Voter disenfranchisement in Georgia.
By on Nov 7th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Voter disenfranchisement in Georgia.
A polling place sign in Henry County, GA:
Only problem? Georgia voters don’t need to show ID. In September, a state court struck down Georgia’s voter ID law and as People for the American Way notes, “most voters do not need to show an ID of any kind.”
(HT: PFAW)
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FOUL!
November 7th, 2006 at 2:43 pmWhy am I not surprised?
November 7th, 2006 at 2:43 pmIt just never stops, does it? I cannot imagine the organization it takes to systematically suppress voter turnout. The Republican Party fears voters.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:43 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
I hope Bush cultists understand that people are keeping photo and video records of these things this year and the cultists are likely to go to jail this time.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:44 pmI hope someone pulls that “ID required” off those signs!
November 7th, 2006 at 2:45 pmI hope someone pulls the “ID Required” off of those signs!
November 7th, 2006 at 2:46 pmWhat the picture doesn’t show is the exact same sign next to this one but pointing the opposite way, only it reads: EGO REQUIRED - - ->
November 7th, 2006 at 2:47 pmWhats wrong with showing an ID?
November 7th, 2006 at 2:49 pmWho put the sign up? Was it supposed to have ID required on it? Can you prove it?
That’s the problem. That could be an unofficial sign put up by anyone.
Z.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:49 pmI hope somebody pulls fingerprints off that sihgn…
November 7th, 2006 at 2:50 pmI believe this is referencing the Id. They want your basic, unconscious thoughts (ie fears) to be brought in with you when you vote. You know, gays getting married and terrorists around each corner type thing.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:50 pmGod damned Republinazi mother fu*kers!
These god damned Republinazi piles of shit will do _ANYTHING_ to continue to commit treason against America and to continue their crimes gainast humanity.
Jesus, not one fu*kling one of these Christian piles of shit deserve to live in America.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:51 pmI see what Rove spent his 45 million on. Stupid college frat boy tricks replete with lame signs and robo-calls.
Ya know if the GOP spent half as much effort at being hypocrites and lying propagandists and used that energy for good things they could get actualy get stuff done.
As we see power corrupts, absolutely.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:57 pmKevin
What is wrong is that ID is not required in Georgia in order to vote. Therefore a voter who sees this sign, and did not bring his ID with him (Because he did not need one) is going to have to turn around, go home, get his ID Book and end up right at the back of the line - possibly even ending up not voting because of the whole hassle introduced if the said voter does not feel that strongly about the election.
If one particular group of voters got warned before hand, say Republican voters, it would be a very effective way of supressing the vote of those who were not in the know.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:57 pmIf someone tries to illegally prevent me from voting and I break his nose, do we both go to jail, or just me. I’d like to know, because if someone tries anything when I go to the polls, there’s going to be a scene.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:57 pmpitch the signs. Throw them out.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:59 pmWhy are you against having voters show an ID? I voted today and no one asked me for an ID. I simply told them my name and signed next to it. I could have said any name I knew around town and voted as them. It is insane that we don’t have to prove who we are. This should be an issue both sides would agree with.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:02 pmCheck out CNN’s dirty tricks. Go to http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/ and click on the TRACK YOUR RACES image. What do you get? Not a way to track the races, but a story on the John Kerry botched joke…
November 7th, 2006 at 3:02 pmKevin,
What’s wrong with following the law?
Or are GOP’ers all for fraud when it suits them? So much for law-and-order conservatives.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:02 pmThe Republicrooks are in max voter suppression mode all accross the US again. Lets hope enough people are ticked off enough vote in order to make stealing the elections impossible.
This time alot of people are watching, so maybe the cheaters will go to jail this time around. One can hope
November 7th, 2006 at 3:02 pmHas there ever been a more corrupt system as the Republican party? To all you progressives, moderates and conservatives that are tired of this shit please vote.
