Posted on 04/10/2010 3:32:17 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
In a recent survey conducted by the Texas Center for Public Policy Research, 76 percent of registered voters support a state law requirement to show a photo identification to vote in an election. These results are consistent with other surveys taken by the Government Department at the University of Texas showing 69 percent of Texans in favor of Voter ID, and a Rasmussen Poll showing support as high as 88 percent. While opponents to Voter ID claim the requirement is divisive and partisan, the TCPPR survey finds broad support for Voter ID even among self-identified Democrats.
Another Texas Center for Public Policy Research survey on Texas topics.
http://www.texasresearch.org/2009/03/texans-support-voter-id/
Good stuff.....
So does any American who wants honest elections. Opposition to Voter ID is nothing but a leftist effort to facilitate election fraud and everyone knows it. I despair of any Republican with the guts to point that simple fact out.
We’ve had to show our id here in AL for the last several elections. Don’t know if it was a new law or if they just started enforcing an old one.
2nd to all of that. It’s time to stop this collegiality crap and to start calling them as we see them, and everything you say there is spot on.
You have to have an ID to cash a check or even use a credit card in many places. It’s absurd to not have to have proper ID to vote.
It’s crazy not to support this.
They probably view law enforcement as divisive and partisan, too.
Those are not the main adjective that opponents use.
Hint: The word starts with an "R."
Looks like Ricky boy needs to call a special session to vote on it before Nov.
Hmmmm...
Obviously getting the law enacted was a fools errand this last session...But it did setup a good situation as far as I am concerned...
Being an election official, I thought about it for some time and came to the conclusion thst we do not need a Voter ID law...
Our authority as election officials is to guard the “purity of the election” and that justifies that “asking” for picture ID vote prospective voters tht come in our doors...
What seems to be lost in all of this is the fact that you can (as an election judge) make pen and ink changes to the voter rolls (books) to correct them as time goes on...This helps the county clerks clean them up from folks that have moved on, died, or any typos that occur...
I’ve purges approx. 750-800 names from, and have corrected as many typos in the books in my precinct oer the last 15 years to where I rarely have any problems at all with them...
I ask for the ID to verify their information on the books...It is that simple...It is a state issued ID and that is good enough for me and anyone else who takes up this responsibility...
It also helps me get the people who do not pay attention towhere they live, and what precinct they vote in as well...I make sure if they are not on the books in my precinct, that they are directed to the correct location to go vote...That is supposed to be part of the job...
If the fraud takes place, it is because of a blatant disregard for the law, and the responsibility is on the head of the Election Judge...
Darth...Take it away...You’re turn...
always show my ID when voting here in st johns county FL but for some reason the left still find a way to cheat.
think of the yankee libs who have vacation homes down here and use their address down here to vote.
then the GA media found over a 100,000 votes were cast from people in GA and OH. When the media tracked some of these clowns down they said they never knew they couldn’t do that or they forgot they voted in two states
add the illegals down in Palm, Broward county
Then the ACORN, SEIU vote and bang bozo won the state
The voting should be done on a national wide voter program somehow so when you vote those working at the polls can see if you have already voted.
Maybe have a system like the driving license.
What’s really amazing to me is that photo ID is not needed in the first place! I’m 110% behind the rule. Now...since Obamacare passed, I also think you should have to be 27 before you vote!!
ID required. Also Purple finger. I do not understand why nobody is even talking about the purple finger. Also severely tighten the rules on absentee voting.
I wonder how difficult it would be to verify that a person is registered in one place, and one place only.
I vote absentee in CA... would it be all that hard for the officials in CA to verify that I am not also registered where I currently live, in TX?
they don’t check here obviously with those having two addresses.
the snow birds have been doing it for a long time
Yes, but as is so often the case, voters back candidates who do not agree with the voters’ positions. So what do uninformed voters really believe anyway?
How to get GOP voters to the polls and change the political direction this country is taking: ISSUES LIKE THIS ONE!
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