A picture is worth one thousand words — or at least one vote. But not if U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has his way. Holder claims that the requirement passed by many states that voters must present a photo identification when casting a ballot is discriminatory and will serve to obstruct the voting rights of minorities.
How can the process of casting a ballot for those individuals who will set the course of your local or national governments be a less important activity than cashing a check, buying a beer or renting a car, all of which require a photo ID?
For all of these activities, requiring identification is for one simple purpose — to validate that the individual is exactly who they claim to be. The same holds true for casting a ballot, voters are only being asked to prove that they have the right to elect those officials with their ballots.
In fact, at the same Houston conference where Mr. Holder recently declared his opposition to requiring photo identification to vote, members of the media were required to “present government-issued photo ID (such as a driver’s license) as well as valid media credentials to gain entry to the annual conference to cover their proceedings.”
Popular arguments claim that requiring identification to vote discriminates against minority groups, senior citizens and college students. With IDs required for nearly every function of daily life, it’s hard to imagine how one could not have a photo ID. Even welfare programs, which disproportionately cater to the same minority and senior population supposedly disenfranchised as a result of ID requirements to vote, commonly require a photo ID for enrollment.
Requiring a picture ID to vote is the most effective way to ward off voter fraud. Troubling voters to provide the same verification required to buy a pack of cigarettes or see an R-rated movie is a small price to pay to ensure elections are clean and fair.
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Less important? Try so much more important that denying a person their vote for specious reasons is unacceptable and should be punished.
And yes, your feigned concern for voter fraud is just that. You want to know how elections are compromised? With the few people running the show, not some individuals pretending to be others.
But hey, all you have to do is commit to ensuring everybody has acceptable ID available to them and you can solve most of the objections. Or will you wave your hands over the terrible costs involved?
You know what's a huge price? Denying one legitimate voter their access. That is far more expensive than you realize.
You idiots at the Free Press should read this article and I challenge anyone that reads this Free Press article to follow it up with the one I've provided.
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/
When is the Free Press going to start presenting facts? All you idiots spew is Right-wing propaganda. You can't shake it. You don't even care about the facts. Because if you did, you would realize how terrible the argument is for voter ID and how you are advocating the blatant disenfranchisement of around 10% of eligible voters. You want to keep these people from voting because you feel that it gives your side an edge. You feel that these minorities, young people and seniors are potential Democrats and you want to keep them out of the voting booth.
I never heard of any real American being turned away at the ballot box and not getting the chance to vote???
We never used to need voter ID cards because we never had hordes of foreigners in our country.
When the government throws open the borders its kinda hard to believe they want to keep foreigners from voting. they ignore the wishes of the people and bring in foreigners. So states try to pass voter ID legislation to protect Americans. then the federal government always tries to get such protections for real Americans struck down.
But the bottom line here is, it doesn't matter which party gets elected. Does anybody think it really matters?
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Don't throw away your vote, join the take back America party.
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Never heard of it? Maybe you need to call Lincoln Davis then. Maybe you need to call the League of Women Voters who keep records of these things. Or do you not believe something because you've never heard of it? Well, I've never heard of anybody pretending to be somebody else in order to vote. Not foreigners, not native citizens. I guess it really doesn't happen.
So...maybe you're the one who has a problem with proving your case. The states aren't trying to protect Americans, they're trying to do the same thing they did back in the old days, when they'd pass literacy tests and poll taxes (with "grandfather clauses" that strangely lined up with the repeal of slavery), cut out a portion of the citizenry from voting.
Sorry, but you're one the wrong side. Even leaving your conspiracy theories aside.
Holder needs to be brought to justice for the murder of Brian Terry, and subsequent cover-up. He needs to spend the rest of his natural life in prison.
Will we see Ashcroft in prison too?
JonRoss,
You're a natural-born idiot, amigo.
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