State Employees Are Having A Hard Time Explaining Scott Walker’s New Voting Restrictions

United Steel Workers ^ | June 29, 2015 | Alice Ollstein

[Cincinatus' Wife]

June 29, 2015 - PolitiFact: Scott Walker says most Americans support voter ID laws, which make it easier to vote harder to cheat

".........The thrust of Walker’s claim was that photo ID laws are exceptionally popular among voters, and that Hillary Clinton’s view opposing them is out of step. So we will start there.

According to the polls we examined, Walker is on target about public support................

[SNIP]

Walker said, "Hillary Clinton's rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans."

Walker is on point with the main thrust of his claim. Polls show strong support for voter ID laws, including from Democrats.

The other elements of the claim -- easier to vote and harder to cheat -- amount to a split. It’s clearly not easier to vote if the extra step of obtaining a photo ID is added. Likewise, it is harder to cheat if there is an extra verification step at the polling place.

On balance, we rate Walker’s claim Mostly True."

[onyx]

Right on, Governor Walker!!!!

[bigbob]

doesn’t seem that confusing to me. I betcha if the same documentation was required to get an EBT card or free admission to a Brewers game, they’d have no problem with it.

[Amagi]

Simple.
They can't vote fraud anymore.

[G Larry]

OH!
Look!

A Union paper with a negative article about Gov. Scott Walker!

Here’s my shocked look:
{:^0

[Seruzawa]

Govt employees being too stupid to understand simple principles is unexpected?

[AppyPappy]

The objections are ridiculous. You need an ID to get medical services these days.

[ealgeone]

Make it simple.

Vote on Tuesday

Present ID

Home bound may vote absentee with photo ID required.

[alancarp]

I am happy to hear that union workers are confused and would stay at home.

[freedumb2003]

99% of all people have an ID, most a driver’s license. You need it for government services (welfare), to fly, to go to a casino (and win), to use a credit card, to do almost everything in today’s world.

They are kvetching about a tiny tiny percentage of people who can be accommodated pretty easily.

This is really PRETENDING to have a problem so they can make Walker look bad. SEIU’s unsubtle hand can been seen here.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things instead of really looking at what it is,” Walker said of the media and activists bringing attention to it. [Walker's comment on the Pizza dust-up fits here too].

[Dr. Sivana]

There already WAS an election with the current Voter ID law. AFTER that election, the courts delayed continued enforcement. There were no serious issues in that election.

[The Toll]

Cheaters gotta cheat.

[terycarl]

dammit, if you want to vote, get an ID...they are free...I can’t stand eternal victims, my gramma was born in the south and doesn’t have a birth certificate....well she can never fly, get a library card, buy alcohol, get a loan, get a drivers license, get married, buy an insurance policy, PATHETIC.

[BitWielder1]

No more byzantine than signing up for 0bamacare.

If you can't get an ID, then maybe you have to sit one out, or (gasp!) make an effort to get one in time for the next election.
You have 1/2 year until primaries, over a whole year until the general election.
Stop whining. Show you're serious. Get going!

[zeugma]

If I'd written the law, it would say you could present one of the following:

1. A current U.S. Passport
2. A current State driver's licence with current address
3. A current Military ID.

"Students" should be voting in their home state, if they are out of state or get one of the above.

Things like "bank statements" and other such nonsense, is just used to promote fraud.

If you can't bother to get one of the above in time for the election, then you should have planned better.

 

[TexasCajun]

A little Recon today? ...you're gonna need a shower.

First Salon and now United Steel Workers?

[zeugma]

Oh, and no early voting. I’d specify that the polling places be open for 24 hours. If you can’t get there, you don’t vote.

[Lumper20]

They have an ID or they could not collect Gov welfare benefits.

[Lumper20]

They all have an ID for TANF/food stamps.