, it rots from the head down.
The blunt truth is that you can’t function in 2012....without a valid ID. If you want a narcotic drug prescribed by the doctor...you can’t get it at the pharmacy, without the ID. Wanna get married, divorced or annulled? Need an ID. Want to buy booze or smokes, and you look less than 18, then you need an ID. Cops stop you? Need that ID. So I would challenge any town of 100k residents...to show me the twenty-five people who don’t have an ID (they likely are all over the age of eighty). Fine, I say....we will pay to transport them to the county office, and give them an ID free of charge.
The truth is....you can’t function in 2012, without an ID. But amusingly enough, you can vote without an ID.
Obama's biological mother and grandparents:
No photo ID needed then except at registration time.
India is embarking on a project that will collect iris scans from all Indians- all 1.8 billion, as a means of positive ID.
We could do the same here.
This misses the real civil rights issue — how my civil rights are violated every time someone has the chance to commit vote fraud, diluting my vote, because they don’t have to establish their identity as a legal voter.
Minor nit-pick: I believe the current standard is to either ID everyone or at least anyone who looks like they're under 30.
Works for me. Hell, let’s do a tax stamp and registration like the NFA. You then must appear with your Form with approved signature and stamp and also do the fingerprint verification.
India is embarking on a project that will collect iris scans from all Indians- all 1.8 billion, as a means of positive ID.
Yes, they do. One way to get around that is to do your iris photography in the near IR, which catches fundamental structure more than visible light does.
India may need to re-scan some people, like when they renew a drivers license.
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