Yay!
WASHINGTON (AP)- States can require voters to produce photo identification, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, upholding a Republican-inspired law that Democrats say will keep some poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.
Twenty-five states require some form of ID, and the court's 6-3 decision rejecting a challenge to Indiana's strict voter ID law could encourage others to adopt their own measures. Oklahoma legislators said the decision should help them get a version approved.
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever they can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser; in fees, expenses and waste of time." -- Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Lawyer and President who saved the United States.
"Without opportunities on the part of the poor to obtain expert legal advice, it is idle to talk of equality before the law"-- Justice Chas. Evans Hughes
Why do you hate the poor, elderly, and minorities?
Yes, and the former ACLU attorney was one of the desenters. Imagine that, afterall, the ACLU was one of the groups that brought the suit forward...
Wah! Stand in line like the rest of us for an ID or don't vote & shut up.Democrats say will keep some poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.
Guns & God clinger-to'er.
FixedDemocrats say will keep some illegal voters from casting ballots.
OleVet Posse Instigator
I just wonder in how many elections I "voted" at my old precint in Chicago, since I moved out of the city 15 years ago?
sounds like more big government, bureaucracy, red tape and big brother to me.
“someone's controlling the vibes!"--apache dropout
It is. Personally I think members of Al-Qaeda should be able to vote.Originally Posted by King Crimson
sounds like more big government, bureaucracy, red tape and big brother to me.
"If your dream ain't bigger than you, there's a problem with your dream." -Deion Sanders
i just don't see how anyone can be against this
how poor do you have to be to not be able to afford an ID?
I will admit that I didn't change my voter registration for many, many years after I moved a while back. My polling place was very close to my office and it was easier to go vote on my lunch hour than it was to try and do it before or after work. IG-88 could have walked into that church and said, "I'm JohnnyMack" and gotten a ballot from those old hens that (bless their collective hearts) work there.
I'm all for showing an ID.
yeah, i don't see any real way to oppose this. though to be honest, i would have guessed that i've shown ID at my local polling place. maybe not.
“someone's controlling the vibes!"--apache dropout
IG-88? IG-88?
The only way you could have topped that would have been a Figrin D'an reference.
... that's not food.
Nien Numb? 4-LOM?
I could have pulled Booster Terrik or Muftak & Kabe outta my ***.
Although I agree with the argument in a sense. I can see the problems that people have with the ruling as opposed to making people show ID. The best way I have heard it described is "a solution looking for a problem". The evidence that voter impersonation is a problem is incredibly thin, they cited a case from 1968 and a singular case from the WA gubernatorial election in 2004, and more telling, not a single case in the jurisdiction of the case, Indiana. It seems to me that dealing with this is just a window dressing for actual problems with voter fraud, primarily fake absentee ballots and irregularities with electronic voting. Also, it's purely partisan: there are much, much better uses of Supreme Court time than dealing with this.
Boomer Sooner
Actually, you have it backwards scuba.
People not having to show any sort of identification to vote is a much larger problem than any thing absentee ballots or electronic machines have done.
Ehh, just get a photo ID. I'm pretty sure that's a good idea anyway.
Damn activist judges!
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. FDR.
Hmmm, I wonder if that stems from the fact that there is currently no attempt made to positively ID people when they vote? I imagine it's pretty difficult to detect fraud when you're not even looking for it.
I didnt think there was a problem with people showing their ids to vote. There are people that have no problem proving who they are to buy a shot of whiskey, a pack of smokes, to board an airplane, to rent a car, to file their taxes, but to have to do that to VOTE FOR THE LEADERS OF THIS COUNTRY is just too much to ask???
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