Comment above by Fredric L. Rice couldn’t be more accurate. I’m a tired Republican that has left the party. I’m giving the Democrat’s one chance to use subpena power to bring on impeachment hearings for these Nazi-Cons. This isn’t even about parties, its about what is the right thing to do. It’s about taking this country back from Tyranny. All of you should watch Alex Jones TerrorStorm, it you haven’t please do. With the passing of HR6166, Patriot 1, and 2 our freedoms as we know it are being shredded before our eyes. Please vote for those candidates that believe in the constitution above all other things.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:05 pmWhats wrong with showing an ID?
You must have reading comprehension issues - no child left behind? No one said there was anything wrong with showing an ID, just that it is not required, therefore the sign is a ploy to discourage voters who might not have an ID with them. Don’t be so coy.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:08 pmRoger_Roger
There is a much easier, and more reliable way of preventing that: When you vote they just slap some ultraviolet indelible ink on your hand the way they did in South Africa in our first elections. Problem solved.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:11 pmi was asked for id when i voted in GA this morning. I know there are ways to provide non-photo id but that was not the implication from the poll worker. i used my badge from work (crappy picture on a plastic card) also, the page on the georgia.gov site that used to list the valid forms of id is gone now.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:13 pmMass voter fraud reported
As usual CNN and others are reporting massive voter fraud committed by the Republinazi Pedophile Party across the country. Diebold and other Republinazi traitor corporation’s voting machines are breaking down or simply not starting in historically Democratic regions whereas the traitor’s machines work just fine in traditionally Republinazi enclaives.
Isn’t Christianity wonderful?
November 7th, 2006 at 3:13 pmNot a fan of the first amendment?
Thank you Mr. Gorton for the info. I still don’t see why it’s not required to show some form of ID to vote.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:14 pmI voted early in Georgia, last week, and they forced me to show my driver’s license with pic attached. Georgia also uses Diebold machines, so the Republicans have already stolen the election for the GOP here!
November 7th, 2006 at 3:18 pmKevin the rightard assclown
> Not a fan of the first amendment?
What a fu*kin’ idiot pile of Republinazi shit. Look at this pile of Republican express his deliberate occult ignorance, stupidity, and typical Republican IQ.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:19 pmVoter id to “fix” a method of voter fraud that is hard to enact on a large scale, in order to allow people to vote on machines that are easy to “fix” votes in a pre-determined manner on a massive scale.
Nuts.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:23 pmIt seems little Kevin is a bit thick.
Having a piece of ID costs money in this country. Sure, if you are making over $50,000/year, that’s not a big deal, but what if you are making less than $11,000?
Now, that, by the way, is how much you make a year working a minimum wage job, thanks to fat-assed congressmen who voted down a raise in the minimum wage for the last ten years, but I digress.
Having that piece of ID is a form of poll tax, a practice specifically outlawed by that quaint little document Junior’s been shredding with his signing statements, The Constitution of the United States of America, something with which you are obviously totally unfamiliar.
It is because that form of voter intimidation has been prohibited by said Constitution that it’s NOT OK to ask people for an ID.
(Now are the effects of “All Children Left Behind” and no Civics or History requirements beginning to show to others, or is it just me?)
November 7th, 2006 at 3:29 pmThe GA bill had a provision for Fee IDs and rides to get the IDs for people that could not get them. They even had it setup so they would come to you for the free ID on request. So, no poll tax. I would think you progressives are all about a new tax.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:30 pmExactly!
> Not a fan of a clean election?
These voter suppression and intimidation efforts are always without exception crimesx being committed by the Republinazi Pedophile Party against actual citizens of this country. Democrat politicians don’t engage in such Christofascist treason.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:33 pmFor all of you out there who think that “the people” should have to show an ID to vote. Take a look at your grandparents if they are still alive. Do either of them still have a driver’s license ? (mine do not and my grandmother never did) What other forms of picture IDs are available to people who don’t have driver’s licenses in these states that have enacted vote ID laws ? Asking someone for a phone bill is bulls#*t as I can go to anyone’s mailbox on the street and take their mail.
