Are the Republicans trying to suppress legitimate voters with unnecessary Voter ID laws?

Question

"Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews."

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2007/04/13/natvotefraud0413a.html

I voted in every national election since 1968, except the last one, when the Republicans violated my right to vote.
I was registered (& so my name was on list at polling station) & had an Arizona Voter Id card with my current address. I also had a picture ID from work & my Arizona Drivers license (although I no longer have a car) but with my previous address. They refused to let me vote because of the old address on my license.

According to the new Arizona law, I would have been allowed to vote, even with no Voter-ID card, if I'd shown two bills with my current address. But I have just a cell phone. My utilities are included in my rent. I don't get receipts for my rent because I'm at work during the only hours the apt mgr's office is open. However, it would be easy for any crook to fish a couple of bills for somebody out of the nearest dumpster. This dumb law doesn't prevent voter fraud, it causes it. They stole my vote!

I e-mailed a complaint to the Arizona Secretary of State, Republican Jan Brewer. A federal judge had ordered her to keep a count of the number of people turned away because of voter ID. She reported that nobody was turned away & that there were no complaints.

At least two of my ancestors fought for this country in the American Revolution. My great-grandfather was severely wounded fighting for the Union in the Civil War. I served 5 years in the United States Army. But because I don't have a cable TV bill and a bottled water bill, the Republicans took away my right to vote.

gw - You just accused me of being a liar. To make such a groundless accusation is dishonorable and a waste of the time of everybody who participates here. But I won't report you to yahoo, because I don't believe in censorship, not even for such a waste of space as you are.

Answer 1

Yes! No one should have to wait 8 hours to vote! Is it any wonder these things happened in strong democratic areas?

...and for the person above me, not everyone can afford a car, and therefore they don't have a license. The only other ID I have is my passport, which I have because I can afford to travel. What about people who don't travel? Why would they get one? Both these ID's cost money. If the government wants to hand out free ID's for voting, and they could somehow make sure every person got one, then fine - I agree that if you're not a citizen, you shouldn't vote; but I don't know how the gov't could guarantee that every citizen get one. But, it would stop people like Ann Coulter from committing voter fraud though...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nellie-b/will-ann-coulter-be-prose_b_15742.html

Answer 2

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed denying people the right to vote based on race or color. Among other things, they outlawed literacy tests and polling taxes. Voter ID laws are another attempt to thwart the law. It's ironic that the same Republicans that deny the Democrats claim that we were defrauded out of the 2000 election are always whining about Democratic voter fraud. There are virtually no documented cases of dead voters actually voting.

Answer 3

No. What is wrong with showing ID to vote? Each person gets one vote in our system. What would stop me from registering in different places to vote more often? I have 2 voters registration cards for the last 2 places I live, and I haven't even registered in the state I live in now. As long as the IDs are offered at little or no cost I have no problem with it.


As with your drivers license not having the correct address. Why didn't you change it? You don't even have to go to the DMV you can mail in a change of address and you get a sticker for your license. Remember the saying,"Poor planning on your part doesn't make an emergency on mine"

Also, how are you online writing this? You then either have calbe, phone line, or DSL. You should get a bill from one of them.

Answer 4

The only fraud going on is cheating & voting keept secret to insure it. http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/interview_filmmakers.html The numeric results can & have been altered in the past for desired results by the insiders. Whom want to keep the system privately secret. If thats not an open door for cheating i don't know what is! The morons answering here put spin on the real gray area of voting like the wall with immigration, everyone knows its the employers who are the real problem NOT being stopped.

Answer 5

Of course they are. They do everything they can to lower voter turnout.

I've done a lot of voter registration work. Some people ask me what happens if the people I register don't vote the way I would. I tell them I don't care. I would find it easier to accept someone like Bush getting elected if >90% of the people had cast a vote. But when there is such a low turnout and elections turn on such small margins, that is very aggravating.

Answer 6

At the very least you should have to show some form of government issued ID to vote. I don't see that this puts any extreme burden on anyone. By law, you are supposed t have ID anyway. Having ID prevents voter fraud and people voting for other people, which the dems would love.

Answer 7

Wow-greater of the mushy bigotry of low expectancies from the Democratic occasion. I recommend blacks are so pathetic and dumb that they are incapable of even producing an identity ( which anybody is familiar with that they could could even function in society to do something. Heck, even the poorest third international international places require I.D) in the previous anybody jumps on my placed up. i'm being sarcastic. i've got self belief useful that black, hispanic or regardless of, if valid voters, can produce an I.D. And our society is so liberal squishy that i'm useful we can finally end up identifying to purchase any soul that announces they have not got one and might't cope with to pay for one.

Answer 8

The last provable large scale voter fraud was, oh back in 1960 when Mayor Daley produced a barn full of ballot papers(mostly votes cast by dead people) to gain the state and the presidential election for JFK. And that is why the left is against voter ID laws. Hard to get those dead guys out to vote then.

Answer 9

Are democrats trying to allow voter fraud by attacking the voter Id laws?

If there were any legit voters who were stopped you might have a case. The absence of "organized" fraud being found does not mean that many individuals who had lost their right to vote were voting.

As it is there is little doubt that thousands of dead people somehow cast ballots in the last nationwide election. That should stop.

Answer 10

They call it a crackdown on viter fraud, yet they employ electronice computer voting machines that cost huge sums of maney and are progrmable?

Tell me if they are not trying pull something over. I think about the all the years we used those old machines and yet we never that much trouble, then they start pushing all of these changes on Americans and suddenly its ok to throw away houndreds of thousands of votes!

I do think we need voter Id laws, but I als beleive we need tofind a way to insure our votes are counted all of our votes by the way, and that one side cannot influence the vote against the other!