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2006-09-12 Home Front: WoT
Judge refuses to block AZ voter ID requirement
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Posted by Fred 2006-09-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Mexican drivers license OK?
Posted by Crinegum Cheremble8370 2006-09-12 01:04||   2006-09-12 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Air travel requiring ID is too burdensome in time money and effort for minorities and the elderly?
Posted by Phineter Thraviger1073 2006-09-12 01:40||   2006-09-12 01:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Critics said...

Cry me a river, O unnamed democrats critics. Also makes election fraud a little tougher, don't it?
Posted by PBMcL 2006-09-12 02:10||   2006-09-12 02:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Starbucks' "Buy 10 Get 1 Free" cards - but only if they have at least 5 punches.
Posted by .com 2006-09-12 02:28||   2006-09-12 02:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Damn, guess the dems can't count on the 30,000 to 50,000 alien votes this year.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-12 09:24||   2006-09-12 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 disenfranchise voters, particularly minorities and the elderly, and that requiring voters to acquire and produce identification would be burdensome in time, money and effort.

Sounds insensitive, sounds like personal effort or work, sounds like assumption of personal responsibility, sounds like.... potential discrimination of disadvantages groups, sounds like labels of racism, bigotry, sounds like old white men making decisions............sounds GOOD TO ME!
Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-12 10:22||   2006-09-12 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 I voted this morning in Arizona. Step 1 reach into back pocket to get wallet. Step 2 take out driver's license and voter ID card. Step 3 give to poll worker. Whew! That was burdensome, took a lot of time, money not to mention the effort. I will guarantee if the minorities and elderly wanted to fly to points around the globe, they wil product an ID card. Kuddos to the judge.
Posted by Art">Art  2006-09-12 10:33||   2006-09-12 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 What! This means that that Democrats have to be alive to vote! That's not fair!
Posted by Howard Dean 2006-09-12 11:46||   2006-09-12 11:46|| Front Page Top

#9 "Critics said that the law would disenfranchise voters, particularly minorities and the elderly, and that requiring voters to acquire and produce identification would be burdensome in time, money and effort." I would like these yahoos to produce just one "voter" that doesn't have some sort of ID. Mind this person would not drive a car, have a bank account, or recieve public assistance. The donks are afraid the they thousands of dead people and illegals who normally vote for them won't be able to produce a valid ID. This could sway MANY elections.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-09-12 11:51||   2006-09-12 11:51|| Front Page Top

#10 
Up here in the Peoples Republic of Washington (state) - in at least a couple of counties (inclnuding King which has Seattle in it) we have forced-mail vote. You *must* vote by mail.

Teh ballots are funny too. You have to use a single line - and it cannot be too thick of a line or your vote will be rejected.

ID of course is not required. And since you can register by mail too you can get all your imaginary friends, felons, and dewad relatives the right to vote too!

Oh, and sorry you don't get a recepit - nor any type of indication that your vote was invalidated for soem stupid reason.

Hwo does that go? "It doesn't matter who votes - its who counts the votes that matters".
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-09-12 12:05||   2006-09-12 12:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Geeze.. Preview is your friend....

...(including King County...

... The ballots are funny too...

... all your imaginary friends, felons, anddead relatives...
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-09-12 12:09||   2006-09-12 12:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Good for Arizona. The time for "trust" in this society is over. The new motto is "trust, but verify" or just plain "verify."
Posted by ex-lib 2006-09-12 12:27||   2006-09-12 12:27|| Front Page Top

#13 What this means is Arizona is a red state.
Posted by wxjames 2006-09-12 13:15||   2006-09-12 13:15|| Front Page Top

#14 One of the local idjits writing in the AZ Repulsive was whining about some woman who couldn't vote (threw in that she's the mother of a soldier currently in Iraq...for once Montini cared about soldiers, go figure) because she was handicapped, on public assistance and "couldn't get ID".

I sent him two links where it specifically outlined how she could get suitable ID for AZ voting purposes. Took me all of about 5 minutes to find it. I asked the arsehole to forward the info on to the lady. He probably didn't. Why wreck a possible chance at a Pulitzer, right?

BTW, you have to show an official voting card in Mexico if you want to vote. I guess these organizations should sue the Mexican government, too, for discrimination against Hispanics by forcing them to prove citizenship before casting a vote.
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-09-12 13:49|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]  2006-09-12 13:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Swamp Blondie, In order to recieve PA in Arizona (and most other states) you must have a ID card. When States began requiring/providing ID for PA recipients they saw a drop in total enrollments. One would surmise that some people were enrolling more than once.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-09-12 14:14||   2006-09-12 14:14|| Front Page Top

#16 Over at the Washington Monthly Political Animal weblog (Kevin Drum) the moonbats are whining the usual stuff about IDs. I posted that even the poorest poor usually have ID -- they have to cash checks, and most of the poor have drivers licenses. And if they don't, I'm happy to have our taxes provide them with a tamper-proof photo ID at no charge.

Of course they promptly went on to complain about other reasons why showing an ID to vote was a bad idea.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2006-09-12 17:11||   2006-09-12 17:11|| Front Page Top

#17 #16: "Of course they promptly went on to complain about other reasons why showing an ID to vote was a bad idea."

Anyone who doesn't want to be bothered to show an ID to vote can just NOT VOTE.

Or they can go to hell. Their choice.

(In the case of the dead who've been voting for years, I think that choice has already been made for them. ;-p)
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-09-12 19:56|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-09-12 19:56|| Front Page Top

#18 I can't see what the fuss is about. We've had to show ID to vote in Colorado for many years now, and it's not stopped people - any people - from voting. As many have commented, it does make it much harder for the dead or imaginary voters to cast a ballot, but I can't see myself where that's a bad thing...
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-09-12 20:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-09-12 20:49|| Front Page Top

#19 I grew up in the Chicago area during the first Daley Regime. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of reading Mike Royko on the subject of the cemetery vote going to the Democrats, look Royko up; the library should have several collections of his column. Unfortunately, last time I checked, only a few of his columns were online.

I voted today in the Wisconsin Primary, without having to produce an ID. The two Republican candidates for Attorney General both support voter ID.
Posted by mom 2006-09-12 21:19||   2006-09-12 21:19|| Front Page Top

#20 In order to recieve PA in Arizona (and most other states) you must have a ID card. When States began requiring/providing ID for PA recipients they saw a drop in total enrollments. One would surmise that some people were enrolling more than once.

According to legend, once the Social Security office had its first mainframe computer up and running, they immediately ran a cross-check of different SSN payments going to the same address or more than one payment going to a single SSN.

This revealed a huge number of fraudulent recipients.

The next thing they did was run a cross-check of existing payment accounts against the SSNs of their own employees. Guess what?

This revealed a huge number of fraudulent recipients.
Posted by Zenster 2006-09-12 22:22||   2006-09-12 22:22|| Front Page Top

#21 #20 Zen - So they did nothing (of course)?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-09-12 22:39|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-09-12 22:39|| Front Page Top

#22 CS, you are exactly right about the public assistance. I brought that up to the mental midget.

She also could have used a copy of her bank statement where the check was deposited as proof of residency (since theoretically getting a state-issued ID card was too difficult for her). I think Social Security and some state disability programs mandate direct deposit in most cases, so she would have to have a bank account somewhere.

There are so many different docs that are acceptable under AZ law that you would really have to work at it to NOT have something acceptable if you are a legal resident of voting age.

Never heard back from the pinhead. Hmm. Wonder why.....
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-09-12 23:17|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]  2006-09-12 23:17|| Front Page Top

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