Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Voter ID

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[Sub-Driver]

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 04/28/2008 Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Voter ID

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision today on Indiana’s voter identification case:

“The Supreme Court’s decision is disappointing. The Court’s decision today places obstacles to the fundamental rights of American citizens—especially the poor, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities—to participate in the electoral process. Requiring American citizens pay for underlying documents needed for an identification card and travel to distant motor vehicle locations for processing hinders—and diminishes—their right to vote.

“The right to vote is a foundation of our democracy. American citizens who wish to vote must be able to do so.”

[Sub-Driver]

"If I only had brain".....

[Jeff Head]

IOW, Pelosi is saying, "Damn...how are we going to get the deceased and illegal alien vote now?"

[Petronski]

[2banana]

American citizens who wish to vote must be able to do so.”

No matter living or dead, legal or illegal, etc.

[Argus]

Requiring American citizens pay for underlying documents needed for an identification card and travel to distant motor vehicle locations for processing hinders—and diminishes—their right to vote.

Does everyone not have a birth certificate? If not, why not?

Pelosi conjures the no-longer existing spectre of ole grannies in Appalachia who've never been to town and who will now not be able to vote at the general store in order to cover for the millions of illegal aliens and dead people and liars on whom Democrats depend to maintain their majority.

[Always Right]

Requiring American citizens pay for underlying documents needed for an identification card and travel to distant motor vehicle locations for processing hinders—and diminishes—their right to vote.

Yeah, paying $10 every four years for an ID and finding one of the hundreds of BMV's located throughout the state is just too much to ask.

[Lovergirl]

My boy is disabled and he is registered to vote and the State of Indiana gave him a free ID. I just don’t get it, I guess.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Maybe Nancy and her friends can organize and volunteer to get people to DMV to get an ID so they can vote. If there are really that many people in this day and age who don’t have an ID for some reason, good Dems. like Pelosi and Hillary can do some spadework to get their voters an ID so they can vote. Doesn’t that make sense?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Howcum Dept:
6 registered voters turned up at a polling place in St. Louis. 36 votes were tallied.

[RedElement]

re: “The right to vote is a foundation of our democracy. American citizens who wish to vote must be able to do so.”

Unless you are an OpChaos operative, or unless this HRC/BHO slugfest goes on too long, or unless...

[CASchack]

People will get IDs for welfare or Electronic Benefits Cards.

[Marathoner]

I wish Stretch Pelosi would point out the article in the Constitution that grants a right to vote in Federal elections.

[blackdog]

I dunno. The disabled, elderly, and poor of all degrees seem to be able to make it to the social security office, unemployment office, and welfare office. They also seem to make it to the doctor when they are on medical assistance.

[ProfoundMan]

Perhaps we can use some of that extra tax revenue generated by the inflated gas price to subsidize Rainbow Coalition buses (who are going there anyway) to take these poor folks to get an ID while they're being registered to vote. /sarc

[blackdog]

Voting is a responsibility, not a right.

[Dilbert San Diego]

And while it’s difficult for some people to get around, it’s not impossible. It’s not an undue burden to require an ID. And how many people still don’t have an ID nowadays? How many old grannies in the creeks and hollows of Appalachia who seldom go into town are still out there and never got an ID?

[Phantom Lord]

The right to vote is a foundation of our democracy

Sorry Nancy, we are NOT a democracy. And further, and more importantly, there is no constitutional right to vote. Period.

[gridlock]

Hey Nancy! What about my right to not have my vote cancelled out by some dead guy or by a Democrat operative who spends all election day going from precinct to precinct, voting as many times as he can?

[AlaskaErik]

Nazi Pelosi is saddened that DemocRATS won't be able to steal elections as easily now in Indiana. Other states now need to follow Indiana's lead.

[jazusamo]

"If I only had brain".....