Keep your powder dry, folks. This one might get messy.
Posted on 06/29/2011 2:12:04 PM PDT by mdittmar
Hmmm?
So having to show photo id is voter intimidation. But a big black man holding a blunt force object in his hand is not. Yep, that makes sense but what I want to know is how I got to Bizzaro World?
This is disgusting. If we can not ensure our voting process is without thuggery and corruption, then we are lost as a country.
I call BS.
The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s Voter ID law. So the concept of voter ID has been upheld by the Supreme Court. And that could well be why a number of states have enacted such laws just this year.
If voter ID has been upheld by the Supreme Court, how can the Justice Department launch investigations and file lawsuits????? What am I missing??????
Higly restrictive only in the sense that you have to actually be the person you claim to be, be able to prove it with ID, and be legally eligible to vote as that person.
This could help eliminate multiple voting, voting under a bogus name, voting under a stolen name and voting for dead people.
So it is easy to see why a democrat would feel these requirements are highly restrictive.
How did some states get under an order (consent decree that voting policy changes cannot have “disparate impact”? What if more people from a certain class (for the sake of argument, Amish) tend to register at vacant lots and nonexistent addresses than do others?
Probably nothing, but it is an effort to get any injunction they can to any place they can prevent such laws from being enacted. They may find themselves short a few legislative seats if voters are required to be legitimate. It is almost like redistricting, where the lines are redrawn to omit graveyards. Notice that they also try to sue when redistricting doesn't go their way. If only Republicans had such temerity.
You seem to be missing the fact that we live in a police state in which the negroid nazi party desides who has civil rights and who does not.
It looks like the propaganda media is still doing it’s job.
Boo freakin hoo! So go to the DMV and pay a small fee to get one. Looked up the ID fee for my state. It's a whopping $12. And those over 65 or on SSI can get the fee waived. Oh, the horror! The expense! What a horrible burden it is to get a photo ID card!
“It could disenfranchise tens or hundreds of thousands of dead, criminal, insane, incompetent, imaginary, and illegal alien ineligible Democrat voters! These people (and their pets), deserve the right to vote for the Democrat candidate of their choosing at the ballot box!”
Too seldom do we hear the riposte to the absurd disenfranchisement claim, to wit: Every illegal voter disenfranchises a legal voter. Make this case!
Ping!
Who doesn’t have - or can’t get a photo ID? Everyone who drives has one. My mother never drove, but she had an Illinois state ID card. The current cost of a 5-year ID is $20. People over 65, the disabled, and the homeless can get an Illinois ID card for free. The one requirement for getting an ID is documented proof of the person’s legal name, date of birth, social security number, and signature. The state requires a person to prove his identity to get the ID in the first pladce, so why shouldn’t there be a similar requirement to vote?
One way or the other, any Illinoisan ought to be able to have and present a photo ID to prove they are who they say they are, and ought to offer it gladly to exercise a primary right of citizenship — just as they do when they get on an airliner, cash a check, or buy beer or (some) cold medicines.
The argument that voter ID laws will disenfranchise some citizens is bogus, so I can only assume that a challenge to them is based on the desire to make sure our elections are not free, fair, and open. Here, in the U.S.A.
Yep. If enough states pass the voter ID law (and it looks like they will) what better way to stall/challenge a Presidential election?
THat is, of course, unless Holder is impeached on the Mexican gunrunning operation.
Staying tuned.
Yes if photo ID is required 1,000’s of dead and/or illegal Democrat voters will be disenfranchised.
“Restrictive Voter ID Laws Could Disenfranchise Thousands of Eligible Voters ...” and looser laws disenfranchise legitimate American citizen votes. Isn’t that what they said we were fighting for...? Or more BS. If as I suspect it is BS, pull the troops home from all three wars and use Nukes sparingly later, as needed. They are no longer fighting for a fair right to vote.
Keeping it clean for Gene eh Michell Bennett.Of course the party of deception and destruction doe not want voter ID the communist Party USA couldn’t steal elections as easily if we had laws that protected we the people.
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