EDITORIAL: Call for caution on voter ID

Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 5/2/8 | Editor

[SmithL]

The dead will always find a way to vote in Memphis.

[SmithL]

Ophelia Ping

[Yo-Yo]

The Supreme Court's approval of the country's strictest election standards doesn't mean every state should adopt them -

Well, yes actually, it does.

[L98Fiero]

That read almost word for word like a DNC press release.

[mgc1122]

Yeah, let’s not rush into FAIR HONEST ONE CITIZEN ONE VOTE elections now ...

/ rat mode

[Yankee]

The Indiana photo ID law, one of the nation's toughest ballot protection statutes, was approved by Republicans on a strict, party-line vote. Concerns expressed recently about the protection of the ballot in Mississippi have come from the GOP side, as well.

Well duh.

Maybe it is because their opponents, the Democrats, routinely register ineligible voters such as convicted felons, illegal aliens and even dead people, and bus other voters from polling place to polling place to cast multiple votes.

[rellimpank]

--the Denver Post had an even worse editorial on this a few days ago--the readers mostly set them straight-- ---http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_9098034?source=pop_section_opinion

[Yo-Yo]

The dead will always find a way to vote in Memphis.

If the dead can run for Senate in Missouri (Mel Carnahan,) then why shouldn't the dead be allowed to vote?

[null and void]

Ahhhhh, from Tennesee, the state that provided ID to terrorists...

Five Men with Mideast Ties Indicted in License Scam (Tennessee License Scandal)

TENN DRIVER LICENSE SCANDAL: FLAMING DEATH NO ACCIDENT, FBI SAYS

Car fire set off suspicions as crew fought it (Smith Tennesee License Scandal)

License suspect had WTC repair pass, but Port Authority did its own work [Tennessee License Scandal] The pass gave him access to the buildings' sprinkler systems. I bet he "fixed" them real good. Treason is not too strong a word.

...and is busy banging out license plates for as many illegal aliens as they can

Man charged with selling license plates to illegal immigrants

[Sgt_Schultze]

[varon]

The dead will always find a way to vote in Memphis.

Especially if they use the Death Certificate as ID ;-)

[iopscusa]

A slight historic ommission by this ignorant Editor:
It was the Dems/Dixiecrats with their enforcers the KKK, that fought to discourage African-Americans from exercising their rights. As usual the Republicans get no credit for their principled stand for the right to fair & honest Voting....please donot let these rasce baiters get away with their false history!

[weegee]

So why do I need to show an ID to get on a plane? The hijackers on 9-11 had IDs. Wouldn’t have stopped the hijacking.

And the guy who plotted to use chemical bombs carried on by passengers is dead but they’ll still throw out my toothpaste at the airport as I go through security.

The voter rolls are padded with people who no longer or never existed. They can get IDs to appear at the polls as all of those people, but for now they just need to get a card in the mail and anyone can walk into the polling center with that card.

[Niteranger68]

I tell my few Democrat friends that they better get to the polls early on election day or they might find out that I have voted for them. Talk about hissy fits.....

[VeniVidiVici]

Notice it is only left-wing, Democrat supporters that are howling about this.

It’s because they know their fraudulent voters just got blown away.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, I think what they mean is that the Supreme Court ruling doesn’t require that states have voter ID requirements. The ruling was that Indiana’s law was constitutional. Clearly this paper disagrees with the ruling and thinks other states shouldn’t adopt this type of law.

[count-your-change]

“Overly strict voter identification laws are so divisive they are not really worth the fight, sapping energy from the real problems faced by lawmakers.”
hmmmm....? Like staying out of jail per the “Tennessee Waltz” investigations?

[FastCoyote]

[The real issue with voter ID laws revolves around the perception that they discourage voting among older, poorer, mostly minority and mostly Democratic voters.]

Add in criminals, and the insane (who are mostly Democrats too) and I think we have a winner.

And no, I’m not a racist for leaving the minorities out, it’s the Democrats who have the plantation mentality.

[tet68]

Hmmmmmm.

In the South, fights over voter identification laws are too reminiscent of the bad old days of voter intimidation — in the form of poll taxes, citizenship tests and the like — that were clearly intended to discourage African-Americans from exercising their rights.

Those examples are what, a hundred years old or MORE!

[Yo-Yo]

Well, I think what they mean is that the Supreme Court ruling doesn’t require that states have voter ID requirements.

My interpretation was that the newspaper was opining that even though the Supreme Court said such ID laws were legal, it's not a good idea to have them.

I disagreed, and think all states should have a voter ID requirement.