Posted on 10/25/2012 3:24:44 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Court of Appeals has upheld the state's new law requiring voters to show photo identification at polling places and ruled that election officials must accept an ID issued by the Memphis library. (excerpted)
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(Untold joke here.)
The libraries are woefully understaffed and their overworked staffs were forced to take an across the board pay cut. Nevertheless, because of the corrupt Democrats who want to steal elections Memphis made a snap decision to spend in excess of $100,000 to get photo id equipment in the library branches. It all happened in about a week. And it’s an outrage. The libraries don’t have the manpower to manage issuance of new library cards for thousands of non-reading patrons. The libraries are not equipped to do more than minimal identity verification, which is fine when you are talking about checking out a book, but it’s altogether different when you are talking about an identification card that will be used for voting. The libraries and librarians aren’t to blame here. It’s the corrupt liberal fools running the City of Memphis. Typical!
But wasn’t the legal age for beer 18 back then? And I bet especially in Milwaukee!
Sometimes Hollywood writers just don’t use facts.
My guess is she missed the opt back during semester breaks assuming she was in TN at some point. http://www.tn.gov/sos/election/forms/ss-3010.pdf
Thanks, I’ll mention it to my daughter tonight to share with her roommate. Maybe she misunderstood. I’ll ask IF she registered in person. They moved in back in early August but I’m not sure exactly when she turned 18, I’m guessing at least before Sept 1 as that is the cut-off date, I believe for 1st grade . . . but IF it was 18 between moving to college and now . . . it would have been impossible to register in person as they only come home on a Friday evening and return on Sunday. I hope she can vote. She is really upset and disappointed at not being able to.
On a happier note, my very conservative and very Republican daughter requested her absentee ballot via mail last Wednesday and received hers back yesterday and she is mailing it back today. Also a first time voter. I think she had to go get a xerox copy of her photo i.d. to include (driver’s license) and get two of the roommates to sign the affidavit that was included. She said many pieces of paper, three envelopes, etc. I told her to BE SURE and put plenty of stamps on it. :)
Simp-le solution, tighten the requirements for library cards to force people to provide some positive form of ID.
Maybe not so simple, it is in Rat controlled Memphis.
Not during the 50's, the period that Happy Days was set in.
The drinking age briefly lowered to 18 in most states in the 70's, after the Constitution was amended to make that the voting age. I don't remember exactly when, but the federal government made highway funds contingent on raising the drinking age back to 21.
She didn’t have to be 18 to register, the requiremnt is 18 before the next election or that’s how I read it. But that’s history now.
Heck they can get driving licenses in many communities.
and heck , the dogs can probably drive more safely than some of the two-legged critters who are given driver licenses these days. at least the dogs are far more intelligent ...
but i still wonder why Romney’s campaign people didn’t send a couple lawyers over to challenge O’s ballot....
would have cost almost nothing, might have worked... and at the very least it would have raised the issue again for the American voters to consider
But wasn’t the legal age for beer 18 back then? And I bet especially in Milwaukee!
Not during the 50’s, the period that Happy Days was set in.”
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In New York you could drink at 18 in the 50s.
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photos won’t stop all the illegal (and some legal, alas) immigrants from getting driver licenses or other documents... all they have to do is wear their burquas...
Well, I tried. I texted and emailed them and she did register by mail not knowing the consequences.
Daughter excited to vote. We went and voted in the Primary together this Spring. Everyone at the precinct were so nice to her and congratulating her. :)
Well, I tried. I texted and emailed them and she did register by mail not knowing the consequences.
Daughter excited to vote. We went and voted in the Primary together this Spring. Everyone at the precinct were so nice to her and congratulating her. :)
Ah, I didn’t know that! Where I lived, it was 21.
Well you efforts help us all learn a little. Now hopefully she can either get registered again when she is home so that she can go to the registrars office in person. I'm glad your daughter is excited. I know I was and my first presidential election was Kennedy/Nixon, 1960.
She is excited, she texted me a photo of her envelope all ready to go and with three stamps on it!!! I wished her many many many more elections. I pray really hard that her first vote was for the WINNING TEAM, the America’s Comeback Team!!!!
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