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.
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I'm not entirely sure if, for instance, my grandmother does. She stopped driving some time ago, so I don't know about a current picture ID.
However, just try and keep her from voting. I can hear her already: "I need an ID? Well, lets go get one right now. I'll get my purse."
These Dem idiots consistently sell their constituents short. The same minorities who fought for their Civil Rights in the 50s and 60s, will now be kept from voting because it's a little inconvenient to produce a current photo ID? Please.
These little leftist college boobs are only doing what their sociology professor told them to do. If the reporter asked even one f-in question about their ID’s for school, driving etc, they would’ve stood with fingers up their butts without a clue (as is their usual pose I’m sure)
McLovin
Best line of the movie.
College students should be PROHIBITED FROM PROTESTING ANYTHING and TOTALLY IGNORED. They’re the little bastards that are responsible for this bastardized situation we have in Washington right now. Unless you’re a valid citizen, educated, employed, and paying taxes, you have no desired input. SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK.
Baloney.
Baloney.
I never had a problem showing ID to vote when I was a student.
Most students have a checking account at a bank.
You must have valid, state or federal ID (such as DL or passport) to open a deposit account.
Therefore they probably have it already.
College students who protest having to show an ID to vote do so because their Drivers Licenses are from the state they come from. To wit, those who voted in NH, say around UNH, had MA drivers licenses.
“College students who protest having to show an ID to vote do so because their Drivers Licenses are from the state they come from.”
And getting a dl from the state they are in would probably incur car insurance hikes from their home state insurance companies, who thought the car was being kept in Virginia, Minnesota and not Los Angeles or Cambridge, MA.
No reason at all why they can't vote absentee in the state that they reside. Or, they can declare residency in the state where they go to college and vote locally.
But, they can't do both. :-) They also can't vote multiple times at different polling areas around their college ...seems like I remember stories about Dem "party buses" that traded an afternoon's worth of votes for booze.
I’d like to amend and extend my remarks- that also means they could vote locally in Amhearst or Hartford, and absentee in their home town. A local ID would eventually get back to the registrar in their home county, and loss of that second ballot!
I'd be surprised if even 10% of college students vote in community/state/national elections... most don't give a damn because they're in a town that's often not their home town.
Anyone incapable of obtaining ID is too stupid or lazy to be allowed to vote, anyway.
College students are REQUIRED to have ID to attend classes, participate in intramural sports, music, check out books, and other miscellaneous activities. Nearly every single American needs an ID to cash a check or even open a bank account. Now tell me again, what is the problem?
College students are REQUIRED to have ID to attend classes, participate in intramural sports, music, check out books, and other miscellaneous activities. Nearly every single American needs an ID to cash a check or even open a bank account. Now tell me again, what is the problem?
College students are REQUIRED to have ID to attend classes, participate in intramural sports, music, check out books, and other miscellaneous activities. Nearly every single American needs an ID to cash a check or even open a bank account. Now tell me again, what is the problem?
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