In Flap over S. Carolina Law, Old Tensions and a Campaign Issue

Yahoo News via Reuters ^ | January 15, 2011 | Andy Sullivan

[justiceseeker93]

Columbia, South Carolina (REUTERS) - The state that fired the first shot in the Civil War is once again battling the government in a racially charged conflict that is drawing heated rhetoric from Republican presidential candidates.

South Carolina is in a standoff with Democratic President Barack Obama's administration over a new state law that would require residents to produce a photo ID before they could vote. Federal officials say it could disproportionately keep black voters away from the polls.

Republican candidates are waving the banner of states' rights as they tout their small-government credentials.

[justiceseeker93]

Democrats again are playing the race card in opposing voter ID laws. They are well aware that (1) even if only 20% of blacks nationally voted Republican, their chances of winning the White House would shrink to near zero and (2) photo IDs for voters hamper their vote fraud schemes.

The MSM here is playing on the Democrat mantra that voter ID is a racial issue, going so overboard as to bring up comparisons to the Civli War. My intuitive guess is that the majority of black voters in South Carolina have little objection to the voter ID requirement and do not see it as racist at all.

[Molon Labbie]

Cripes, is this argument still going on? Everyone has ID already, you can’t do anything in this nation without it.

This Dem argument is just so they continue with dead voter fraud.

[paul51]

About 200,000 registered voters in South Carolina do not have a driver's license or other state-issued ID, according to the state election commission

So get one

[Cowboy Bob]

Where are all these people without ID? They should come forward and declare themselves.

I bet there aren't any...

[davisfh]

"Federal officials say it could disproportionately keep black voters away from the polls."

Their big fear is that voter ID would disproportionately keep them from voting multiple times and voting in lieu of people who are dead. One doesn't have to be a genius to see through this sham.

[blueyon]

I truly think if someone wants to vote they can get a photo ID by the time voting comes around, end of subject........unless..................you want to cheat and vote numerous times

[justiceseeker93]

Ping!!!

[upchuck]

I predict Holder and "his people" will loose this one big time. The SC law is virtually identical to the Indiana law which passed SCOTUS review.

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[justiceseeker93]

Their big fear is that voter ID would disprotionately keep them from voting multiple times and voting in lieu of people who are dead.

You hit the nail on the head!

[left that other site]

I have to present an ID several times a day just to get into a gated communitiesy to give a guitar lesson.

I think VOTING is a wee bit more important and deserving of an ID than that.

[left that other site]

communitiesy= community

[jiggyboy]

Ah, you’ve missed a point: I’d bet that some of those “registered voters in South Carolina” are dead.

[Free Vulcan]

And yet Obama wants to create an Internet ID for everybody to protect us from fraud.

[thecodont]

There’ll be biometric ID voting. Harder to cheat, but what a box of nightmares that will open.

[buckalfa]

"I predict Holder and "his people" will loose this one big time. The SC law is virtually identical to the Indiana law which passed SCOTUS review

The ID law is subject to DOJ review and approval under the Federal Voting Rights Act. SC's voter ID law will never stand.

[noblog4me]

About 200,000 registered voters in South Carolina do not have a driver's license or other state-issued ID, according to the state election commission

You need a ID to register to vote in SC.
Why would you not have one now?

[bgill]

The merely the GOP wanting to get rid of everyone but Romney. It’s been Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney since 2008 and they’re going to push and push and push until he’s in the WH. We, the People, mean nothing to them. Our votes mean nothing.

[justiceseeker93]

The ID law is subject to DOJ review and approval under the Federal Voting Rights Act.

I believe that provision of the Federal Voting Rights Act is applicable only to states which have had a history of Jim Crow, i.e., the states of the Old Confederacy and perhaps some border states.

My feeling is that we've reached a point in our history where we can safely and fairly repeal that specific provision, but you can bet that the Obama-Holder DOJ will attempt to block the SC ID law. In that event, I believe that SC could file suit against the DOJ in federal court, and that the AG of SC has already announced the intention to do so.

[buckalfa]

I strongly agree the historical basis for the law is no more. The reality is the federal courts will uphold the VRA and the powers it gives the DOJ. Only Congress can kill this beast of a law, and like other dictitorial acts committed by the current administration, I have yet to see a GOP legislator raise a finger in opposition.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.