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| tonymctones:
http://news.yahoo.com/appeals-court-reinstates-texas-voter-id-law-212302367.html Allowing it to be enforced in the November elections... The ruling represents a temporary but key victory for Republican-backed photo ID measures that have swept across the U.S. in recent years. Last week's ruling from U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos — an appointee of President Barack Obama who likened the law to a poll tax designed to dissuade minorities from voting — remains under appeal. |
| 240 is Back:
by then, they'll probably be issuing voting IDs to illegal aliens too. Voting of love. |
| Dos Equis:
--- Quote from: tonymctones on October 14, 2014, 04:55:15 PM ---http://news.yahoo.com/appeals-court-reinstates-texas-voter-id-law-212302367.html Allowing it to be enforced in the November elections... The ruling represents a temporary but key victory for Republican-backed photo ID measures that have swept across the U.S. in recent years. Last week's ruling from U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos — an appointee of President Barack Obama who likened the law to a poll tax designed to dissuade minorities from voting — remains under appeal. --- End quote --- "Free IDs offered by the state require a birth certificate that costs as little as $3, but the Justice Department argued that traveling to get those documents imposes a burden on poor minorities." I am very sympathetic to low income people, but this opposition is ridiculous. The ID is free. You pay $3 for a BC, which you can get by mail. Get transportation to get your free ID. And this is a burden? Seriously? I could see this being an issue if time was a problem, but when people literally have years, I simply don't see this as some kind of unfair or unconstitutional infringement on the right to vote. |
| 240 is Back:
we've talked about those state ID costs. free in a few places for the elderly, but in most states, for most people, ,they're not free. and most aren't $3 either. and for a birth cert? I needed one from ohio a while back, it was like 30 or 50. |
| Straw Man:
--- Quote from: Dos Equis on October 14, 2014, 05:33:15 PM ---"Free IDs offered by the state require a birth certificate that costs as little as $3, but the Justice Department argued that traveling to get those documents imposes a burden on poor minorities." I am very sympathetic to low income people, but this opposition is ridiculous. The ID is free. You pay $3 for a BC, which you can get by mail. Get transportation to get your free ID. And this is a burden? Seriously? I could see this being an issue if time was a problem, but when people literally have years, I simply don't see this as some kind of unfair or unconstitutional infringement on the right to vote. --- End quote --- If you work 60 hours a week at a minimum wage job it could be a huge burden if you have to skip a day of work and a day of income to get an ID and if you're living paycheck to paycheck you may literally not be able to afford to skip a day of work |
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