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Sunday, July 22, 2012
A Half-Million Eligible Voters Will Find It Virtually Impossible To Get The Necessary ID To Be Able To Vote In November
A new study by the Brennan Center for Justice reveals just how damaging Republican-backed Voter Suppression ID laws will be to hundreds of thousands of Americans. Looking at ten states that have passed restrictive voter ID laws, the Brennan Center found that about a half-million eligible voters will be will find it virtually impossible to get the necessary ID to be able to vote in November, despite claims by Republicans that is very easy to get a voter ID. That half-million is how many people live in a household without a vehicle and more than ten miles away from an ID-issuing office. Most are low-income Americans who live in rural areas without decent public transportation. According to the nonpartisan Brennan Center, one-in-ten eligible voters currently lack the necessary ID to vote, including a quarter of African Americans and 18% of senior citizens – all, of course, people who tend to vote for Democrats. These voter suppression ID laws aren't about fighting voter fraud, which, other than Romney lying about where he lived in 2010, isn't a real problem. They are, instead, all about keeping Democratic voters from the polls to rig the November elections in favor of Republicans. Let's take this as a lesson that it's time we begin the fight to guarantee a right to vote for ALL Americans.
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This law will also disallow at least that many or more ineligible voters from going to the polls.
So, what you are saying is that these folks, in the next 3 1/2 months, will not be getting up out of their chairs and getting a ride into town to pick up a few groceries, hardware items, go to the bank then come back home? If they're not going to do that, then they were never going to go vote, either! So, what you're saying is a bunch of libberish!
We have Obama phones well how about an Obama ID bus that could go around to all these supposed rural areas where people don't have cars blah blah blah and issue the necessary ID's. They could go door to door since it's obvious they seem to know where all these people live and that they don't have cars blah blah blah.
What??
If they live so far out, don't have Public TRANSPORTATION, ETC, Then HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GET TO THE VOTING POLES??
I'll bet that they can get to the grocery store with those Food Stamps!!
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU is funded by liberal billionaire George Soros.
Nothing more needs to be said.
Get real, if they can make it to the polls to vote, then they can make it to the office to properly register to vote. If they choose to not get registered or make excueses then oh well. Don't vote. But don't worry the democrats will ensure that free transportation is provided for you at the Governments expense to pick you up and get you registered. Oh yea thats not what this is about. If we tell the truth this is all about fraudulent voting. Kinda hard to vote for a dead person or illegal if they can not show up with proof who they are and are allowed under the law to vote.
Not sure about the non-partisan part. From Wikipedia:
The organization is currently headed by Michael Waldman, former Director of Speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995–1999.
Liberty and National Security
The Brennan Center has represented several detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and also U.S. citizens or legal residents held as unlawful enemy combatants. Attorneys from the Center challenged a U.S. President's authority to declare a prisoner to be an unlawful enemy combatant in the fight against terrorism. The Center has also challenged the U.S. Congress’s power to deny habeas corpus to such prisoners.
If you are a registered voter then you have an ID. This law actually increases the number of legitimate voters.
This article is total B.S.
liars; all of these nut cases. they really expect us to believe this. common sense doesn't dictate belief in any of this jibberish. many of the comments stated here today already spell this out. if anyone believes this they are duped.
it always angered me when the democrats paid the homeless, the drunks and anyone else who breathed to vote. they even take them to the polls. these people don't have a clue why they're voting for that person.
it would be different if someone needed a ride or needed to get to town to obtain the i.d.; but no this isn't the case. you figure it out.
yes, we must have voter i.d.
Shannie personally picks up all her friends to get them registered and goes to get them to the polls and take them home. her hardest day of work every 4 years lol
BS
Joe, Thanks for posting this so people can see how extremely desperate Obama supporters are.
Democrat socialists have to lie and distract from the truth with peripheral arguments and false characterizations that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
The lazy bums have six months to take some of the welfare money they receive to get to town and get an I.D. It is their responsibility as a voter and American.
End of story.
Hey folks. It's not so easy! My father is 93 years old and after a stroke 10 years ago, moved from Salisbury into an assisted living facility close to me in Pennsylvania. He has not had a valid state Id since his MD license expired 7 years ago. His passport expired 6 years ago. He actually has no valid photo ID. Now, under the new PA laws, he will have to have a state ID to vote in the next election. He is already a registered voter locally. At a minimum, I will have to take a day off work to drive him to Norristown PA government offices to get a new ID. I have already spent more than an hour on the phone trying to find out what kind of documents we need to bring to prove he is who he is. Can't find his original 1919 birth certificate. By the way. My father is a decorated WWII veteran, has voted in every presidential election since the 1940's, and is a dedicated Republican. These stupid laws cost time and money and affect more people than you think.
ID or no vote. Simple as that. And, this is about voter fraud: dead people, illegals and multiple dumbocratic votes by the same people. Fraud!
>>>These stupid laws cost time and money and affect more people than you think.<<<
If voting is important to your father, then the minimal time and money expended is irrelevant.
This 'stupid law' is absolutely necessary to preserve the little integrity left to the voting process in this country. This article is just further propaganda from the democratic party.
6:24 your father's story is most likely extremely rare.
Also 6:24 I'm not sure if you are aware but the PA Voter ID law also states that a photo ID issued by a PA care facilty including long term care, assisted living residences or personal care homes are also acceptable forms of ID for voting.
6:24 also military ID's are acceptable-active and retired.
7:22. Just FYI. My father lives in a top notch assisted living facility and no photo IDs are provided. And yes, 7:11, agreed that if voting is important to my father, time and money is not important but it is not irrelevant. I spend a lot of vacation time throughout the year on his care, dr appts, hospital visits etc. It is relevant to me that the time I do spend with him is quality time....not sitting in the DMV for hour on end. I do actually agree in principal that it should be no problem showing a photo Id to vote. I merely wanted to point out that it can be just as inconveniencing to the folks we WANT to vote as to those we don't. Also, I doubt that my story is "extremely rare". If I wasn't taking care of this for him, no one else would!
Most are low-income Americans who live in rural areas without decent public transportation.
Bet they get to town for their food stamps and to buy their steamed crabs
The choice is soon coming. Will you fight for your rights like our ancestor's did against the British?
Or will you lay down and let them tread all over our constitution and bill of rights.
Just look at any of our battlefields. They fought and died for much more.
When the government is not OF the people nor FOR the people, it has become our common enemy, just as the British government had done.
Nobody wants to fight against ourselves, but it may become necessary...again.
I feel for you and your father and the inconveince this has caused you...but given the number of assisted living residence that don't bother or care to vote is huge and is a big target of those groups who vote illegelly. They are actually on the voter registers and their votes are being stolen.
I wish you idiots would hurry up and just bring this revolution you all love to blather on about so our fine armed forces can wipe your sorry butts out. The country is going to be so much better off without you.
7:27
What Country?
Socialist Sharia States of Amerika?
The SSSA.
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