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[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.

Comments

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

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

Alas, there is more than forty years' worth of evidence to the contrary, going all the way back to the so-called "ballot security" programs of the GOP when the young lawyer William Rehnquist was trying to ensure that ethnic minorities in Arizona would not be able to vote in the 1966 presidential election, as documented by John Dean.

A 1994 study done by the Justice Department showed that blacks are four to five times less likely to have photo ID or a driver's license than any other voters. In 1986, "voter caging" program in New Jersey implemented to stop alleged voter fraud was found to be illicitly preventing minorities from voting, and the courts imposed a standard of strict scrutiny on similar programs in the future.

The GOP has nevertheless worked to drive down minority turnout at every opportunity by claiming massive amount of unproven voter fraud. Yet Project Vote of the Brennan Center for Justice at Columbia University found virtually no widespread voter fraud despite the claims of the GOP.

Lastly, in response to your previous statement, voting is not a privilege -- it is a right. And as such, the government should show just cause in putting any obstacles in the way of the voter trying to exercise that right.

[pyllgrum.livejournal.com]

Exactly. DRIVING is a privilege; in a Republic, voting is a right merging upon a duty.

And the Social Security Number is NOT an ID. If you read the card it clearly states "For Social Security and Tax Purposes - NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION". For YEARS the Republican Party, before being overtaken by Neocons, cried foul at any attempt to produce a National ID.. and frankly, echoes of WWII movies "papieren, bitte" still effect my willingness to produce and support such a record.