Why do people believe that requiring a picture identification to vote disenfranchises the poor and the elderly

Question

Do you honestly believe that poor or elderly people are too stupid to get one? Or do you honestly believe that they can not afford the 10-20 bucks to buy one every (what is it?) four years?

I have taught high school with over 90% of my students being from poverty level. They claim they can't afford anything, but they always seem to have:
TV with cable/sat.
playstation/game console
Enough cash to buy pop/chips/etc every day at school.

I know this point mainly applies to my students, but it just always comes up in my mind when I hear people say requiring an ID to vote is wrong!

This is also my point when I read an article stating that dead people voted.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060226/METRO/602260301

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/206969_dead07.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002144006_deadvoters06m.html

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2005/12/more_breaking_n_11.shtml

Answer 1

Because if you need a picture ID then the Democrats can't cheat , It's as simple as that.

Answer 2

That is a good point. Unfortunately for the poor there would be some who could not afford a picture Id. Our card wwith a magnetic strip like a credit card at work costs 5 bucks, we can have it scanned every day on the time clock which( travels all the way via internet) transfers our hours to every company office neccessary. The five dollars is for your lost card only, and it actually cost the company less.
All of the states could issue drivers liscense for less than 5 a year if they wanted to.
As you say I see the poor , and downhearted complaining on their cell phones in their Newpick ups,suvs,in walmarts, video warehouse, blockbuster, ect. you see them on school grounds ever day with their cell phones,walkmans, wrist watches, 40 dollar pants down around their butts. Darn the things the poor in America has to put up with. There is few kids in Georgia who has to go hungry at school. or at home unless /her/his parents are the cause deliberately ..
On the other hand familes who have to live in : subsidized housing should not be able to have satelite or cable tv, phones, cell phones,. Families with 3 cars parked in the front yard should not be allowed: subsidized housing. (let jimmy carter build them one, or pay their rent). You can find kids with 60/70 dollar wide waist pants designed to show the crack of their butts living on wellfare, and smoking 1500 an ounce dope.

Bu I think you miss the point of their objections and many middle class voters to picture Ids.
If the country had a central Id system all those yankees who vote in New England, and Florida (one or both absentee) would have their votes thrown out or fined for voting twice in such elections as the presidential.
All of those people from New Oleans who traveled to New Oleans to vote and also voted where they now live would not have been able to vote Nagin back into the Mayors office(with the democratic partys help). all of those people were ineligible voters as most of them also voted in the places where they lived, and were no longer citizens of New Oleans.
The huge northern vote in the South and the North during senatorial, representive, and Presidential has a huge influence, and now we have the 150,000 post Storm voters who want the same previledges of voting twice.

Answer 3

I am retired, on disability, and not knocking down a lot of money. We live close to the poverty level, but we have few bills.

It is amazing to me to see people around us buy $4.00 packs of cigarettes, $8.00 12 packs of beer, and have delivery pizza 2 times a week. And have the nerve to go to the food pantry.

Not everyone is like this, the ones that are could care less who sees or knows it, though.

When something like ID cards come up, its just another case of them crying victim. Which makes no sense whatsoever. In many cases places you must have 3 forms of ID just to open a checking account.

Voting is a right and a privilege that we should all avail ourselves of. Showing an ID to vote is no more of a hassle than it is to buy liquor, open a bank account, or to get a job.

Answer 4

suited, i'm a Democrat and the superb ingredient i % is a number of of "ineffective Republicans" balloting. I thoroughly help the image identity ingredient and that i've got have been given constantly theory it replaced into unusual which you do now not would desire to instruct identity (my polling place would not even ask on your voter registration card, genuinely your call!) I do think of of that a state identity card don't have a cost related with it; in my state it is $15. For me, it is now not some thing yet no person would desire to would desire to % between feeding their teenager and getting a image identity so as that they'd exercising ordinary their Constitutional rights. The editorial author has a ingredient there... now not that undesirable minorities are stupid and lazy, yet that undesirable human beings have rights, too and it is going to now not be a count form of laziness that keeps somebody from procuring an identity.

Answer 5

Poor people are alot smarter than given credit. You can recycle enough aluminum cans in a day to make that much. The only drawbacks to this situation is mainly the democrats don't want to make it harder to cheat at voting and how hard is it to come up with a fake id that most polling workers barely glance at anyway? It just makes it a little harder for the dead folk ( is that PC or not?) to walk in and register to vote.

Answer 6

I don't know anyone that disagrees with you except for some in the media.

I am a teacher in inner city Detroit and see exactly what you see. I can't afford anything, except my $90 Nikes, and my $35 NewEra Cap and my Amp'd Mobile Cell Phone that goes off in class every five minutes. But I am poor and need help with everything.

You are right on, it is sickening the arguements that some folks make.

Answer 7

either way you slice it... it's still charging to vote... and that's against the constitution?

what is so hard to comprehend?

all someone would have to do is raise the price of the IDs in a state and all of a sudden the poor couldn't vote...

and you people clearly have no idea what poor is... the people your talking about may tell you they are poor... but they aren't, clearly from your examples...

TIMES ARE GOOD NOW... what happens when times get tough and that "just $20" becomes a lot more than "just $20"?

but, oh... that could never happen... right?

Answer 8

I don't get the uproar over it.
If that can't give up something (cigarettes, pop, the newest CD release) to afford it. Then they really don't want to vote.
Picture ID will not work any way. Every illegal I have ever known has one.

Answer 9

Everyone should have one. The fear is perhaps justified, because a great many of these at risk voters would probably not consider their right to vote worth $20.00.

But maybe they shouldn't be voting anyway...

Answer 10

It is just another excuse. I wonder if these same people have a problem showing their ID to buy liquor! I am for voter ID