If the Fed government wants to really implement this type of program then THEY need to develop an ID card that will be universally acepted, determine how long it will take to manufacture the cards and have them available and then determine a time period wherin you will be required to obtain this ID card to vote ? Not that hard is it ?
Until such a thing is done, having individual states pass voter ID laws at the last minute when there is no chance of challenging them in the courts PRIOR to the election is just plain un-American and should make ALL of us disgusted.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:33 pmLOL Kevin I live in Georgia, so do not post crap about people getting free ID cards in this State. I have heard of no such plan, but that would be a good idea, because many Black Georgians cannot afford a car, so therefore have no photo ID drivers license!
November 7th, 2006 at 3:37 pmThis is exactly why I, georgia resident, voted via absentee ballot last week.
A few years ago a local reporter in Atlanta showed how easy it was for her to go to several different polling places and vote more than once.
Georgia has its issues. Most of them have to do with the Republican leadership who is still fighting the Civil War…
I remember now why I had moved to California.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:41 pmKevin is creating a diversion. The debate today is not whether ID’s should be required to vote. We know the positions and the arguments for and against that.
The problem is that the poll workers who put up that sign are violating established law.
If you want to change the law, go ahead and write your state legistlator. Tomorrow.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:41 pm#36,
I completely agree. It is time that every single citizen of America be required to have a federal photo ID card. It would reduce vote fraud and illegal’s!!!!
November 7th, 2006 at 3:44 pmC’mon folks … let’s stay on task and be a bit less profane. Otherwise, I’ll pull this thread over!
:-)
Seriously, though, instead of calling her names, how about we all file a complaint with the FEC, FCC and FBI. That’s what I did.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:45 pmThat’s OK, only non-whites get asked for ID anyway, so who cares?
November 7th, 2006 at 3:57 pm.
It would reduce vote fraud and illegal’s!!!!
Comment by Roger_Roger — November 7, 2006 @ 3:44 pm
Okay, for the comprehensive impaired…one more time:
November 7th, 2006 at 3:58 pmIllegals can’t vote. Period!
Illegals don’t vote. Period!
NEXT
unbelievable > heavy rain today, in Georgia, is not good for voter turnout, but since the dirty Diebold machines are used, then perhaps it does not matter anyways. Last week was my first time to vote on a touch screen Diebold machine. It had no verifiable system to record the votes, plus not even a receipt to say you voted. I have voted with punch out cards with chads, old lever operated vote machines, fill in the oval cards, etc, but the worst system is the Diebold that makes you think you voted, then it decides where and how your votes get counted. Shame on every Democrat in Georgia who did nothing to get rid of dirty Diebold machines before this election!
November 7th, 2006 at 4:02 pmDIGG THIS NOW to get more average folks helping MoveOn’s get-out-the-vote.
http://digg.com/ political_opinion/ Help_turn_out_the_democratic_vote_RIGHT_NOW_Cool_web_tool
November 7th, 2006 at 4:09 pmI still don’t see why it’s not required to show some form of ID to vote.
Because.It’s.Not.
Lobby Congress if you want the law changed. Sheesh.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:12 pmWhy are you against having voters show an ID? I voted today and no one asked me for an ID. I simply told them my name and signed next to it. I could have said any name I knew around town and voted as them. It is insane that we don’t have to prove who we are. This should be an issue both sides would agree with.
First, you’d have to know who is registered and what poll to go to. Then you’d have to know what their signature looks like and be able to replicate it at the poll. You’d also have to be able to get to the poll before the real voter. It’s not as easy as it sounds.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:15 pmIt is time that every single citizen of America be required to have a federal photo ID card.
