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Exactly, Well said!
With the increase in e-mail for important documents vs USPS, providing mail to prove where you live is becoming increasingly difficult.
I don’t like all the excessive documentation either, and it’s outrageous where I live, too. However, I’m 100% behind efforts to purge voter rolls of deceased or illegal voters, or those who try to vote multiple times.
Yes, this is agree with. It’s the fact that little by little America is not longer “The Land of the Free.” Is it still better then other places, Of course! But things are becoming less and less “Free” everyday.
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Although I find the law foolish at best how does this law impact the groups cited more than any other group. Hate to say this but mbr your post sounds like more of the same liberal whining.
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Gork pull your head out of the sand. How is making certain that a person is who they say they are suppressing voting? What it is intended to do is keep the illegals out of our process, please tell me what is wrong with that?
wvagt – please cite a reference to show the extent of the “deceased or illegal voter” occurrance in your area.
Gork…please cite a reference showing requiring an ID suppresses votes. Recent elections in states with photo ID laws show otherwise…..
It’s been rampant for years. Most recently, a county official was elected because of an unusually large number of absentee ballots. Turns out the majority of these ballots were fraudulently signed, and a large number of the votes came from people who had been deceased or hadn’t lived in the county for many years. The Attorney General got involved, and the official was removed from office and convicted. I think these votes were illegal, don’t you?
This problem–with absentee ballots–would not have been resolved by these strict i.d. requirements.
How would you like this bunch controlling your healthcare? If not, repeal ObamaCare NOW!
Gork, Check out the findings from Project Veritas. While not epidemic voter fraud is real. I would counter your arguement about “ugly and transparent effort to suppress and discourage voting” with two observations. First that the Alcorn voter fraud scandal (and virtually every other instance of voter fraud in recent memory) seems to arise to support liberal politicians. Not always the case (look at the reconstruction South for example) but certainly the case today. Second, voting is a right – dare I say a sacred right – belonging only to citizens of our country. While I find the drivers license regulations draconian I do not see requiring positive ID to vote in the same light. It is a reasonable precaution that protects this right from abuse. I know this will not change your mind, but at least recognize that somebody believes it is valid without such insidious motives.
the ability to vote is one of the most improtant things in our country. to allow people who are voting fraudulently to do so should outrage all of you who are so strongly against it. You regularly have to show your ID when using your credit card, cashing a check, etc. Having to show that you really are the person requesting to vote is a very minor thing and everyone who thinks voting is a sacred right should endorse not allowing fraudulent voting to occur. anybody who doesn’t have a valid ID card in this modern day and age doesn’t “get out much” and I seriously doubt very many legitimate voters are being inconvenienced by showing an ID.
I understand the pain that the folks in Georgia are going through and until they get a system in place — it is going to continue to be frustrating. Since drivers licenses are taken /accepted as a “state ID” and in the past many states have been very care-free on the documentation needed to get the license, then it is a sad truth that some catch up is needed. I look at this as if we had some secure systems in place, we wouldn’t have to face this issue right now. I am sorry — why is it that this law hurts “woman, elderly and the poor” more than anyone else? The law is a pain in the backside for everyone and Georgia needs to get a system in place to avoid the obscene 5 hour wait times.
ExciteBiker is a friggin’ libtard, with apologies to those of truly limited intelligence.
If you have to show ID to cash a check, buy a beer,or god forbid–attend an Obama rally, why not to vote? I echo what bob says: the ability to vote is one of the most important things in our country. to allow people who are voting fraudulently to do so should outrage all of you who are so strongly against it.
I am really not too sure how having to show ID to vote is a “voter suppression” tactic. Is showing ID to fly an “airline passenger” suppression tactic? Or showing ID to cash a check a “currency suppression” tactic? I’m also not too sure how this whole comment debate occurred. This article started with one and only one premise, that is a new regulation that is burdensome to get or renew a drivers license. How this transmogrified into a Republican plot to prevent voting is beyond me.
How it managed to get to this point is that the liberals can find a conspiracy in anything. I have always wondered myself how requiring ID for any task is such a big deal, as a legal citizen I am never offended when asked for ID.
Yeah, I also have always wondered myself how requiring ID for any task is such a big deal, as a legal citizen I am never offended when asked for ID……..
I am very on the fence with this debate. On the one hand I do think we should have to prove that we are american to vote, it is kind of a big deal to let someone not from the USA to vote in a USA election. On the other hand I don’t care at all about voting and I think the whole system is terrbile, reducing my vote to absolutely nothing. So I don’t bother ever voting.
Also, different issue, the DMV is the worst place on earth, probably has something to do with it being government operated. Private sector should take over, as with most things.
We can all go to IDs if we can know who is behind all of the Citizen United dollars. We’ll need to send out a firm who can go mobile to create these IDs. There are some who simply cannot make it to a DMV. Why shouldn’t they be able to vote? Because they might vote for that “other” currently in The White House?
In society you are correct that there is always a small percentage of the polulace that would be physically unable to get to a DMV or other office to complete this transaction. I would think that the government could for this small percentage go to the individuals in question.
Captain Planet, I frankly could care less who they vote for as long as they have the legal right to vote.
Bob – agreed!