Posted on 07/09/2012 5:37:35 AM PDT by wolfcreek
EL CENIZO — Much of 83-year-old José Zuniga's time is spent in his wheelchair gazing across a gravel yard that's nestled among shoddily constructed cinder block houses and deteriorating trailers in this border town that has the distinction of being one of the poorest places in the United States.
He's homebound for the most part, but one of the few events that gets Zuniga out of the house is election day.
But now Zuniga's ability to cast a ballot is in jeopardy.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Not willing to go out of your way to get an ID? Maybe you don't need to be voting.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Jose, go get an ID. It’s not hard here in Texas, not hard at all.
As far as I’m concerned, if you’re too lazy or whiny to get a valid ID, you have no business voting.
GOOD!
That's exactly the way it's supposed to work and why the law was enacted.
He’s got 3 months to get this done.
How motivated is this guy to vote ?
83 years old and no form of ID? Give me a break.
Hey Jose!
You need to get out more. If you’re going to vote for a living, you need to have an ID.
You should have to have a valid citizen’s ID to receive welfare also.
They are willing to go out and vote but not willing to get an ID?
Yeah, right.
I wonder how ol’ Zuniga cashes his Social Security checks?
“Why should unknown people vote any way.”
Best line yet and right on the money.
How does one get through life without a Photo ID?
Notice that nowhere in the article does it say he’s a citizen.
Here’s an idea - get one. If you want to vote, get an ID. Got it?
If the problem is you’re not legal and you still want to vote? Eff off.
Hell my grandson has to have a birth cert to play freakin’ under 8 yr old football for park and rec. Get over yourself.
Not you wolfcreek! Jose...
This is complete BS.
Tennessee passed voter ID law and then provided funds for a FREE none DL photo ID if you proved you were a US Citizen. Because a lot of elderly don’t have photos on their DL’s any more in this state. Only thing I removed from mine was my SS number.
My DL is all I present when I vote though I have a voter’s registration card too.
I have to present both DL and Military ID to get on the Navy base. And they have restricted us retirees to the back gate on the weekends, as it is strictly PIN number for the secondary front gate, they closed the main gate, and are moving all those ID provider units to the secondary gate....waste of rather new buildings, and have to build more at second gate. Why didn’t they just put the PIN machine at the first gate and close the second if they wanted to go down to just one guarded gate on the weekends? Cheaper.
He is still allowed to vote without any photo ID, by absentee ballot. Just curious, how did he get registered to vote, without a photo ID? Is this guy an American citizen?
He is in a wheelchair, he is home-bound and has no identification? So he gets no assistance whatsoever? No insurance, no social security, no medicare,no medicaid, no visiting nurse or home health care? All of these require identification and it is hard for me to believe he is not receiving anything from any agency.
If he really is not using any insurance or Social Security or any agency then my hat is off to him for being so independent but there still has to be a way he can get some form of identification. I really don’t know where they find these people that “claim” to have NO identification or any way to get any. That is nonsense, some effort may be required but they can get identification.
If Jose’ can get out and vote on election day, he can certainly find time during the next three months to register.
If he is too lazy then it’s too bad, Jose’ can’t vote. Sorry.
This is the democrats preamble to vote fraud.
Here’s an idea - have the DMV take over voter registration. When they go to register, they get a free ID.
I think you nailed it, he is likely not a citizen and should not have been registered to begin with. I bet he does have identification- likely one set for his country and another, or more than one set- likely bogus set for the U.S. His issue probably isn’t that he has no identification, he probably has too much.
Lot of older people choose not to have photos put on their DL’s at least in TN. But we now offer them free non DL photo ID to vote, just have to prove you are US Citizen, and eligible to vote...since Memphis is a high crime area a lot of people have lost the franchise to vote. Nor do they purge the dead from the voting rolls.
dems openly go into nursing homes where seniors are so senile they do not know what they are signing and into the jail to get absentee votes. Just as they openly campaign from the pulpit.
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