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Voter ID laws, How do you vote in your state?

Middle_Ground

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I find the whole voter ID issue sort of ridiculous, not really sure what the big woop is over it soooo.

I think it would be interesting to find out what happens in your state.

Myself I have lived in 4 states voted in 3 didn't live long enough in one and didn't feel I knew the issues well enough to vote.
I don't remember how I voted in NY. I do remember registering.

MA I registered at the motor vehicle when I transferred my license, when I got to polling place I gave my address first then my name, they have big books with every street and address then names associated with that address. They check you off, hand you a ballot and a special marker. It's 2 foot long card stock that you fill out then you take that and put it in a machine with a counter on the top.
I thought the system quite archaic, but never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote.

GA absolutely the worse experience. Register find your polling place go there give name address somebody taps on a computer then sends you to another computer, wide open everyone can see who you vote for, Touchscreen computers that are super sensitive.
Oh yeah never mind the 4-6 hour wait. Only one place open in the entire county for early voting.
Were my experiences the norm or is it much different in other parts of the country?
 
Middle_Ground said:
I find the whole voter ID issue sort of ridiculous, not really sure what the big woop is over it soooo.

I think it would be interesting to find out what happens in your state.

Myself I have lived in 4 states voted in 3 didn't live long enough in one and didn't feel I knew the issues well enough to vote.
I don't remember how I voted in NY. I do remember registering.

MA I registered at the motor vehicle when I transferred my license, when I got to polling place I gave my address first then my name, they have big books with every street and address then names associated with that address. They check you off, hand you a ballot and a special marker. It's 2 foot long card stock that you fill out then you take that and put it in a machine with a counter on the top.
I thought the system quite archaic, but never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote.

GA absolutely the worse experience. Register find your polling place go there give name address somebody taps on a computer then sends you to another computer, wide open everyone can see who you vote for, Touchscreen computers that are super sensitive.
Oh yeah never mind the 4-6 hour wait. Only one place open in the entire county for early voting.
Were my experiences the norm or is it much different in other parts of the country?
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In CO, they just mail you your ballot.
 
I have to show ID every time I turn around. At the bank, at the gun store, at various gov't offices.

Why is showing ID to vote so onerous?

And why in the world would we NOT want to be reasonably sure those voting in our election are actual citizens? If we don't care then what the hell let the whole world vote for President....
 
Middle_Ground said:
1.) I find the whole voter ID issue sort of ridiculous, not really sure what the big woop is over it soooo.

I think it would be interesting to find out what happens in your state.

Myself I have lived in 4 states voted in 3 didn't live long enough in one and didn't feel I knew the issues well enough to vote.
I don't remember how I voted in NY. I do remember registering.

MA I registered at the motor vehicle when I transferred my license, when I got to polling place I gave my address first then my name, they have big books with every street and address then names associated with that address. They check you off, hand you a ballot and a special marker. It's 2 foot long card stock that you fill out then you take that and put it in a machine with a counter on the top.
I thought the system quite archaic, but never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote.

GA absolutely the worse experience. Register find your polling place go there give name address somebody taps on a computer then sends you to another computer, wide open everyone can see who you vote for, Touchscreen computers that are super sensitive.
Oh yeah never mind the 4-6 hour wait. Only one place open in the entire county for early voting.
Were my experiences the norm or is it much different in other parts of the country?
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1.) well youll have to be more specific than that. whats o you fine ridiculous.

2.) this is actually a good idea because I have talked about this in other threads and i find it interesting what others go through.

In PA, in Washington and Allegheny Counties.
I registered online.
You enter you info and it cross references you with the info you dont have. If its not you on not a match i dont know what happens?
They send you a card and you can print one out.
Same site tells you where you can vote and when.

I show up, almost never any wait, longest was maybe 15 minutes but usually none.

I approached the main table, the people working it have large paper binders and or laptops/tablets.

They never ask for the voter registration card (which i always found funny) but they do ask me for my name and ID, they verify it on their paper list or on their laptop/tablet. If it doesnt match i dont know what happens.

Once verified I have to sign a log which is also a list of me and my address. They swipe a temporary bar card (like a gift card) that logs my info.

I take that card to a voting machine, touchscreen, private, and enter the card. Im asked to verify the info is correct, i vote, it confirms my vote and asks me to confirm it also. It asks if i want a receipt of vote. I remove the card and turn it in.

