nothing at all has changed to require me to have a driver's license with an rfid chip in it, in order for me to vote....nor should it change at the voting poll....if the citizen is registered to vote, the State has vetted them already....that is when the vetting should take place....after that....once you are cleared and registered, I don't think it is necessary to have id, as long as the poll worker asks your name, your address, what party you belong to, and you sign verifying you are that person....then I am fine with it.....if approaching mid 50's is really old in your mind, then you must be really really young!Because they haven't needed one in order to live in this country, they are already established with bank accounts and check cashing cards and all the things you say they need a government photo id for....they don't....and why should they have to go out and get one, just for voting, when they have been registered to vote for 20-60 years already?So, you make it a privilege, not a right, to vote?
I guess it already is.
In america you need valid ID to buy alcohol, cigarettes, fly, cash a check, rent a car...etc.countless other transactions....
Is anyone saying that requiring an ID to buying alcohol, cigarettes, cashing checks, etc..violate their "rights"?
You guys pretend to be so intelligent ..but can sure play dumb when it suits your purpose.
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purposely mischaracterizing and distorting is what you do best...carry on.No one is fooled by all that misdirection.
If everyone has easy access to a government issued photo id, then why do millions of Americans not have one already?
You tell me.
What is your stance on concealed carry permits?
And no offense but you are REALLY old , if you got your DL without any proof of identity
in fact i did not have a valid government issued photo id, until i renewed my driver's license in 2012.....yes in 2012 was my first valid gvt issued photo id....my State rejected the federal gvt's rfid plans for drivers licenses as an over reach of the federal gvt and sued the federal gvt along with other independent states who rejected their over reach.....till the State got paid off by the feds and finally accepted it.....2012, when i renewed my license, they requested a birth certificate, now my driver's license has a chip in it......just wonderful.....
The state i lived in when i got my driver's license did NOT have pictures on the license....i got my first checking account with that non photo'd drivers license and a pay stub....
BUt surely you understand things have changed. Not all for the better, but things have changed. When you got your non picture ID , a person could also walk into a gun store and walk out with damn near any weapon they pleased without any hassle. A person could walk into a airport buy a ticket cash, never give ANY name and board a flight without ever even being looked at. Things change, voter ID is no different in that regard.
but if your state wants to have id's used, that's fine too, but people should NOT BE FORCED to get a gvt issued federal rfid, driver's license or rfid gvt ID in order to vote, they should be able to use a pay stub and recent electric bill, or birth certificate or mariage license with a water bill..... remember, the vetting by the State, takes place when registering....the donald ducks and mickey mouses get thrown out in the State vetting before they are issued.....
Remember, several states issue gvt photo id's to illegal immigrants, they allow illegals to get driver's licenses...yet some citizen like my mother in law who had voted for 50 years, would be rejected because she did not drive until age 76....
AND as G5000 has mentioned, gvt issued gvt id does NOT STOP the real voter fraud that IS OCCURRING.....
you all have been fooled in to thinking it will stop the fraud, when the fraud occurs through absentee ballots and the dead left on voter rolls instead of being purged, and a citizen being registered in 2 different states, etc etc etc none of which voter photo id is the solution to stopping it....
looks like the politicians want the REAL voter fraud to continue, and are playing a 'slight of hand', on you