Posted on 04/30/2014 1:38:39 PM PDT by cotton1706
Critics of tough voter ID laws are running out of time and options in their efforts to knock down those barriers ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
Opponents got good news last week, when a state judge struck down Arkansas’s law, and another jolt Tuesday, when a federal judge ruled Wisconsin’s law, which wasn’t yet in effect, was unconstitutional.
But their enthusiasm could be short-lived. At least eight states are still slated to have strict photo ID requirements in place in November, leading voting rights advocates to send dire warnings about potential disenfranchisement at the polls this year. Yet on Capitol Hill, the voter ID issue remains as partisan as ever, forcing even the sponsors of bills softening those rules to concede that their legislation has no chance of moving through a divided Congress in 2014.
“My bill probably doesn’t have a lot of hope to it right now,” said Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), who’s pushing a proposal essentially nullifying many of the state-based ID requirements enacted in recent years, mostly by GOP legislatures, in the name of tackling election fraud.
Instead, Democrats, advocates and other voter ID critics see their best hope in passing an update to the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the 1965 civil rights law that the Supreme Court gutted last summer.
Sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), the 2014 Voting Rights Act Amendment (VRAA) explicitly empowers states to adopt tougher voter ID requirements — an inclusion designed to attract conservative support — but it could also force some of those states to scale back those ID laws, a possibility being cheered by liberal voting rights advocates.
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They just want to stop the laws from being used THIS YEAR, that is, in November.
And Sensenbrenner needs to go too! That proposed law should die THIS CONGRESS!!
No problem. Create photo ID on the spot at every poling place.
God help you if facial recognition software says you tried to vote twice.
“No problem. Create photo ID on the spot at every poling place.
God help you if facial recognition software says you tried to vote twice.”
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MOST EXCELLENT IDEA! Just add electronic capturing of fingerprint (or thumbprint) to the quick photo along with a unique ID linked to the voting registry. Require it in ALL elections which have a federal office on the ballot and make it a FELONY to obtain multiple ballots. Require the captured data (without any personally identifiable data other than the unique voting registry ID) to be compiled and forwarded to a national center to look for any matches. This would be relatively easy to do and not all that expensive (assuming that NONE of the IDIOTIC, INCOMPETENT DimocRAT IT croneys were awarded the contracts).
There. Fixed it.
Just show them the ID you use to cash your welfare check to buy alcohol and cigarettes with.
Is this why dems want to ram through the appointments of federal judges before the midterms? Most of that activity probably aimed at swing states.
That's a mighty big assumption you have there, House....
To my knowledge, the voter-integrity opponents (because that’s exactly what they are) have yet to produce a SINGLE individual who would be prevented from voting or from getting the required I.D.
Isn’t proof of harm required before these cases have any merit whatsoever?
They not only give out free ID’s for people who can prove they're eligible to vote, but we also have mobile units going around the State so they can't cry ‘no access’, either.
I thought 50% of Dem voters had an Id it’s called a Tombstone!
However, Levin is absolutely right. No need to be firing away at people who are at least trying to get the right types elected.
Let’s see...requiring voter ID would lessen possibility of voter fraud.
Q: Who would oppose that?
A: The folks who would benefit from voter fraud.
Q: Anyone else?
A: ?
Q: Which legal voters’ rights would be violated if it is required they produce ID to cast their ONE vote?
A: ?
Has anyone come up with legitimate answers to those questions?
Yes, among other desired policy changes that they won’t be able to achieve through normal electoral process. Thanks to life tenure for federal judges, 0bama’s stench will linger for decades after he leaves office.
Or bring a copy of your ‘rap’ sheet!
Besides TOLLING INTERSTATES, imposing AMNESTY, I CANNOT think of any issue more than outlawing proof of who your are to vote that will PROVE, ONCE AND FOR ALL, that us Republicans can work with the Obama and the Democrats.
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