Posted on 10/27/2014 3:17:15 PM PDT by MNDude
Ever since he turned 18 he has made a point of voting in general elections, having been brought up by his African American parents to think that it is important, part of what he calls “doing the right thing”. He remembers the excitement of voting for Barack Obama in 2008 to help elect the country’s first black president, his grandmother crying tears of joy on election night. “My grandfather and uncle, they used to tell me all the time there will be a black president. I never believed it, never in a million years.”
He voted again for Obama in his re-election bid in 2012, and turned out for the 2010 midterm elections in between. But this year is different. Kennie is one of an estimated 600,000 Texans who, though registered to vote, will be unable to do so because they cannot meet photo-identification requirements set out in the state’s new voter-ID law, SB14 .
But last week, in the early hours of 18 October, when most Texans were sleeping, the US supreme court snuck out a one-line judgmentthat allowed the voter-ID restrictions to be applied this election cycle. Without any explanation, a majority of the justices effectively threw Eric Kennie and many thousands of others like him – particularly black, Hispanic and low-income Texans – into a state of democratic limbo.
“This is the first time the courts have allowed a law that actually keeps people from voting to go into effect, even though a judge found it was passed for the purpose of making it harder for minorities to vote,” said Wendy Weiser, head of the democracy programme at the Brennan Centre for Justice.
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BINGO!
Give me a break.
“Born and raised’ Texans forced to prove identities under new voter ID law”
I’m sure the people in South Africa or India or many other nations are crying two tears in a bucket for you.
In the dead of the night...you know, like Obamacare.
LOL, this is some sinister writing.
AMEN...They feel they’re “entitled” to not have to get that ID like everyone else.
“It was a dark and stormy night...”
I’ve never understood the liberals on this. Why do they not organize efforts to get people an ID so they can vote?
I’ve heard all the arguments about how its hard to get birth cert and other documents to get a state issued ID. Why don’t the liberals do ID drives, just as they do get out the vote drives?
If somebody needs a ride to a government office to get ID, how about good liberals give them a ride?
If somebody needs to send away for a birth cert from out of state and doesn’t understand how to do this, how about good liberals step in and help them fill out the forms, get it notarized, or whatever else is needed,,so that their voters can get their ID???
Wait a minute.
He was 18 in 2008 and he still doesn’t have a driver’s license?
Or any kind of photo ID?
Maybe 24 year old slug shouldn’t be voting anyway.
I think we should deny the vote to the criminally insane.
“Eric Kennie and many thousands of others like him – particularly black, Hispanic and low-income Texans – into a state of democratic limbo.”
Oh I know kinda blew their freaking minds huh? Omg! They are forcing me to get a form of identification to vote! Whatever shall I do !?
So if Supremes strike down the laws as unconstitutional does that mean I get to use the same excuse when they ask for my ID to purchase a gun? You know it is a protected right under the constitution...and that ID requirement kinda infringes on that right.
This poor victim must not be able to buy booze either, or get on a plane or rent an appartment. If you’re old enough to vote, you should have valid ID.
So if he was over 18 in 2008, that makes him over 24 today...
I’m not buying it. So he doesn’t have a bank account or a car or a library card or traveled by air or rail or received any one of a thousand welfare handouts that require an ID?
I finally waded through the article, I recommend that people read it, it is so bad, that it is good.
If it were a movie, it would be the kind where you get some of the guys together to drink beer and laugh and crack jokes while watching it.
A fine example of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
He HAS to have one.
If he has a cell phone, or an apartment, opened a bank account, applied for a job, bought booze, or even went to any college, then at some point he had to present a photo ID.
I don’t sign the back of my credit card, and when someone asks for my ID, I hand it to them with a big thank you. I don’t feel “offended” or “surpressed” from trying to make a purchase.
That should be, make it harder for minorities to vote MORE THAN ONCE
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