RV Poll #4 - Should a valid ID be required to vote?
The question for this week’s poll:
Would you support a federal law whereby all American citizen’s would be required to present a valid ID card in order to vote in US elections?
Your choices are:
Yes it should be law!
No it’s discriminatory!
No - it invades privacy!
I don’t care
You can participate in the poll in the upper left of the site. This post is open for discussion on the topic.
View previous poll results.
Related in the news:
Federal judge grants voter ID injunction: Order suspends law requiring photo identification at polls
Cato Institute: Cites study in Georgia found more than 15,000 dead people on active voting rolls statewide.
Georgia’s Voter Identification Law Barred
Neil Boorts with GEORGIA VOTER ID LAW BLOCKED
Related in blogs:
Slobokan.com with The Georgia Voter ID Bus and states: “I, as a resident of the great state of Georgia, have no problem with the new voter I.D. law. I, personally, think it’s long overdue.
True Blue Liberal writes: Federal Judge Grants Voter ID Injunction
Independant Conservative with Poverty Pimps score temporary victory in Georgia Voter ID Law case
The Anchoress with GA Voter ID Law Barred: Even though Georgia says poor people can have their ID for free, this judge says that’s just not GOOD ENOUGH
BobGriggs.com with Judge blocks Georgia Voter ID law: since the bulk of the argument against the new law revolves around the alleged impact that it will have on “poor” black folk, I find it deliciously ironic that Georgia’s first black legislator to be elected in a contested election since Reconstruction, Melvin Everson, was chosen last month in an election in which every voter had to show a picture ID.
Nohaware writes Judge Decides Election Fraud Is A Constitutional Right
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October 19, 2005 - 02:41 PM on October 19th, 2005
I don’t see it as discriminatory at all. It was proposed that all citizens be “given” a picture id for voting. As I said in another thread, can you get a SS card, drivers licence, cash a check, withdraw money from the bank, apply for DSS benefits, apply for SS benefits, or apply for a job without id?
How is this any different? Could it be that they are afraid of the outcome?
October 19, 2005 - 03:20 PM on October 19th, 2005
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October 19, 2005 - 04:27 PM on October 19th, 2005
Day Off
I took the day off work today (gasp!)
Sure, I dabbled a bit in a little design work and dealt with a few help tickets - but for the most part, I played hookey. Hey - a girl needs a break once in awhile . . and it’s been AGES since I called in …
October 19, 2005 - 07:42 PM on October 19th, 2005
What? Somebody voted it is “discriminatory”. How in the world can you make that case? With all of the known voter fraud issues, it should be a minimum requirement.
October 19, 2005 - 08:06 PM on October 19th, 2005
No one should have to have a valid ID to vote were not a socialist country were a rebublic and we dont want to have to carry IDs to vote and we dont want BIG BROTHER:mad:
October 20, 2005 - 06:42 AM on October 20th, 2005
3-snowy we use i.d everyday of our lives. Do you drive? How is this Big Brother?
October 20, 2005 - 03:18 PM on October 20th, 2005
The only reason to require photo id is to prevent voter fraud. Most states require voters to register in advance and then they issue voter registration cards to the registered voters. What would be so wrong with requiring those cards be picture ids and be presented BEFORE being allowed to vote? Of course we could use the Afghani method of preventing voter fraud and dip everyone’d fingers in indelible ink the first time they entered a polling place.
Snowy you are right. We are not a socialist country. We are a republic. The only way that we can insure that we remain a republic is to prevent the voter fraud that can result in us losing that status. The first step to doing that is to require positive identification to vote.
October 20, 2005 - 05:21 PM on October 20th, 2005
Of course we could use the Afghani method of preventing voter fraud and dip everyone’d fingers in indelible ink the first time they entered a polling place.
If this was ever done here, there would be truckloads of solvent delivered to the Union headquarters 30 days before each election, or maybe to the DNC offices.
October 20, 2005 - 08:49 PM on October 20th, 2005
Sure, I have no problems with showing a card if I were entitled to vote.
October 23, 2005 - 11:43 AM on October 23rd, 2005
Judge Decides Election Fraud Is A Constitutional R
Three weeks before municipal elections will be held statewide, a federal judge has suspended Georgia’s new voter ID requirement after finding the law imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and will not effectively combat voter fraud.
October 23, 2005 - 11:45 AM on October 23rd, 2005
Thanks for the trackback LisaS ! You misspelled the name of my blog though
Nice blog you have here. I blogrolled you today. I look forward to reading more of your posts.
October 24, 2005 - 09:05 AM on October 24th, 2005
I think a minimum requirement should be that you are a living, sober, homo sapien. If these STRICT controls were in place, I doubt that John Kohn would have won a single state.
November 5, 2005 - 07:12 PM on November 5th, 2005
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