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To: sickoflibs

Does anyone agree with me that passing a basic civics test, producing an ID and having a job should be requirements for voting?


4 posted on 11/09/2008 6:26:54 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
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To: SolidWood

I like you basic test to vote!


6 posted on 11/09/2008 6:29:32 AM PST by 2001convSVT ("People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence")
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To: SolidWood

So if you’re laid off a day before the election, you can’t vote?


9 posted on 11/09/2008 6:30:50 AM PST by rickmichaels (WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN OBAMA'S TRUTH SQUADS RUN WILD ON YOU???)
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To: SolidWood

Yep, if the test is in English.


11 posted on 11/09/2008 6:34:03 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: SolidWood

Keep talking like that and 51 percent of people in this country will slap the racist label on you.
(They’re gonna label me too,I agree with everything you just said)


12 posted on 11/09/2008 6:34:05 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: SolidWood

I agree about producing an ID and GA requires you to do that. I don’t agree about the job issue though. I know a several informed people who don’t have a job at the moment. I’m mixed on the civics test. For someone my age, I’d say yes (I’m 32). But I wouldn’t expect my grandparents in their 80s to be required to do that.


14 posted on 11/09/2008 6:34:21 AM PST by Phoenix11
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To: SolidWood

I would eliminate the job requirement and instead add a “government assistance free for the previous two years” requirement.


18 posted on 11/09/2008 6:35:38 AM PST by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: SolidWood

Absolutely. And not being able to vote if you live within a 1000 yards of the projects


37 posted on 11/09/2008 7:26:13 AM PST by Carry me back
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To: SolidWood
Basic Civic Test? How about a basic ENGLISH test? Here in NV you can opt to make your vote in Spanish. A coworker told me one woman at the poll couldn't read any of it in either language and someone was reading it all to her and then she asked “Well who do I vote for?” These people should be allowed to vote!!! Yes an ID would be nice too. They never asked for mine.
40 posted on 11/09/2008 8:00:56 AM PST by SinCityMom
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To: SolidWood

“Does anyone agree with me that passing a basic civics test, producing an ID and having a job should be requirements for voting?”

Not a bad idea, but even that won’t cure prejudice.


45 posted on 11/09/2008 9:08:25 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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