voter ID is racist and polically motivated against the poor...bullshit.
Only those who have something to gain from voter fraud are interested in suppressing the reasonable safeguards needed to preserve the standard of one citizen/one vote.
-- Currently,, it is ridiculously easy to vote fraudulently, because there is no surveillance possible without a system of ID verification. Only the most stupid and sloppy voter frauds have any chance of being caught and prosecuted.
Requiring voter ID would in no way suppresses any particular group of voters, because most everyone has ID or can easily get an ID without any hassle.
Here is a list of all the everyday activities where photo ID is required.
adopt a pet
purchase a home
purchase an automobile
purchase a gun
obtain a bank account
obtain a credit card
obtain a passport
write a check
to cash a check
make a credit card purchase
apply for a loan to purchase anything
to prove your age
to receive a marriage license
to drive
to get medical care
to get on a plane
to get insurance on anything
to get a job
to get a post office box
to get a hunting license
to get a fishing license
to get a business license
to rent an apartment
to rent a hotel room
to rent a car
to rent furniture
to rent tools and equipment
to receive welfare
to receive social security
to receive food stamps
to buy cigarettes
to buy alcohol
to buy a bus ticket
to buy a cell phone
to buy an antihistamine over-the-counter medication
to go into a casino
to go into a bar
to enroll in grade school, high school or college
to pick up a package from the post office, FedEx or UPS
to pick up a prescription
So, why should voting NOT require an ID? Is it not an important process (at least as important as most of the tasks listed above)? It seems to me that we share a mutual interest in ensuring that elections at all levels are conducted with fairly and with integrity.
choice between the lesser of the 2 evils...When red states purge voters..They end up purging MANY people, who are not only still alive, but that are registered democrat (this is the dirty game they play)...However, the left, plays an equally dirty game when thousands of dead people vote for them..
What the American people should do, is realize BOTH parties are playing this game, and protest it..It is not ok, for either side to do it..and BOTH sides are guilty
...your gun license is an acceptable form of identification for voting. Your college ID, NOPE!
My grandmother didn't have an ID. She never drove a car a day in her life. She lived at home and she was a home maker. Even with 5 kids, my grandfather refused to allow her to work. He sometimes worked 4 jobs at a time, sometimes not coming home for days on end, to make ends meet. When he passed away, my grandmother still didn't drive, family and friends would do the grocery shopping for her. If nuguy had his way, he'd deny her the right to vote.
Quit the bullshit. You know perfectly well what this is about. Voter fraud almost never happens. In the last 10 years, only 36 people have ever been prosecuted for it, and only 11 were convicted. Unlike the election fraud the GOP has a long history of practicing, voter fraud has never been demonstrated to have overturned an election.
This is not about voter fraud. It's about voter suppression.
Did your grandmother apply for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, have a checking account? You get none of those without a valid ID. No one said a driver's license was the only form of valid ID. I know several people in NJ that don't drive, but they all have ID's.
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