Posted on 11/04/2011 10:35:58 AM PDT by rellimpank
A year from now, the people of Wisconsin will be going to the polls to exercise one of the most cherished rights of our democracy: the right to vote. It is the fundamental pillar of our democracy that in the voting booth we are all equal - black or white, young or old, rich or poor. When we cast our ballot, we all raise an equal voice to determine the shape of our government.
Wisconsin legislators would deny that right. Strict new voter identification laws were proposed in 34 states, including our own. Wisconsin's new voter identification restrictions, which passed the Legislature this year, are now the strictest in the country.
Wisconsin's new law requires voters to produce a non-expired Wisconsin or federal government-issued photo identification, prohibiting use of many forms of identification that effectively verify voters' identity, such as student IDs, state employee IDs, out-of-state licenses, expired licenses and even a voter registration card. Touted on the guise of addressing so-called voter fraud, these laws are expensive to implement, disenfranchise voters, create long lines at the polls and do not prevent the very voting problems they purport to address.
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Even the poorest of the poor must have and Photo ID to cash any check that is mailed them.
Try to cash any kind of check without a Photo ID.
“3.) I still don’t care what liberals want or say...CRIMINALS AND ILLEGALS should never ever vote!”
IOW Democrats should never ever vote. :)
This whole issue about the US being a “democracy” should instantly convince people the left is completely full of crap and the press who keeps repeating junk like this is complicit.
Nearly everything the left does is an intentional manipulation and or distortion of the facts.
Our US Constitution, and how it was intended, is a aferthought to the left.
What burns me is everyone on the right side should refuse to respond until the question uses the correct phase..Constitutional Republic!
What burns me is everyone on the right side should refuse to respond to anyone using the word democracy until that person ask the question using the correct phase..Constitutional Republic!
I thought that voter ID was not about verifying a voter's identity, it was about identifying a person as being eligible to vote.
In other words, the person must first have shown a United States birth certificate, naturalization certificate, or United States passport, to indicate that the person is a CITIZEN of the United States, and therefore is allowed to vote.
They cannot just be a resident in the United States. They must be a citizen to vote.
-PJ
There is only one reason liberals oppose voter ID laws. It’s to preserve their ability to engage in voter fraud.
We know this because they always mean the opposite of what they say and they invariably state the “widespread voter fraud is a myth” meme.
“...these laws are expensive to implement...”
Since when did a liberal EVER care about the cost of something that was Defense related?
I’m not sure how they can say “Widespread voter fraud is a myth.”
We can point to at least one ‘Pubbie Congresscritter (Bob Dornan) in California who lost his seat to illegal aliens voting and to at least one district (In Philadelphia PA, I think) that had over 100% of registered winning.
Then there’s Kennedy’s win over Nixon which was a product of Joe Sr.’s influence with the Chicago Machine and the Mob.
And those are just the ones we’ve caught...
The only long lines will be for those that cannot produce an acceptable ID and have not taken the time to procure one. Anyone with the proper verification will go right through.
Logic like this can only come from the MSM.
Yes, they are that stupid.
1. Lack of voter ID law destroys constitutional representative republic.
2. If you are too stupid or lazy to get an ID, you don’t deserve to vote.
“Strict new voter identification laws”
i.e. proving that you are the person that lives at an address within that ward, precinct, or district.
That’s strict apparently. As it stands now, you can check the obituaries from two days ago and walk in and vote.
Voter ID laws protect democracy, you idiots!
Yeah, I think we can just about dismiss the idea that voter fraud is a myth.
Liberals only use laws that support their Marxist urgings, the desire for more Government and the usurpment of the individual right to the benefit of “the Collective” as defined by a lifetime-paid, unionized, pensioned bureaucrat who imposes his or her will on the very same businesses and industries that fund his or her hefty paychecks.
As a Government worker what they produce and they always say, “We paaaaaay taxes, toooooooo:. No product or service produced, no profit, only theft. Military, police and courts, excepted, ever other Government function is useless and corrupt.
WTF??????
If your driver's license is from, let us say, Kentucky ... you should be voting in Kentucky, not Wisconsin.
This objection is complete BS.
student IDs
More BS. A student ID does not necessarily establish residency.
expired licenses
What part of "expired" does this moron not understand?
Really ... is he an idiot, or does he think we're idiots?
Voter ID attacks voter fraud, and nothing else.
These same folks have noooooooooo problem in getting proper documents , to collect, welfare,food stamps,I have not yet heard anybody whine, about what legal documents they must produce to collect benefits and how they had to wait.
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