Then i get a sticker :D lol
 
I don't live in the States but here I have to present a photo ID, two forms of ID of which one must must have a current address, or show two pieces of ID and have someone take an oath attesting to your current address. They check your name and address and then let you vote. Though I had to fill out and sign some things the first time I voted.

Personally and everyone I know just shows their photo ID, usually driver's license or health card.
 
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In Denmark we get sent a voting notice/form that we have to have with us. At the voting table where we get the ballot, our ID is checked with the voting notice. You need a picture ID and official ID of some sort.. so say your social security ID plus banking card, or solo your driver's license, or Passport. However you dont get to vote without the voting notice, as that has your address on it, and along with the picture ID/Official IDs confirm who you are. It is simple and easy, with almost no fraud. Everyone in Denmark has an ID of some sort.
 
Middle_Ground said:
I find the whole voter ID issue sort of ridiculous, not really sure what the big woop is over it soooo.

I think it would be interesting to find out what happens in your state.
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I have voted in other states but that was over 30 years ago.

In Alabama, walk in and get in the line for those with you last name intial. Tell them your name, show you ID, get the ballot, go sit at a table with privacy dividers, fill in the marks for whom or what you are voting, run through the optical scanner get the confirmation is was properly read, get your "I voted" sticker.

Longest I ever waited was maybe 5 minutes if that.

BTW my blind mother voted every election, I know I took her and helped her, showing her state supplied ID.

Opposition to voter ID is normally specious and desperate, voter ID is a commons sense rational means of insuring the integrity of our elections, ALL elections including for the dog catcher.
 
PeteEU said:
In Denmark we get sent a voting notice/form that we have to have with us. At the voting table where we get the ballot, our ID is checked with the voting notice. You need a picture ID and official ID of some sort.. so say your social security ID plus banking card, or solo your driver's license, or Passport. However you dont get to vote without the voting notice, as that has your address on it, and along with the picture ID/Official IDs confirm who you are. It is simple and easy, with almost no fraud. Everyone in Denmark has an ID of some sort.
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Carjosse
I don't live in the States but here I have to present a photo ID, two forms of ID of which one must must have a current address, or show two pieces of ID and have someone take an oath attesting to your current address. They check your name and address and then let you vote. Though I had to fill out and sign some things the first time I voted.

Personally and everyone I know just shows their photo ID, usually driver's license or health card.
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Oh you racist voting suppressors!!!!!!
 
AGENT J said:
1.) well youll have to be more specific than that. whats o you fine ridiculous.

2.) this is actually a good idea because I have talked about this in other threads and i find it interesting what others go through.

In PA, in Washington and Allegheny Counties.
I registered online.
You enter you info and it cross references you with the info you dont have. If its not you on not a match i dont know what happens?
They send you a card and you can print one out.
Same site tells you where you can vote and when.

I show up, almost never any wait, longest was maybe 15 minutes but usually none.

I approached the main table, the people working it have large paper binders and or laptops/tablets.

They never ask for the voter registration card (which i always found funny) but they do ask me for my name and ID, they verify it on their paper list or on their laptop/tablet. If it doesnt match i dont know what happens.

Once verified I have to sign a log which is also a list of me and my address. They swipe a temporary bar card (like a gift card) that logs my info.

I take that card to a voting machine, touchscreen, private, and enter the card. Im asked to verify the info is correct, i vote, it confirms my vote and asks me to confirm it also. It asks if i want a receipt of vote. I remove the card and turn it in.

Then i get a sticker :D lol
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So when you vote, the voting machine knows who you are and records that? Does your receipt indicate who you are?

We do optical scan and all we get is a confirmation light on the machine that the ballot was properly read. Even though the ballot does not identify who you are, the secret ballot principle, I would like to get a printed receipt. Now that could have some kind of reference number so that if ever there was a question that receipt could be presented and referenced back to that voting number.
 
PeteEU said:
Hmm since every citizen is pre-registered to vote, then nope! :)
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I of course was being sarcastic and mimicking what every liberal here should be inundating you with if they have any consistency in their positions about voter ID.

What do you mean by "pre-registered to vote", how does that work?
 
I registered to vote in Texas when I got my state issued, photo ID. Received a voter registration card in the mail informing me of the time and place of the next election and informing me how to correct any mistaken information. At the polling place (the local water company office) where almost everyone knows almost everyone else the poll worker asks for your valid, state issued, photo ID (verifies that it matches their paper records) has you sign your affirmation that you are voting and hands you a code to enter into one of the (three?) electronic (but not touch screen) voting machines.

