Critics: Proposed Ga. law amounts to a poll tax

Google ^ | 03/13/2009 | KATE BRUMBACK

[Red_Devil 232]

Is this different than the Photo ID Law required by Georgia?

[infidel29]

It's been more than 40 years since the Voting Rights Act was signed, barring voting practices used throughout the Southby democrats for years to keep poor blacks from voting.

I get so tired of that part being misrepresented.

[Oldpuppymax]

You mean Georgia wants to pass a law requiring people to prove that they are legally eligible to vote? A deliberate attempt to make election fraud more difficult??!! WHY THE BA$TARD$!!!

[ElayneJ]

That’s exactly the way it’s done.
For a party that’s supposed to be “inclusive” the dems sure malign their voters - the poor, minorities, and the elderly can’t produce proof of citizenship? Well, unless they’re not citizens they should be able to provide proof. What are they - helpless and clueless?
I know the real plan is to get as many illegal votes as possible, but in the process the dems are sending the message that only a select few people are competent and everyone else is a dolt. Why on earth don’t the rank-and-file democrats revolt against this?

[umgud]

A proposed Georgia law would require prospective voters to prove citizenship, a practice opponents say would keep the poor, elderly and minorities away from the polls as taxes and literacy tests once did.

How do they collect their welfare and other gov't services? How do they cash checks?

[Michael.SF.]

Can some one explain this to me.

Not am explanation, per se, but an alternative idea. First here is what the 24th Amendment says, in part:

Poll Tax Barred. Ratified 1/23/1964. History

1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Here is what we do:

Charge a $100.00 fee for entry to a polling station. We then wave the fee for anyone who submits proof that they are a citizen.

We are in compliance with the above 24th Amendment, then correct?

Seriously though, if voting rights are not limited to US Citizens, why then are US Citizens specifically mentioned in the 24th Amendment?

The guy quoted in your post is wrong.

[Madistan]

Maybe every voter should get a voucher for a Drivers License?

[BykrBayb]

I can think of one member of a minority group who would be prevented from voting under this rule.

[devistate one four]

Acorn has been hired to take care of the poor and elderly. They can take them to the polls or anywhere else they need to go.

[fwdude]

A proposed Georgia law would require prospective voters to prove citizenship, a practice opponents say would keep the poor, elderly and minorities ACORN constituents away from the polls as taxes and literacy tests good common sense once did.

[rbbeachkid]

Are you telling me that minorities and the poor can’t dance? I thought only rich white guys couldn’t dance.

[HoosierHawk]

Thanks.

[dorothy]

This may help explain Prof. Kang:

As Emory Law associate professor Michael Kang teaches his course this fall election law, he can't help reflecting on the influence of a similar class he took as a student at the University of Chicago Law School—taught by Barack Obama.

Kang was one of a dozen students in the fall of 1998 enrolled in Obama's course titled "Constitutional Law: Equal Protection and Due Process." ...

Kang’s research focuses on voting rights, race, redistricting, campaign finance and direct democracy.

Source; http://www.emory.edu/home/news/releases/2008/09/teacher-learned-in-obama-classroom.html

[Strutt9]

"Lets just rephrase this and say if they can’t find their birth certificate, they can’t vote."

I wish all states would require proper ID for voting. Don't the poor have to show some proof when they receive thier welfare, clothing allowance, medicaid etc? It does not have to be a birth cetificate... it can be legal government document of some kind. I don't have a birth certificate and never had one, being as I was not born here in the U.S. I had to go through hoops to prove I am who I say I am... Citizenship papers helped to get drivers licence & passport. So, if the poor and minorities don't have any id... how the heck do they get welfare funds?

[HoosierHawk]

Wow. Thanks.

[2harddrive]

LOL!

[canaan]

I’m not an attorney, but my guess is they would say that what you have posted says that citizens can’t be prevented from voting. It doesn’t say that non-citizens can’t vote...