Posted on 08/10/2006 4:55:14 PM PDT by seutonius1234
Missouri is the latest front in the Republican Party’s campaign to use photo ID requirements to suppress voting. The Republican legislators who pushed through Missouri’s ID law earlier this year said they wanted to deter fraud, but that claim falls apart on close inspection. Missouri’s new ID rules — and similar ones adopted last year in Indiana and Georgia — are intended to deter voting by blacks, poor people and other groups that are less likely to have driver’s licenses. Georgia’s law has been blocked by the courts, and the others should be too.
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They'd whine about the purple inked fingers to limit votes to one to a customer, too!
And the only time liberals scream voter fraud is when THEY lose.. and then they can't prove anything because it's a crock.... They are STUNNED when they lose because they can't believe THEIR fraud didn't swing the votes!
How about a spot for a fingerprint, and a little ink patch? What a rights violation THAT would be! < /sarc >
What a bunch of bullship. How can anyone not despise the Slimes when that is the crud they put out?
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No ID -
Can't cash a check
Can't buy smokes
Can't buy a drink
Can't get on a plane
Hello. How is there a rational argument that these ID requirements regarding racial inequality.
Voter eligibility in Missouri bump! Great news!
More than a century of Demo fraud in St. Louis is about to come to an end. A new era.
Bill Clay....check up on your retirement account.
WHAT A GREAT FACT TO HAVE AT MY FINGERTIPS!!!
The idea that any yankee writing in the NYT should have an opinion worth more'n a rat's a$% about what the Great State of Missouri will do to insure the validity of its citizen's ballots in unfreaking beleivable!!!!
IS THE NYT ON CRACK?!!
Why do they constantly ignore the states that have had photo ID requirements FOR DECADES?!!!
Look at Hanging Chad FLORIDA where NOBODY complained about the photo ID requirement.
DOES ANYONE HAVE A MAP WHICH SHOWS A STATE BY STATE BREAKDOWN?
I would allow a liberal hardship exemption for picture ID's, that way there will be no excuse for it.
It's worth the cost.
That is, a hardship exemption for the processing fee of picture ID's
Hi guys, Even though I am living in China I am from Missouri. A few years ago I had to move two or three times in about 2 years. Dont ask why its a long story. This coupled with some district changes in my area caused me to have to try and find out where I was supposed to vote. I went to my usual voting location to find out where my new location was. To my suprise I was on the voting role there. I thought this was strange and continued to track down my voting location. I went to two other places. Both places I was on the log. Well I was friends with the Republican representative at the County Election Board. So I called her up. She said yes this was a mistake and told me the proper place to go. After I put in my legal vote I decided to test things. I went back to the other two locations and ask for a ballot. I was provided with one in each location. While the temptation was great to vote three time I didnt.
4 years before this I had lived in Kansas, just across the river. So I decided to check my old voting location there. YEP, you guessed it. I was still on the log there and could have voted. SO in the presidential election I could have cast 4 votes.
The poor in the inner cities have a high motivation to vote, thus getting a free state ID card is not a significant impediment to casting a vote.
Maybe voter turnout will decrease from 110% to 105?
If one wants to vote badly enough; go to the proper agency and get a driver license or a State picture I.D.
DUH!!!
Spot on.
Thinking back on it; it might be a good idea to bring back the $2 Poll Tax of the '40s and '50s (Adjusted for inflation of course.) At least you'd get only people who value their right to vote and our Constitutional Republic and who are informed and politically astute.
You'd have two years to save the $10 or so.
Wow! Can't wait to see how much wrath this comment generates.
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