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When I registered to Vote I gave my name,Address and a copy of my signature. The party which seems to want to make this an issue should place poll watchers at each polling station. It can be a volunteer from the local or county level and if they want they have the right to question the ID of any person by communicating with the poll worker who should be checking the sign..
This would take a little effort from the Repub. party and the members who dont want to pay or do anything related to govt. service.
There is no reason to force this in a free country such as ours, except if you are a right wing activist who commited a crime in the first place to get the video
Oh chit, finally somebody says that the man who sneaked in those videos was a right handed tool. I knew that would be coming as an excuse to get by what he was being told by those voting judges. Did you really listen to what those people were saying about who could vote, no matter what?
I am against that National ID for obvious reasons and Obama may be the top one. I think that since voting is done only in state elections that a national ID is unnecessary for voting.
But you vote as a US Citizen, under the rules prescribed in the US Constitution. A state doesn't give you the authority to vote. A state can't tell a person that he/she can or cannot vote, the nation does.
But then, you're a subscriber to... do as I say, not as I do.
Because I'm going to end up in line behind a whole bunch of people who got into disfiguring accidents between the time their photo was shot and the time they voted.
The Republican Party should be allowed to require a photo ID, if it so desires, for participation in what should be considered a purely party function... the choosing of its nominee for the presidential election. This specific nomination process is a Republican concern; just as the nomination for a Libertarian candidate is strictly a Libertarian Party concern; as is a Green Party nomination its own concern; etc.
I am not a registered anything; so, what the Republican Party chooses to do for its own membership is its business, not mine.
Because voter fraud is an invented problem. And the only solutions offered by Republicans seem to disenfranchise the very poor and very old-- Whos votes just count as much as yours and mine.
The Republican Operatives who perpetrated the voter fraud in New Hampshire (and were caught) are facing very serious federal and state charges. Why would an illegal alien risk jail, deportation, etc., just to vote? Why would anyone? Makes no sense. Not to mention if the fraud were perpetrated as demonstrated in this absurd exercise you'd need thousands of people in on the fraud. A massive conspiracy. Not going to happen either.
The ONLY purpose of this voter fraud meme is to limit Democratic votes. The biggest source of voter fraud and error appears to be absentee ballots. Why aren't those being scrutinized? Is it because people who vote absentee tend to be right leaning business travelers!?!?
"Republicans have long tried to drive Democratic voters away from the polls."...
"All told, a dozen states have approved new obstacles to voting. Kansas and Alabama now require would-be voters to provide proof of citizenship before registering. Florida and Texas made it harder for groups like the League of Women Voters to register new voters. Maine repealed Election Day voter registration, which had been on the books since 1973. Five states – Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia – cut short their early voting periods. Florida and Iowa barred all ex-felons from the polls, disenfranchising thousands of previously eligible voters. And six states controlled by Republican governors and legislatures – Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin – will require voters to produce a government-issued ID before casting ballots. More than 10 percent of U.S. citizens lack such identification, and the numbers are even higher among constituencies that traditionally lean Democratic – including 18 percent of young voters and 25 percent of African-Americans."...
"A major probe by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2007 failed to prosecute a single person for going to the polls and impersonating an eligible voter, which the anti-fraud laws are supposedly designed to stop. Out of the 300 million votes cast in that period, federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud – and many of the cases involved immigrants and former felons who were simply unaware of their ineligibility."...
"Kobach also asserted that dead people were casting ballots, singling out a deceased Kansan named Alfred K. Brewer as one such zombie voter. There was only one problem: Brewer was still very much alive. The Wichita Eagle found him working in his front yard. "I don't think this is heaven," Brewer told the paper. "Not when I'm raking leaves."
But please go on, don't let facts make a difference.
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.
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