This is clearly a discriminatory and burdensome process according to some judges.
 
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Middle_Ground said:
I find the whole voter ID issue sort of ridiculous, not really sure what the big woop is over it soooo.

I think it would be interesting to find out what happens in your state.

Myself I have lived in 4 states voted in 3 didn't live long enough in one and didn't feel I knew the issues well enough to vote.
I don't remember how I voted in NY. I do remember registering.

MA I registered at the motor vehicle when I transferred my license, when I got to polling place I gave my address first then my name, they have big books with every street and address then names associated with that address. They check you off, hand you a ballot and a special marker. It's 2 foot long card stock that you fill out then you take that and put it in a machine with a counter on the top.
I thought the system quite archaic, but never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote.

GA absolutely the worse experience. Register find your polling place go there give name address somebody taps on a computer then sends you to another computer, wide open everyone can see who you vote for, Touchscreen computers that are super sensitive.
Oh yeah never mind the 4-6 hour wait. Only one place open in the entire county for early voting.
Were my experiences the norm or is it much different in other parts of the country?
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I walk into my polling place, give them my name and address. They make sure I'm registered and hand me a ballot.
 
Mail ballot.
 
Stinger said:
I of course was being sarcastic and mimicking what every liberal here should be inundating you with if they have any consistency in their positions about voter ID.

What do you mean by "pre-registered to vote", how does that work?
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You turn 18, and you are registered to vote as a citizen in the county you live in. Every person has to register at the country Town Hall when moving there, for tax and other purposes. Once that is done, then every time there is an election, an election form/card is mailed to you a couple of weeks in advance.

When you arrive at the voting station, they have several tables (depending on the size of the voting station), which is A-C (surname) and so on. There you present your election card, plus ID and it is controlled against the official voting roll (big ass book), where your name, address and personal security card info are stated. As an extra bonus, we ask also the last 4 digits or the date of birth (depends), just to make extra sure if something is off or we are bored. Takes maybe 3 minutes per person tops... depends on the last name.

I use to be one of the people controlling voters in Denmark :)
 
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I guess when I say ridiculous I mean what's the problem as long as all id's are accepted. I don't understand the hoopla.

For instance the 90 year that has voted in every election shouldn't be burdened with additional stuff to vote, they have already paid there dues and all there id's are probably expired. If we are going to have voter id then it should be all id's accepted as well as there should be something like the tsa you know if you were born in so and so a year your shoes don't need to come off. I think that would be a fair practice.
I read some of the laws in some states and simply put you don't need a 30 page law unless your trying to hide something.
Yeah Georgia was absolutely horrible they closed all the places in blue counties except 1 and for some reason the machines in blue counties did not work very well leaving people to wait outside in the rain, heat etc for hours.
Nasty stuff so I understand why there are lawsuits, I actually saw for the first time some of the nasty. The funniest thing to me were the guys hanging around wearing jackets that looked like the said ICE but said nICE with the n really, really small.
I am not for against voter id I just think if that's what a majority of the country wants all you need is a simple 1 page law with 20 pages of acceptable ids and some protections for the older americans.
 
Middle_Ground said:
I find the whole voter ID issue sort of ridiculous, not really sure what the big woop is over it soooo.

I think it would be interesting to find out what happens in your state.

Myself I have lived in 4 states voted in 3 didn't live long enough in one and didn't feel I knew the issues well enough to vote.
I don't remember how I voted in NY. I do remember registering.

MA I registered at the motor vehicle when I transferred my license, when I got to polling place I gave my address first then my name, they have big books with every street and address then names associated with that address. They check you off, hand you a ballot and a special marker. It's 2 foot long card stock that you fill out then you take that and put it in a machine with a counter on the top.
I thought the system quite archaic, but never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote.

GA absolutely the worse experience. Register find your polling place go there give name address somebody taps on a computer then sends you to another computer, wide open everyone can see who you vote for, Touchscreen computers that are super sensitive.
Oh yeah never mind the 4-6 hour wait. Only one place open in the entire county for early voting.
Were my experiences the norm or is it much different in other parts of the country?
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May be they don't have enough poll workers and have to gather up districts.
May be you can write to the Ga board of elections and make suggestions or volunteer to work the polls.
 
Middle_Ground said:
I find the whole voter ID issue sort of ridiculous, not really sure what the big woop is over it soooo.

