Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods Photo IDs for Voters: A Great Way to Disenfranchise Democrats
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:31 AM
With straight faces, Republicans insist they're only trying to prevent fraud, although they have a hard time coming up with many examples of it. Democrats call the bill an affront to voting rights, especially for the poor, the elderly, and people with disabilities who may have trouble coming up with photo IDs. The Senate passed the bill last year, but it failed in the House.
"There is no devious intent," says Sen. Bill Ketron, the bill's sponsor. "I'm trying to stop fraud. I'm not making it harder for people to vote. I want the voting process to be as pure as possible. Let's make sure the integrity of the vote is protected."
The bill was amended to let people cast absentee ballots without showing photo IDs after Sen. Joe Haynes worried about his 98-year-old mother who lives in a nursing home and who's never had a driver's license.
"It will eliminate potentially some people who are disadvantaged from participating in the process," Haynes told Pith after the meeting. "These would be mostly Democrats." He added with a chortle, "There may be some poor Republicans that it will affect."
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You haven't worked as a poll watcher in District 5, have you?
There are some interesting things that go down in the 'hood when it comes time to vote.
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Name for me one actual example of voter fraud as a result of someone taking someone's identity. You can't do it.
P.S. Love the open racism JL. Nicely done.
Here's an example of actual voter fraud:
http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2006/8/25/gop_leader_arrested_by_tbi_for_voter_fraud
This is just ONE example:
State investigates Metro voter fraud
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=36061
This also happened in Nashville(not just in Toledo):
124 Registrations Falsified, Allegedly for Crack Cocaine
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041019/NEWS09/410190343
Then there is this:
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070804/COLUMNIST0128/708040370/1008
But more importantly, I worked as a poll watcher in District 5. I challenged several voters. I was eventually told that the Poll Workers job was to count votes NOT to turn away fraudulent voters.
Example: Guy comes in, says his name is "Jones." He was told that "Jones" wasn't registered to vote. He asks, "What about Reggie?" He produces a piece of mail with the name "Reggie" and is allowed to vote.
What you want evidence of is how many convictions of "voter fraud" and then compare those numbers with the numbers of potential elderly, poor, and disabled who will be disenfranchised.
http://bluecollarrepublican.com/Shirley%20Ward%20vs.Naifeh%20Machine.htm
Shirley Ward is still President of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.
I can assure you that I have government-issued photo identification and I will not hesitate to show it at the polls if that's what it takes to do my part to vote these pricks out of office.
JL, there is a huge difference in registration fraud and vote fraud. That is what many on the right couldn't, or wouldn't, comprehend before the election where ACORN was involved. You can register a "Mickey Mouse" but it is only bad if Mickey Mouse then goes and votes. But what happens is that ACORN workers will falsify registrations because they get bonuses on how many new voter registrations they do. Of course, there has been scant evidence of any of this leading to illegitimate votes because they get caught and thrown out when they don't match up with real records. But that doesn't matter to the "concerned" Republicans, who could care less that there are already safeguards in place. They just want to make sure that homeless people and people without government issued ID don't go and vote Democrat.
Well played, Chris. The Acorn thing was much ado about nothing. It works in downtrodden neighborhoods, so it naturally gives downtrodden people work when it's available. The problem is that some of these guys are unemployed for a reason: they're shitheads. So instead of collecting real registrations, they collect fake ones because it's a lot easier. But they're not scamming the electoral system. They could care less. They're scamming Acorn for a paycheck.
So the liberals are whining about "disenfranchisement" again.
In other breaking news, the sun rose in the east this morning.
And, Gilbert Martin, the Republicans are whining about vote fraud again.
In other breaking news, Tennessee Republicans still uninterested in actually solving state problems. This and other breaking news stories tonight at ten.
The State of Tennessee offers an ID-only driver's license: http://www.tennessee.gov/safety/driverlicense/idonly.htm
I'm having a little trouble seeing what the problem is here -- a government-issue photo id ain't at all hard to come by. Just get the darned thing and then thumb your nose at those evil Republican poll-watchers.
"In other breaking news, Tennessee Republicans still uninterested in actually solving state problems. This and other breaking news stories tonight at ten."
Documentary tonight at eleven shows that Tenn Republicans are (predictably) uninterested in assisting leftists in advancing liberalism under the guise "solving" problems.
Particularly since, as the documentary shows, every single liberal program, policy, preferred way of doing anything that has ever been tried anywhere on earth in the entire span of human history has been unequivocally and definitively proven to be an abject failure.