So get a passport.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:17 pmwow,
people are so angry.
seriously, you need an id for most things in american life,
its not a poll tax , its common sense.
everyone has the right to vote,
but i also have a right to have my vote be counted and not diluted by people who vote twice, and dead people voting.
the democrats are trying to steal the election with lawyers and the court. and if that wont work the will cry foul at every last turn to try and delegitimize the results.. when the house and senate stay red, and we wake up tommorow with a democratic loss… what will be the battle cry.
disenfranchisment, intimidation. etc etc.
why is it so hard to understand that the MAJORITY of americans live their lives as CONSERVATIVES (not republicans mind you)
liberal ideology does not resonate with most americans.
and your shrill leaders most definetly dont, thats why thay have been in hiding for the last week.
truth is nobody wants you butt-pirating abortionists in power. move to canada, or amsterdam, just go away.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:25 pmFirst, you’d have to know who is registered and what poll to go to. Then you’d have to know what their signature looks like and be able to replicate it at the poll. You’d also have to be able to get to the poll before the real voter. It’s not as easy as it sounds.
Comment by ann
“But, but, dem darn ullegals are shiftee litul buggers, yaknowwhatImean? Right Roger (2)”
Anyone who even thinks illegal immigrants are voting, needs, and I ain’t kidding here, some serious brain surgery!
November 7th, 2006 at 4:27 pmWhat the phouc is going on here? Our trolls were definitely not this frickin stupid last election.
The intelligent trolls are gone and we are left with the bottom of the barrel like Roger_Roger and Kevin.
I want my smart trolls back.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:30 pmtruth is nobody wants you butt-pirating abortionists in power. move to canada, or amsterdam, just go away.
Um, speaking of “shrill.”
November 7th, 2006 at 4:33 pmFrederic L. Rice, you are an embarrassment to progressives everywhere. Please drag your sorry ass over to Free Republic where you belong.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:34 pmShame on every Democrat in Georgia who did nothing to get rid of dirty Diebold machines before this election!
Comment by Jay Randal — November 7, 2006 @ 4:02 pm
I haven’t used one yet. I was in California in 2004 and they had the punch system. I’m trying to avoid it.
Did you feel the need to go home and shower after touching it?
November 7th, 2006 at 4:37 pmHmmm, I wish that picture was larger so I could better determine where it is. I live in Henry County & that is not Henry Blvd, or Eagle’s Landing or US 42 or any other major road.
I voted first thing this morning, precint 4 which is a elementary school (whose name escapes me) that is about 1/5 miles off of Henry Blvd & I was aobut 17th of about 25 people in line.
They did request some id to show that we lived in that district & everybody I was used thier Driver’s Liscence.
I’m black & I consider myself not hyper-sensitive to such things, but the elderly white lady that checked my address seemed in silent body language to resent all of the black men & all of the women of any race in there. However, her voice (in both tone & choice of words) seemed to deny this.
It was quite surreal.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:37 pmI want my smart trolls back.
Comment by SpudgeBoy — November 7, 2006 @ 4:30 pm
You miss IRI?
(Just joking)…
Who are the smart trolls?
November 7th, 2006 at 4:38 pmtruth is nobody wants you butt-pirating abortionists in power. move to canada, or amsterdam, just go away.
Comment by chester — November 7, 2006 @ 4:25 pm
Butt pirating? You really do think sex is evil, don’t you?
Abortionists? You act like it’s an ideology where everyone is required to have at least one. Don’t be silly.
You should move to Iraq. We’ll pitch in to buy you a plane ticket.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:40 pmHmmm, I wish that picture was larger so I could better determine where it is. I live in Henry County & that is not Henry Blvd, or Eagle’s Landing or US 42 or any other major road.
I voted first thing this morning, precint 4 which is a elementary school (whose name escapes me) that is about 1/5 miles off of Henry Blvd & I was about 17th of about 25 people in line.
They did request some id to show that we lived in that district & everybody I saw used thier Driver’s Liscence.
I’m black & I consider myself not hyper-sensitive to such things, but the elderly white lady that checked my address seemed in silent body language to resent all of the black men & all of the women of any race in there. However, her voice (in both tone & choice of words) seemed to deny this.
