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Every legal citizen can prove this with ease.
In her letter, Bradley said her uncle had fought at Iwo Jima, the bloody World War II battle that was immortalized in a photo of the U.S. flag being raised on the tiny Pacific island. Tuesday marked the 71st anniversary of the 1945 flag raising. Bradley's uncle, Leo Olson of Reedsburg, tried to use his veterans ID card to vote in last week's primary for a seat on the state Supreme Court, but that form of identification can't be used under the state's voter ID law. Olson does not have a driver's license.
"He considers voting part of his patriotic duty," Bradley wrote to Walker. "Yet, last week this proud patriot of 90 years of age was embarrassed and confused when he went to the polls and was denied his right to vote. Then he presented his veterans administration card with his picture on it, he was told that the card was not listed as 'acceptable' proof of his identity. He responded: 'You mean veterans can't vote?'"
isconsin Governor Scott Walker said his state’s strict new voter-ID requirement worked “just fine” in the April 5 primary, but thousands of Wisconsinites were unable to cast a ballot because of the new law. One of them was Eddie Lee Holloway Jr.
Holloway, a 58-year-old African-American man, moved from Illinois to Wisconsin in 2008 and voted without problems, until Wisconsin passed its voter-ID law in 2011. “I never miss voting,” he said. He brought his expired Illinois photo ID, birth certificate, and Social Security card to get a photo ID for voting, but the DMV in Milwaukee rejected his application because the name on his birth certificate read “Eddie Junior Holloway,” the result of a clerical error when it was issued.
Are you OK with veterans not being allowed to exercise their right to vote after the sacrifices they made to protect the right to vote? The fact is that many veterans are not able to meet the conditions you just listed. Do you really believe that they do not deserve to be allowed to vote as a result?
Some fucking clerk makes a data-entry error and a person can't vote. That's just wrong.
. citizens have been wrongfully denied the right to vote
Dan8267 saysExactly! Let's not have IDs to drive cars or fly in a plane. Aren't we denying citizens the right to drive or fly? The Left's argument on this is comical. citizens have been wrongfully denied the right to vote
If they’re too dumb and indigent to manage to get an ID, they’re too dumb to manage an informed decision in an election. And thus they don’t and shouldn’t count. So whatever that number is.
PrivilegedtobeWhite saysBecause going through the trouble of creating a fake ID is easier than just showing up without a real ID and voting? WTF?This topic is hilarious. No gov't issued ID to vote? Are you kidding me? And the Left thinks voter fraud isn't happening lol. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone with how the Left justifies this shit. I'm embarrassed to be human.
So if I'm going to go through the trouble of committing voter fruad why not go through the trouble of getting a fake ID? How does making people providing an ID stop people from providing a fake ID?
This topic is hilarious. No gov't issued ID to vote? Are you kidding me? And the Left thinks voter fraud isn't happening lol. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone with how the Left justifies this shit. I'm embarrassed to be human.
Sounds like a great idea. Certainly it can't cost too much, what is stopping the US from doing the same? If other governments can come up with the money to issue voter IDs to their citizes surly the US government can come up with the money too.
There are numerous cases of proven illegal voting and voter fraud. This is fact. Calling it a myth is being anti-fact.
steverbeaver saysThat's a disingenuous argument. Democratic states REFUSED to provide the voter fraud commission the data they needed to validate if fraud was happening. It's funny..."show me instances where significant voter fraud is happening". Well, it's likely happening in Democratic states who won't let the issue be investigated, so it must mean it's not happening.There are numerous cases of proven illegal voting and voter fraud. This is fact. Calling it a myth is being anti-fact.
So show the numerous cases of proven illegal voting and voter fraud. Remember Kobach sec of state kansas? The man spearheading trumps voter fraud complaints? He has testified about his review of 84 million votes cast in 22 states, which yielded 14 instances of fraud referred for prosecution, which amounts to a 0.00000017 percent fraud rate.
So 0.00000017 percent is numerous How does that work? I define numerous a different way.
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud-myth
The only reason people want to require ID is to disenfranchise the poor, it's sad that they can't be honest about their real reason they want to have people provide ID.
What voter fraud?
This is new to me. Federal law requires, when registering to vote, to put a driver license number or last 4 of SSN. I've looked and can't find were it says certain states don't check the validity of their registered voters.
Federal law requires, when registering to vote....
Federal law requires, when registering to vote, to put a driver license number or last 4 of SSN.
That is false.
Also, some municipalities (e.g. San Francisco) have begun registering illegal aliens to vote in local elections.
In CA illegals are issued the same DLs citizens get (unless the latter explicitly express the desire to get a Real ID and suffer a whole day ordeal at the DMV). So nothing prevents an illegal to register and vote in CA.
Hassan_Rouhani saysIn CA illegals are issued the same DLs citizens get (unless the latter explicitly express the desire to get a Real ID and suffer a whole day ordeal at the DMV). So nothing prevents an illegal to register and vote in CA.
That's false.
Which part? The part where anyone can obtain a CA DL w/o proving he's in the country legally, let alone a citizen? Not false at all - it's a fucking law. What else?
Oh, but don't worry, when they hold state and local and Federal voting on the same day, by magic the non-citizen doesn't choose any Federal Candidates, so it's okay.
You mean, the people who knowingly and willfully broke number of laws in order to "better their lifes" will suddenly obey another seldom enforced law? Do you also have an iron bridge for sale? I'm looking for one right now....
This is new to me. Federal law requires, when registering to vote, to put a driver license number or last 4 of SSN. I've looked and can't find were it says certain states don't check the validity of their registered voters.
At the time of voting, these first-time voters must submit either (a) a valid photo I.D.,
or (b) a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document showing their name and address. 13 However, voters are exempt from this requirement if, at the time of their mail-in registration, they submitted a copy of a current photo I.D., utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or government document showing their name and address. Voters are also exempt from showing I.D. at the polls, if they submitted their driver's license number or last four digits of their social security number with their mail-in registration, and this information was matched against an existing state I.D. record
Patrick saysRafiMaas saysto pay for a voter ID
Pay? Who said anything about charging people?
Really? Can you show me one state that has paid for voter IDs that has enacted voter ID laws. No you can't because they are designed to disenfranchis voters.
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