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Supreme Court appears likely to back voter ID law
CNN Washington Bureau ^ | January 9, 2008 | Bill Mears

Posted on 01/09/2008 8:22:32 PM PST by My_Name_is_a_Number

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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

It’s a amazing that anyone can not see the benefits of having this law. If anyone feels “disenfranchised” they can always get a “free” identification card from the BMV. Did I mention it’s “free?”


201 posted on 01/11/2008 7:26:06 PM PST by pctech
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To: Repeal 16-17
We are over-ID'd. ID for this, ID for that, ID to travel, ID to buy $5 worth of stuff at the hardware store, ID to buy a movie ticket...

I, however, never show my ID (even when I have it). I always say I forgot to bring it. What about the privacy factor? Do we want everyone to know our height, weight, age, address, etc etc. And now they want an ID to vote. No, I'm sick of it. I've had enough.

202 posted on 01/11/2008 7:37:50 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (...dreams of a Utopia - a land where Libs do not exist...)
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To: khnyny
If the Republicans do not win in 2008, we can all kiss a conservative Supreme Court good-bye.

Do you mean if a conservative Republican does not win in 2008? ;)

203 posted on 01/11/2008 8:57:27 PM PST by Ymani Cricket
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To: Ymani Cricket
exactly, this year we are screwed either way. gingsberg is waiting to step down , there's been reports that she falls asleep during court now she should have been gone long ago because of her sanity
204 posted on 01/12/2008 5:37:47 AM PST by manc
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

I live in Indiana. I have not heard anyone complain that they could not obtain proper photo ID, and I have not heard anyone complain about having to provide photo ID to vote.

In fact, the media here has failed to produce anyone that I know of that claimed they were not able to vote because of our photo ID law. All they seem to be able to come up with are hypothetical examples of how “thousands” of people might or could be disinfranchised. Their favorite example is the one of the elderly and/or handicapped person who has no transportation and can’t get to an appropriate location to get an ID in time to vote. (Funny how these very same people can get transportation to the voting booth when their Democrat votes are needed.)

As far as I can see, having to present photo ID to vote in Indiana makes it a little harder to cheat and the Democrats don’t like that. The new mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard (R) just may have been aided in his well-deserved win by the photo ID law.


205 posted on 01/12/2008 6:02:25 AM PST by JACKRUSSELL
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

The ones they claimed who will be disinfranchised are the ones for the most part committing the frauds.

LOL.

John


206 posted on 01/12/2008 8:24:20 AM PST by Diggity
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To: cquiggy

requiring votes to be cast only in the state where you received the ID...

I would think that EVERY state would go for this since it would take the question of residency off the table and ‘force’ people to declare where they live - as a tax issue, not so much a voting issue. Making people do it for voting purposes is simply a back-door approach to tax revenue, if you think about it. Wouldn’t states be in favor of it?


207 posted on 01/12/2008 8:35:13 AM PST by Dasaji (The U.S.A. is the Land of Opportunity and you've got 50 states to do it in!)
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

Good. Now just make sure every state implements it: you must have a valid driver’s license to vote!


208 posted on 01/12/2008 11:55:09 AM PST by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number
This ranks up there with the lawsuits against fingerprinting welfare recipients, because of the "stigma" attached.

I've been a civil servant and I've worked for a Big 8/6/5 accounting firm. I've also served jury duty and have been called several times for questionaires. In all those years, I must've been fingerprinted between 10 and 20 times.

209 posted on 01/12/2008 7:08:29 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
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To: SuziQ

“The integrity of the voting process MUST be upheld, or all elections could be considered questionable.”

Elections are only “considered questionable” when CONSERVATIVE Republicans win.


210 posted on 01/14/2008 8:48:28 PM PST by RTO (What will you do without freedom?)
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number
I hope they uphold the Indiana law. If people other than citizens vote in this country in mass numbers, then it ceases to be a democracy.

Too long have democrats parceled out our sovereignty to the most ambitious and unethical. Too long have the rights and voice of America citizens been ignored and diluted.

211 posted on 01/14/2008 10:07:42 PM PST by TheThinker (Hollywood: The Democrats Propaganda Arm)
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

I have to show ID for such mundane tasks as writing a check at the grocery store.

Voting is such a sacred duty that proving who you are is so essential that this should have ben decided long ago.


212 posted on 01/15/2008 9:29:04 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

And now they want an ID to vote. No, I’m sick of it. I’ve had enough.

Don’t come to Florida. No ID = no vote.
And we are quite comfortable with it.

But hey, you have fun with that no vote thing, since this is going to pass.


213 posted on 01/15/2008 5:40:48 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Good luck trying that when you need to board an airliner :-)


214 posted on 01/17/2008 6:20:13 PM PST by RightWingConspirator (Redefeat Communism by defeating Hitlary in 2008)
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