Posted on 07/01/2011 11:09:44 AM PDT by Libloather
Senators Concerned By Photo ID Requirement To Vote
Sixteen Democratic senators want the Justice Department to look into whether voting rights are being jeopardized in states that require photo identification in order for people to vote.
Posted: 4:34 PM Jun 29, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sixteen Democratic senators want the Justice Department to look into whether voting rights are being jeopardized in states that require photo identification in order for people to vote.
The lawmakers wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to express concern that millions of voters do not have a government-issued ID - particularly older people, racial minorities, low-income voters and students.
The senators say the photo ID requirements have the potential to block millions of eligible people from exercising their right to vote.
Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said the department is monitoring, as it routinely does, this type of legislative activity in the states.
"We urge you to protect the voting rights of Americans by using the full power of the Department of Justice to review these voter identification laws and scrutinize their implementation," the senators said in the letter to the attorney general.
The 16 senators include Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Patty Murray of Washington, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Benjamin Cardin of Maryland, Mark Begich of Alaska, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Tom Udall of New Mexico.
"Many of these laws effectively disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters," Bennet said in a statement.
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Wish they would've been this concerned while shoving Commiecare™ down everyone's throat.
...the department is monitoring, as it routinely does, this type of legislative activity...
Can Holder declare anything unconstitutional? News to me.
They are liars. They want to make sure the illegal voters can cote which they can’t.
I call BS.
How? Give me examples.
The power grab by this administration absolutely leaves me breathless. They don’t even try to hide it.
Of COURSE the demonRAts are “concerned” about legitimate ways to make sure voting is fair and legal. Without voter fraud, no leftie might ever be elected again- ‘cept, of course, in SanFransissy and the New York sewer.
Herb kohl that POS
“............express concern that millions of voters do not have a government-issued ID - particularly older people, racial minorities, low-income voters and students.”
YOU said it. NOW prove it.
thing s/b think
Yet they have not produced a SINGLE individual that has shown that 1) they are a citizen with the right to vote and 2) are unable to obtain the required ID. It is all about potential harm not actual harm.
I call BS too. Disenfranchising older voters, my foot! Im 86 and I still have a driver’s license.
Eric Holder will likely recommend that “his people” have their votes multiplied by 10.
16 supporters of voter fraud!
we all knew this was coming... watch for the feds to file suit against those states.
Obama needs the illegal vote, so he will double down on this, he has nothing to lose. The worst that will happen is he loses the election, and he WILL lose the election if he cannot count on the dead, multiple voting, and the illegals to carry him.
Watch for the dems to shop for a judge to put a stay on this a couple of weeks before the primary. Yes, the primary, because they will be using every dirty trick they can to vote in the R primaries to choose Romney as our candidate, since they don’t have to vote in the D primaries.
“disenfranchise”???
The author of the Kansas voter ID law was on the radio yesterday. He pointed out how laughable it was that Holder did not think a blank panther standing outside a polling place with a night stick would disenfranchise anyone....but pulling your id out would.
simple; the non-registered voters who are bussed to the polling station by the rats disenfranchise thousands of legally registered voters like you and me...
>Sixteen Democratic senators want the Justice Department to look into whether voting rights are being jeopardized in states that require photo identification in order for people to vote. <
how about the voting rights of those legally registered voters that are being jeopardized by the states that don’t require voter ID’s??? oh, wait- most of them would never vote for obama so they don’t count...
funny how these millions of voters can’t get id’s yet they can get to the polls and vote...
Add the rest of 'em to that category also. Of course, Dung Heap Harkin already is piled there.
The Kansas Sec of State on the radio yesterday. Our new law allows elderly people to use expired drivers licenses. It allows students to use a student ID.
He also pointed out that some of the sixteen senators who are involved come from states with the most known cases of voter fraud.
He also stated that Al Franken’s margin of victory was less than the known number of felons who voted in his election.
He also articulated VERY well the notion that the most common way to be disenfranchised is to have your vote CANCELLED out by an illegal vote....and if these 16 senators really cared about disenfranchisement, they would support voter id bills.
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