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When a ID is issued by a state for free, then is it acceptable?? Many states do, including some of those that Eric Holder has sued in federal court to keep the state from requiring an ID for voters.
Replacement birth certificates to get the ID are not free.
I already answered the question. Do your homework.
I never said "minorities" either.
The only thing that I have seen you type is "there is no voter fraud problem" - a position which flies in the face of facts.
The argument made by another poster is more to the point - they specifically stated that requiring iD would make it hard for minorities to vote.
I'm curious to know whether you agree with that - I also would interested in why you are in support of making it easy for non-citizens to vote - which is what happens when ID is not required.
Republican Mike Turzai, Pennsylvania's House Majority Leader ..."state's new voter-ID law...is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania."
Not a party issue?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Because it will sharply eliminate fraud - I think the inference is that democrats freaking cheat
A bunch of racists in South Carolina are trying to hold down blacks by forcing them, and everybody else, to show photo identification before they can vote.
Astonishing!
Luckily, Attorney General Eric Holder is on it. As he declared in Columbia, S.C., last Martin Luther King Day, the Palmetto State “failed to meet its burden of proving that the voting change would not have a racially discriminatory effect.†Holder’s deputy, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, blocked this provision on December 23, citing “the racial gap that presently exists among photo identification holders in the state.†Specifically, “8.4% of white registered voters lacked any form of DMV-issued ID, as compared to 10.0% of non-white registered voters.†This 1.6-percentage-point gap can mean only one thing: racism.
The only thing that I have seen you type is "there is no voter fraud problem" - a position which flies in the face of facts.
The argument made by another poster is more to the point - they specifically stated that requiring iD would make it hard for minorities to vote.
I'm curious to know whether you agree with that - I also would interested in why you are in support of making it easy for non-citizens to vote - which is what happens when ID is not required.
Demographically, yes, it would affect POOR people more than rich people.
Non-citizens have no interest in showing up to vote and thus invite speculation into their legal status, and the 0.000005% voter fraud rate tells me there is no problem of any significance.
The quote from the Majority leader in Pennsylvania is most telling...guaranteeing Romney wins Pennsylvania as a direct result of voter iD laws.
Are you comfortable with such a skewed, rigged game? I'm not.
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