Why are Dems/blacks so against georgia requiring voters to produce valid Id's at the polls?

Question

Makes perfect sense to me...we are asked (at least at my polling place) here in Fl. for a drivers license to verify who we are before voting. My precinct is (I would guess) 95+% white, but I've never seen anyone complain about it...why are the dems and blacks in such a tizzy in Ga.? I don't get it, do they think so little of themselves that they think blacks won't be capable of getting a valid Id and taking it with them to the polls? I've had no problem with that since I was 15...seems like such a no brainer.

chemcook, i don't see your analogy...even one has to have a voters registration card to vote, right?

chemcook...funny so the poor whites in the mobile homes still have the ability to procur that terribly difficult drivers license...lol...while the blacks can't? You have such a low opinion of them don't you?

Bert, pay attention to the news dude...it's all over CNN.

Answer 1

I live in Georgia, so please let me explain. They are requiring IDs to vote, which I support. The Dems are complaining that it's disenfranchisement because the poor won't be able to get IDs. Well, what they are not telling is that the IDs are FREE!!!! Yes, FREE!!!!! AND there is a mobile unit driving to the poor neighborhoods handing out these FREE IDs.

My question is...how could it be disinfranchisement if the IDs are FREE and the govermnet is coming to a neighborhood near you to hand them out?

It's just another non-issue for them to "claim" they are being held down. Ridiculous!

Answer 2

I've been voting in the same area in my city here in FL since 1985 and have ALWAYS had to show a photo ID (Drivers License) at the poll or no ballot. I have no idea why anyone would be given a ballot who could not prove who they were. If that's the case, then I'll just take my dead relative's voter id cards and start voting to my hearts content!

Answer 3

*LOL* It makes it harder for Democrats to vote more than once per election.

Having a valid ID is a necessity for everyday life. Unless you are piad by cash which VERY few people are these days you have to have an ID to cash your check. This is especially true if it's a government check. Voting should be no different. If you can cash a check written to you probably you are carrying valid ID.

Valid ID is required to register to vote. To require valid ID to vote is no problem. Democrats blame Republicans for getting people kicked off the voting rosters. Who's really at fault there? I've not missed very many chances to vote and I ALWAYS check and see that I'm registered BEFORE the day of the election.

If you want to vote. Do what is necessary to be allowed to vote.

It seems ironic that Democrats will complain about not being allowed to vote and yet in many cases they have been voting even after they are dead by absentee ballots. *BG* I wonder what address the ballot is sent to in those cases?

Answer 4

They can ask for ID, but don't have legal authority to prevent you from voting if you don't show ID.

Voting is a basic right, just as freedom of speech or freedom of religion. Say you are passing out Bibles on the street corner and a cop insists on seeing your ID. Seem unfair? It should.
So really, why should you have to show ID?

If you believe in basic freedoms, then you would see how having to show ID is the first step down a slippery slope. Why not charge a fee because people who vote cost the government more than people who don't?

Charging a fee is called a poll tax and was used to keep poor people from voting... especially blacks in the South.

In most (perhaps all) states police can't stop you and ask for ID without cause. Even if they have cause, if you state your name and address they really can't demand more (unless they arrest you). Should police be able to demand ID from you for no reason. How about non-police, such as polling station workers/volunteers.

I hope you can see that living free is better than not. There are some costs, but those costs are so small compared to giving up your freedom.

Answer 5

The idiots in my home state have decided if you're too stupid to bring your driver's license/id when you show up at the polls on election day, you'll only be required to sign a statement that says "I forgot my ID"

I wonder if the IRS would accept a signed statement "I forgot to pay my taxes" HMMMM!!.................

Answer 6

It presents an extra obstacle to voting and the requirement adversely affects certain groups more than others. If you don't have a valid ID then, theoretically, you would have to obtain one first. There is also no basis in recent Georgia history to claim voter fraud, which would necessitate such a requirement.

Answer 7

I am not sure, I smell in which corner of the garden you grow,
but I will try to be fair anyway. Perhaps the photo ID is indeed
expensive enough to make voting rights a money problem.

Answer 8

The Democrats are stipulating that they don't have enough voters on their side so they are trying to create some from scratch.

Their double talk makes it sound as if they are giving the down trodden a right they never had before. That it is an insult is too politically incorrect to examine.

Answer 9

The citizens who do not have photo identification are mostly poor, minority, elderly, disabled and young voters.

This is largely the case because these voters cannot afford the requisite fees for obtaining photo IDs, and they are less likely than other voters to own a car or regularly drive.

Case in point, a June 2005 University of Wisconsin study found that less than half of Milwaukee African-American and Hispanic adults have valid licenses compared to 85 percent of white adults who live outside Milwaukee who have licenses.

The disenfranchising effect of the commission's photo ID proposal is made worse by the fact that it will not solve any real problems. The ID proposal is purportedly intended to prevent fraud by voters who misrepresent their identity at the polls. In fact, the evidence shows that the incidence of this type of fraud is extraordinarily small.

Despite the report's use of the 2004 Washington state election as evidence to support the ID provision, after lawyers in that state searched furiously for fraudulent votes because of the litigation surrounding the gubernatorial race, only six cases of alleged double voting were found.

Similarly, in Ohio, a statewide survey found that of the more than 9 million votes cast in that state's 2002 and 2004 general elections combined, a total of four were found by the Board of Elections and county prosecutors to be legally actionable.

Answer 10

Because it is Unconstitutional. It places an Extra burden on the voter much like a poll Tax. I am White and I am against it. I also am not a Democrat.