Posted on 05/15/2014 8:17:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
States that require voter ID offer them free at the DMV for those that can’t afford one.
The utility bill BS don’t fly either, because you have to have a valid picture ID to have the utilities turned on!
Still can’t get an ID? No problem, everyone has finger prints, no photo ID requires you finger print on the ballot.
Yup, likely a Libtardian just like Runt Paul.
Their idea of every vote should count is to vote often they no longer try to hide their dishonesty they know the public have been bummed down and they can sell anything to them with the help of the MSM.
They are the masters of fraud.
Mr Chapman deserves a hearing. He came with an opinion and with reasons to support his opinions. I don’t agree with him, but it’s so much more refreshing than the argument we usually hear.....”RACIST!” And you know that is the sum total of everything we normally get.
I disagree with Chapman.
First, I don’t think getting a picture ID is a burden at all. Despite the few examples he’s given of those who can’t get a Puerto Rican certificate or have to change a name on a birth certificate because of bad spelling, those exceptions should not drive a good rule. Besides, there’s no need to require a birth certificate to prove citizenship. Some reasonable evidence should be all that’s required to get a picture ID....bills, witnesses, relatives, etc. It’s just not hard to do. And the payoff — secure elections — is important.
Second, his point that a few cases of fraud can’t determine an election simply isn’t so. We had one woman in Cincy convicted for voting 6 times last presidential election. With 88 counties, that’s 568 votes if it were to happen in every other county. And Florida was determined by that number of votes in the famous hanging chad election.
All of his arguments about what people DON’T DO are simply a subset of how hard it is to get verify your identity for purposes of a picture ID.
ALL OF THESE are mitigated by the ID being free, by transportation being provided, and by other means of identifying oneself. So far as a homeless man having difficulty, even that man has a name and a story that can be checked.
Picture ID is not a burden of any consequence at all. The courts are wrong.
Finally, I think he’s mistaken about the right to vote. It can be abridged, although the list of constitutional reasons are limited. For example, one must be a US citizen, states can impose registration requirements, certain criminals can be prevented, and there are even residency requirements. Therefore, since there are registration requirement, then it only follows that one be able to demonstrate some bit of truth regarding one’s meeting those requirements.
You may choose to not live as an adult in modern America but that is YOUR choice and should have no impact on our election laws.
I am pretty doubtful of that number. They may not have licenses but I suspect they manage to drive without them.
given anyone who is poor and doesn’t have ID can get a state ID card for free, there is no burden. it was written in the law so that it wouldn’t be a burden.
Now how many in your state have valid drivers licenses and how many that don’t do drive anyway?
Re: “Obtaining a Wisconsin state ID card for the purposes of voting is FREE!”
They have the same procedure in South Carolina.
The current tempest in a teapot, locally, is that NC found something like 35,000 duplicate registrations in other states. Of them, 780-odd (IIRC) had voted twice.
Libs say "Well, there are some discrepancies, it's not really that many, blah blah, etc etc". One "discrepancy" is too many, IMO, because it cancels out my vote. BUT - more to the point....
I think that it shows how rampant abuse at the polls, by the pollworkers, really is. Do I think that "Jane Doe" voted in NC, then drove all the way to Minnesota to cast another ballot because they knew the states wouldn't talk to each other on the topic and she could likely get away with it? Probably not.
But I DO think that pollworkers would cast "Jane Doe's" ballot FOR her, along with a few hundred other non-voting people, after the polls close of course, and only if their candidate needed to get a little bump over the finish line. That's the real problem, and the elephant in the room that no one is talking about.
The problem for the left is that by being required to have a voter ID card, that they are forced to vote honestly. It doesn’t matter that the State ID is free of charge
I felt the same way when I read this.
Voting should be one of the most important things that someone does, and they want to reduce it to a utilitarian role similar to using the toilet.
In their eyes, you shouldn’t even have to leave your recliner to vote.
I say crap to this article.
A lot. According to this study by AAA 1 in 5 fatal crashes involves someone without a valid license. I assume that this is higher than the rate of drivers as a whole but I really don't know.
Most of the state laws I have read all include provisions for free photo ids. I would be shocked, if Wisconsin doesn’t also.
I certainly had to when I went to visit my congressman. Indeed, I was glad to be asked for it.
I think it’s necessary, yes, but it’s also necessary to make sure the person voting is eligible to vote.
And indelible purple ink for all voter.
If you do not possess the mental acuity to acquire a photo ID, you absolutely should NOT be voting.
I guess that makes me a racist.
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