[sickoflibs]

In Maryland there are strict penalties for not checking ID to buy alcohol and the state happily give drivers licenses to illegals, but everyone has the right to vote without identification. We also let felons vote including convicted traitors, a recent law passed under democrats. But we take away fathers drivers licenses over child support, I guess they can still vote..

[American Quilter]

Major barf alert.

[Nat Turner]

gotta love the B-more S(h)un

[Slapshot68]

“But there’s no mistaking the trouble with this ruling - it gives a green light to those who want to impose contemporary versions of poll taxes and literacy tests.”

What an idiot, showing a photo ID simply means you’re stating you are who you say you are...it has nothing to do with your educational or financial standing.

[contemplator]

But we take away fathers drivers licenses over child support, I guess they can still vote..

They shoudln't be taking away the license completely, just suspending them indefinitely. To say that someone loses their license is typically a misnomer, they retain the license but have a suspended stamp put on it.

[C210N]

the nation's ignominious history of disenfranchising certain groups...

Oh, I Agree! We must not repeat in our voting laws the hideous mistake we're currently making in disenfranchising certain groups from purchasing liquor and cigarrettes as well as disenfranchising certain other groups from cashing checks. Its shocking that we even restrict some groups (those without a library card) from just borrowing library books!

[gunservative]

These are the same clowns who would scream and howl if the courts demanded that state welfare recipients be drug tested.

[YOUGOTIT]

I would never live in Maryland or buy anything from there. They are , in my opinion, (the Democrats I mean) anti-American.

[Phantom Lord]

guaranteeing that more Americans could be denied one of the most basic rights in a democracy.

Two problems.

1) We are not a democracy.

2) You have no constitutional right to vote in federal elections.

[MarkT]

A father who has had his driver’s license taken because he failed to pay child support can still vote in Maryland. As I understand it, he must carry the child to the voting booth.

[jmaroneps37]

Don’t worry ratmedia, there is NO chance Maryland would enfore fraud free electins even if the USSC specifically ordered it to do so. I’m sure we will see 105% of registered voters turning out in B’more and Philly as usual.

[jincarolina]

my husband and I are (I hate to say this) in the elderly category, no problem for us. I think everybody that votes have sense enough to get an ID card.

[jincarolina]

my husband and I are (I hate to say this) in the elderly category, no problem for us. I think everybody that votes have sense enough to get an ID card.

[Cementjungle]

It sure is taking the MSM a long time to produce even one such disenfranchised voter... one would think they would be parading all sorts of people in front of us who can’t vote because they can’t afford to get a photo ID.

If that was the DNC’s true worry then they would organize bus trips taking people to go get ID’s just like they now organize busses to take people to the polls.

[GMMC0987]

An amusing aspect of of all the fuss over ID requirements is that here in Indiana you have to show photo ID to purchase over the counter cough medicines that contain codeine.

[rockrr]

“...closer to the democratic ideal...”

Indeed. Welcome to the DNC. Vote early, vote often. Don’t let a little thing like being an illegal alien, a felon, or dead stop you...

[Americanexpat]

So who the hell is being disenfranchized, the dead or illegals?

[Mygirlsmom]

What Documents Will I Need to Provide to Social Security? You may need to provide some documents that are required to process your application. When you finish your electronic application, we will tell you what documents you need to submit and where to submit them. The types of documents we may ask for are:
* Your original birth certificate or other proof of birth;
* Your original citizenship or naturalization papers;
* Your U.S. military service paper(s) (e.g., DD214 - Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty);
* Your W-2 form(s) and/or self-employment tax returns for last year.

The elderly presumably have already gone through an identifying process to be able to claim Social Security and Medicare benefits. Couldn't have been too hard.

The real question is why would a party of "compassion" want to doom anyone it purports to want to help to a life "in the shadows" that lack of identification would force upon them?

[detective]

Maryland is an corrupt, one party state. Elections in Maryland are much like elections in the former Soviet Union.

[Condor51]

But there's no mistaking the trouble with this ruling - it gives a green light to those who want to impose contemporary versions of poll taxes and literacy tests.

Whoa... when did they outlaw literacy tests? Heck, literacy tests should be mandatory for everyone. After all do we want illiterate moron Congressmen writing our laws?

Huh? Oh ... they're talking about 'Voting', not those running for Congress. Okay ... never mind.

[HowardLSmith.ô¿ô]

The Supreme Court has opened the door!

It is time for us to use the courts more actively to stop the illegal voting in those states that do not require IDs.

We need to start class action lawsuits demanding protection for votes placed by legal voters in states that encourage voting from unidentifiable persons.

Everyone from these states who know lawyers with big futures should float this idea, it is a definite winner and fast route to the SC.