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Voter ID Laws: Racist or Reasonable?
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| April 13, 2012
| Brandon Darby
Posted on 04/14/2012 10:13:20 PM PDT by vadum
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posted on
04/14/2012 10:13:27 PM PDT
by
vadum
To: vadum
We have to show ID to even charge something at retailers nowadays...so yeah, protecting the integrity of the voting process is hardly “racist”
To: vadum
We have to show ID to even charge something at retailers nowadays...so yeah, protecting the integrity of the voting process is hardly “racist”
To: vadum
Reasonable and righteous to me, are racist to the likes of Holder, Sharpton, Jackson, the democrats and their dependent voter fraud crowd.
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posted on
04/14/2012 10:20:29 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: vadum
Reasonable. Prove to me via any rational argument that it is in any way even remotely racist.
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posted on
04/14/2012 10:33:45 PM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: vadum
My friends and I have compiled a short list of what you need to show a photo ID card to do certain things. They are, but not restricted to: (1) getting a job; (2) opening a bank account; (3) boarding an aircraft; (4) buying cigarettes; (5) buying liquor; (6) cashing a check; (7) getting medical tests done at an outside lab; (8) entering certain federal office buildings; (9) entering a military installation; (10) paying for a purchase with a check; (11) registering an automobile; (12) signing a rental agreement for an apartment; 13) getting a motel/hotel room; (14) purchasing a firearm; (15) in certain when you purchase ammunition; (16) drive a car; and the list goes on and on.
In short, if one does not have a photo ID, I do not believe it's possible to be engaged in contemporary American society. You'd have to be so far under the radar, that you are literally off the grid and living as a recluse. The assertion that voter ID laws will disenfranchise American citizens is so lame that anyone making that assertion should be examined for being psychologically disabled.
Now if someone is actually loving that far off the grid as to not have a Photo ID and not doing any of the aforementioned common practices, then I would say that voting is not even registering with them and that it is a moot point.
I've used this argument in discussing voter ID with the few liberals I know, and when confronted with the list of what you need, they are usually left dumbfounded and unable to continue supporting their side of the discussion.
So why do liberals continue to use the lame excuse of disenfranchising voters? Because they need to continue supporting voter fraud to win elections.
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posted on
04/14/2012 10:49:52 PM PDT
by
cgchief
To: vadum
>"tend to claim the Left defies these laws to facilitate voter fraud and register dead or nonexistent people."It's not just a claim. It's a FACT.
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posted on
04/14/2012 10:50:37 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: vadum
When I get medical treatment, I have to show a picture ID, under a rule promulgated by the Obama Administration. Who knew that Barack Obama was prejudiced against black people?
To: A_Former_Democrat
“Fathom the odd hypocrisy that Congress wants every citizen to prove
they are insured, but not that they are citizens”.
-Richard Hartung, chairman Polk County (Wisconsin) Republican Party
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posted on
04/14/2012 10:53:59 PM PDT
by
donna
(3rd largest workforce in the world: UK National Health Service (Chinese Army is #1)
To: december12
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:08:14 PM PDT
by
vadum
To: vadum
How about this: You only get to vote if you’re paying taxes.
If you’re not contributing you get no say in elections.
It’s remarkable how far we’ve meandered from freedom and the associated responsibility of being a citizen.
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:25:25 PM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: MV=PY
You’ll get no argument from me.
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:33:52 PM PDT
by
vadum
To: vadum
I guess it would be racist if you hold that blacks don't know how to find a DMV or fill out a form. If that is what you think of blacks then of course you would think Voter ID is racist.
I think they can do it.
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:34:56 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: vadum
At my supermarket Wednesday, was checking out in the liquor area as nobody hardly knows it’s a 15 or less regular checkout. Gal left her ID on the counter. Black.
They all have ID if they want smokes, alcohol, bank accounts, check cashing places, utilities, plane tickets, rental cars, hotel rooms, jobs, government benefits. They all have IDs, it,s just that they can’t cheat if they have to show ID.
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:39:07 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: MV=PY
Turn your argument around. I would suspect that the vast majority without photo identification are recipients of some form of public aid. Why not provide such recipients with photo IDs?
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posted on
04/14/2012 11:46:26 PM PDT
by
monocle
To: monocle
Absolutely! Good first step.
Next... why let them vote if they’re on the dole?
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posted on
04/15/2012 12:00:54 AM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: cgchief
The last time I was at Walmart I had to show a photo id. Apparently if the purchases are over a certain dollar amount they ask for a photo id. My wife works at Fort Hood in Texas, each and every time I see her at work I must show a photo ID to get on base. She works in a secure area and to get to that area I must also show a photo id and give them that id to hold until I return to the security area. In return they give me a visitors pass. Last week when driving from El Paso to my home near Austin I had to show a photo id to the Border Patrol check station near El Paso. My friend with me is from England, he had to show his passport. Every time I fly I must show a photo id.
Question: Why is Mr Holder not telling all the above business and government agencies that they are discriminating against those without a photo id?
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posted on
04/15/2012 12:05:54 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
To: MV=PY
Long ago, everyone, at least where we lived, voted on the same day - the first Tuesday in November. Polling places were generally in schools and although not necessarily convenient for some, seems like everyone I knew always made it to the polls either before work or school or on the way home. Voting was just something everyone did. I don’t remember having to show ID when I was younger, perhaps I did. But there was no early voting, no mailing in your votes and the computer didn’t even exist. I know there has been a push to “make it more convenient” for people but I do really believe that if people could only vote in person and on election day, a lot of the opportunities for fraud would be eliminated.
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posted on
04/15/2012 12:13:15 AM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: vadum
If showing an ID is racist for voting, then it’s racist for everything. All or nothing here.
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posted on
04/15/2012 2:07:05 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Election 2012 - America stands or falls. No more excuses. Get involved.)
To: vadum
Both sides have legitimate facts and anecdotes to validate their points of view.No they don't. Not in today's world anyway. The ONLY reason to squash voter ID laws is to allow illegals to vote.
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posted on
04/15/2012 4:07:30 AM PDT
by
trebb
("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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