Posted on 09/22/2011 6:06:59 AM PDT by SpaceBar
Our Modern Lives
To cash a check or rent a movie or buy a six pack of beer you might be asked to show a photo ID. In the aftermath of Muslims behaving badly on September 11th, 2001, laws were passed to enhance our security. Henceforth, everyone entering a federal building or boarding a commercial airliner was required to present proof of identity that included a photograph. The most persuasive photo IDs are issued by state and federal authorities who at some time had demanded that the ID's holder present a birth certificate and other documentation.
So is it really outlandish to defend the integrity of our elections by requiring voters to show up at the polls with a first-rate photo ID? Of course not. We're patriots and the integrity of our elections means at least as much to us as our ability to rent a movie from Blockbuster. But to hear liberals tell it, asking racial minorities or anyone over 59 years of age to get a free photo ID is the equivalent of disenfranchisement. Please indulge me while I, an authentic adult, demolish the liberal myths about voter photo IDs, one stupid myth at a time.
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Long before it became an issue I thought it very strange that I was never asked for ID when voting. People who didn’t know me were willing to turn something of value (a ballot) over to me just because I said so. Where else would people just take your word for who you are? Odd.
Hard to win when LaQuishsta and her baby daddy can’t vote twenty times.
For Liberals, the fear of VOTER ID is the fear of loss of ability to commit massive fraud as part of elections.
The “liberals” have no problem with the requirement to show positive ID for the purchase of $5.00 of food. Or to be required to show ID to use a check to pay for a book. Or gasoline. Or the motel that demands your license, even though you will use a credit card. Or the greeter at Sam’s Club that demands (nicely) you photo ID card before you enter. Or to buy a couple of bottles of wine with a check.
There is NO requirement that you demonstrate you can read. No requirement that you have paid your “poll tax”.
The liberal only finds it evil that you are to be required to prove that YOU are really YOU, and not the person who died three weeks ago, but whose name is still on the voter rolls.
I remember an old “joke”, “Vote early and vote OFTEN.” It is no longer anything to smile about.
Alternately, what would happen if voter turnout approached 100%. How would the poll tenders determine which votes were legitimate? -- and could that be part of Cloward - Piven?
They don’t won’t to cut into their cheating and ACORN type fraud. But they’ll scream Jim Crow era at anyone who dares support voter ID.
I live in a small town and the probability that the person handing you the ballot knows any person on the voter list is close to about 20%, so if you go in as an impersonator, the chances of being caught are good. The problem is non-existant voters, who will now have to go to trouble of getting multiple fake IDs.
Vote fraud is a democrat family value, but it’s worth noting that the aversion to identification and verification shows up in other contexts as well. Democrats traditionally fight like the devil to weaken eligibility determination and income verification checks for all manner of means tested programs. They’re a party of takers, not taxpayers, and they represent the lion’s share of people with disorderly lives. Strict rules get in the way. Over time, the ethos has developed that people should get what they want and that rules shouldn’t stand in the way. So they cheat.
Why was there no liberal outcry when the FEDERAL government decided to require that everyone must show a valid photo i.d. in order to buy psuedoephedrine (sp) -Sudafed- type products from behind the counter? Didn’t they care that these people were suffering from congestion and shouldn’t be required to get an i.d. just to get medication?!! The medically disenfranchised deserve justice!!! /sarc
Jesse Jackson let it out of the bag a while bag,
saying that voter ID requirements would cost them 11% of the popular vote.
He inadvertantly admitted the level of fraud that he knows or thinks exists in their favor.
hows about the purple finger dip?
The reason the democrats fear this is it puts a dent in the big plan, the only way the deocrats can keep winning is to change the electoral college to popular vote, which they have already started to get passed in several states and then give amnesty to illegals and allow them to vite
Issue going on in Kentucky now.
In this day and age I don’t know how any adult would NOT have a photo ID. Even residents in nursing homes often have photo IDs and it is increasingly common for employers to issue photo IDs to employees, Indian tribes issue photo IDs to their enrolled members and I don’t know of any college that doesn’t issue a photo ID. That requiring photo ID somehow disenfranchises voters is a joke.
Let’s be honest, the first thought that sprang to the minds of most libs was that many ineligible aka fraudulent votes would be lost to them. They know that virtually every adult has a photo ID and would have no problem presenting one at the polls. And eighty percent of voters in many states approve of voter IDs. They’re dismayed that they won’t get the thousands of fraudulent votes they get every major election.
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“For Liberals, the fear of VOTER ID is the fear of loss of ability to commit massive fraud as part of elections.”
How does it prevent fraud? The problem with voter fraud is that the election judges and poll watchers are in on it. Cameras in the polling booth combined with voter id would help a lot. But if the thugs are in control of the voting booth, the cameras would be inexplicably broken, knocked the wrong way, etc.
A still shot of each voter holding their card would make a huge difference.
There would still be the problem of absentee ballots.
I'd like to see that too. It's not foolproof, by any means, but better than what we have now (which is nothing).
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