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Scarne  Title: Capo di Scientifico
Posts: 1,087
Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
Fist_de_Yuma posted:
Only if they need to be the person they say they are. Would you allow someone to cash a check without an ID?
What does a private business transaction have to do with a Constitutionally protected activity? 
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Ptilk Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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Date Posted:
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
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They passed an ID check law here in Tennessee last year. Really screwed everything up. LOTS of seniors either don't have drivers licenses or they renew via mail so don't have pictures on them. Suddenly, they all had to have new ID's in a couple of months.
At the same time, the state cut funding to the drivers license facilities, closed a bunch of them and cut staff in the rest drastically.
End result?
Took on average about 8 hours to get a license. Many people with health problems had to sit there all day, with oxygen and in wheel chairs, so they could pay 20 bucks to get an ID that would "allow them" to vote. It's still a mess, 10's of thousands of people still don't have the photo ID's (you have to have a birth certificate to get one, and many seniors around here never got one as they were born at home)....so they had to spend another 100 to 200 bucks and jump thru hoops like crazy to get that issued, then go back and spend another 8 hours waiting in line....
It's ridiculous. The photo ID laws are just an attempt to disenfranchise voters, not a serious attempt to reduce "fraud"....which there is very little evidence of occurring with people voting as someone else. Anywhere.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
Fist_de_Yuma posted:
When they have buses filled with people driving from voter poll to voter poll
This doesn't happen. And really can't happen. To do that (i.e. bus people around to vote more than once) that you would need a list of registered people who arn't going to vote to work off of.
Plus if it ever happened it'd be super easy to spot and the people would get arrested pretty much instantly.
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Tipztoe Posts: 1,775
Registered: 2004-3-1 17:53:43
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Date Posted:
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I have no problem with proving my citizenship when voting.
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
Posts: 1,809
Registered: 2002-1-15 08:30:50
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
Lyken-P posted:
theredkay1 posted:
Ensuring that the poor and the mobility impaired have access to the voting booth is pretty important. Well, not for you....but for many it is.
The seems to mobile enough and have enough money to get to the voting booth, they should be able to make it to the DMV just fine. 
Absentee ballots, how do they work?
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
Tipztoe posted:
I have no problem with proving my citizenship when voting.
You carry around a birth certificate everywhere you go?
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Date Posted:
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
Ashmaele posted:
Lyken-P posted:
theredkay1 posted:
Ensuring that the poor and the mobility impaired have access to the voting booth is pretty important. Well, not for you....but for many it is.
The seems to mobile enough and have enough money to get to the voting booth, they should be able to make it to the DMV just fine.
Absentee ballots, how do they work?
Poor people don't use absentee ballots, so we don't care about those.
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Tipztoe Posts: 1,775
Registered: 2004-3-1 17:53:43
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Date Posted:
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
Ashmaele posted:
Tipztoe posted:
I have no problem with proving my citizenship when voting.
You carry around a birth certificate everywhere you go?
don't need to
my license and ccw applications both state I am a natural born US citizen.
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Registered: 2002-1-15 08:30:50
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Date Posted:
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
What is a ccw application?
A state issued ID card is not proof of citizenship fyi.
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Date Posted:
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Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law |
liberals posted:
I'm against free and fair elections and I'm against the constitution.
Go get 'em, Fist!
Oh wait...
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