It is a shame that a court allowed Robin Carnahan to effectively put the kibosh to democracy in Missouri. I am glad that at least Bill McClellan spoke out against Carnahan’s abuse of her office.

Why is it that such a fit is being raised about Rev Wright and nobody
is asking questions about McCain’s relationship with [until his death]
Jerry Falwell who claimed that 9/11 was entirely due to the sins of
America and Rev. Hargee who claimed that the people of N Orelans
deserved Katrina because there was going to be a “gay parade”
a day or two later.
And why not ask about his close relationship w G. Gordon Liddy,
a criminal from the Nixon scandal days.
F Atkins

Looks like more on the Koster campaign’s willingness to do anything to win - now, evidence of sloppiness with the laundering of funds through campaign committees: Campaign committee donates $26,900 in laundered money to Koster, files limited activity statement with Ethics Commission.

Bridge the Voting Divide:
A Letter today explains how easy trivial it would be to satisfy the voter id problem
by getting a birth certificate.
The writer obviously is not familiar with the Indiana law, which requires that
the id have an EXPIRATION DATE which is after the date of the election.
I don’t think birth certificates have your expiration date.
He says that the
birth certificate costs only $15. But this is the equivalent of a poll tax,
which the US Supreme Court declared illegal several decades ago.

An “elite” writer on this subject a few days ago said that the problem was
trivial since everyone had to use a photo id to “get on an airplane, rent a
video, etc.” I’m thinking of my 90 year old mother who died a few years
ago. A “farm girl” born in the 19th century, she never learned to drive (so did not have a driver’s
license), never flew in an airplane … she got a long quite well without a
photo id. Young folks today are so “elite” that they are unable to understand
that the poor and the elderly live different lives than they.

F. If you want to to discuss Falwell, fine, lets have that discussion. But dont compare racists to Revererand’s.

On other Obamessiah news, how nice of him to tell us that America is tired of hearing about Wright. We got tired of him in about 6 weeks (including vacation time), but it took Obamessiah 20 freakin years to get tired of him? Or was it simply more political expedient to throw him under the bus with granny now?

#3 D,
In addition to your arguments, many older people don’t have birth certificates. It just wasn’t deemed that important at that time.
In an article in the Post, it said that 1% of Indianna’s population does not currently meet the SCOTUS approved Voter ID requirements. Many recent elections have been decided by that small of a margin. So, it is important.

Why would that legislature compare it to renting a video–a completely commercial enterprise who has a main concern of getting ther merchandise returned. That same video rental and airline ticket require a credit card, too. Something I am thinking the poorest do not have.

The state of Missouri had already identified every registered voter who did not possess either a driver license or state identification card. These people could have a free identification card. The statute made it easy as can be but some people want to continually complain because if a photo ID were required they could no longer go into a poling place and vote for those who they know never vote by impersonating them.

There is no logical reason not to identify yourself before casting a vote(and a utility bill does not tell me who you are). If not, let’s use purple ink on the finger to assure one person one vote.

D. Ferrel…

The 1966 Supreme Court Decision declaring poll taxes to be unconstitutional dealt with a tax of which the intent was to bring money into the state government. It presented a burden with no benefit to the election process.

The recent Court decision looked at the burden and found that it was outweighed by benefit. The Court declared that the state had a vested interest in ensuring that the person casting a vote was indeed that person.

It wasn’t until the 1980s that many states started putting photos on the driver’s licenses.

Times they are a changin’!

It’s hard to prove it when someone impersonates another at the voting booth. Some states have caught people doing it, so it does occur.

I agree with the Court; the benefit outweighs the burden. As far as the previous Court decision; always remember -Document outweighs doctrine.

#6,
The state identified every registered voter who didn’t a valid ID? When did they do that? Not when the legislature passed the law 2 years ago, because I had neither but was a legally registered voter. When I went into the recently privatized DOR offices to obtain my free ID they refused to give it to me because I wasn’t over 65. So in fact ‘these people’ you refer to might have tried and been refused.
Now I recognize that the employee at the Deer Creek DOR office was wrong. But she is paid $8 a hour with no benefits. Do I expect her to care to protect my right to vote. No I don’t. But I do expect my Government to care, and issues like this suggest to me they don’t.
Perhaps it would be easier to address the ‘voter fraud’ problem we have if those who complain about it could ever site a proven instance of it actually happening. Until then we are just guessing and people will be left out.

“But I do expect my Government to care, and issues like this suggest to me they don’t.”

Richard (post #8) THAT might be the funniest line written here in quite a long time.

No, “they” don’t. Ever. not about you, not about me, not about anyone else.

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