July 30, 201610 yr I'm for IDs but you have to make it easy and cheap or even free to get them. I agree with this ruling.
July 30, 201610 yr I'm for IDs but you have to make it easy and cheap or even free to get them. I agree with this ruling. A fair assessment. I'm with you.
July 30, 201610 yr I'm for IDs but you have to make it easy and cheap or even free to get them. I agree with this ruling. Easiest would be allow anyone to get a non-driving driver licences. All the same identity requirements - Legal, cert copied BC, Social Security Number, etc. If a state did that - there would be no excuse. I think the real risk is in early and any purely electronic voting. A bunch of votes in 1s and 0s sitting around for weeks is like waving candy at a baby - and a hackers dream. Not to mention the owners of the machines and where the code for them comes from.
July 30, 201610 yr My grandmother who died last thanksgiving at the age of 88 never had a drivers license and didn't have an ID the last 20 or so years of her life. It's hard to believe, but there are many, many people like her. I don't have a problem with requiring some sort of ID to vote, per say, but voter impersonation is a very inefficient and time consuming way to influence elections beyond the local level.
July 30, 201610 yr My grandmother who died last thanksgiving at the age of 88 never had a drivers license and didn't have an ID the last 20 or so years of her life. It's hard to believe, but there are many, many people like her. I don't have a problem with requiring some sort of ID to vote, per say, but voter impersonation is a very inefficient and time consuming way to influence elections beyond the local level. Obviously there are still a number of people like that, my guess is it mainly consists of older people. That's why it has to be made easy for them. I am curious if your grandmother received social security, medicaid or medicare and if so how did she go about that? I guess a birth certificate would be all that was needed when she would have first applied. Times were much simpler then. I agree that any fraud that could be attempted would be cumbersome and inefficient for anything beyond local elections.
July 30, 201610 yr Obviously there are still a number of people like that, my guess is it mainly consists of older people. That's why it has to be made easy for them. I am curious if your grandmother received social security, medicaid or medicare and if so how did she go about that? I guess a birth certificate would be all that was needed when she would have first applied. Times were much simpler then. I agree that any fraud that could be attempted would be cumbersome and inefficient for anything beyond local elections. I don't know about the mechanics of how she did received all those benefits. But I know she did. She did have an ID at one point in time as she held a job most of her life. But at some point in her early 60's she discontinued keeping her ID up to date, and the only reason she said she kept it as long as she did was so she could fly.
August 2, 201610 yr Now a federal judge has scuttled North Dakota's voter ID law. Said the GOP-sponsored legislation is discriminatory. What a surprise. Federal Judge Blocks North Dakota Voter ID Law
August 3, 201610 yr Haven't read through this thread or similar; but please help me understand how asking someone to show an ID to vote is discriminating against anyone, except those who don't have the right to do so??
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