Posted on 04/04/2011 12:05:08 PM PDT by wbill
GREENSBORO — A voter ID bill would keep young people and the elderly from voting, a group of college students and state legislators said Monday at Bennett College.
Students from area universities have been working behind the scenes to protest the proposed voter ID bill that is currently in the House. They held a forum Monday morning to discuss the bill and followed it with a press conference to voice their concerns.
“This bill makes it more difficult for me to exercise my vote and my voice,” said UNCG junior Caleb Patterson. “The voter ID bill would add one more obstacle to vote, which will discourage students from voting.”
HB 351 would require voters to show photo identification, such as a driver’s license, military ID or a voter registration card. Identification cards such as those issued to college students would not be accepted.
“We are getting involved because we as young people are fighting for our right to vote, said N.C. A&T senior Mitchell Brown. “This is an assault on our voting rights.”
The bill is called the Restore Confidence in Government Act, but state Rep. Alma Adams said it does anything but.
“That’s a big joke,” said Adams, who attended the event along with Rep. Marcus Brandon. “This bill does in fact disenfranchise people. It will certainly impact and hurt you as students. It will hurt minorities and African-Americans. It will hurt the elderly. It will hurt a lot of people in our state.”
Adams suspects legislators behind the bill have ulterior motives. Minorities and young people came out in droves in the 2008 election that put President Barack Obama in the White House, and Adams said the bill was an attempt to keep some of those same voters away from the polls in the 2012 election.
Obama has announced that he will seek re-election.
“There is some thinking, I believe, that the turnout will be large and so whatever can be done to keep you away from the polls, to make it difficult when you get there to vote, I think those are the initiatives that are being undertaken in our General Assembly,” Adams told the students.
Never mind.
ALL THAT THIS BILL WILL DO IS STOP THOSE THAT ARE NOT QUALIFIFED TO VOTE... FOR WHATEVER THE REASON THAT THEY ARE NOT QUALIFIED UNDER LAW TO VOTE... FROM ILLEGALLY VOTING. ANYONE STATING ANYTHING ELSE IS A ****ING LIAR.
LLS
I bet these jagoffs have no problem producing ID to buy booze.
Translation: "I want illegals, and students who legally reside elsewhere, to be able to cast ballots HERE without challenge, so boo hoo, it's a violation of some basic right or other."
If it's such a problem for you, register absentee. Then you won't even have to leave your residence to vote.
A good reporter would’ve asked follow-up questions to all those airhead remarks.
BS. How does it disenfranchise anybody? Students have to have ID in order to get into college (unless they are illegal aliens in which case they aren't eligible to vote anyway). The elderly have to have ID in order to cash their SS checks. The only people this will even inconvenience are the ones who want to be able to vote withoug having to prove they are who they claim to be and are in fact eligible to vote.
Do these kids drive to school from back home wherever it is they came from?
Yes?
Then they can shut up.
Hey, Patterson, if you are in college, then you have a campus ID card....If you are smart enough to make it into college, then you have a drivers license probably, so how does your twisted little liberal mind figure that you cant produce that to vote?
Sez me, it might be because the people who were breaking the law, STOPPED! But, I'm just simple that way, I guess.
Get a life, loser. Photo ID to vote is the law in FL and it works just fine and it should be the law everywhere.
I bet Caleb had to show his ID to sign up for his college courses.
This is pure bs, the law requires that all persons over the age of 18 have a state issued ID, when out in public! If a Police Officer orders you to produce ID, then what are you suppose to do and voting is done in a public place.
BS - A voter ID bill would NOT prevent them from voting. College students must have ID to attend college, and the elderly also more often than not have ID as well.
If this is "an assault on voting rights", how would you characterize all the hoops you have to jump through to exercise your RKBA?
I could be wrong, and it's non-PC to stereotype. But, I'd feel pretty confident betting the farm on it. I'd guess that a young black reporterette, assigned to cover "higher education", isn't a paragon of conservativism.
No one has a right to vote. A right exists in nature, and is not granted by the government. Voting is a privilege, which is obtained by meeting certain criteria established by law, such as citizenship and state residence. If you don't meet the criteria, or if you commit a crime resulting in a felony conviction, the govt won't give you the privilege of voting.
Y'kin get the beer but'cha' can't get an ID?
What the hell are you doin' in college?
Your s'posed to be learnin' how to do this shit.
“Hey, Patterson, if you are in college, then you have a campus ID card..”
The article states that a campus ID card is not acceptable. And no wonder, you can have such a card and be a non-US citizen. I’ve been to many campuses where many of the kids I speak to are not citizens.
The concept that students cannot get acceptable ID is ludicrous, though. Between drivers lic, passport, and other cards, the number of US citizens 18 or over on campus that wou dbe inconvenienced will be quite small, and the inconvenience itself is minor.
it’s all about vote fraud.
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