Posted on 08/15/2012 4:07:19 PM PDT by lbryce
Unabbreviated Title:Maher on Voter ID: Black People Dont Have Picture ID Since They Take the Bus Because Theyre Poor [VIDEO]
Voter identification has become a red-hot issue in this presidential election cycle. One side says its reasonable to expect someone to identify themselves before exercising their right to vote to insure there is no fraud. And the other side suggests that by forcing someone to obtain picture identification places an undue hurdle in their ability to exercise a right.
On HuffPost Live on Tuesday, the Huffington Posts new online streaming video section, HBO Real Time host Bill Maher lashed out against proponents of voter identification and likened such laws to requiring aptitude tests of tea baggers wishing to vote.
The voter registration laws that theyre trying to pass theyre basically suppressing the vote, Maher said. Voter ID you need a picture ID now to vote, you know. Were going to propose, Yeah, well give you that, but then we get to give the tea baggers a literacy test. If youre going to make poor black people jump through a hoop to vote, then were going to make tea baggers answer the question: Is Africa a country or a continent? Name a country that speaks French. You know, things like that.
His argument is that though it sounds reasonable, its not really an issue and is potentially motivated by Republicans wishing to suppress the black vote.
So its crazy but obviously Republicans, because they love the country and because the Constitution, they ask themselves what is that thing that maybe black people cant get to? What do we have that they dont have? Well, they take the bus because theyre poor. So they dont have a car.
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What a maroon.
In order to acquire money legally, be in through a job, state or federal benefits, or anything, one MUST have a valid photo ID.
The only way you get money without a picture ID is through non-legal/criminal avenues.
Is Maher saying that all Black people are getting money illegally? That’s pretty bad...
-PJ
Per the instructions, one of these documents is necessary:
CA ID card
CA drivers licence
passport
birth certificate
The birth certificate is the key to getting the other three documents.
If somebody is old enough to have no living older relatives that can vouch for their age
and
was born at home
Then they will not have even a birth certificate- at most they will have a baptism certificate.
There was a time when that was sufficient to prove age, and the person could open bank accounts and get driving licences et cetera.
I know from experience, my mother in law was bornthe on 1916 and pre-dated these new requirements and due to ill health and reclusiveness didn’t keep up with the changes.
We had no end of trouble when she had go move across country and establish bank accounts and rent an apartment.
All she ever had was the baptism certificate.
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Doesn't a mug shot qualify as a "government photo-ID?
True, very true. I like that.
There’s your million dollar Obama voter, rats!
Well, because Democrats keep telling us, it must be true - black and old people are stupid and have no photo ID, no electricity, eating dog food, riding buses, etc.
Of course, just another 1 trillion dollar a year program and we’ll fix that!
Why is he aiming this at the blacks.The Mexicans are larger than them.It’s easy to get a voter ID.All they have to do is ask for one..I think Maher should give another Mil to his president and help these people out.I spoke with a few blacks on Monday and today.They feel Obama let them down.50 percent will vote for him again and a few are staying home.
Under future TSA regulations they’ll need photo ID to take the bus.
POOR has nothing to do with it.
Don’t you need a photo ID to apply for welfare?
Don’t you need a photo ID to open a bank/checking account?
Don’t you need a photo ID to cash welfare checks?
Don’t you need a photo ID to pay off your 42” flat screen TV?
Don’t you need a photo ID to get an approved photo ID?
Just asking.
Whenever people like Maher try to defend blacks and other minorities, the charges of racism always points back at them, since, in all cases, blacks and other minorities are always painted as dumb and helpless, and can’t be counted on to get even the simplest of tasks accomplished, like, getting a simple ID card before voting. The real racists in the U.S. are those that keep insisting that, their constituency is so brainless and incapable, that, government needs to take care of them, every step of the way, from cradle to grave. That turns those people into dummies and dependents of state, which in essence says that, blacks and minorities are quite incapable. What could be more racist than that? Yet, it must be true that, blacks and other minorities must be dummies, because, they can’t see where the true discrimination and racism is coming from.
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