jlf1961
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You have to have a valid state or military ID to buy beer, you need a valid state or military ID to apply for benefits, and yes, those ID's will work to vote.
If everyone has an id how is it that some cannot vote with their id that you will say will work? If the old id is good then why do they need a new id?
Are you naturally dense? Or are you just acting this way?
The judge that made that statement is full of shit. If they have a valid ID (not expired) then there is no problem. Why cant you get it through your thick skull that there is no "special" ID that people need to get in order to vote. No matter what anyone says, it involves a standard state issued photo ID or drivers license, nothing special, the same ID they need to cash checks, apply for welfare, get a job, etc.
College ID's wont work simply because there is no requirement to prove you are a legal citizen to go to college, or a legal resident alien.
There is no special test, no language requirement, no requirement for a passport, no requirement for a signed affadavit from God, just a standard state issued ID or Driver's license.
The argument:
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Hundreds of thousands of Texans will have a hard time getting the ID. The ID law says that Texans can get a state-issued photo ID from police, but only in certain locations. “Those who lack the approved forms of identification may obtain an “election identification certificate” from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), but more than 400,000 eligible voters face round-trip travel times of three hours or more.”
Is bullshit, all you have to do is go to your local DMV office every county has one, so there is no three hour freaking drive, except in five counties in far west Texas that have a total population between them of less than 30,000 people. One of those counties is larger than the state of Massachusetts and has a population of less than 9000 people.
But hey, the truth never stopped either party from making asses of themselves.
If the "disenfranchised" have been working, driving, cashing checks, receiving welfare, buying beer, they already have a valid ID, if they have an expired ID, then it will cost 15 to 20 bucks for a new one, which every other white, black, brown, yellow, red are green Texan does every six fucking years.
As for the argument that no one has told people about the new law, that is bullshit, when the law was passed, letters went out to every registered voter, there is a notice at the voter registration office, and both freaking parties who have been busting ass to get voters registered have told them.
All the law did was cut down the acceptable forms of ID to a government issued photo ID, be it state, military or a goddamn passport. You cant use a social security card, birth certificate, school ID, etc.
How fucking hard is that to understand?
FYI, Texas has a bit of history of voter fraud from both sides of the fence, and there are republican voters who are part of the poor this law supposedly disenfranchised.
< Message edited by jlf1961 -- 10/22/2014 9:02:48 AM >
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