Posted on 05/01/2008 8:00:19 AM PDT by SmithL
The U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling on Indiana's voter ID law will rank as among the court's worst – up there with Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 ruling allowing forced separation of the races. It wasn't overturned until 1954. Here's hoping it doesn't take 58 years to overturn Monday's misguided decision.
The Indiana law is aimed at a phantasm: in-person voter fraud at the polls. In the words of the court's majority, "The record contains no evidence of any such fraud actually occurring in Indiana at any time in its history." To find fraud, the justices went back to New York City in 1868. They also noted one possible case of fraud out of 2.8 million ballots cast in Washington's 2004 election. Yet they upheld the strictest voter ID law in the nation, one that disproportionately hits citizens who are old or young or urban or poor.
Indiana requires voters to show a government-issued photo ID (such as a driver's license) with a current address. This may not sound onerous, but it can be to large groups of people.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Believe it. A friend of mine who is blind, wanted to get a non-driver photo id, in 2002 or 2003, I don't remember exactly. She couldn't open a checking account, never mind vote, in the state she had moved to.
The MV told her to bring 2 forms of id, soc sec card and birth cert.
They didn't match. Her parents had never put her name on her bc, which just referred to her as Baby [Surname].
It took a year and several expensive trips across America to get Vital Statistics to accept the change, and only then would MV grant her application for an id.
You want id from the MV, better not go there with any unusual circumstances. They do not think, they just follow their rules.
Not that there's anything wrong with that! :)
Well there you have it, in Washington, if you don’t like the results of an election you just keep recounting them until the Democrat is elected and then you stop.
It’s all racist, sexist, homophobia!
(/sarcasm)
Well libs are admitting who their base is: illegals.
It’s all about defining the issue. We’re talking about photo ID’s, while the liberals want it to be about Driver’s licenses. The old lady is all about having DMV problems (surprise, surprise). Getting State issued ID is an entirely different matter.
I’ve been a CA pollworker several times also. Two problems as I see it. Other States might not have our fairly good system; each one sets it’s own rults. The fraud potential is not at the polls but in getting on the voting register in the first place; registering for voting is much too easy for a non-citizen or for someone wanting to multiple-register.
Especially non-citizens and dead people.
God forbid that a US citizen should have to show any sort of ID to vote in critical elections. We should assume that everyone is honest, and provide them with Spanish ballots on request. This is clearly an unconstitutional tax on the undocumented! What have we become, a fascist state? How will millions of dead or fictitious shill voters now be able to exercise their rights as Democrats? This is an outrage and cannot stand! /crap
I hadn’t thought of that part of it. If the registration was tight and the ID shown at the poll, that would set up a good two-point check.
Betcha she was told in advance what the supporting documents had to be and whether certified or not. Her process was planned from the start by lawyers itching to build a case.
Someone on this forum told me that his nephew is a police officer in Indiana and that the nephew told him that every illegal alien that he encountered, as an officer, was carrying a Washington State drivers’ license.
My question is what address is on those drivers’ licenses and what address are their ballots sent to, the local ACORN office?
As Justice Brandeis put it in a decision almost a century ago, the states are "legislative laboratories" in which some laws will succeed and spread, others will fail, and not spread. Voter ID laws will spread. That has already begun. The Bee, being Democratic, is simply trying to protect voter fraud in California, nothing more.
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As said before, illegal aliens get driver licenses very easily, and with the motor voter laws they get signed up to vote at the same time. This just keeps dead people and dogs from voting.
And 6 of those 7 are current residents of the city’s cemeteries. :)
Explain to me how hard it is to get a photo ID. If you’re not smart enough in this day & age with all the resources availible to anyone young, old, poor whatever, this country is better off if you don’t vote.
Just be glad you don’t have to produce some evidence of taxes paid to vote.
The Bee is a liberal rag. Of course, the staff wants no ID’s when voting. Illegal vote without any stoppage. Felons vote out here in Ca. The Dems will never give a bill or ruling a chance to stop fraud. They thrive on fraud ala NJ, Ill., Wash. state, Fla. et al. That the in the tank media will never expose this double dealing is just another reason why the alternative media must prevail.
Around here it's $12.
As bad as Plessy? Oh, the drama!
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