(Gwen) Moore (D, WI): Voter ID Card Disenfranchises

Madison.com via AP Wire ^ | October 25, 2005 | Dimesh Ramde

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wisconsin 'Rats scramble to save their stake in Voter Fraud.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wisconsin 'Rats scramble to save their stake in Voter Fraud.

[sgtbono2002]

Just bring in the stub off an old welfare check.

[gridlock]

I somebody has voted five times in each previous election, and then is limited by new rules to voting only once, hasn't he been disenfranchised?

[AbeKrieger]

If voter turnout goes down because we have ensured that only legitimate voters have voted, and only voters that WENT TO THE POLLS PERSONALLY have voted (unlike how they do it in Philly) does that count as disenfranchisement?

[AbeKrieger]

I'll be happy to spend $5 tax dollars per voter to make sure positive, bar-coded identification is provided to each voter.

[Izzy Dunne]

Judge Harold Murphy said Georgia's voter ID law indirectly imposes an unconstitutional poll tax because of the cost of obtaining an ID

Then there is no way out.

There's nothing the government can require, that wouldn't constitute a "poll tax", is there?

[Vaquero]

yes it would disinfranchise those poor dead people who would like to vote, over and over again.

They could call this the Mayor Dailey voter protection act.

[evolved_rage]

Time for the purple inkpots we see in the middle east.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Georgia's voter ID law indirectly imposes an unconstitutional poll tax because of the cost of obtaining an ID, and the law was more broad than necessary to prevent voter fraud.

Failed to mention two things:
First, the law in GA allowed the poor to get the license for free, and even provided assistance such as mobile neighborhood service.
Second it failed to note that the poor and minorities in AL already have to show voter IDs. I guess the poor and minority in AL are made of tougher stuff than in GA. (Of course AL votes Red State, perhaps because the voter fraud in nipped in the bud.)

[TChris]

Doggone it!!! The dead and imaginary people have the right to vote too!

[NormalGuy]

poll workers sometimes forgot to tear up the pink voter numbers that kept count of voters for each ballot distributed. The result, she said, was that the same voter number might have been used more than once.
BY THE PRECINCT CAPTAIN. should be appended to the end of this statement when in Crook County, IL.

[Sulsa]

I hope Congressman Green continues pushing for this Voter ID Bill. It will ferret out all the 'rats that will oppose it, essentially coming out and saying, "Hey! I think voter fraud is ok!"

[xcamel]

disenfranchises \disenfranchises\ adj.
deprived of the rights of committing fraud, especially the right to vote illegally. Opposite of enfranchises.

Syn: disfranchised, voteless, democrat.
[WordNet 1.5]

[NormalGuy]

move three times a year, so the address on their ID isn't current. ... AND THE ADDRESS ON THEIR VOTER REGISTRATION ?

[Colonel_Flagg]

The committee invited Moore to sit with the panel for the hearing, although she is not a member of the committee.

Any idea why this happened?

[angkor]

"There are poor people with no stability who move three times a year, so the address on their ID isn't current. You've got people who can't afford a car, so they don't have a driver's license," Moore said.

It's also unfair to force Milwaukee's dead and incarcerated voters, who have previously been able to vote "anonymously". Not to mention the three- and five-precinct voters who will now have to be ID'd at each polling place.

[Terabitten]

There's nothing the government can require, that wouldn't constitute a "poll tax", is there?

Not quite. One of the ideas for a solution being tossed around here in Georgia is to issue the voter ID at the DMV, free of charge. The driver's liscense could be used in lieu of the voter ID card at the polling place.

That way, there is no "poll tax" on either the rich or the poor, and the voter ID cards will be readily available.

[NormalGuy]

move three times a year, so the address on their ID isn't current. ... AND THE ADDRESS ON THEIR VOTER REGISTRATION ?

[MediaMole]

Robinson said poll workers sometimes forgot to tear up the pink voter numbers that kept count of voters for each ballot distributed. The result, she said, was that the same voter number might have been used more than once.

What a steaming pile... The pink voter number slips are on a pad like note paper. Voters are given this pink slip along with their ballot. When the voter puts his ballot into the machine, the pink slip is kept by a poll worker.