Comments on: Can A Photo ID Be Required To Vote?

Washington Post: Supreme Court Will Soon Weigh In On A Very Partisan Battle

[lvdragonlady-2009]

I made it through 2 screens of comments and had to add my 2 cents.
I am neither Rep or Dem. I am an American and from the comments I read, I can understand both sides of the arguement.
1. Maybe some who vote do not have any ID. ok!fine.
Give everyone(who do not have one) a free ID card. Problem solved.
p.s. I am sure if the ''reds'' had lost the court decision in favor of Gore, they would still be moaning and groaning too.

[usbrit-2009]

Bravo, thgdriver - I can tell you''re an old-style republican when honor, truth and the little guy meant something to them. Totally unlike the crazed win-at-all costs monster it has become under the neocons.

[thgdriver]

DemWatcher

All here know or should know thgdriver is no Liberal. Who pays for the ID card?? If they charge for a voting ID card they are charging you to vote, speaking for myself I don''t care because I can afford another ID if needed, but some cannot afford it or simply wont pay. If that causes just one "citizen" not to vote, thats one too many!!

[usbrit-2009]

Even if you can get a free driver''s licence, you still need a Birth Certificate. I wonder how many perfectly legal US citizens were not even given a birth certificate. I''ll bet among poor people in the south born in the ''50''s or before for example the rates are pretty high. It is NOT free to get a copy, let alone, an reissue of a birth certificate. Hence any law requiring ID for voting is uncontitutional.

DemWatcher - you''re so irrelevant just Fu(k off and Die. Everything you say is true abot republicans all over the south today.

[walt1944-2009]

Having grown up in Chicago when "Hizooner" Richard J. Daley ran the city, voter fraud was a fact of life and accepted by every "machine politician" in the city (and Cook County for that matter)! The papers were always filled with stories about dead people resurrecting from their graves to vote on election day and some people bragged about voting 4-5 times!

So, although I think of myself as an independant, requiring a voter photo ID sounds like a good idea, but what about the other things here, like defective voting machines, unrealiable electronic voting, and paper ballots that never get counted! How about addressing these issues too!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!

[thgdriver]

Hwy71So

Good idea, but who pays for the card??

[thgdriver]

"It''''s water over the deck; get over it," Justice Antonin Scalia impatiently told a questioner at a college forum this year...

I don''t blame him, it is about time (7 years in fact) the libs stop whining, Boo, Hoo, Hoo!!

[nggr]

unfortunatly, i agree that a photo id should be used because of the state of the immigration situation.
it should not be like this though.
i''m voting for ron paul, even though the spammers for him suck. he offers a real departure from this mess and a real change.
all the "frontrunners" look like packaged a$$holes that they hope we will buy while we wait in line to check out at the grocery store.

[michellem99-2009]

Native Nancy yer know the answer where they live.

[hwy71so]

You know? They could put a magnetic strip on the ID for use with a card reader. Punch your chads then swipe your card to verify your vote. This could be programmed to disable the card so it could not be used twice in the same election.

[creeper00]

"It''s water over the deck; get over it," Justice Antonin Scalia impatiently told a questioner at a college forum this year...

That''s sickening. Scalia and his activist co-horts gave us this bunch of incompetents who have trashed our country for two terms and we''re supposed to "get over it"?

Gotohell, Scalia.

[demwatcher]

The Liberal fuggers will whine and stamp their twisted little feet all day long to argue that you cannot make it mandatory to verify a person''s eligibility to vote by way of an ID.

"But, the Republicans will be disenfranchising thoushands, if not millions, of homeless and poor people! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! AND ALL OF THE ILLEGAL ALIENS THAT WILL VOTE DEMOCRAT!"

WHY EXACTLY are you Liberal pieces of crapola all tied up about if someone has to pay a fee to cover the cost of an ID card? The fee covers THE CARD, not the frigging VOTE!

Can''t you Liberal no-brains see that? Are you SOOOO stupid that a little fact like that COMPLETELY evades your diminutive minds?

The TRUTH is that Liberals will do ANYTHING TO GET THEIR PEOPLE ELECTED. ANYTHING. PERIOD! End of story. They will lie, twist, misrepresent, fabricate, dilute, blur, or otherwise completely mislead the American public as long as it furthers the greed for political power.

[uzzisanta]

Git off my ******** board.

[uzzisanta]

Its not not ******** guy wit a grade 8 education whose beating a billion dollar election system, fella. Not no way nor no how. Its the big mouthed ******** lunatic make''n a living out of pointing his puny ******** finger!

[uzzisanta]

Mr. "i know who a citizen is".. ya make me ******* sick.

[thgdriver]

bhrater

No problem bro. My "your papers Please" was meant to be sarcastic humor.

Problems start when they charge a fee for the ID. If it''s free to the poor, that means I paid for it, and I am paying for enough already, thank you. If they charge for it, it''s the same as a poll tax and some poor wont or cant pay for it and that''s not fair.

[uzzisanta]

And git off de ******* amnesty kick, ya ******* freaks. The amnesty''s in the politicians pocket.

[uzzisanta]

The nature of fraud is such that it misuses forms intended for other purposes. Purpose driven ethics is the key to safer everything. And its the numbing down.. the one size fits all, or one id fits all mentality that provides for the opportunity to corrupt. Thats what National Securities all about. Specifics. Voting is not like buying a beer. Voting is fundamental right in a democracy that, like some computer hack will make everybody in the whole world buy computer hacking prevention software, is there because of modularities. Because of generalities. Because of conveniences really.. that are lazy in nature. Or layman.. A bartender is not a government worker. He asks for a drivers license not because he can spot a phoney drivers license, but because thats all he can do. Its not his job to identify someone. Just like its not the weirdo angry amnesty freak''s job to call someone a citizen.

Keep the task narrow and specific. And it''ll be easier to prevent fraud.

[sgtrds]

In response, why do the Democrats seem so willing to make it so easy that even non-citizens can easily get the franchise? Is it because they think they are a potential constituency? Puts the immigration battle in a whole new light, doesn''''t it?

Posted by weimerrj at 01:02 PM : Dec 26, 2007

This is not prmarily an immagration issue. The problem is that if the Supreme Court rules that a state can require a photo ID in this case they''re not going to rule on if a state can charge for one. Charging for the right to vote is wrong.

[weimerrj]

Charging people for an ID to vote would be a great way to prevent poor people from voting.

Why do republicans hate poor people''''s right to vote?

Posted by SgtRDS at 12:46 PM : Dec 26, 2007

In response, why do the Democrats seem so willing to make it so easy that even non-citizens can easily get the franchise? Is it because they think they are a potential constituency? Puts the immigration battle in a whole new light, doesn''t it?

I for one, don''t want it to be an overweening burden, but reasonable precautions need to be in place. showing proof of citizenship - birth certificate, naturalization papers, etc. at the time of registration, is not too big a burden for protecting the validity of the system.