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Are you for or against vote ID to vote?

Are you for or against vote ID to vote?


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To me its just common sense, how about you?
 
Absolutely for. If you can't show you're eligible to vote, you shouldn't be able to vote.
 
I'm against having to vote on voter ID on three different threads.

I've been resistant to National ID all my life but I'm coming to change my mind. It would certainly solve all the Voter ID and immigration fraud questions. It's not like they can't track us anyway so why fight it any longer.
 
I've been resistant to National ID all my life but I'm coming to change my mind. It would certainly solve all the Voter ID and immigration fraud questions. It's not like they can't track us anyway so why fight it any longer.

You already have a national ID, your social security number. What's the big deal?
 
It's a Social Security card, not valid as ID. ID has description and photos. The SS card is just a number, anybody could show you my SS card and you wouldn't have a clue it wasn't me.


You already have a national ID, your social security number. What's the big deal?
 
Any right to vote that there is, is reserved for citizens. It is neither right nor proper for a non-citizen to vote in any given election. As such I strongly believe in a voter needing to prove that they are eligible to vote. It's not like the requirements of proof are hard to come by. One has to register to begin with so proof begins there. I certainly don't want someone to to be using my name to vote.
 
There are additional means to prove who you are without providing an ID, however, when the IDs are cheap and relatively easy to get, I do not think it is undue harm to the citizenry. I do not agree with the mentality that selling IDs in of itself is a violation of our rights as citizens.
 
I live in a small town they point to my name when I sign in to vote anyways. And they already have all of my information when I registered.

I live near a relatively small town, and the place to go to vote is just about 1/4 mile up the road from me, and serves just a small precinct of the county. Last time I voted, just during the 15 or so minutes I was in the building, there were two different elderly ladies who went to vote, but were told they had already voted. Neither of these women appeared to have any cognitive deficits. I strongly suspect that they had ballots mailed to them, for early voting purposes, and someone else kindly "voted for them", then sent the ballots in. I have no proof that there was fraud, but I find it a little more than coincidental that two elderly ladies, in my small precinct, who just happened to go vote at the same time I was there, incidentally forgot that they had already voted.
 
I agree entirely. I don't mind providing a voter ID to vote. But just for clarification purposes- a voter ID is the same as a DMV issued identification card? I feel the need to clarify this because I'd rather not assume. However if it's not the same, that's still fine in my book as well as long as it is provided for free to eligible voters.
 
It is an infringement of liberty that serves no practical purpose, and disenfranchises a lot of poor people, students, and the elderly. We all know it's a politically calculated move to prevent Democratic voters from casting their ballots. Can we please stop pretending it's anything else?
 
It seems that only Democraps lack ID. Repugnantcans are able to get ID. How did this happen?
 
It is an infringement of liberty that serves no practical purpose, and disenfranchises a lot of poor people, students, and the elderly. We all know it's a politically calculated move to prevent Democratic voters from casting their ballots. Can we please stop pretending it's anything else?

It has a very practical purpose- that of preventing fraudulent voting, and preserving the integrity of our voting process.
 
I would like to see some support for this statement. I'm relatively new here, so please forgive me if asking for citation is out of line.
 
It is an infringement of liberty that serves no practical purpose, and disenfranchises a lot of poor people, students, and the elderly. We all know it's a politically calculated move to prevent Democratic voters from casting their ballots. Can we please stop pretending it's anything else?

No. An extremist position such as this is just as bad as those proclaiming that we have a serious voter fraud issue and that the Democrats are encouraging illegal immigrants to vote.
 
It is an infringement of liberty that serves no practical purpose, and disenfranchises a lot of poor people, students, and the elderly. We all know it's a politically calculated move to prevent Democratic voters from casting their ballots. Can we please stop pretending it's anything else?

False. It doesn't disenfranchise anyone. People who claim that they can't afford an ID can get a free ID.
 
It has a very practical purpose- that of preventing fraudulent voting, and preserving the integrity of our voting process.

So when the Republican Pennsylvania House majority leader says that the Voting ID law will help win Romney the election, that's not preserving the integrity of our voting process.
 
Upon further research, the Texas law was struck down because it refused alternative ID. I can understand that. If you bring documentation and an explanation, you should be allowed to vote. Just showing up with nada - nope, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Still though, why is it so hard to get ID in a world that constantly requires it? I don't understand how you can function without it.
 
So when the Republican Pennsylvania House majority leader says that the Voting ID law will help win Romney the election, that's not preserving the integrity of our voting process.

I don't really care who says what, about whom, as long as the integrity of the process is preserved and people are voting in an honest manner.
 
I don't really care who says what, about whom, as long as the integrity of the process is preserved and people are voting in an honest manner.

The voter ID law is in Pennsylvania!
 
The voter ID law is in Pennsylvania!

And PA is giving free IDs to people who say they can't afford them. I don't see any problem with requiring ID to vote. In fact, when I was 18 and went to vote for the first time, I was amazed that they didn't require ID.
 
It's a Social Security card, not valid as ID. ID has description and photos. The SS card is just a number, anybody could show you my SS card and you wouldn't have a clue it wasn't me.

The point being, it's a national identification number that refers to you and only you. You've already got one. What's the big deal if you have another one?
 
It seems that only Democraps lack ID. Repugnantcans are able to get ID. How did this happen?

Because half the Democraps are illegal aliens?
 
if the SS card doesn't count as ID, then i'm against. if it does, then i have no problem with it.
 
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