Why do democrats think that showing a ID at the polls is violating someone's consititutional rights?

Question

You are asked to show your drivers license to cash a check, get on a airplane, buy a car/home, etc. Showing a ID to prove who you are will keep 1) the dead from voting, 2) prevent people from voting twice, and 3) prevent people who are inelligible from voting (illegal immigrants, criminals, etc.). If the state provides the id at no charge, what is the issue with this?

A Georgia state judge ruled today that a new state law requiring voters to show photo ID is a violation of the state constitution. Are democrats afraid that if we have to show an id, they would lose every election because a lot of dead people are voting for them?

Here is the news story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20060920/pl_rasmussen/georgiaphotoid20060920;_ylt=AhkqZd7Js1nr10EJsiukLx6M5QcF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901382.html

Voter fraud in 2000

http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/abe/fraud/

This provision will repress voter participation among those New
Yorkers who are in fact eligible to vote. Moreover, it will
disproportionately affect ethnic and racial minorities, recently
naturalized American citizens, language minorities, the poor, the
homeless, the millions of eligible New York voters who do not have a
driver's license, and those individuals who otherwise would have
exercised their right to vote without these new provisions.
Hillary Clinton -
[Congressional Record: October 16, 2002 (Senate)]
[Page S10488-S10516]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr16oc02-46]

Voter lists are swollen with the names of people who are no
longer eligible to vote in that jurisdiction, are deceased or are
disqualified from voting for another reason. It has been found that
650,000 in this country are registered in more than one State. As of
October of 2002, 60,000 people were registered in Florida and at least
one other state. In St. Louis County, some 30,000 people were
registered to vote in the county and at least one other county in the
State.

Christopher Bond
[Congressional Record: October 16, 2002 (Senate)]

This bill also requires that, in order to register, voters provide a
driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social
Security number, and those numbers must be verified. This provision
directly conflicts with the protections of the National Voter
Registration Act, which prohibit the use of a driver's license or
Social Security number to authenticate a voter's registration. Although
I understand the desire to reduce instances of voter fraud, I believe
these provisions are overly burdensome and unfair to many voters. This
provision also has serious privacy implications.

John Kerry
[Congressional Record: October 16, 2002 (Senate)]

Answer 1

they are stupid that's why

Answer 2

Well, the state DOESN'T provide the ID for free. If you make people pay a fee to get a special ID to vote, you are forcing people to PAY TO VOTE, which is illegal.

But his whole issue is a red herring, because you can't just walk up to the ballot box and say you want to vote no matter who you are - you have to be registered first, which in many states requires ID in the first place! You can't vote twice b/c you have to sign in when you get to the polls, or you only get one absentee ballot. The only way you can vote when you're dead is if 1) your spouse breaks the law by sending in your absentee ballot or 2) your auditor doesn't take you off the voter list after you die. And if you're ineligible to vote you don't get to be registered in the first place.

The point is that we have no illegal voting problem in America. In some areas we have a problem with incompetent auditors, and rarely we have a problem with dishonest but well-intentioned widows, widowers, etc. If illegal immigrants or legally disenfranchised voters are voting when they shouldn't, then why are they registered? That's where the problem is!

Making the poor and elderly pay for a special ID they've never needed will not solve the problem. How about instead we fire the incompetent Registrars and Auditors who are sending out ballots to people who can't vote?

Answer 3

I know in New Mexico this has been challenged as well. I think they don't want IDs to be shown so that the illegal immigrants can't vote...and yes that has happend in the last sevearl elections here.

Answer 4

dems are notorious for multiple voters in a polling place in the past. when some people die, it takes years to remove them from the voting polls. are the dead voting? seems like a possibility to me!

Answer 5

I don't understand that one. You have to show ID to get into a bar, get drunk, get back in your car and kill someone but not to VOTE!? What are these people thinking?
OOOPS! Maybe their not! Maybe that's the problem?

Answer 6

Where are you getting this from??

Answer 7

Most democrats......want to have freedom but not obey rules......................