Posted on 07/18/2012 6:39:09 PM PDT by Jean S
Nearly 500,000 eligible voters in 10 states with restrictive voter ID laws live in households without vehicles and reside at least 10 miles from an ID-issuing office open more than two days a week, a new Brennan Center for Justice study found. Because many of these voters may not have driver’s licenses — and nearly all live in rural areas with dwindling public transportation options — it could be significantly harder for them to get an ID and cast a ballot. The report undercuts the claim by many politicians that eligible voters can easily obtain a free ID to vote. In Texas, in 32 counties near the Mexico border (pictured above), there are 80,000 Hispanic eligible voters but only two ID-issuing offices open more than two days a week. Read more from The Washington Post, NPR, and USA Today.
Photo ID to be required for fall SAT, ACT exams
boo friggin hoo
Love your sources, care to share your view?
(1) Get an appropriate ID and on election day just walk in and vote, or
(2) Don't get an appropriate ID and on election day just walk in and vote WITH A PROVISIONAL BALLOT.
The laws also provide for absentee balloting without anyone showing an ID.
The Democrats are misrepresenting the way the laws work ~ that's because they go right to the heart of the vote fraud situation where people just walk in and vote in the place of the rightful voter.
I don’t care how far it is to go vote, im gonna get it done.
This story is BS
Cry me a river! And, just how are these people going to get to the polls to vote? As backward as my state of Tn. is, you can go to any DMV office and get an ID card. They managed to go to the doctor, grocery shopping, etc.
I don’t believe a word in this report
If they can find a way to make it to the polling place, they can find a way to make it to the ID issuing office.
Soros front group....
But I bet they sure as hell could find their way to a welfare office!
But I bet they sure as hell could find their way to a welfare office!
They have four years between elections. If they can’t figure it out it’s not our problem.
Another case of statistical manipulation!
They didn’t “study” anything!
This is HORSESH*T! I’ll bet they wouldn’t “struggle” to get a photo I.D. if they hit the Powerball and needed a photo I.D. to prove who they are.
try doin’ a flash mob notice to the photo ID office.
And yet they should make electoral decisions affecting the freedoms and pocketbooks of Americans who do bother to get an ID?
No thanks. Too lazy to get an ID, then too lazy to vote.
Beat me to it! I might add, the unemployment office. How in fact do people apply for welfare, food stamps etc., I assume they have to have identification, right?
Golly, I hope this doesn’t make them disfranchised.
Exactly...probably are fretting that they’ll have to skip a pedicure to get an id... We live in a pathetic country right now. I bet if it was for some government benefit they’d rush to get the id......
The same ID that they use to buy that bottle of cheap gin.
Oh, my. What a sob story. I’m going to cry myself to sleep. Then sleep soundly knowing that illegal aliens, felons, dead people and union thugs will not be stealing 500,000 votes they would have otherwise stolen.
Duh, I don’t have a drivers license. don’t even own a car. I do have a picture ID. Really don’t even need that, cause I am so old that they do not ask for it when I purchase adult beverages.
I really don’t care if they ask me for one at the polls, what do I have to hide?
You just go down and get one. Of course, in Illinois you pay up the butt for one, because the fascists are in charge (located in Chicago, mostly). If you are too stupid to be able to acquire a picture ID, You are either not an American citizen, or you are too stupid to be allowed to vote.
Blessings, Bobo
These poor people! How do they get to the polls? How do they shop? We need better public transportation for them, and automatic absentee ballots (I bet the rate of absentee ballots in these areas is low).
They need food delivery!
Of course, all but 2 or 3 of them already have an acceptable ID because they need ID for just about everything from buying booze to getting on an airplane.
Seems they had whatever id they needed to get their handouts, and probably didn’t mind how far the office was to sign up. Why is it such a big deal to do the same to vote if it’s that important that their vote counts.
I forgot, to get my ID, I had to show my birth certificate.
No problem. I have had one in my possession for the last 40 years or so.
Blessings, Bobo
“Fathom the odd hypocrisy that Congress wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but not that they are citizens”.
