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

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[macusweil]

"The biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data regarding citizens%u2019 personal matters.

We must stop the move toward a national ID card system. All states are preparing to issue new driver%u2019s licenses embedded with %u201Cstandard identifier%u201D data %u2014 a national ID. A national ID with new tracking technologies means we%u2019re heading into an Orwellian world of no privacy. I voted against the Real ID Act in March of 2005. " ~Congressman Ron Paul

I''m voting for Ron Paul in the Feb 5th NY State GOP primary.

[incog-nito]

As a photo ID, I strongly dislike being told what to do, let alone being required to vote.

[cyberus-2009]

Simple solution .. require as a prerequisite of a voter ID law that State IDs must be provided for a minimal processing fee to all AND for free to anyone showing need, items such as but not limited to medicare/medicaid card, food stamp card and so on could be easy proof of low income. Proof of identity would still be require to get an ID but thats pretty much required for everything now anyways.

[michellem99-2009]

I have alway had/have pay for my state ID card..I have never gotten it free. Sgt

[tomtomasters]

I agree that photo ID is required and that taxpayers pay for the ID. If lost the individual pays for a new one. Mail in ballots will require that they have a photo ID to compare signatures to validate they indeed registered. Poor people will be helped to get their ID''s and handicapped will be helped to vote. Let''s work together for validity.

[keithle1]

So what if they have to pay for the photo ID? Just don''t buy any lottery tickets, alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, crack, etc, for a day or two & get yourself a photo ID. Don''t say you can''t afford it.

[sgtrds]

I see some people here do not understand the issue completely. The problem is not as much with an ID. The problem is that they will required to PAY to get the required ID.

[sgtrds]

It''s a new version of a poll tax and it''s only goal is to disenfrancise as many poor voters as possible. Voters that are more likely to vote democrat. This is an attempt to try to make sure that only the people who can afford to vote are allowed to vote. It''s an abomination.

[undermyboot]

If voter ID was really about stopping voter fraud, I''d be for it. But any honest person looking at this will admit it is about keeping certain people from voting- nothing more. This is about stealing elections by rigging the system to keep "the undesirables" (citizens) from exercising their Constitutional rights. Period.

[michellem99-2009]

I vote by mail. If I go to the poll I do have to show ID plus as a blind voter the person has to help me fill out the ballot..I vote..I perfer the mail in. Seattle is mail in.

[king16x]

Several states issue driver licenses to any resident who passes the driving test, regardless of his citizenship. We should either change the requirements for issuing driver licenses, or else issue some form of national photo ID card that proves citizenship.

[fredsmith193]

What does having an ID have to do with voter discrimination? I need an ID to do virtually everything: get a bank account, rent a movie, drive a car. Voting is much more important than all of the following an thus people should be required to have an ID to vote. Down here in NC there were DEAD people voting in the last election. By not requiring people to prove who they are allow people to abuse the system. That is wrong.

[red1530]

I don''t get why people are opposed to having to show ID when you vote to prevent fraud if it is fairly easy to get the IDs.

[xlib]

YES~~ As for Bush vs Gore, how about the military vote that Gore didn''t want counted.