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Old 01-13-2012, 02:10 PM
 
Location: Syracuse, New York
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So does anybody here even know someone of voting age that dosnt have an id?
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.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:11 PM
 
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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.

Well they have to read a sheet of paper now , with print about the same size as an ID.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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Too hard for dead people and illegals to vote
Yeah. About as hard as it is for a 15 year old to get a fake i.d.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Syracuse, New York
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Well they have to read a sheet of paper now , with print about the same size as an ID.
They have to compare the photo to the face. As an avid fan of Mister Magoo, I know that facial recognition is hard on the elderly.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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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.
Now that is one helluva excuse. Not very smart but the kind that Dems use.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:18 PM
 
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So does anybody here even know someone of voting age that dosnt have an id?
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.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:19 PM
 
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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I know one thing that would be hard to fake, a thumb print.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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The GOP War on Voting | Politics News | Rolling Stone

"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.
You just proved that you didn't read the link or watch the video on it. Don't ever read these things because you may not be able to write long replies like the one I didn't read because you didn't read the link.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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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.
I guess you don't know that Democrats held a primary that day. Oh well, why should you know since there is nobody running against Obama. Yep, all these primaries are about Dems also, in every state. How else does he get his name on ballots? Oh yeah, some states require that you pay to get that done.
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Old 01-13-2012, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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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!?!?
Did those people offer a ballot to the man every time he filmed them? Surely and it was always Democrat or maybe he just edited out all the Republican ones. At any rate he did prove that in New Hampshire you can vote early and often since you can vote your own and then for dead people. Zombies may be taking over, it seems.
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