jerks

[acroyear]

Top court upholds photo ID voting law - Yahoo! News:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a tough state law requiring voters to show photo identification

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"The Indiana law purports to solve a problem that does not exist" - U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York

oh hell, why don't we just nationalize the entire damn ID process, DNA-embedded and all and just get it over with.

Call it "Identi-Eeze". Douglas would love it.

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I seriously doubt that it is a ploy of the Republicans to stomp the Dems.

Then why are so few Dems in favor of it and why is it, in EVERY STATE its proposed in, proposed by Republicans, and only AFTER they get into the majority?

the SS card IS "valid ID" without a photo. so is a birth certificate.

so is, believe it or not, a baptism record.

all three could get anyone a falsified ID and from there a falsified voting card.

but what is the damn point? why, as has been stated time and time again, pass a law to prevent a crime that has never taken place on a scale large enough to change an election?

you *really* think there are large swaths of black, hispanic, and east asian people going out of their way to fake their right to vote and vote multiple times? really? as much trouble as their neighborhoods have in just getting to the polls at all (consider the minority suburbs of Ohio in '04 for one extreme example).

ID fraud may be rampant, but voter fraud isn't. anybody who tells you otherwise knows that those who would vote would vote against them.

we're spoiled in the places we've lived and the families we've had that we've not had to deal with the rampant corruption of those who run the ID process in other jurisdictions and go out of their way to make it impossible for certain minorities to complete the process, all because "they feel like it". I know you don't want to believe there's still "whitey" out there doing this to people who have done nothing wrong and hold nothing against other people, but it does still happen. When the minorities simply decide not to give bigoted assholes in power the satisfaction of ruining lives on a whim, I tend to think "go for it".