Voter ID blankets the old South

[Meathead]

It is the caliber of Democrat voters which have the Dems in a tizzy in what should be a given. I am not sure if people incapable of executing a simple and cost-free task should vote unless they are somehow handicapped.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Then get a birth certificate, Geaux4it, and relieve voter anxiety.

 

[Edgetho]

All of the European social democracies and democratic socialist Countries that libtards in this Country are always touting require Voter ID.

dimocraps are just pissed because.... You people on the Right?

You Patriotic, honest, hard-working, family-raising, honest-voting Americans?

You have NO idea how much cheating the dimocraps were getting away with.

You can NOT imagine the hundreds of thousands of votes they cast that are inaccurate and/or downright fraudulent.

Which is why they're worried.

400,000 Votes in 4 States is what separated Mitt Romney from the Stuttering Clusterfukk.

It's a fact. And in the 4 Battleground States, there was MASSIVE cheating by dimocraps going on.

And it's almost impossible to prove without a voter ID requirement.

Five (5) years in prison for that dimocrap Poll Worker in Ohio.

And we could have never proven it if she hadn't opened her stupid mouth and bragged about it!!

She should have gotten Life.

 

[birddog]

Then get a birth certificate, Geaux4it, and relieve voter anxiety.

Sometimes it's near impossible to get a real BC. Just ask B. Hussein Obama!

 

[JakeStarkey]

Then get a birth certificate, Geaux4it, and relieve voter anxiety.

Sometimes it's near impossible to get a real BC. Just ask B. Hussein Obama!

Birferism is a mental disease.

 

[Kondor3]

I cannot imagine why a State could NOT require a Voter ID Card at law.

I cannot imagine why a State could not require that such an ID Card be presented at the time a vote is cast, if the vote is cast in-person, as are the vast, vast majority of cast votes.

I cannot imagine why a State could not require that a similar Identity Verification Mechanism be employed when an absent voter requests an Absentee Ballot.

At the root of it all, however, lies the issue of Fraud Prevention and its offshoot - Duplication Prevention.

And, frankly, before we can hope to tackle those issues effectively, much work needs to be done, and a different approach seems sensible.

In my humble opinion...

We need better and more standardized technology and infrastructure supporting our Voting Process.

In this day-and-age of cheap 4G broadband and satellite uplinks and landline broadband, there is little excuse for not designing, standardizing upon, deploying, and regularly upgrading and updating Voting Systems across the entire country which can easily and instantaneously prevent the issuing of a ballot to someone presenting a Voter ID which has already voted earlier during that same election cycle or who is not registered within the appropriate database as eligible to vote in a particular election or judisdiction.

Such technologies can be designed, built, and rolled-out relatively inexpensively, if a close eye is kept upon design and procurement by independent sources, and such systems will also lend themselves to near-instantaneous tallying of precinct totals and uploads of tallies to Municipal and County and State and Federal election boards and commissions and other appropriate data-upload targets, as appropriate for each election-race and jurisdiction.

No more stupid-ass 'hanging chads' or inordinate delays at the precinct level by partisan election judges, who, after such a change, would probably be largely limited to ensuring proper interaction with presenting voters and being on-hand to initiate and witness 'appeals' of declining-to-issue-a-ballot and who would have far fewer reasons for issuing a tally-challenge.

We could still have paper-based 'backup systems' but they would only rarely see the light of day, if such technology is designed and deployed correctly, and is made largely idiot-proof.

We see some evidence of such systems in-place already, but they're not widespread, they're not uniform (standardized) in capabilities and performance, and we have a long way to go, before the majority of our citizenry would feel comfortable with such an approach, with an eye towards anonymity and privacy and tamper-proofing and a dozen other hot-button issues related to such a sea change.

Given the shift towards Electronic ID Card contents by many jurisdictions - on Driver's Licenses and other forms of identity-card - there is probably an intelligent and cost-effective way in which to dovetail our collective push towards Electronic ID Cards and any Voter ID and Voter Fraud Prevention initiative.

But I think it's going to require a Federal Initiative to set down Standards and then let the States shift for themselves in playing catch-up over a period of years - including, perhaps, having their Voting System certified by the appropriate Federal agency as in full compliance with Federal Standards.

It seems the only way to ensure uniformity of Voting Rights for all citizens across the country (which is a Federal task) which still leaving the minutiae and the mechanics of the thing to the States, as we always have.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I agree, Kondor, as long as we also make sure that all of that is not part of Voter Suppression.

 

[daveman]

The far right reactionaries want national and state IDs.

That's a switch. Darn right wing progressive statists.

Stop lying. You're the only person in this thread who's mentioned national IDs.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The simplest way to ensure the voting ID is with a national ID, as you well know.

If folks want to use the state big government, then, yes, the are right wing statist progressives.

 

[squeeze berry]

The slave states are at it again. You'd think they'd get their Goober-state jollies off by their love of college football, where the pay of the black athletes is more to their liking.

news flash:

slavery was abolished 150 years ago