Posted on 04/23/2006 12:12:33 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
The U.S. Justice Department gave its approval Friday to a Georgia law requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls.
Groups challenging the law said they will seek an injunction to block it, making it unclear whether it would be in effect for elections this year.
Supporters - including Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue, who signed the measure earlier this year - say it is needed to crack down on voter fraud. Opponents say it unfairly discriminates against minorities, the poor and the elderly, who are less likely to have a driver's license.
Under the law, voters who do not have a license can get a state-issued photo ID for free.
Opponents to a similar bill that passed last year were granted an injunction, so legislators made changes. Emmet Bondurant, a lawyer for a coalition of voter and public interest groups suing over the law, called the changes "cosmetic and superficial."
And former Gov. Roy Barnes, a Democrat, recently filed a class action suit alleging that the law violates the state constitution.
The law makes Georgia one of seven states to require photo identification at the polls.
Under federal law, changes in election procedures in the South and other parts of the country with a history of discrimination require Justice Department approval.
The Justice Department decision came in a letter from John Tanner, chief of the voting rights section.
(That was, of course, a rhetorical question?)
Which makes the noisy objections fraudulent.
If I'm remembering correctly, I think Georgia's law also had provisions for a mobile unit that would go to the voter's home if transportation was a problem.
Go Georgia!
Does this mean that illegal aliens won't be able to vote in Georgia?
The State even funded a van to go around to Nursing Homes and poor neighborhoods and produce the IDs.
The Dems still decry the ID requirement as a Jim Crow Poll Tax. They are terrified it will cut back on multiple voting.
The fact is that it discriminates against those that are either lazy, dumb, or out and out frauds.
That may well include minorities, the poor, and the elderly. Toss in a few million white folks, and about 535 Congress members, trying to benefit from social government programs (reads careers in spending more tax money) and you have a bead on the problem.
That depends on how fast those in the fake ID business adapt to the new changes. Will they become better at producing quality documents or will they have to bribe more state employees?
In today's business world there are so many obstacles set up by government that it's a never-ending battle for the small businessman, don't'cha know. (Tra-la tra-la!)
The Dems always leave this part out when bitching about how it hurts poor people!
Minorities not being able to vote multiple times is a huge problem for the democrats who count on voter fraud to win elections.
Anyone caught engaging in any form of voter fraud should be given 10 years in federal prison. That would make them think better of it.
I wouldn't blame this on minorities. The party leaders (Dem. party leaders aren't minorities) are responsible. And they don't care if the cemetery residents are majority or minority - every one of those votes counts!
So how are they able to cash payroll checks or get a loan from one of those Payday loan stores then?
Then I don't get what the heck is going on. What was it that prompted the Georgia legislators to enact this new voter ID law, do you know?
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