I can fix that.
Posted on 05/27/2011 4:57:36 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday ceremonially signed a bill making Texas the twelfth state to require photo identification from voters.
"Today we take a major step forward in ensuring the integrity of our electoral process in Texas, a major step protecting the most cherished right that we enjoy as a people," Perry, joined by lawmakers who supported the legislation, told reporters.
The measure was one of the Republican governor's "emergency" legislative priorities for the session, and he's not alone. Republicans across the country are pushing such legislation. This year, more than 30 states have considered adding or strengthening voter identification requirements, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Photo ID requirements were signed into law in Wisconsin this week and in South Carolina earlier this month. Kansas also passed a photo ID measure this year that goes into effect January 1.
The requirement is already in place in Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan and South Dakota. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton on Thursday vetoed a photo identification bill.
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They have for years where I live and that’s even the poll workers that have known you since you were born.
I’m with you. He does what he can.
It can’t be easy, just like the TSA crap. He tried to help the people and DEWHURST shoots him down. He can only do so much.
The Corridor thing, big deal. I think he knew it wouldn’t get traction.
We have too many illegals and legals here to take giant steps.
“That’s fine, I guess your fake religion means you can’t vote then.”
How is TX, which looks as Hispanic or moreso than CA - so conservative and CA so liberal?
Are TX Hispanics themselves more conservative, or is the difference mainly in the white non-Hispanic population?
I am guessing here but I do think that since many Hispanic Texans are 4th or 5th generation or more, vs. CA’s who are almost all newly arrived (last 30 years) that they’re simply more “assimilated” into Texan political culture...but I could be way off on that.
How does she open a bank account or cash a check?
Was Indiana’s law passed before or after Obama won it in ‘08?
Oh, for heaven's sake. Get your facts right. There are 57 states, according to the Obozo. You left out the State of Denial, whose state slogan is "vero possumus," meaning "I'm an idiot."
Or drive a car? Maybe she doesn't have a car; maybe she has a broomstick. A photo ID isn't needed to ride a brookstick. Just ask Helen Thomas.
Notice how they conveniently forgot to add the (D) in his title? I'd bet money it wasn't an oversight at all, a large majority of people believe it should be required.
My mother is an election worker here in Morgan County, she sits with a Democrat worker as a team and together they go over the absentee ballots after the election. Absentees is where the fraud will shift to now, and they know it and are working on trying to stop it. They check signatures, dates, verifying every single one of them individually.
A couple years ago I voted absentee after my drivers license had expired. My own mother voided my ballot, then called me up and chewed me out for being too lazy to get it renewed on time. I think most of it was her being mad for me embarrassing her and making the Democrat who she was partnered with smile when she voided my vote.
Older women seem to get kind of funny about things like that.
Before, my vote was voided by my own mother because my drivers license had expired when she was inspection the absentee ballots.
It has one of the toughest standards of any state I think, I wish all 50 states had our laws. One of many good things Daniels has done while governor.
“Now, it’s going to be a battle to enforce this law. We do have sold-out DemocRat poll workers, after all.”
You make a good point. I can’t honestly get excited about the voter ID bill passed and signed in my home state of Wisconsin because I know the lunatic fringe will be filing hundreds of motions to have the law declared unconstitutional.
Much is spoken about Chicago style politics, but Wisconsin is just as bad. If a conservative law is passed, a liberal judge is found to defer implementation of the law until it can be reversed. The second option is to tie the issue up in the courts until dems constitute the majority of the legislature and then the law will be rescinded.
All you have to do is observe the hack, liberal, circuit court judge who halted a law passed by our legislature regarding collective bargaining. Our recent Wisconsin State Supreme Court election is another example.
On that depressing note, I wish you a solemn and enjoyable Memorial Day weekend.
EODGUY
I can fix that.
hallelujah!
I live in NW San Antonio and I can say that’s pretty accurate. As far as the African American population goes they’re hardly noticeable and very rare to see in my neck of the woods.
Voter ID required? OK. Now how about a requirement for property ownership as the founders advocated. Or, at least pay more in Fed/state tax than you receive in benefits. OK, how about just being a taxpayer of ANY sort?
I saw a line of about 30 people on a corner in NYC, waiting to be picked up for a day’s labor cleaning apartments. Every single one (they were all women) was the same exact height, had the same hair, same faces same build — they could have been clones. Except for differences in age, they were the same person. They probably all came from the same mountain town. Photo IDs would have be utterly useless. I think they were even breathing in unison.
Palm-face! How COULD I forget that!
Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Francisco, and other densely populated cities in CA are very liberal (San Diego excluded).
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