South Dakota:
Found this little gem while surfing for voter fraud news.
"If the state's Attorney General's office isn't going to enforce voting fraud misdemeanors, then it must provide the public a list of other misdemeanors it may choose not to enforce. Shoplifting? Marijuana possession? Reckless driving? Just let us know what we can get away with".
"There's always room for voter fraud on my watch as attorney general, because I'm too big of a wimp to do anything about it. Oh, sure, I'll kick around the Gina Score family and act big and tough; but when the time comes to confront a U.S. senator and his thugs for teensy weensy misdemeanors in a little ol' federal election, I'll run for the shade faster than a bald guy without a hat on a hundred-degree day in July."
http://www.zwire.com/site/News.cfm?BRD=2240&dept_id=455427&newsid=6662144&PAG=461&rfi=9Arizona: I like this Lady!
Lets see now, the Rats say the following terrible things about requiring voter ID's: "they are an unnecessary obstacle to voting; requiring ID's is legally offensive; they impose an unnecessary burden and people are denied their right to vote". What the Democrats are really saying here is that anything that could possibly prevent them from cheating shouldn't be allowed!/my words.
Lawmaker wants to require ID from voters
By HOWARD FISCHER
Capitol Media Services
01/09/2003
PHOENIX --- A veteran state lawmaker wants Arizonans to have to produce some form of identification before they vote at the next election.
Rep. Linda Gray, R-Glendale, is crafting legislation that would mandate would-be voters first show either a card with a photograph or two other forms of identification with the person's name and address. Gray wants the measure enacted this session.
But the plan is drawing fire from Rep. Linda Lopez, D-Tucson, who said it is an unnecessary obstacle to voting.
Gray said she never gave the issue much thought until she saw some "door hangars,'' literature left by the Arizona Democratic Party. She said one of the things emphasized was that people could vote without showing any form of identification.
"Now what is the point in emphasizing 'go vote and do not show your ID?' " Gray asked. "It sends up a red flag to me of voter fraud.''
Congress last year approved some changes in voting law that require states to get identification when people register to vote the first time. If they register by mail, then their ID would be checked the first time they vote. But, unlike what Gray wants to do, there would be no subsequent checks.
Paul Haggerty, executive director of the Arizona Democratic Party, said the perennial checking is both unnecessary and legally offensive. "We are against having to show ID for the same reason that the Supreme Court is against it: You don't have to have an identification card to be a citizen of this country,'' he said.
Haggerty said the new federal legislation deals with the issue when it is appropriate: when someone first registers to vote. He said even existing state law gave county recorders the power to check someone's residency at the time of registration, which is all that he believes is necessary.
Lopez said Gray's proposal imposes an unnecessary burden.
"We do not want to disenfranchise people, that when folks get to the polls they are denied their right to vote,'' she said.
She acknowledged that voters who drive probably would have no problem meeting the requirement. After all, Lopez said, they would have an Arizona driver's license. More problematic, she said, are those who don't drive, possibly because they are disabled, who have to use dial-a-ride services or other transportation to get to the polls -- and may show up without an acceptable identification. "Then what happens to you?'' she asked.
Gray said her bill will permit various forms of identification to be used. For example, she said, if someone lacks a state-issued ID card with a photo, two other items with someone's name and address, such as utility bills, could qualify
http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=57003