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The Misinformed Case for Voter ID
Townhall.com ^ | May 15, 2014 | Steve Chapman

Posted on 05/15/2014 8:17:30 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/15/2014 8:17:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

To make it short democrats hate honest elections.


2 posted on 05/15/2014 8:20:22 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Kaslin

—hogwash—Chapman just destroyed whatever credibility he had with me for his sometimes sensible firearms comments-—


3 posted on 05/15/2014 8:20:23 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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The stricter new requirements may sound reasonable, but they're not reasonable for everyone -- or reasonable for democracy.

Horse hockey. Specious argument. Protection of the ballot is ESSSENTIAL to our Republic or we fall into the realm of Banana Republic. Oh, and we ain't no democracy, either. This author is a buffoon.

4 posted on 05/15/2014 8:24:33 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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Stevie must be firmly in the Rand Paul camp.


5 posted on 05/15/2014 8:24:40 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Kaslin

To me there is an easy solution to such cases as mentioned.

Deal with people on a case by case basis, if they have trouble getting a driver’s license or other official ID.

And give them a special voter’s ID, to be used to identify themselves for voting only.

We should still verify that they live in the jurisdiction in which they are wanting to register to vote. But if the problem is not having an ID, let’s get them an ID, rather than saying that since some people have trouble getting an ID, then we can’t require an ID of anybody. Let’s issue an ID for use for voting purposes only, if people really don’t have any other ID.

MSNBC has pushed the story of an old black woman somewhere down south, who didn’t have an ID. She is in her 90s, doesn’t have her marriage certificate, and since her married name doesn’t match her birth certificate, she couldn’t get an ID.

The MSNBC narrative was that this old black woman, who was one of the few blacks in her town who were able to register to vote back in the days of Jim Crow laws, was now being disenfranchised by today’s voter ID laws. They said she navigated the Jim Crow laws and was able to vote then, but is not being allowed to vote now.


6 posted on 05/15/2014 8:25:36 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Poor people don't get the sniffles, apparently.

Former Gov. "Diamond Jim" Doyle - Rat, instituted a photo I. D. requirement in Wisconsin to buy cold meds.

7 posted on 05/15/2014 8:27:16 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (No Mo (zilla). I'm going to the Opera instead.)
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To: rellimpank

BS
We are tired of Chicago machine politics, we are tired of dead people voting, we are tired of DEMOCRATS voting in multiple jurisdictions, we are tired of illegal aliens voting, we are tired of felons voting, we are tired of Al Franken recounting until he wins,we are tired of fraud. Let us have fair elections.


8 posted on 05/15/2014 8:27:57 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: Kaslin

Just don’t go riding your bike the wrong way in Milwaukee, I guess.


9 posted on 05/15/2014 8:28:55 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: rellimpank

This is the second straight obfuscating and gobblydegook filled column on voter fraud for this Chicago Tribune columnist. Here’s how he started a piece on Obama and the NSA.

“Every so often, we get proof that Barack Obama, when confronted with a grievous abuse of government power by his administration, will do the right thing.”

No wonder I don’t read Townhall. This is Kathleen Parker stuff.


10 posted on 05/15/2014 8:28:55 AM PDT by Luke21
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If you need to show an ID to board a plane, open a bank account, get public aid or do any number of other things, it only makes sense to do the same before casting a ballot.

Unless your intent is to steal elections......................

11 posted on 05/15/2014 8:31:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“since her married name doesn’t match her birth certificate, she couldn’t get an ID.”

I’m thinking her gubmint checks are somehow still making the trip to her mailbox though.


12 posted on 05/15/2014 8:31:46 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: rellimpank

What credibility does Townhall still have as a conservative site?


13 posted on 05/15/2014 8:32:14 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Kaslin

Edge cases are not persuasive.


14 posted on 05/15/2014 8:32:24 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Statewide, the court concluded, 300,000 eligible voters don't have the documents needed for voting. In the normal course of life, people like this don't need them.

Here is the crux of the fallacy: How much would it cost, really, to set up a contract for the one-time task of contacting these 300,000 people and correcting their documentation problems?

15 posted on 05/15/2014 8:32:33 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us three choices: Defeat them utterly, die, or surrender to a life of slavery.)
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To: Kaslin

You really don’t need to refute all the specious and hysterical claims by Democrats on Voter ID. The crux of the matter is they want to CHEAT, and our reason is to stop them from doing it. There’s nothing more simple than that, and we should tell them that every time they bleat about it.


16 posted on 05/15/2014 8:32:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Time to go back to our roots...

It used to be that only landowners could vote because they were the ones paying taxes to fund the government. That was a founding principle of America.

Instead of an identification card to vote you should have to show your 1040 form proving that you are funding the government you are voting for. Multigenerational welfare recipients, Obama phone users, and multimillions paying zero taxes (ex: Arianna Huffington who paid zero the year she ran for CA governor) would not be allowed to vote.


17 posted on 05/15/2014 8:33:24 AM PDT by anonsquared
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According to this link:

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/drivers/apply/idcard.htm

Obtaining a State ID card for the purposes of voting is FREE!

So what is the problem again?


18 posted on 05/15/2014 8:33:55 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Eclipse, the sequel to Bright Horizons is out! Get it now!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I hate nothing worse than people on bicycles riding their bikes against the traffic, but walk with the traffic instead against the traffic when their is no pedestrian way


19 posted on 05/15/2014 8:34:43 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: anonsquared

Right. The idea that everybody has an equal say is nuts.


20 posted on 05/15/2014 8:36:43 AM PDT by all the best (sat`~!)
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