Is anyone else getting tired of Liberals trying to frame this issue as racist or any other way? Voter ID laws are not discriminatory. IDs are needed in ever facet of life. Liberals characterizing this as racists are really pretty bad people. They are not honest. They just want more people to vote for them who otherwise should not be voting.
What a piece of crap! Did you read the study you cited? It's 10 years old. They read books and articles (that are over 10 years old) and interviewed a bunch of sympathetic 'experts' who unsurprisingly declared that Voter ID is bad.
Again, use common sense / logic.
In 2016 it's basically impossible to commit absentee fraud in VA unless you steal someone's SSN and Driver's License, they all of their postal mail, then turn in their ballot.
How is that more prone to voter fraud than having someone show up at a voting place with no ID?
Makes zero sense.
19th Amendment wrote:
How about if you don't drive, drink, or 'get welfare'. What if the person recently moved to a new state for work or school? What if your license is suspended or just lost and you don't have the $50 to renew? This describes a not insignificant number of older citizens, college kids, and poor demos in cities with public transportation. If Wejo's stats are accurate, 1.2M in Texas alone. Why disenfranchise these people when there's no measurable voting risk to their enfranchisement?
Public libraries and county governments give out free ID. If you cannot be bothered to obtain an ID, you shouldn't vote. Is it "disenfranchising" people to require IDs for welfare? To drive a car?? To get a mortgage? You even need ID to even get a job... Oh wait, Now I understand why Democrats don't want voter ID laws.
you voted for them wrote:
teacher from Ohio wrote:13 years ago I went in to vote in Dublin, Ohio and my parents had already voted - The problem is my parent had been dead for years...
So, you tried to vote for your parents. That is the only way you would know they voted. The names of people who voted are not given out, not even to family. All should be well. As older people they likely voted Republican, as is the case with that type of fraud--dead people using the mail it in method.
No, in Ohio you used to sign a paper list. The list had your previous voting signature along with about 25 other people, usually with similar last names since the list was alphabetical. I used to see my wife's name just below mine and my parents names just above mine. It was really easy to see if they had voted just by looking to see if they had signed the sheet.
Tim Bits wrote:
you voted for them wrote:So, you tried to vote for your parents. That is the only way you would know they voted. The names of people who voted are not given out, not even to family. All should be well. As older people they likely voted Republican, as is the case with that type of fraud--dead people using the mail it in method.
No, in Ohio you used to sign a paper list. The list had your previous voting signature along with about 25 other people, usually with similar last names since the list was alphabetical. I used to see my wife's name just below mine and my parents names just above mine. It was really easy to see if they had voted just by looking to see if they had signed the sheet.
So, who voted for your dead parents? Must have been you, or a relative. Whoever got the mail for them. In effect, you voted your single voice three times.