JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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Whatever it takes to get it you mean; DMV had no office in my town. Gotta drive or walk 30 miles to get that ID.
Bullshit.
You cant get a car or a bus or a ride from someone you know? How do you renew your license each year, or does your poedunk state do even that much?
Good God, where do you live anyway? You should probably move out before it gets swept up in some plague or brigandry or other problem straight out of the Middle Ages.
Rural north Florida. No bus service to the towns with DMV offices; if the County would would provide ID WHEN registering, no problem. There are occasional mobile registration units now. But my mother was lucky, she did have military ID, (my father was career). Make ID easier to obtain, then, not as big a problem; yet, I see people who object to "national" databases for ID that want ID for voting. I do not want any national system either, by the way. The issue brings to mind "SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS!"
I have friends in Floriduh that say the exact opposite and that the Floriduh state government will get you your ID one way or the other if you want to vote.
AllI am really concerned about is what might happen if the controversy ever dies down and voter ID is the norm through most of the country. Will the ebbing of such concerns demotivate the government to provide them to those who do due diligence to get them?
But TODAY we have a serious problem with illegals voting, IMO, along with the dead and multiple voting.
My preference would be to throw out voting IDs and use indelible ink that you dip your right thumb into like many third world countries do it, and state an oath of loyalty to the country before voting.
And BTW, the objection to the Nazi German's 'Show me your papers' was that you had to have them to move about the country, and it was a small country until the shooting started. I don't think any serious people are doing that here in the US today.