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Posted on 05/21/2011 6:26:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed into law a voter identification law yesterday that requires every voter to show a photo ID before being allowed to vote in elections.
Liberals howled that the law would disproportionately impact minorities and implied the law itself was discriminatory and would disenfranchise minorities.
Last night in South Carolina, after Haley had signed the bill into law, Herman Cain, who is expected to formally announce a run for the Presidency on Saturday in Atlanta, called out groups who were criticizing the photo ID bill by saying the law did not infringe upon civil rights.
Cain defended the photo ID bill last night in Aiken, South Carolina, according to multiple reports.
Earlier in the day, Cain, in Aiken, said part of his appeal is that he speaks his mind and talks straight.
I'm not politically correct, I don’t pander, I tell it like it is, and I think it's resonating with a lot of people.” Cain said.
Cain echoed Haley’s comments made earlier in the day.
“If you have to show a picture ID to buy Sudafed, if you have to show a picture ID to get on an airplane, you should show a picture ID when you vote,” Haley said. “This was another example of legislators having a good idea and the people carrying it forward saying we want it to happen and we want it to happen this year and you see the product of it.”
Haley also said that when South Carolinians go to vote, “nobody else can steal your id. No one else can vote for you. You are going to be able to vote by proving that. It maintains the integrity of the process.”
According to Haley, the voter identification law was also a win for other states because “this is a win win. This is something all the other states are looking at South Carolina and saying looking what they did and how do we get that done?"
Republican South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell said “since the United State’s Supreme Court has held Voter ID as constitutional ... I hope the Department of Justice will move swiftly in granting our state’s secure election law the same pre-clearance they gave to Georgia’s Voter ID law last year.” Harrell was referring to the Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, which states that some states that had previously discriminated against blacks must get approval from the Department of Justice when they make any changes in how elections are conducted.
Republican South Carolina Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler, who was instrumental in getting the law passed, was congratulatory and combative in his response: “When the liberal Obama administration fights this law, we will stand with Governor Haley to fight back as we did against ObamaCare and the union advocates.”
More state legislatures may look to pass such laws as reports of fraud on the voter rolls come to light, and it may be an issue discussed during the campaign cycle.
-- Tony Lee edits The Chase 2012 section and writes on politics and culture for HUMAN EVENTS.
Damn right we’ll fight back!
Minorities disenfranchised because they’re too dumb to get an ID?
Democrats seeking as many dumb voters as they can?
"Yesterday," since this is Saturday, May 21, the date of the article, was Friday. Governor Haley signed the bill last Wed, May 18.
Such laws reduce voter fraud to zero.
This can't be good for democrats.
Supreme court slap down in 5...4...3...
Lousy crat operatives go into nursing homes and fill out absentee ballots for the residents.
Seems to me that here in Alaska it’s a given. The nice ladies at the polling places check your name on the list and check your id card before they check you off and give you your ballot. I think it has always been that way since I first voted in Alaska in the late ‘80s. What’s the issue?
Seems to me that here in Alaska it’s a given. The nice ladies at the polling places check your name on the list and check your id card before they check you off and give you your ballot. I think it has always been that way since I first voted in Alaska in the late ‘80s. What’s the issue?
Sorry. Delayed reaction time.
Yes, we'll continue to fight!
If I get cash back at the bank I must show ID new rules as Wachovia goes to Wells Fargo.
I SUPPORT THIS!
This country is at a junction where we need to know who is who. "Trust buy verify" someone said... :)... and this is just too BASIC of a principle.
People without scruples or honesty will take advantage of "our freedoms" to meet their distorted goals.
I have no problems with ID verification. I take no offense to authorities asking for my ID for a legitimate reasonable cause. It's just a price we all have to pay if we want to more security and accountability.
SC ping!
Here in Colorado the Democrats in the legislature passed laws allowing otherwise ineligible voters to vote. Tens of thousands. Signed into law just before the 2008 elections by a Dem governor.
If it ever gets to the CO Supreme Court, the Dem controlled Supreme court will uphold the legality of illeagals voting.
Great news.Now close the primaries.
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