This is why there should be photo IDs required to vote

FluffyMcDeath said:
People that can't vote don't participate in voter backlashes.
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Speaking from a state where IDs are required, either the person is not registered to vote or is barred from voting are the only ones who are not voting.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Here is a nice link rich blog post that describes the kinds of people who can't get their "free" voter ID cards. Also a tip of the hat to people who are known to have committed voter fraud like Mitt Romney and Ann Coulter. Darn those sneaky poor people.
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In my state, they could have voted, they would have been giving a provisional ballot and had their vote counted with the absentee ballots if their signature was confirmed. You have a problem with that as well?

I went through hell not having my mother's ID in doctor's offices when I took her for her visits. How are these people getting services without having ID and using Medicare/Medicaid?
 
Perhaps India has the right answer: India Launches Project to ID 1.2 Billion People

The project, which seeks to collect fingerprint and iris scans from all residents and store them in a massive central database of unique IDs, is considered by many specialists the most technologically and logistically complex national identification effort ever attempted.
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The CBC did a story on this the other day. The poorest of the poor (and in India, that's pretty damn poor) actually were the ones to like this the most and went out of their way to get an ID. I guess for the poorest of the poor who own nothing and are treated like garbage, having an official government ID makes them a somebody. At least that's how they explained it. It also opened the door to all the government programs they may not have had access to.

Interestingly, the privacy issue was more of a concern for those better off. I guess privacy isn't that important when you're a nobody.
 
Voter registration forms have allegedly been turned in with fake addresses, voter names that don't exist, duplicate Social Security numbers, and party affiliations that seem to have been changed "by someone" to Republican. The head of the firm has admitted she has hired workers with criminal backgrounds, as found via Craigslist.​
The charges of serial voter registration fraud sound very similar to those leveled in 2008 against another outfit hired by the California State GOP to register Republican voters before that year's Presidential election. In that case, the head of the firm was arrested, and eventually pleaded guilty to voter registration charges himself.​
In 2006, another firm hired by the CA Republican Party turned in thousands of registration forms with fake names and an error rate as high as 60 percent. And in 2004, a firm hired by the GOP was investigated in a number of states for shredding Democratic voter registrations and tossing them into dumpsters. Despite those allegations, the same folks were later hired by the McCain/Palin campaign in 2008 to run voter registration drives before the Presidential election.​
Of course, you probably haven't heard of any of those stories, even while you've heard plenty about a handful of ACORN workers --- no actual ACORN officials, mind you, and they were never hired by the Democratic Party, and never led to a fraudulent vote --- turning in fraudulent registration forms in past years.​
But nobody who ever worked for the non-profit ACORN has ever been accused of what these Republican firms continue to do on behalf of the Republican officials who hire them, paying them per Republican registration, year after year, as is once again apparent in the allegations surfacing today against Momentum Political Services...​
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Thousands of Fraudulent ApplicationsNews10 reports that Sacramento County election officials began noticing "invalid voter registration cards at much higher rates than previous for-profit registration drives." Once election officials began tracking the​
cards coming in from Momentum Political Services, they found that "44 percent of all invalid voter registration cards in the county came from just one company."The company is Sacramento-based Momentum Political Services, a small operation that hires independent contractors to fan out across the region and register voters. In many cases, those contractors also circulate petitions for ballot initiatives, and often register citizens at the same time they enlist a signature in support of one or more initiatives.​
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State and federal campaign records show Momentum was paid some $49,000 by the Sacramento County Republican Party to boost GOP registration ranks in key battleground communities.
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Sacramento County elections officials put the tally of invalid cards submitted by Momentum Political Services at more than 3,100.​
In some instances, cards were submitted with street numbers or names that can't be found. In others, the voters themselves don't appear to exist, as formal county registration letters come back undeliverable. Officials said a number of cards were also submitted for individual voters who not only couldn't be located, but who also all had the same last four Social Security digits.​
And in some instances, the voter's party affiliation appears to have been changed, by someone, to Republican.​
"The circulator signed in blue ink, and it just happens that the party is checked in a blue ink," said [Sacramento County registrar of voters Jill] LaVine during an examination of one suspicious card. "The voter did the rest [of the card] in black ink."​
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no wonder republicans are "so aware" of voter fraud... they are doing most of it themselves...:confused:​
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robert l. bentham said:
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no wonder republicans are "so aware" of voter fraud... they are doing most of it themselves...:confused:​
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And that's classic Rovian misdirection. When you are doing something underhanded make a lot of noise about the other guys doing it, especially if they're not.
 
faethor said:
Sorry your government ID from one if not the best secured military organizations in the world is in adequate to secure your voting rights.
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oh... well i know someplaces wont take my VA id card as ID, but i live in victoria, kansas... my hair gives me away.... and serves as ID.... :D
 
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