It should be as easy to vote as it is to buy a gun.
Someone should give Cokie a pokie!
I guess Ms. Roberts just forgot to mention that the Southern racist states were governed by DEMOCRATS! Oh, and by the way, the KKK was founded, staffed and supported by, you guessed it, the DEMOCRATS!
sigh.
Huh?
Showing a government ID card to check your name off on the voting roll, is NOTHING compared to poll tests that were designed to be confusing and discourage people from voting.
NOTHING SIMILAR AT ALL.
EVERYONE HAS G-DAMN ID TODAY. THEY CAN GET ONE FREE IF NEEDED.
This is idiotic AND discengenuous AND just plain EVIL for liberals today to equate showing an ID with 1950s southern democrat anti-black, anti-republican voter tactics.
Aha. Coke-head Roberts has finally emerged once again!
She is so far left that for a time she’s fallen off the radar, but here she is again. Defaming the nation that would be well rid of her along with the phony in the White Hut.
Cokie stays true to her liberal cause, that’s for sure. I disagree with most everything she says, but I wish Cokie well since dealing with her Mom’s death last month. Lindy Boggs, a former Louisiana Congresswoman died at 97. A lot of centurians these days. People who live almost to 100, and people who grow to almost seven feet are still unusual, but not as rare as they were, say, thirty years ago.
Another non issue being used to scare people by the media and progressive left. Who are the US citizens of legal age being denied the right to vote? Felons, yes in some states.
Residency requirements. Yes, you must prove residence in the location where you plan to vote. Is this a hardship? No. In most instances a photo ID or utility bill can be used to prove residency.
Citizenship requirement. Yes. Why is this an issue? Voting is a privilege that goes with citizenship. If a non citizen wants to vote in a US election they can go through the process to become a citizen.
Picture ID to cast a vote? Yes. Why is this a hardship? Progressives claim it is a hardship for the elderly. The elderly must have a photo ID to draw social security and medicare so where is the hardship? Progressives also claim it is a burden on the poor. The poor must show a picture ID to sign up for welfare benefits or drive a car. Should a poor or elderly person not have a driver’s license with a photo ID states provide for citizens to obtain a free photo state issued photo ID.
Any other limits? No if a person can prove citizenship and fill out the documents. There are no poll taxes or property ownership requirements. There are no race, sex, religious, income, or ethnic requirements or exclusions. In fact if they can’t read or write they can get help filling out the documents.
Zero evidence has been presented as states denying legitimate voters access to the polls. This issue is merely a distraction.
cokehead roberts is “...Downright evil”. That she poses as a “journalist” in itself is disgusting. She is politician spawn inflicted upon us by her political parents...just like algore, the Insufferable Boor.
Hey Cokie - is it evil to show an ID to:
Get on a plane?
Buy liquor?
Buy cigarettes?
Cash a check?
Go on a White House Tour?
Buy a gun?
Get welfare?
Get Social Security?
Buy a house?
Rent an apartment?
A loyal member of the progressive movement. Daughter of a known member of the CPUSA.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/cokie-roberts-our-big-problem-is-the-us-constitution/
Cokie Roberts always reminded me of Wednesday Addams.
Cookie Roberts? I didn’t know that fossil was still alive.
Sigh, so she is and getting dumber by the minute.
She was dumb 30 years ago. Now, a box of rox can out think her.
Kookie Roberts is back on the radar screen. Yawn.
Back under your rock, Cokie...
Cokie, a Democrat, is a member of the party that endorsed Jim Crow laws and lynched blacks.
I am a member of the party that fought for the freedom of people who were considered chattel and property.
Democrats, members of Cokie Roberts’ party, fought for legalized and mandated segregation.
MY party, the party of MLK Jr., fought for the rights of freedom of association, and for people of good character—of all races—to eat, drink, pee, and live anywhere they can find the means.
Cokie Roberts’ party—Democrat—is the party that heartily endorses and applauds taxpayer funded infanticide. Her party even has as a leader a clown who refused to save living children who survived a botched abortion.
My party is one that fights for all innocent unborn life.
Democrats, the party of Cokie Roberts, demands the forced celebration of the relationships of those who practice sodomy.
My party is one that allows people to engage sexually with other willing adults however they wish, but does not see the need to force a changed definition of marriage that goes against Biblical and traditional ethics.
So Cokie is right in one sense—her party is one of intolerance, hatred, and perversion....and that is indeed evil.
She wants elections to be determined by fraud and illegal voters. Why does no one ever called these rats out?
Requiring a voter ID to vote and prevent voter fraud is not moving backward. Cokie is a political hack like her parents.
Did Cokie have to show a photo ID to get into the ABC News studio?