Posted on 06/03/2009 8:48:44 AM PDT by cbkaty
The Department of Justice on Tuesday said the state of Georgia's system cannot check driver’s license information and Social Security numbers to prove that prospective voters are U.S. citizens.
Georgia’s voters have an entirely different perspective. Rasmussen Reports polling conducted during Election 2008 found that 77% said prospective voters should first be required to show a legal photo ID first.
Georgia’s voters also held that view two years earlier despite a state judge’s ruling that a new law requiring a photo ID at the polls was a violation of the state constitution.
Nationally, three-out-of-four U.S. voters (76%) said a person should be required to show photo identification at the polls before being allowed to vote.
While the Justice Department expressed concern that photo ID requirements might disenfranchise some voters, a plurality of voters nationwide have the opposite concern. Forty-two percent (42%) believe it is more common for people to vote illegally than it is for legal voters to be denied that right. Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree and say it is more likely that people are prevented from voting who should be allowed to do so.
The state of Georgia complains the latest Justice Department action will allow non-citizens to vote, but the Justice Department said the state’s system discriminated against minority voters. The ACLU and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) have sued the state over the law.
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Views on the need for photo ID before voting have held constant for years. Polling in both 2007 and 2006, to found that Americans overwhelmingly requirements for photo identification.
This is the second time this year the Justice Department has made headlines bucking popular local actions that it fears might violate minority rights. In March, 68% of Arizona voters had a favorable view of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose aggressive enforcement of laws against illegal immigration triggered an investigation by the Justice Department.
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Speedy Miranda? Lol
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Yup
Adding Kennedy & McCain would be overkill!
With his terminal illness I avoid Kennedy now.
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I dunno
Kennedy did not cry for Mary Jo
He used her
Maybe, as a woman, I have more reluctance to kick a dying man, I’ll let God deal with him now.
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Many of the most evil tend to hang on too long
[Many of the most evil tend to hang on too long]
Some do and we note it because they ARE evil.
Many who are evil may die young and never fulfill their evilness.
Many ‘good’ die young.
Life has no rhyme or reason sometimes.
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Enjoy your takeout while you can!
Amen, Amen !
Sad to say but I think there will be a tripping point.
I seriously doubt it.
There may be a grumbling point but that is as far as it wil go.
Rasmussen Reports polling conducted during Election 2008 found that 77% said prospective voters should first be required to show a legal photo ID first. Georgia’s voters also held that view two years earlier despite a state judge’s ruling that a new law requiring a photo ID at the polls was a violation of the state constitution. Nationally, three-out-of-four U.S. voters (76%) said a person should be required to show photo identification at the polls before being allowed to vote."Hey, I've got a shopper card, quit hasslin' me."
GA needs to do about voting what CA just did about homosexual marriage.
They should enforce the law anyway,
and arrest any federal agent that comes to thwart it.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” -John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The bastards need to understand this.
I think they do. I think they’re looking for an excuse to shoot those who oppose their collectivist/elitist goals.
That’s what the message was in Philly.
They’re going to be HARD to beat in 2010.
And if the Republicans don’t GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER - we’ll be looking at liberal rule forever. :(
It is near impossible to prevent a legal voter from voting, unless of course the New Black Panthers are standing in the way, which is perfectly legal now.
Well, constitutionally that would be correct, but there is no way that they work for us.
The voting rights act only applied to several Southern States, why didn't this go to the Supreme Court?
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