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Originally Posted by ancap
So enough of the throwing a fit for asking for ID to vote. Its a hell of a lot more important than any of these things because it affects EVERYONE not just you who are to lazy to get ID.
Here in Pennsylvania, the big controversy is not about having a "valid ID" ... but what constitutes a "valid ID" ...
In this state, in order to register to vote, you ALWAYS had to have an ID to identify yourself, and this included a selective service card, a student ID, a US Passport, a birth certificate, an employment ID, etc.
However the requirement is now being tightened to recognize ONLY a Driver's License or a Non-Driver's License issued by a branch of the Department of Motor Vehicles, which involves making a trip to the city or town that is your County Seat, filling out an application, having your picture taken, PAYING A FEE, etc.
It will especially disenfranchise the poor, the elderly, people who don't own cars or know where to find a DMV.
That is the point. Try to make it difficult for the Seniors, for non-drivers, the poor, the minorities to register to vote.
This doesn't bother me much, I have faith the courts understand this and will throw out the more unreasonable efforts to limit or restrict certain groups of American citizens from exercising their right to vote.
Voter fraud runs about 0.000005%. Most manufacturers cannot engineer anything to that tolerance.
It's disgusting how readily you are willing to shut eligible voters out of voting because the GOP tells you to think this way.
That is what happens when you make it all but impossible to find and identify voter fraud... you end up not being able to prove it. Sharia law makes rape go away too, by requiring four male witnesses to the rape.... or it did not happen.
Here in Pennsylvania, the big controversy is not about having a "valid ID" ... but what constitutes a "valid ID" ...
In this state, in order to register to vote, you ALWAYS had to have an ID to identify yourself, and this included a selective service card, a student ID, a US Passport, a birth certificate, an employment ID, etc.
However the requirement is now being tightened to recognize ONLY a Driver's License or a Non-Driver's License issued by a branch of the Department of Motor Vehicles, which involves making a trip to the city or town that is your County Seat, filling out an application, having your picture taken, PAYING A FEE, etc.
It will especially disenfranchise the poor, the elderly, people who don't own cars or know where to find a DMV.
That is the point. Try to make it difficult for the Seniors, for non-drivers, the poor, the minorities to register to vote.
This doesn't bother me much, I have faith the courts understand this and will throw out the more unreasonable efforts to limit or restrict certain groups of American citizens from exercising their right to vote.
In Texas you can register online and only have to check a box saying "yes" to US Citizen.
Here in Pennsylvania, the big controversy is not about having a "valid ID" ... but what constitutes a "valid ID" ...
In this state, in order to register to vote, you ALWAYS had to have an ID to identify yourself, and this included a selective service card, a student ID, a US Passport, a birth certificate, an employment ID, etc.
However the requirement is now being tightened to recognize ONLY a Driver's License or a Non-Driver's License issued by a branch of the Department of Motor Vehicles, which involves making a trip to the city or town that is your County Seat, filling out an application, having your picture taken, PAYING A FEE, etc.
It will especially disenfranchise the poor, the elderly, people who don't own cars or know where to find a DMV.
That is the point. Try to make it difficult for the Seniors, for non-drivers, the poor, the minorities to register to vote.
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How does requiring a drivers license or an I.D. card make it difficult for minorities to register to vote?
I'm not "back to" anything, since I never suggested that. Making up arguments.
That is what you all do. You call voter ID racist, because you claim non-whites can't get an ID.
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