Posted on 07/29/2002 9:17:41 AM PDT by Pokey78
If you use your credit card at almost any retailer, you'll be asked for valid ID as a fraud prevention measure. Imagine a cashier's reaction if, instead of a driver's license, you handed over a preprinted bank deposit slip and a pre- approved credit card application you had received in the mail.
While that may not be good enough for Target, backers of the "same-day-voting" initiative on November's ballot think it's more than enough identification in order to register and cast a ballot after walking up to a polling place on election day.
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Baloney.
Wrong again, Bwana!
Try voting sometime without either your voting card or a photo I.D.
You won't get within arm's reach of a ballot
I tossed it after my second election. Once you're registered, you're on the computer. I just show up, state my name, the lady checks it off her list, I sign that Ive voted, and go into the voting booth. No ID or proof of citizenship was ever requested of me.
If I move away or die, the elections board would not know it. All that would be needed for vote fraud would be to compile a list of people who appear on the vote rolls but are no longer at their listed address, then have a busload of people go from polling place to polling place, giving them a little piece of paper telling them who they are at the moment.
That's absolutely correct. Without your voter card, you must also sign an affidavit at the polls.
If there's a weakness in the system, it might be in how easy it is to get a voter registration card, although that's the case in nearly every state thanks to Motor Voter.
If you use your credit card at almost any retailer, you'll be asked for valid ID as a fraud prevention measure.
I don’t think I’ve ever once had to show an ID to use my credit card.
Oh, you must mean the voter registration card, right? The one with no picture ID....... LOL!
Eleven years ago, I moved from Maryland to Massachusetts. One of my sons still votes at my old polling place. In the presidential election in 2000, my name was still on the rolls. I still wonder how many times I voted after leaving the state.
Any of you who have heard Ron Smith on WBAL.com in Baltimore may be pleased to hear that the Supervisor of Elections in Baltimore called him the other day to complain about Ron talking about "rampant voter fraud" in Baltimore. No sooner had the idiot mentioned the topic than Ron went into one of his patented rants - and everything that he said was true.
The elections official never recovered.
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