Sorry I was in the Corn Field for the past few days! How do you funtion with out some form of I.D.?????
Aside from infrequent events (opening a bank account, getting a job) you can get by for quite some time without a photo ID. I misplaced my wallet not too long ago, and managed to go a couple weeks with no photo ID...no problemo.
You'd probably be surprised just how long you could go without really
needing a photo ID, especially if you love somewhere where you don't drive.
How to hell do you walk up to the voting folks and state a name with out I.D.?
Well, here in Montucky you can just bring a bill or something else showing your name and your residence...no
photo ID required. Power bill, whatever. They don't seem to care about verifying who
you are, just that whoever you're voting as is actually registered.
And if ID info doesn't match registration info no vote. Your in the wrong precinct, State, or Country to vote. Why is that a problem. Vote in YOUR precinct, YOUR State, in YOUR Country. Unreasonable? Racists? No, it's just because people outside of a precinct should be able to select your City Council representative. People outside your City Shouldn't be able to select your Mayor, people outside of your County should not be selecting your Sheriff, people outside your State should be selecting your Governor or Senators or House Representatives, and people outside your country should not be selecting your President. Is this unreasonable?
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that a military ID will qualify for voting purposes...which does
not establish residency (in the state, county, precinct, whatever). All of that is established when you
register, and has nothing to do with your photo ID.
And if the point of this law is actually to stop election fraud, then I ask again what about absentee ballots? Seems to me that, since you can register without photo ID, you can probably get one of those and cast your vote without it either...so this requirement hardly acts as any real impediment to voting fraud. Call it the "absentee ballot loophole" if you will.
There is a pattern of who those people tend to be as stated by the OP. That pattern translates in the thread also. In lieu of substantive reason yell racist. Left wing 101. (If that fails yell lawsuit)
I'd not say it's racist. It likely does hit certain income levels more than others. I'd not guarantee that it affects either party more than the other, at least not significantly.
But that's not the point. It seems both ineffective and unnecessary, which when we're talking about a Constitutional right is not a combination I particularly care for.
But you don't actually have to "show" it. Between the combination of those two forms and the fact that I never have to show up
in person I'm not necessarily seeing any real ID requirement there to cast a vote. If I can get ahold of somebody's information, I can likely vote as them. Basically any ID requirement present at the actual polls is undermined by the ability to (to some extent) get around it by simply voting by mail.
So it seems like this law acts as a speedbump at best to actual voter fraud, while it will likely act as a serious impediment to at least some small minority of eligible voters. Again, in the context of a Constitutional right I'm not sure it's entirely worth it.
Of course, it's obviously Constitutional
now. So, like many other restrictions on Constitutional rights that I don't agree with it's perfectly legal from here on out. Doesn't mean I have to like it, though.
