texas id law

[francisco acosta]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/texas-voter-id-law_n_18433...

I'm really happy that the liberals want to protect me from the evil people that want me to prove that I'm a registered voter. You know; since I'm Latino for them I'm automatically poor and unable to amass enough wealth to pay $25 for an ID.

 Also they know that for me is hard to find transportation private or public to go to a dmv office on my own, and could you image a Latino filing a form?, we cant barely read.
Do these condescending sobs really think that of me?. If you are a legal resident in this country you have an ID!; for driving, for government assistance, for cashing a check, going to school, etc. Why is the federal government making it hard for the states (that should be sovereign on this and other matters) to control and clean their voting rolls. Think that maybe the would like to have people vote several times and in several places for the ones that promises them all the freebies. Funny how Jimmy Carter goes on international trips to "monitor" elections on other countries, should clean his own house first!
I would like you to go to Mexico and try to vote with out and ID

wake up muchachitos

[Barry Lee Phillips]

Helen,  You're welcome.  Agitation is normal in this forum and I can take it as well as give it.  However, sometimes you have to dismiss the class and tell the children to go out and play with the other kids.

[Helen]

Lee, thanks for the response on the credit card question.   Glad you didn't take the bait.. agitation is in full swing now it appears..

[amanda choate]

Sorry, I was just joking.

[amanda choate]

Maybe an implanted device to determine if you are properly regostered? State implants it in you and then can determine if you are eligible to vote. Seems foolproof to me.

[Barry Lee Phillips]

Baiting me is not going work and neither is putting words in my mouth.  Bye!

[Barry Lee Phillips]

"Why would you want to deny that voter fraud exists with the help of the Federal Government?"

I never said or implied any such thing.  That's like asking, "When was the last time you beat your wife?"

That dead horse is now beyond recognition and I buried it.

[Barry Lee Phillips]

That dead horse is becoming more unrecognizable by the minute.

[Barry Lee Phillips]

Amanda, part of an article in Red State on those 180,000 people states:

"Non-citizens are able to become registered voters in Florida because if a non-citizen checks the box on the voter registration form that says they are a citizen they are registered to vote, because the form is signed under oath.

Those registered who are identified as possible non-citizens are reported to the State Attorney?s office The States Attorney may charge anyone who unlawfully registered to vote with a felony."

So, some of those people may have LIED UNDER OATH in order to vote illegally.  Yet another reason to insure the integrity of the election process.

What is a real stretch is your conclusion that requiring 900,000 people in Pennsylvania who do not have i.d. to have valid i.d. to vote smacks of Jim Crow.  You are totally ignoring commonplace everyday demands for i.d. for virtually all transactions of any significance in today's society.  And that would include Pennsylvania.  Do I have to list them?  If these people are too ill, too incapacitated, too poor, or too anything else, then I am sure there are fellow citizens and family members in Pennsylvania who would help them acquire the necessary i.d. to vote.

[amanda choate]

The argument is that only people with valid ids vote. Then we hear that 180,000 people in Florida have valid id though they are ineligible to vote. So what, id is not the answer obviously.
True the Vote is funded largely by AFP. It was started in Houston by the thr King's Street Patriots, a tea party group. Non-partisan is a bit of a stretch.
In Pennsylvania over 900,000 people do not currently have the id necessary to vote. Most of these people are poor or elderly. It reeks of Jim Crow. I for one would prefer a poll tax. It is a more straightforward approach to keeping the poor at home on election day.

[Barry Lee Phillips]

Okay, you insist on beating a dead horse.  My driver's license states:  "Florida The Sunshine State  Driver License Class E".  Sighhhhh.