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Supreme Court decision that makes sense.
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On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law in Indiana requiring voters to have a valid government issued photo ID is not in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Now I am no huge fan of governmental regulation but, in this case, I fully agree with them. Maybe that will keep all of those dead people and illegals from voting. Ok, I don't know for sure that the illegals are voting but when I worked for the county in Florida we did have a bunch of dead folks that showed up at the polls. I figure that if they could break through the casket and vault, then dig up six feet, and walk a few miles to the poll for their local district; then why couldn't the illegals? Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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At first blush this seems like a no brainer, but it does have detrimental consequences. There is a vast number of citizens who do not have photo IDs. These typically are the elderly and the poor. One can claim that this is, in a way, disenfranchising this group.
Most voter fraud occurs with mailed absentee ballots, and requiring photo IDs nothing to address this issue. Essentially this is just another ploy by the neocons to disenfranchise voters who oppose them.
No one presented information that anyone was denied voting because they did not have an ID.
If you need an ID to vote, call the candidate you want to vote for and I will bet they will help you get an ID.
I don't know that I would say that it's the neocons that are behind it all. The easiest elections to rig via this manner of voter fraud are the local elections. For a national election to be skewed using fraudulent ballots would take a huge effort and a mass conspiracy. And we all know that nobody in Washington can keep a secret anymore.
I think that this will definitely benefit the integrity of the local elections. In my opinion, the main reason that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state of Indiana is that Indiana provides free photo ID for their residents that do not have a driver's license. That keeps people from declaring that this is tantamount to a "poll tax" because the residents are not required to pay anything for their state issued ID card.
As for the absentee ballots, someone really does need to look into a way that they can ensure the integrity of those ballots. When I was in the Navy, we had to file absentee ballots, and had to show that we were citizens of the state that we were voting from. We have some members of our armed forces that are not citizens yet, but have volunteered for the armed forces to expedite the citizenship process. Currently if you are a citizen of a different country and volunteer for our services, you are automatically eligible for citizenship.
I'll just add this and leave all of you to debate who is behind a lot of voter fraud over the past few years.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/...
And I'll leave you with this.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225...
But I thought Hillary was the "annointed one" that Diebold was supposed to help in this election.
Regardless, we should definitely have a way to track the votes. Why is it that, in the most powerful nation in the world, we aren't even able to conduct elections that are "fool" proof? I can't stand the voting machines. The only reason that we have them is so that some cruddy news channel can announce a winner within 10 minutes of the polls closing. Who cares how long it takes to count the votes? I would like to know that it's done correctly, not fast.
I live in Indiana and a state issued ID cost about $7.00. I'm sure that if voting were someting you really had your heart set on, you could find the money for the ID,and should'nt you have some type of ID anyway.
volfanatic...I went to the site you gave..I had to read it twice because I thought I had missed something while reading it...I was SHOCKED...I must have had my eyes and ears covered because I never knew some of what I read..Thank You for letting me see the true light on a few things...