I think it would be interesting to find out what happens in your state.

Myself I have lived in 4 states voted in 3 didn't live long enough in one and didn't feel I knew the issues well enough to vote.
I don't remember how I voted in NY. I do remember registering.

MA I registered at the motor vehicle when I transferred my license, when I got to polling place I gave my address first then my name, they have big books with every street and address then names associated with that address. They check you off, hand you a ballot and a special marker. It's 2 foot long card stock that you fill out then you take that and put it in a machine with a counter on the top.
I thought the system quite archaic, but never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote.

GA absolutely the worse experience. Register find your polling place go there give name address somebody taps on a computer then sends you to another computer, wide open everyone can see who you vote for, Touchscreen computers that are super sensitive.
Oh yeah never mind the 4-6 hour wait. Only one place open in the entire county for early voting.
Were my experiences the norm or is it much different in other parts of the country?
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In Virginia you show an ID to vote. The workers will also try to trick you up with a question off the ID. No long waits where I vote.

I don't get the no voter ID excuses. You need an ID for everything from cigs to getting your welfare check and driving. So it must be something else.
 
MaggieD said:
I walk into my polling place, give them my name and address. They make sure I'm registered and hand me a ballot.
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Gotta show photo ID here.
 
Middle_Ground said:
MA I registered at the motor vehicle when I transferred my license, when I got to polling place I gave my address first then my name, they have big books with every street and address then names associated with that address. They check you off, hand you a ballot and a special marker. It's 2 foot long card stock that you fill out then you take that and put it in a machine with a counter on the top.
I thought the system quite archaic, but never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote.
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In NE it's very similar to this except we have to sign our name in the book. No ID although I think we should have to show one.
 
Lovebug said:
May be they don't have enough poll workers and have to gather up districts.
May be you can write to the Ga board of elections and make suggestions or volunteer to work the polls.
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No, no no no, they closed polling places to suppress turnout, there is no way that when they had adequate staffing for a century then suddenly once SCOTUS says the state doesn't have to preclear voting changes all the stations close down? Only a fool would buy that
 
jimbo said:
In Virginia you show an ID to vote. The workers will also try to trick you up with a question off the ID. No long waits where I vote.

I don't get the no voter ID excuses. You need an ID for everything from cigs to getting your welfare check and driving. So it must be something else.
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You do not need an ID to purchase cigarettes, you only need one if the clerk thinks you're underage, if you personally know the clerk where you shop or are elderly you can buy smokes with no ID. I never get carded at the cigar lounge anymore because the staff know me, I get carded everywhere else because I'm 25 and look 20

If you enrolled for public assistance before when you had valid ID but it since lapsed (the elderly) you are probably getting your benefits by direct deposit or you may have a fiduciary handling your benefits or you might just be cashing your checks st the bank you always had. Or you endorse the check and your kid or caretaker deposits it for you with their ID
 
EMNofSeattle said:
You do not need an ID to purchase cigarettes, you only need one if the clerk thinks you're underage, if you personally know the clerk where you shop or are elderly you can buy smokes with no ID. I never get carded at the cigar lounge anymore because the staff know me, I get carded everywhere else because I'm 25 and look 20

If you enrolled for public assistance before when you had valid ID but it since lapsed (the elderly) you are probably getting your benefits by direct deposit or you may have a fiduciary handling your benefits or you might just be cashing your checks st the bank you always had. Or you endorse the check and your kid or caretaker deposits it for you with their ID
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All those scenarios are possible. But the fact remains that it's difficult to function in today's world without a valid ID.

Funny about that cashing checks where you always have. I am a founding member of a bank. At one time on the board. Been cashing checks at the same window for 20 years. A few months ago new clerk. I was asked for ID. Which I produced. The same one I use to vote.
 
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jimbo said:
All those scenarios are possible. But the fact remains that it's difficult to function in today's world without a valid ID.
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Which is totally irrevant to the right to cast a ballot, you provided "scenarios" where people who are registered voters would need ID as an argument for why voting should require it. I refuted those points, you accept I'm correct, now the goalposts are moving
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Which is totally irrevant to the right to cast a ballot, you provided "scenarios" where people who are registered voters would need ID as an argument for why voting should require it. I refuted those points, you accept I'm correct, now the goalposts are moving
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There are three situations in the Constitution with qualifiers. President, Congress, and voting. Why should you not have to show you meet those requirements?
 
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