Napolitano vetoes bill to require voter ID at polling places

Associated Press ^ | 6/26/03

[Tancredo Fan]

Phoenix - Gov. Janet Napolitano on Thursday used an appearance before a largely Hispanic audience to veto a bill to require Arizona voters to show identification to cast regular ballots at polling places.

Republican supporters of the bill said it would prevent voter fraud, but Napolitano told the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials that it would deter voter participation.

[MeekOneGOP]

Incredible !

A thousand pardons for any duplicate pings here !

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Arizona ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[Mary-Bayou]

Can't Butch be recalled? Or would she rescind that petition too?

[lainie]

I don't understand. Can a state compel an individual to obtain a state-issued ID for purposes of voting in an election? This thread is hung up on the fact that she's a dem and wants pandered votes, so what else is new.

Unless, perhaps AZ is different, and we here in CA live more free than you folks. You can't get an ID in this state without a signature, and a signature can't be compelled. Perhaps the world has gone completely nuts and I should just give up.

[cyncooper]

Republican supporters of the bill said it would prevent voter fraud, but Napolitano told the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials that it would deter voter participation.

It isn't fair! You get Jeb and look what I'm stuck with!

[cyncooper]

SURELY THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS PROVIDE VOTER ID CARDS TO REGISTERED VOTERS

I live in AZ and I have a card. They don't ask for it at the polling place, though. Just ask name and address and have me sign.

[cyncooper]

You can't get an ID in this state without a signature, and a signature can't be compelled. Perhaps the world has gone completely nuts and I should just give up.

Hmm. As I note in post #45, one must sign off on the voter registration rolls here in AZ before being given a ballot. Same was true in Wisconsin when I lived and voted there. Don't you have to sign in at the polling place so they have a record that you voted?

[cyncooper]

The RATS depend on confused, marginal and phony voters.

Don't forget, the dems did the first ever online voting right here in AZ. It was during the democratic primary in the 2000 election.

I pointed out then to my liberal friend that online voting seemed to me ripe for tampering. Naturally this idea was not repellant to her.

[SandRat]

If they require valid U.S. identification the DummieCrats know that they can't get elected, hence . . . . . the big veto from Janet Reno's sister!

Here's hoping that the Arizona House and Senate vote to override her veto.

[Kuksool]

{There is only one reason for this: To promote voter fraud.}

Bingo! While she vehemntly opposes voter ID, Butch is intensely lobbying the AZ General Assembly to pass a bill to allow "undocumented residents" to obtain driver licenses without showing any proof of US citizenship. She says it shall make the roads safer for the children. Butch is such a lying witch.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Butch is a squaw -- in her definition of the word.

[lainie]

Sure, you have to sign. But not show a photo ID.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

In a related development, the governor said she is also opposed to drivers having to show police their Driver's Licenses.

"In Arizona, we want people to drive" she said.

[Kuksool]

By winning last year's election by the slimmest of margins 46%-45%, Butch feels she has a clear mandate to the dictator of AZ. With Butch's PC social engineering executive orders, the wildfires, and the trend in raising taxes, AZ appears destined to be just like Kalifornica in a few years. Of course none of Butch's garbage would be enacted, if Matt Salmon had enough sense to campaign in the Tucson area, instead of relying soley on the Phoenix Metro area.

I think Freepers everywhere ought to watch Butch very closely. She is a perfect example of what it is like to have Hillary Clinton as president.

[kstewskis]

"In Arizona, we want people to vote," said Napolitano.

Dammit-Janet, not in office barely 6 months, is already sabotaging this state. This is what happened in Kalifornia, remember B-1 Bob Dornan? And now, she is blatently *not* enforcing Federal Law by potentially allowing non citizens and illegals to vote.

She will ruin this state, and is a willing participant in the undermining of the Southwest by way of "passive political invasion".

She will continue to count on the Mexican Marxist vote to push her agenda, unless we get her the heck out of here and give her "a Grey out."

[kstewskis]

Is she like some kind of dictator of Arizona who can impose whatever laws she feels like imposing? What the people want no longer matters?

Bingo.

[kstewskis]

And did you happen to notice that the veto of this bill just happened to coincide with the Damocrat Circus (to court the Latino vote) that is in town at The Point South Mountain??

/barf

I don't know about anyone else, but my patience is wearing thin with this Squaw, as JackelopeBreeder pointed out. She pulls any more of this crap and I am willing to smell recall.

[lakey]

You're right. Poll workers never ask to see our Voters Registration card. They search a book, find our name & address & have us sign.

[lormand]

The only thing preventing Liberals from getting rid of IDs all together is the fact that IDs contain racial data.

[cinFLA]

"In Arizona, we want people to vote," said Napolitano.

I thought you had to register prior to voting. I guess not ...

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