[SampleMan]

I'd love to see fingers getting dipped in ink as well.

[Beth528]

I don't know if that is the law here in Texas, but we do have to show a photo ID when we go to vote...I think that is a good thing..and think everyone in every state should have to do that..I was kidding around with the lady and ask her if my mother had voted yet.she looked and said she isn't on here does she live in another county..I told her then I was kidding..She did not get angry she said that should be the question people ask about their dead relatives so they can make sure no one is using the name..

[concerned about politics]

A good first step would be to require every voter to show a photo ID.

But.....but.....then Mexico, dead people, and rabid multi voting liberals wouldn't be able to decide our elections for us. Oh no! What now? What now?

I would have been against a voter government ID in the past, but the moral and ethical past is gone. The inmates have taken over the asylum, and it's time to get serious about legal and singular voting. I see no alternative. It's the only way to guarantee a fair election.
There will be ID card fraud, so the government would have to account for that and make the cards as unreproducible as possible - like currency.

[BenLurkin]

Discriminates . . .


. . . against the democrat party.

[AbeKrieger]

Just look at who stands against actually positively identifying voters: race hustlers, democrats, unions, poverty pimps, ACLU... you know it is the right thing to do.

Yes, the vote tally will go down... but only because illegitimate voters will no longer "vote". Turnouts in heavily minority districts will sink back to the 20-25% that actually go to the polling place, if Dem ward leaders can no longer cast votes "on behalf" of those who chose not to show up.

[luvbach1]

We desperately need reform in this area. Illegal advocates are launching a voter registration drive to gain 1,000,000 new hispanic voters (citizenship be damned)by November. As usual the problem is existing law that is not being enforced; i.e., no proof of citizenship required either to register or to vote.And as usual, the remedy is clear (ID cards) as is the impediment (lack of will to do anything substantive).

[Zeppelin]

*****Few concepts matter more in a republican democracy*****

...arent we a democratic republic?

[ozoneliar]

Couldn't somebody file an equal protection clause lawsuit? They could claim that by not reuiring photo ID they are being robbed of their right to a republican form of goverment. Because of the vote fraud that is inherent when there is no photo ID.

I'm just coming off my Con. Law final exam; not that, that means I have any idea what I'm talking about!

By the way I'm offically done with my first year of law school; probably the most intense year I've had.

[azhenfud]

I went to vote Tuesday and gave them my name and address. When I laid my driver's license before the lady, she chuckled and said, "We don't require those, Mr. Davis." I told her they ought to, but six or seven of the poll workers know me by my first name - not by what some call me - so I guess they felt like I was legit.

[Uncle Hal]

Why we do not require some form of ID when voting has always been a mystery to me. Also when registering we should require proof of citizenship.

[Yo-Yo]

National IDs! (Not)