Why do Democrats oppose photo ID to vote? (radical, leader, party)

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

We have a constitutional right to vote, regardless of whether or not we own a government-issued identification.

[roysoldboy]

Originally Posted by 60sfemi

Because it is unconstitutional and unfair to those without the ability to get photo ID's which more than likely vote Democrat and the ONLY reason the Red states are passing these voter ID laws to begin with.

Geez, girl, didn't you read my post about Kansas offering pictures for free since not everybody drives? I guess not, huh?

[residinghere2007]

Not a democrat but I oppose the IDs due to the cost put upon the government to provide said IDs to its constituents. In the state I live, they give free IDs to people who don't have them and also will give them a ride to get the ID. It is a waste of money for something (voter fraud) that isn't a relevant issue. It has been shown that voter fraud happens very infrequently, less than 1% of all votes are deemed fradulent after an election. You are more likely to be struck by lightening than to have voter fraud occur. Source (I can post others if you don't like this one :-)

Originally Posted by SyraBrian

What happens when liberals decide that they want to spend tax dollars on free photo ID for the poor?

Republicans will instruct DMV workers not to tell people about the free ID, like they did in Wisconsin.

It's funny that Republicans always whine about voter fraud - a non-existent problem that seems to exist only in their imaginations - while simultaneously working to disenfranchise citizens who wish to exercise their right to vote by requiring photo ID or by under-staffing and under-equipping polling places that have large numbers of minority, poor, and student voters.

[roysoldboy]

Originally Posted by SyraBrian

What happens when liberals decide that they want to spend tax dollars on free photo ID for the poor?

At that point it will be hard for dead people to vote. Maybe you need to suggest this to some politicians.

[roysoldboy]

Originally Posted by SyraBrian

I'm more concerned with folks looking at it and getting to decide if it's actually the person in front of them.

Most of the poll workers are old ladies who may have cataracts.

I noticed some poll workers in that video you failed to see who were women of less than 40, I would say.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by lenniel

Homeless people vote? Since when did they become so involved in the political process?

What says the Constitution about them?

[roysoldboy]

Originally Posted by mb1547

My great aunt, who lives in an assisted living/nursing home in a small town/rural area. She, and many of the other residents, quit driving years ago and don't need them for check writing, so they don't have them either. The center would have to rent a handicapped bus to drive the residents into another community to the DMV for them to get state ids, and then make them wait in line with their walkers. It's dumb.

Not dumb, at all. In Cimarron, Ks the first place to use the new law Tuesday they had no problem. There was a photo site rite next door to the voting places for just what you suggest. I don't think that many old people will not be voting in Kansas although all pictured in the write up about that election were either in wheel chairs or walking with canes and walkers.

All the whining in the world to allow dead people to vote is not going to win in the end.

[mb1547]

Originally Posted by SyraBrian

I'm more concerned with folks looking at it and getting to decide if it's actually the person in front of them.

Most of the poll workers are old ladies who may have cataracts.

Thanks a lot. I'm one of those "old ladies." I promise you--I'm not all that old, and I don't have cataracts.

[roysoldboy]

Originally Posted by Whyte Byrd

I know one thing that would be hard to fake, a thumb print.

Duck. Some of THEM will be attacking you with the fact that there are people who have no thumbs or something else that simple.