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I was watching a discussion of this topic on Fox a few minutes ago. The idea of requiring a thumbprint came up.
Now, what's wrong with that idea? Everybody has a thumb, after all... well, there may be a small minority of amputees, but surely provisions could be made for them.
and no one has to go to the DMV office to get a thumb. God gave us all two of them, along with some inalienable rights.
Minnesota's governor and secretary of state are proposing this method:
With an electronic “poll book,” eligible voters who have lost an ID or no longer carry one could come to the polling place and have their electronic information pulled up from state records, Ritchie said.
He said about 84,000 Minnesota voters don’t carry photo ID, but in many cases, they would have photos in the state drivers’ database. For those who don’t, another ID could be scanned in or a photo could be taken at the polling place.
“We would not be disenfranchising anybody and we would not be breaking the bank,” Ritchie said.
Anyone want to bet that Republicans drop this issue entirely once a method is found to insure voter identification that doesn't exclude a bunch of Democratic voters?