Posted on 02/16/2014 12:54:39 PM PST by tom h
Truth in American politics today is often stranger than fiction. A vivid example: a rally organized by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP last weekend in Raleigh to protest a voter-identification requirement passed by the Republican-majority legislature and signed into law by a Republican governor. The protesters contended that being compelled to produce a photo ID would disenfranchise poor, elderly, and minority voters, rolling back the clock to the Jim Crow days of the racist South.
Yet here were the “Important Dos and Don’ts for Marchers.” After noting “This march and rally will be conducted in a peaceful and nonviolent manner in accordance with the historic custom of the civil-rights movement,” participants were told “DO bring photo identification (driver’s license, passport, or other valid photo ID) with you and keep on your person at all times.” So the Republicans in North Carolina were trying to disenfranchise blacks via voter-ID laws, but the state NAACP’s requirement of the same for marching in a protest rally is not offensive? Oh, the irony.
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I think we never see this statistic because the number is phenomenally small -- I'd guess 1 in 1,000 or less.
Any Freepers have the facts? From unbiased sources?
I can’t answer your question but I can tell you this. My late mother never had a driver’s license but had a valud DMV issued photo ID till the day she died at the age of 87.
The Blacks should support this—its aimed at illegal Aliens voting! As Latino illegals advance, they deminish the power and jobs of blacks!
"F" in "hypocrites".
I’ll try to look but I seem to recall that some study found that it was less than 2 percent that had no ID.
William Barber, AKA Revrund Soul-blow the Buffet-slayer, is nothing more than a Rev Al wannabe. I’ve listened to his antics recently and he is hater, holding on to the “Us against Them” method of community organizing. He’s also not against bringing in shock rental troops from out-of-state to try to inflate his importance and impact. The numbers his group puts out about the “attendance” at his “rallies” is laughable at best. A race baiter of the worse kind...
I do not drive. I carry a state ID. Last time I had paid $16 for it. I went in December to get a new one (name change). I filled out my paperwork and showed my docs to them. As I finished up, I took out my wallet to pay. The guy told me there was no charge for IDs for voting. I told him it was not just for voting and he shrugged and told me no charge. I will be going back after going to SS to get the federal one and he told me they would not charge me then either. I was taken aback.
Bottom line is there is no reason not to get one. Of course, you do need a birth certificate or other documents. Isn’t that also necessary to get all those freebies?
Thanks tom h.
Clarence Thomas is right about race
CNN | 02/16/2014 | Ruben Navarrette
Posted on 2/16/2014 6:35:08 PM by SeekAndFind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3123737/posts
Since November 2013 you have to produce a picture ID at your doctors office. At least I do??? Guess trust only goes so far.
One buys a ticket and ten gets in.
Vote early and vote often.
Choose only one.
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