Posted on 11/02/2007 2:39:30 PM PDT by radar101
In a challenge to the Bush administration, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., introduced legislation Wednesday that would ban photo identification as a requirement for voting in federal elections.
By Kevin Diaz, Star Tribune
Last update: November 01, 2007 – 9:37 AM
WASHINGTON - In a challenge to the Bush administration, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., introduced legislation Wednesday that would ban photo identification as a requirement for voting in federal elections. Ellison's bill reflects the Minnesota practice, which does not require photo ID for the purpose of voter verification. Ellison has a companion bill that mirrors the state's law allowing eligible voters to register for federal elections on Election Day.
Ellison's voting initiative comes after an uproar surrounding the statement of a top Justice Department official addressing charges by civil rights activists that photo ID requirements discriminate against minorities, senior citizens or young people.
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Moose limb congressman deconstructing amerika
The sedition and treason begins.
And if you wear a burka - you can just keep voting over and over again!
How could even a rag head be so stupid?
One time a mooselimb bit my sister.
In 1964, Congress ratified the 24th Amendment, which banned poll taxes.
(scratching head)What the %$%# does that have to do with anything?
Oh well, stupid is as stupid does.
Having second thoughts on your political choice for congress yet 5th district?
I hope my fellow Americans in Minnesota are finally ashamed of this un-American they voted into Congress. How did this guy ever get elected?
No Dem wants picture ID because Dems want illegals to vote.Illegals will vote for Dems because Dems give away FREE THINGS to the “poor people “ .The Muzzies dont want a picture ID because they can vote with burkas on , over and over again . Less chance of knowing who is who is the best case for terrorist as well.
We throw it around quite often about liberals as a whole, but this guy is the face of the enemies outside of this country we don’t see on a daily basis.
I wish there was even a slim chance that he’d ever be voted out of office...there’s not.
Like the other nutball Democrap legislation of late, this will gain no traction. It will only serve as further embarrassment to the Vermin Party.
I really wish we were more like Mexico in a few ways. Mexicans have a separate voter ID. It is intended only for voting, has a photo, signature and a thumbprint.
I don’t know the cost is in Mexico but for a comparable US ID it would be one of those rare things that I would advocate be given ‘free of charge’ (paid through taxes) to every US citizen eligible to vote.
This guy is serious about voter fraud - enabling it, that is.
What a crock of horse biscuits. My mother no longer drives, but she still has a photo ID. My wife has never had a driver's license, but she still has a photo ID.
And guess what else? I worked as a poll watcher in 2004. An 86 year old black man was proud of showing his photo ID to check in, even though it wasn't required. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he was only voting once . . . because he was a Republican.
I'm so tired of this horse manure. Minnesota has a permissive voter registration law because it used to be a rural state-- everybody knew everybody else. You couldn't get away with fradulent multiple voting if you tried. North Dakota has an even more permissive voter registration law-- just show up on election day and vote. It works fine there because it is still a rural state where everybody knows everybody else. Up until the 1960's, North Dakota didn't even require driver's licenses. Anybody over 16 already knew how to drive-- whether they learned on a pickup on their uncle's farm or a tractor on their father's farm. But this was hardly a model for the rest of the country to follow.
Neither is Minnesota's or North Dakota's voter law. Not requiring photo ID does, in fact, discriminate against real citizens casting real ballots.
He’s the rep of the City of Minneapolis. There aren’t many of us Republicans in his area and we could do nothing about it. The only chance would be a moderate liberal (oxymoron I know)challenging him next time around.
I just keep asking myself, What the heck is wrong with those people up on Minnesota!
Don't paint with such a broad brush.
How did this guy ever get elected?
Somalian migration.
The nineteen 9/11 hijackers and murderers had 63 validly issued U.S. driver's licenses between them.
Of dubious constituitionality, at best, since the Constitution allows that presidential electors are selected in a manner decided by the legislatures of the several states.
I say limit the voting franchise to those who pay income taxes. It is suicidal to allow those who have no positive stake in our constitutional system to vote.
Dontcha know!
Isn't it Rep. Keith Ellison's, (D-Minn) district where the bridge collapsed ?
sounds like SOME republican has the opportunity to FIND A SPINE and introduce a contrary bill.
Diogenies would have an easier time finding an honest man in DC than finding a republican with a spine.
Ah, most of them can't vote for filling the seat in the 5th district?
Do I win?
I wouldn't give up MY congresswoman for anything.
Michelle Bachmann rocks with conservative values and sensibility!
Islamic traitor bump
You just alienated about 50% of the voters with one statement.
All of them liberal Democrats!
This guy hasn’t got the brains God gave to a gnat.
Ellison is LYING explicitly.
States with ID requirements have provisional ballot contingency in the law. ADDITIONALLY STATES GIVE FREE PHOTO ID!
NO CHARGE!
One state will even come to your house.
Ellison is a complete and utter liar.
Yes.
Synonymously speaking, he's a Democrat.
freekitty, you to this time have have posted the most profound and truthful statement. : )
It doesn't say much for the overall mental capacity of the 5th district of Minnesota does it.
Because the majority wanted him, and he reflects their views.
Sure.....why have a sovereign country anyway...........
“Because the majority wanted him, and he reflects their views”
You didn’t have to be so brutal : )
Thank you. I might say the same for the people who elected him. I don’t believe they even know what they views are. They just grab without thinking what sounds good even thought it is usually a lie.
In other words; no deep thinking around there. It’s all about soundbites, so to speak. LOL
I've lived in the same voting district since 1990 and have never been asked to show an approved identification.
I still always have my DL out and prepared to show it when I vote.
It's just the right thing to do to be prepared.
To a DFL'er it's a cult.
Learning and understanding the views about who they vote for isn't an option.
Their voting choice just have to have a "D" after their name.
Maybe I'm wrong, but my impression is that most Freepers oppose a national ID for US citizens.
If I am not mistaken, his religion allows the faithful to lie to unbelievers, the future dhimmis.
But the sad reality is that few places are as honest as North Dakota anymore. Especially the places where they are objecting to photo ID's-- like Ellison's district. This is why it would be better to require even honest places to check ID's for appearance sake, if nothing else. The alternative would be to dip your index finger into indelible ink third world style. Even that is more honest than the way elections are run in New Orleans, Philadelphia and certain other cities.
We already have one for citizens.
Any others would just create another issue that liberals thrive on to create another issue to fix and the band plays on and on.
It's the objection to it that gets my attention to focus on as to why.
I go to the local mart and use a credit card several times a week and just by dictate they look at my I.D. while welcoming me back. I don't have a problem with it for it's for my own protection for them to verify that it is actually me.
Good!
It makes it easier for me to maintain a high personal credit rating.
When voting, THAT is our country's sovereignty at stake and should be (IMO) a greater concern.
To see an elected lawmaker trying to promote making it easier to breach voting scrutiny with impunity scares the he!! out of me.
What is a politicians agenda if it isn't protecting the sovereignty of our nation?
It's for all of our own protection to verify and hold on to the greatest Constitutional right. The right of a citizen to vote and not to have their vote negated by fraud.
Very scary,isn’t it ?
little by little the Mooselims are infiltration our society.
Hillary wrote this bill to try to ban photo ID - its a 4:1 ratio in polls for support/oppose, but they ARE Democrats, afterall.
So true. How’s that for being a slave.
If it were me I wouldn't like it.
DFL = dimwitted follower of liberals in my book.
The liberal dogma dictates that we are a progressive society and thus in their minds it makes all we believe in and hold sacred a living and breathing entity.
This emotional mindset that liberals tote will be the destruction of all we stand for if it's let run "amuck".
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