Posted on 08/24/2011 12:35:33 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I think GA is getting an anal Vote ID exam and I expect TX will to and no doubt Wisconsin new voter ID law will be challenged. The 1965 Voting Rights Act has been allowed to remain in effect as a way to "punish" states that were deemed to have had past discriminatory voting practices. Now they use it to ball things up in LIBERAL activist courts. Though Black Panthers are not challenged by the U.S. Department of Justice for their blatant voter intimidation at the polls.
Texas ping.
Fraud is cut down immensely!
Voter ID is racist because it keeps illegals from voting, and many illegals come from Central and South America. :)
Fraud is cut down immensely!
But you repeat yourself...
Can we keep the US from being re-made in the image and likeness of a banana republic? We may not have much time left.
Stringent??
What is stringent about only allowing legal citizens to vote?
>> Will it suppress the vote, as minority groups and Democrats allege?
You dad gum right it’ll suppress the vote!
In some areas, I expect it’ll cut the vote by HALF or more — from two or more votes per ‘rat voter, down to one.
We want to supress the votes... of illegal aliens.
Hell I’m wondering what took Texas so long. Jenny Granholm signed our voter ID law several years ago. It spent another half dozen years in court but seems to be working fine.
Obama won one since the law but he was a special case that brought the slugs out from under the rocks to vote. This last midterm was a slaughter that left few democrats standing. We took the governor’s mansion Attorney general, Secretary of state, two supreme court seats, both houses of the state legislature and two US house seats.
It took 6 years to get this bill to Perry's desk to sign. But now that Texas has a GOP super majority, a lot more can get done.
Some history.
Rick Perry started as a Democrat in West Texas (that was THE only party). He served in the Texas legislature - was known as one of the "pit bulls," conservative members who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases.
Perry changed parties in 1989, joining Phil Gramm and other conservative Texas Democrats, who now had a true ideological party with a burgeoning Texas GOP.
When Perry campaigned for Lt. Gov. [1998], he and his campaign staff were in it to win and his hard-nosed style was against the "friendly" advice and request of GWB [in re-election bid for Texas Gov] and Rove to run easy against Sharp, a popular democrat (and Aggie friend of Perry's from their A&M years together). Rove wanted to broaden Bush's base for his upcoming White House run. Perry told them where to stick their advice, because he knew the voters would vote for Bush for Gov. and then cross back over and vote for Sharp (D) for Lt. Gov, if he just walked through the motions like the Bush-Rove team asked him to do.
Perry won the seat for Lt. Gov. -- the first Republican elected to that office since Reconstruction. Now 13 years later and into his 3rd term as Texas governor, the GOP holds a super majority. So Perry has earned his conservative spurs -- fighting both parties!
[The Bushes and Rove supported Kay Bailey Hutchison's primary challenge against Gov. Perry the 2010 election too]
I love Voter ID but this article makes it sound like DOJ can sabotage this new law during its “review” phase.
At the top of Omoslem’s list is “Kill Voter ID.”
What’s to stop the filthy moslem?
That's what their plan is.
It took Texas so long because it took getting a GOP super majority in the legislature to force this governor to get behind it.
Same reason we finally got some eminent domain reform out of this session, after Perry’s previous post-Kelo vetoes.
Helps to have a strong GOP legislature.
We forced Granholm to sign a few things she didn’t like at all. LOL
i lived in austin in 2004 and voted.
there were many complaints about illegal voting.
Presented my Texas CHL at our last bond election just for grins.
Democrats say that it will suppress the vote count to ensure every vote cast is an honest vote.
I believe that once again they have not thought the implications of their message through before running their mouths.
>> Will it suppress the vote, as minority groups and Democrats allege?
But... but... but... what about all those poor disenfranchised dead people???
>> But... but... but... what about all those poor disenfranchised dead people???
Relax. If a dead person can produce proper ID, they can vote too. ;-)
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