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Religions > Atheism |
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"Xomicron" |
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15 May 2004 02:29:04 PM |
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Latest example of thinking on the kook left |
I don't get how they could be against presenting your ID when you vote. I
don't get, how presenting your ID is going to disenfranchise minorities.
Don't minorities have ID?
Voting ID Requirements Raise Concerns
Friday, May 14, 2004
PHOENIX — To buy a beer, rent a movie or board a plane, identification
must be shown. But for voting, most states don't bother requiring
Americans to flash ID.
In the last presidential election, just 11 states required identification
to vote, while four states made it optional. In 36 states, all a voter had
to do was sign a page or say his or her name.
In the wake of the 2000 election, lawmakers in 25 states introduced
legislation tightening ID procedures. But in most cases, reform efforts
failed because of partisan politics.
Democrats argue that verification requirements disenfranchise immigrants
and those unlikely to carry an ID, like the homeless. Republicans argue
that a photo ID is the best way to reduce fraud.
"One of the dirty little secrets about voter ID: It is truly intended to
keep minorities and poor people from going to the polls," said Arizona
Democratic state Rep. Steve Gallardo. [That is the stupidest statement I
have heard today, and he doesn't say why or how it will keep poor people
from going to the polls! Do poor people not have ID?]
A bill in Arizona to require ID to be shown is expected to pass, but the
state's Democratic governor has already threatened a veto. Similar bills
in Kansas and Iowa were already vetoed by Democratic governors.
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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| Title: Re: Latest example of thinking on the kook left |
15 May 2004 03:15:39 PM |
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Xomicron <xomicron@wp.pl> wrote:
I don't get how they could be against presenting your ID when you vote. I
don't get, how presenting your ID is going to disenfranchise minorities.
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| User: "Xomicron" |
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| Title: Re: Latest example of thinking on the kook left |
15 May 2004 04:13:59 PM |
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(Ray Fischer) wrote in
news:c85tpb$8l8$1@bolt.sonic.net:
Xomicron <xomicron@wp.pl> wrote:
I don't get how they could be against presenting your ID when you vote.
I don't get, how presenting your ID is going to disenfranchise
minorities.
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We already knew that you consider anyone who doesn't agree with you a
troll.
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