'Born and raised' Texans forced to prove identities under new voter ID law (Ebola level barf)

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/born-and-raised-texans-forced-to-prove-identities-under-new-voter-id-law/ar-BBbvlNP?ocid=UP97DHP ^

[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.

[Atlantan]

I don't understand the problem. For years we've had voter ID in GA.

My precinct is run by elderly black ladies and the first thing they ask for is my photo ID. I have to write down my birth date and they carefully make sure it's the same on my driver's license. Then I go to another table and another elderly black lady scans my driver's license. I vote near downtown Atlanta, the most liberal part of the state. There's never a complaint about voter ID and very little voter fraud in GA.

[Eagles6]

When you get up in the morning buy a car, purchase insurance, drive to the liquor store and make a purchase, play the lottery, cash a check, buy cigarettes, pick up your prescription, buy some sudafed, open a bank account, sign up for welfare, get a library card, make a return at Walmart, book a plane or train ticket, visit the White House, meet with your elected representative, stop at a bar and have a drink and then, if you're not too tired after your busy day, vote.

Just show them the same ID that you've been using all day.

[rdcbn]

My state requires ID to buy booze and cigarettes, no exceptions.

I’m at an age where I thank the waitress when she asks me for my ID to prove I’m over 18.

They always do.

No problem for voting either

[Eagles6]

Because that prove their arguements isn’t valid and we can’t have that.

[This I Wonder32460]

How’s it keep registered voters from voting? They are the only U.S. citizens that should be voting. You show your ID, you vote. You don’t show your ID, then who are you? And why should you be allowed to vote. Currently my home town doesn’t ask for ID, they find your address, then your name and check it off. And of course it’s a small town so most folks are known from years of voting at the one and only voting place.

[Michael.SF.]

I suspect that “scrapper” is a term that inflates his status, prestige and capabilities. Kind of like calling Obama “Constitutional Scholar”

[deport]

I suspect that “scrapper” is a term that inflates his status,

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My thoughts also. I suspect he’s working as a gatherer for someone else
who is legit to sell as a scrapper.

[TLI]

He has a current drivers license.

He has a current voter Registration card.

OK, go vote!

Just how pathetic IS the author of this drivel that he could not even find an individual that actually did NOT have a drivers license?

Yet instead we get a collection of fallacy straw-man non-entities such as dealt with cases and One older man combined with ridiculous nonsense such as help individuals negotiate the Kafkaesque bureaucratic maze.

Bureaucratic maze?

It is one form of photo ID and a Voter registration card.

Even a democrat can figure out how to complete a voter registration card application.

And it is telling that the author could not find a single example of someone with no ID that they could put a name and a face on in the article.

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[Shimmer1]

Hmmm, let me guess....he was able to prove his identity enough to get welfare.

[eyedigress]

I showed ID in North Carolina today. BIG SIGN on the front entrance, If you need ID show proof of citizenship and it will be provided for FREE!

If “Kennie” isn’t a damn citizen, he cannot vote.

Damn “Kennie” at least you don’t need to be a landowner you useless pustule.

[bigredkitty1]

Oh, puh-leeze! If one has to provide proof of identification to apply for and receive government benefits, buy booze, cigarettes, and a drink at the local bar...how freaking hard is it to provide identification when you vote?!?!? Not at all, I say. In the last several primaries and elections, I just take out my driver’s license and hand it to my election official. I guess I have been unfairly targeted and had an undue burden placed upon me. NOT!

[Thank You Rush]

“”If somebody needs a ride to a government office to get ID, how about good liberals give them a ride?””

For years various states have said picture ID will be provided to a person IN THEIR OWN HOME and the idea was shot down....I don’t want to hear about it being a REAL issue with anyone. It’s simply another maneuver to avoid revealing who is eligible to vote and who isn’t but we all know that already. When are the really stupid people going to discover that not all of us are as stupid as they are?

[eyedigress]

All registered voters have their name at the local polling places. You can accompany your son and verify his address.

You can even accompany your son to fill out the ballot.

He will be recorded as having voted. That’s all.

[Thank You Rush]

Don’t forget doctor visits. Our eye doctor is now making patients fill out NEW PAPERWORK at each checkup. They said it is NOT THEIR IDEA...it is a REQUIREMENT!! My husband and I just did it and it was pages of medical questions - probably 50+ ailments to check yes or no for yourself AND family members! The eye doctor said he is required to provide prostate exam coverage for his female employees and abortion coverage for his male employees...I don’t think he was joking. Where/when does it end?

[lonestar]

Photo IDs are free from the state.

BTW, how do we know he is who he says he is without a photo ID?

[Thank You Rush]

“”Even a democrat can figure out how to complete a voter registration card application.””

Are you sure about that? I’m not!!! Didn’t they give us what we have now?

[usnavy_cop_retired]

According to the story he is 45 y/o now. His ID expired in 2000. So for 14 years he had no ID.

What name is on his Social Security card?

Is it the same as his birth certificate?

If not, then what name and documents did his parents use to get him a SSN?

Chances are he has some form of ID since he can’t sell scrap, (bottles and cans) to a recycler without ID. I had a friend that worked for a recycler as a semi driver and I have watched the process. Even the street people have to show ID to sell cans and bottles.

Most likely he is trying to fly under the radar so as not to have to file tax returns or has warrants out for him under one of his names.

[Eagles6]

Even with the gutless GOPe in charge it may not.

[deport]

Photo IDs are free from the state.
BTW, how do we know he is who he says he is without a photo ID?
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Part of the problem is he had a photo ID but let it expire a few years back without renewal.
In trying to get a new one he brought in a birth certificate which the last name
didn’t match the last name he was applying for. It had his mother’s maiden name on it an
apparently he is using his dad’s last name. So he’s got to get some items straighten
out to get the photo ID. The article rambles around some but lots more info there.

The IDs cost $16 for a six year period with renewal at $16.

[onedoug]

Does the Texas birth certificate still confer the right to wear the Ten Gallon Hat?

It did when my brother was born in El Paso, 1954.