- Richard Hartung, chairman Polk County (Wisconsin) Republican Party
The Brennan Justice has always been rabidly anti-voter ID. If you go to their site you will find paper after paper against voter ID or any other attempt to fight vote fraud. When working on the petition drive to get a Voter ID inititive on the ballot I read many of these,( Brennan Justice Center is located at NYU )one of these I thought made my case FOR Voter ID, the last line of the paper said”Voter ID only makes a difference in the close elections anyway”
You forgot the Zombies.
Total Garbage....BS ...bet they have ID when buying smokes and booze! Oh gotta have an ID to vote, yet none of them complained when ID was required for entry to NAACP.
Trust me if anyone was walking to their polling place because they didn't have a car or bus service or a friend to take them, the New York Times would run their story on page one... Maybe like the idiot the AP covered who flew to Washington DC to tell her tale of woe - about how she was unable to get to a place that could give her a photo ID ... Only a member of the press would fall for the crap - given that she found her way FROM TEXAS to DC without a problem... But who knows, the New York Times is hungry for something - anything - to back up this liberal fantasy... maybe the girl can fly back to DC and try one more time.
Oh, please!
Promise freebies with a photo ID. Doesn’t matter what the freebies are. These same “poor, disenfranchised” folks will show up with IDs and shopping carts!
You want to get the libs stuttering and stammering about ID needed to vote because voting is a right - I love to use it, and do regularly.
I tell them I agree it is a right and I will be more than happy to support their cause of no ID for voting because it is a right as soon as they sign on with me that no ID needs be shown to purchase a firearm, because that is also a right.............
Stick with rights - if they want to stick with rights.
Well I guess none of these poor souls will ever be able to attend an 0bama fundraiser.
Probably a bunch of crap. When the State Attorney General argued the Voter ID case in Federal Court, he showed the statistics provided by Eric the Corrupt were fictitious and should have caused Eric to be held in contempt of court. The State Attorney General had students from UT actually call the people submitted on the list by Eric that were supposed to have not photo ID. They found less than 10% of the people claimed they did not have photo Id. Included on Eric’s list of people not having photo Id were G W Bush, Mickey Mouse, etc. The list was fraudulent from the get go. The photo Id requirement will prevail, but Eric is doing his drag-it-through-the-courts game, even though he will lose at the Supreme Court.
welfare cards don't have their picture on them there???
AMEN! Say it again!
Didn't think so.
The Brennan Center for Justice was founded in 1995 by the family and former law clerks of Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan.[2] Justice Brennan’s idea of a living constitution figures largely into the center’s work
The organization is currently headed by Michael Waldman, former Director of Speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995–1999.
Do they need IDs to get welfare, go to the emergency room, get Medicare or Social Security?
Given the UNION MONEY and free labor that the Democrats get (for you Ford buyer, the UAW gets election day off, so they can get out the vote, for Democrats) - I have ZERO DOUBT that if 500,000 people need a ride to get an ID, the Dems will get those 500,000 IDs. It is not at all a big effort and costs next to nothing, compared to their advertising budget.
What the Dems REALLY FEAR here is that once these people show up at DMV, they won’t have a paper-trail to prove who they are...and if that’s the case, they’re essentially non-citizens (i.e., non-players), even if they are here legally.
Anybody who can’t show an ID to vote should not only be turned away, but if they leave and hop into a car, should be arrested on the spot for driving without a license.
Do they need IDs to get welfare, go to the emergency room, get Medicare or Social Security?
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YES, YES, & YES.
Also, for Union elections, Political book signings, Moochelle book signings, buy cigarettes, beer (Walmart near me says they check EVERYONE for beer - checked me when I bought O’DOULS!! and I am 72 and ‘look’ it - I asked the young man if he was working for tips - he apologized and said he didn’t realize it was N/A but he was to check ANYONE buying alcohol - I guess if you look ‘down and out enough’, rubbing alcohol would count. <: <:)
In states that have had Voter ID for multiple election cycles, it has been shown that there is ZERO impact on turnout.
If these folks can’t even get to the dmv for an ID, how were they going to get to the polls?
10 miles out, no vehicle. Likely voter? I think not.
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