Posted on 06/03/2015 2:44:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
It is an article of faith among progressives that mandatory voter ID laws are racist and discriminatory. Such voter requirements, they say, unfairly discriminate against minorities and elderly citizens, many of whom do not have and cannot afford to purchase them. However, it is a well-known fact that in the United States, one must always and everywhere show a photo ID to board airplanes, rent automobiles, and purchase firearms. So why should voting, a fundamental and hard-won American right, be any different?
Perhaps for these reasons, a new poll shows that the vast majority of Americans, most of whom are not racist, support such compulsory laws (via Drudge and The Washington Examiner)
Despite Democratic charges that conservative states and politicians are engaging in discrimination by demanding that voters show identification, more than three-quarters of likely voters believe photo ID laws are needed.A new Rasmussen Reports poll out Wednesday found support for photo ID laws at 76 percent, nearly exactly the 78 percent support registered in 2006 when the latest movement to scrap the laws kicked off.
In other words, support for these kinds of laws is enduringly strong, and presumably, it will stay that way for the foreseeable future. Not terribly surprising, is it?
Three in Four Americans used to be against homosexual marriage.
yeah but this percentage has stayed pretty much the same for 10 years notwithstanding furious attacks by the left. i’ll take any good news at this point
3 out of 4 do not always vote Democrat. But the agenda driven Press would have you believe it was the opposite.
I just voted in some local elections yesterday. I had to show photo ID and have had to for years. Everyone should.
Voter I.D. PLUS, the purple ink on the finger, just for good measure.
If I have to show an ID to carry out my second amendment rights then you have to show an ID to carry out your 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendment rights.
I propose a constitutional amendment:
- Only US citizens are allowed to vote in elections of federal offices or officers.
- States must maintain separate voter rolls for Federal elections
- Citizens may only vote once in the voting precinct as determined by their home address
- Citizens must provide a US government issued photo id at the time of registration in order to be added to the voting rolls
- Voting roll registration will be closed 30 days prior to the Presidential election
- No same day voting for federal elections
- The voting rolls will be cleared of all voters at the end of Feb following a Presidential election.
- States receiving a voter registration must ask if the person was previously registered to vote and upon new registration must inform the old state of the change in registration.
- all voters must provide a valid govenment issued photo id at the time of voting in order to receive a ballot
- all states must provided a valid photo id alternative free of charge to any US Citizen
There’s already been some articles about DemocRats and illegal aliens wanting to grant illegals voting rights, they’ll keep pushing.
Oh they’ve been talking about that since the 90s, if not before.
Illegal alien voting is (supposedly) what cost Congressman Robert Dornan his seat.
When you use credit cards or even debit cards, you MAY be asked to show ID. If you rent a car, enter a nightclub, buy alcohol, and all the other times you mention.
The elderly that had no ID are now gone. My parents are now in the elder generation. They and their age mates all have ID. Even the minorities. Maybe the illegal alien abuelitas don’t have ID. Then don’t [expletive] vote.
There is NO good reason to be against voter ID. No other country allows this. I went to my polling place last year and apparently I had already voted. I had to vote a provisional ballot. I was mad. Whoever voted in my name - THEIR vote counted, but my provisional probably didn’t.
My prior address / voting place had a woman up the street with a name that sounded like mine but spelled differently. Our first names were identical. The older women looking through those huge paper address lists would always stumble over this. “Don’t you live at [other address]?” “No, that is the other [name]; she spells her name with a G.” Soooo difficult. Having the person’s ID would cut down those clerical errors as well.
So, relatively few don’t have I.D given the need for it to fly, maintain credit, buy a house, buy or rent a car or house/apartment, maintain life/health insurance, apply for Medicare or Medicaid or Welfare or Work (social Security Number, etc.).
Within that very limited group - how many actually vote?
Let’s face it. Without identification one must lead a very strange life in America with voting not even on the list of things to do every few years.
This entire issue is a huge Democrat lie.
Note that the states have never amended the Constitution to prohibit themselves from requiring voters to present valid voter ID before actually being allowed to vote. So the states are free to establish such a requirement imo.
But the problem seems to be that every election cycle those opposed to such a requirment manage to delay its implementation until too close to election day, judges arguably justified in throwing the requirement out.
Exactly...My MIL is 91 and hasn’t driven a car for close to 15 years, she uses a walker to get around but she has a photo ID. She wouldn’t have it any other way and no elderly person should be without one.
While we are at it repeal Motor Voter.
It is beyond stupidity to claim that ANYONE who demands that voters show identification is racist. This is especially annoying because Democrats demand photo ID before one can participate in their meetings, even if the meeting is about voter ID.
All of these proposals are excellent in theory, but there has to be a reliable mechanism for enforcement, and serious criminal prosecutions for tricksters attempting to vote when they don't meet qualifications or attempt to vote at more than one voting precinct, etc. Also, serious police presence at the polling places is necessary as a deterrent to cheats.
Citizenship requirements have to be enforced at the time of registration with registrants required to present either a US birth certificate or naturalization papers.
You make no proposals for absentee ballots, which have been used quite frequently in (local) fraud schemes.
All this will cost state and local governments more money, but will be worth the added expense in improved public confidence in the integrity of the electoral process.
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