I'm sick and tired of people yelling about their rights when they are not willing to take any responsibility to be a good citizen!
Of course this whole issue is just a ruse. No one that is truly interested in voting is going to be stopped by a voter ID law. They will take the responsibility to make sure they can vote. The only ones stopped by voter ID laws are the illegal voters.
No more poll taxes; just photo IDs and IQ tests.
“They can’t find transportation to the DMV.”
Really!??
Hmmm...But they have no trouble getting their a#@es hauled to the voting booth, though, do they?
What kind of ID do they need to get, food stamps? They seem to have NO problem with handouts.
“This begs the question of how the hypothetical low-income individuals in the liberals’ examples were ever actually hired for a job that they now can’t possible get away from in order to obtain a valid I.D.”
Does the author believe these ID-challenged voters have held or pursued legitimate, on-the-books, JOBS? Many of these folks function in shadow worlds, sometimes with multiple identities and forged documents. They see legal documents as a means to reduce cheating, identity and benefits fraud, tax evasion, and such, therefore threatening and racist.
“But what about emergency ER treatment? Would I have to provide I.D. to receive emergency care? Yes, he replied.”
I knew this reeked of B.S., so I called a physician friend who works there and he assured me that when an unconscious patient comes in, they do not rifle through his pockets looking for Id., they treat him and get the Id when he’s able to provide it.
If someone at the hospital told the author that Id has to be provided before treatment, he’s either lying or ignorant of the law and hospital policy.
bkmk
It’s all a big ruse. The “disadvantaged” must have ID’s, or they couldn’t get their government bennies. The “working class” must have ID’s, or they couldn’t work. Even the elderly must have ID’s, or they couldn’t cash their Social Security checks. The only ones who don’t have ID’s are illegal immigrants, dead voters, and fake voters. In other words, the Democrat base.
South Carolina experience (our voter ID law was shot down by the Just Us Dept):
Governor Nikki Haley, January, 2012:
“We had an 800 number. We opened the lines for two weeks. We said anybody that needs a ride to the Motor Vehicles, we will take you. We’ll help you get the ID that you need.
“And the people who were against this said there are thousands and thousands of people that can’t get to the DMV. Do you know how many people actually got rides? Less than 30 across the entire state got rides to get picture ID.
“So what we are saying is we passed this as a state for the will of the people. We passed it in good faith. We have continued to show good faith in making sure that we have every individual that votes.