[Comrade Brother Abu Bubba]

A study by the University of Missouri on turnout in Indiana showed that turnout actually increased by about 2 percentage points overall in Indiana in 2006 in the first election after the voter ID law went into effect.[17] There was no evidence that counties with higher percentages of minority, poor, elderly, or less-educated populations suffered any reduction in voter turnout. In fact, “the only consistent and statistically significant impact of photo ID in Indiana is to increase voter turnout in counties with a greater percentage of Democrats relative to other counties.”[18] In September 2007, The Heritage Foundation released a study analyzing the 2004 election turnout data for all states. This study found that voter ID laws do not reduce the turnout of voters, including African–Americans and Hispanics. Such voters were just as likely to vote in states with ID as in states where just their names were asked at the polling place.[19] A study by the University of Delaware and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln examined data from the 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006 elections. At both the aggregate and individual levels, the study found that voter ID laws do not affect turnout, including across racial/ethnic/socioeconomic lines. The study concludes that “concerns about voter identification laws affecting turnout are much ado about nothing.”[20] A survey by American University of registered voters in Maryland, Indiana, and Mississippi to see whether registered voters had photo IDs concluded that “showing a photo ID as a requirement of voting does not appear to be a serious problem in any of the states” because “[a]lmost all registered voters have an acceptable form of photo ID.”[21] Less than 0.5 percent of respondents had neither a photo ID nor citizenship documentation. A 2008 election survey of 12,000 registered voters in all 50 states found that fewer than nine people were unable to vote because of voter ID requirements.[22] In 2010, a Rasmussen poll of likely voters in the United States showed overwhelming support (82 percent) for requiring photo ID in order to vote in elections. This support runs across ethnic and racial lines; Rasmussen reports that “[t]his is a sentiment that spans demographics, as majorities in every demographic agree.”[23] A similar study by John Lott in 2006 also found no effect on voter turnout and, in fact, found an indication that reducing voter fraud (through means such as voter ID) may have a positive impact on voter turnout.[24]

[firebrand]

In 1965 a former roommate of mine went to register to vote and the man in charge took a gun out of a desk drawer and put it on the desk. She turned right around and filed a suit under the brand-new Voting Rights Act, won, and became the first registered black voter in her county.

That’s the power of the Voting Rights Act.

Now, unfortunately, it is being perverted in an attempt to facilitate fraud.

Nothing could intimidate my roommate, and nothing will or can intimidate those who LAWFULLY intend to vote.

[ElectronVolt]

At what point is a state going to exercise its right of nullification and tell the federal government it has no authority over state matters? I realize the hell which would descend on the state, but at some point a group of states needs to stand up to the bully. Texas tried and failed, but a large enough group could scare the government.

[Publius6961]

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[sickoflibs]

RE :"South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tells us she "will absolutely sue" Justice over its denial of her state's law and that challenge will go directly to federal district court in Washington, D.C. From there it may be appealed directly to the Supreme Court, which would have to consider whether South Carolina can be blocked from implementing a law identical to the one the High Court approved for Indiana, simply because South Carolina is a "covered" jurisdiction under the Voting Rights Act."

I saw a rare case where a MSNBC show actually had a guest on that commented realistically during their daily complain segment about Holder's lawsuit against the SC voter ID law. (It was one of the evening shows.) She actually admitted that Holder's action could backfire politically in the election by making it look like Obama/Democrats are encouraging voter fraud.

A bit of history, the renewal/passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act used against SC here was one of the last acts of the Republican majority in congress fall 2006 and signed by GWB.

[Anti-Bubba182]

The real reason Democrats don’t want photo IDs required is so that it is easier to cheat. Holder and the rest know it.

[A_Former_Democrat]

It’s not “racial progress” when bigots like Obama and Holder are in office.

In fact, it’s a testament to just the opposite

[bimboeruption]

We have to show an id when we vote in Ohio...but in South Carolina this is considered a violation of Voting Rights Act?

I don’t get it.

[Bullish]

Anyone who isn’t responsible enough to carry ID isn’t responsible enough to vote. I mean how much of a moron do you have to be to be an adult with no ID?

[sourcery]

Many states perform no checks at all to see whether a person who submits a registration to vote is or is not a legal resident, let alone a citizen. So, if the world’s Nazis wanted to, they could all send in voter registration requests by mail, falsely claiming to be US citizens...and then vote by absentee ballot. How would you like that, Mr. Holder? How would that affect the civil rights of minorities?

[Intolerant in NJ]

A study by the University of Missouri on turnout in Indiana...In September 2007, The Heritage Foundation released a study...for an administration which is forever spouting off about how much it values science and scientific methods, the Obama group seems to be ignoring the best objective evidence available on the issue in favor of its political argument that requiring photo ID's would hurt minority voting practices - a nonsensical proposition which implies that minorities are too lazy, stupid, or irresponsible to meet the same requirments for obtaining photo ID's that other groups can - minorities should be highly insulted.....

[Alissa]

An argument I never hear regarding disenfranchising these voters is that an illegally cast vote disenfranchises MY VOTE. Realistically I’m the disenfranched voter! So I am the one that is penalized by illegal votes. The legal citizens of this country are being screwed royally.

[cranked]

Someone ask HolderIdiot why the DOJ has not stepped in on unions given you have to have an ID to vote in any union held election..... =.=

[TomasUSMC]

Sheriff Arpaio needs to arrest Holder and odumbi.

[trebb]

Overall, he noted, 8.4% of the state's registered white voters lack photo ID, compared to 10% of nonwhite voters.

At which point someone should ask what those percentages equate to in real numbers. It would then be clear that far more whites would be "disenfranchised" than minorities and would show them to be the racist fools they are. In 2010, S. Carolina had 66.2% whites and 27.9% Blacks. That means fully twice as many whites don't have the required ID.

[Leep]

We revisit this same nonsense again and again. Isn’t interesting that the left who would make it possible for as many Americans as possible ( or even not possible) to receive “free” housing,”free” medical, “free”food, and any number of other “free” things can not provide a free ID?
Otherwise,how does this no ID thing work..do you just say, “I do not have a ID but I am going to vote anyhow?”
“No, I do not have a ID but I will be opening an account at your bank none the less?” How about, “No, I do not have a ID but I will be buyiing the car you are selling?”
I can’t get a library card without legal ID or as I found out recently ride the Amtrak train..??? Were my civil rights violated????

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Getting a voter ID is ‘not convenient’ for minorities who might find the process difficult? But filling out the forms for food stamps is ‘not a problem’!! Do they think we are stupid? (...uh, never mind)

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Getting a voter ID is ‘not convenient’ for minorities who might find the process difficult? But filling out the forms for food stamps is ‘not a problem’!! Do they think we are stupid? (...uh, never mind)

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Getting a voter ID is ‘not convenient’ for minorities who might find the process difficult? But filling out the forms for food stamps is ‘not a problem’!! Do they think we are stupid? (...uh, never mind)

[Red in Blue PA]

Anything short of Anonymous Voting is racist./s

[Scotsman will be Free]

Blacks, as a whole, are the most racist people in the country. They are led by the two biggest racists in govt, obozo and holder.