It was quite surreal.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:41 pmwhat are “butt pirates” and if it involves pillaging, oh…say… sorority houses, can I sign up?
Aaaargh matey!
November 7th, 2006 at 4:43 pmFrederic L. Rice, you are an embarrassment to progressives everywhere. Please drag your sorry ass over to Free Republic where you belong.
Comment by DM — November 7, 2006 @ 4:34 pm
No he isn’t.
What is going on with the judgmental remarks from progressives against other progressives who speak their minds? Not enough trolls to keep everyone occupied?
November 7th, 2006 at 4:44 pm#48 - ann,
November 7th, 2006 at 4:51 pmMy first passport was priced at seven bucks and lasted three years. now it costs $205, new: $175 renewal and lasts 10 years. Scarcely the ideal ID card for someone on minimum wage.
Here’s more on the GOP’s ID Fraud.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:52 pmI’ll be going back to the polls this afternoon with a camera.
They made me show ID this morning (Atlanta). I want to make sure no one is turned away.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:57 pmI’m in Georgia. The picture above is correct. You need some form of ID to vote.
You don’t need to show a PHOTO ID, but you must show some other form of ID that matches your name to your address, such as a utility or tax bill.
It was our PHOTO ID law that the courts have blocked.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:08 pmMy first passport was priced at seven bucks and lasted three years. now it costs $205, new: $175 renewal and lasts 10 years.
Hon, you’re getting ripped off. The passport fee is $67:
http://travel.state.gov/ passport/ get/ fees/ fees_837.html
November 7th, 2006 at 5:09 pmYou have us confused with Foley, Kolbe, Craig and Ted Haggard.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:10 pmGiacomo for one.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:11 pmGreat, $67 to vote is still too much.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:16 pmDo those of you who refer to the republican party as Nazis know who the real Nazis were? what the real Nazis did? what they stood for? Talk about ignorant.
Instead of throwing insults at the Republican Party (and those who have written to express their own, though it does not meet with yours) why not find out where that sign is and take it down (and did it ever cross any of your minds that a fellow left advocate placed the sign up and snapped the photo? I’m not suggesting that is what happened, only that it’s possible. Instead you are doing exactly what Chester (49) said and Nancy Pelosi alluded to a few days ago…. Essentially, that either the Democrats win or the Republicans cheated. You’ve succesfully given yourselves an out - something to complain about for the next two years. Isn’t it possible that you lost in 2000 and in 2004? if your answer is no, I feel sorry that you have such a defeatist attitude and think so highly of yourself. Of course, every liberal plays the game fair, isn’t that right? And every liberal knows what is best for the country, isn’t that right? And everyone who supports the war or marriage is an out-of-date fear-mongerer, right?
I suggest more contemplation time for ALL of us. Let’s all move to the middle where we can hear each other instead of some of you shouting from the far ends of the sprectrum, where it’s hard to hear with any clarity.
Thank you.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:20 pmThey made me show ID this morning (Atlanta). I want to make sure no one is turned away.
Comment by RantingTommy — November 7, 2006 @ 4:57 pm
Call Clarke Howard to go with you… :)
November 7th, 2006 at 5:21 pmMy wife was not allowed to vote because she forgot her purse when we went to the polls this morning. We are in Gwinnett Co GA
November 7th, 2006 at 5:22 pmGiacomo for one.
Comment by SpudgeBoy — November 7, 2006 @ 5:11 pm
Something else we can disagree upon. : ) He gave me a headache…
The smartest people I know are all liberals and moderates. I wonder why that is….
November 7th, 2006 at 5:23 pmDo those of you who refer to the republican party as Nazis know who the real Nazis were? what the real Nazis did? what they stood for?
Comment by stan — November 7, 2006 @ 5:20 pm
Yup. Here are some quotes from the head Nazi’s mouth… they sound a lot like GW Bush, don’t they???
I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord’s work. [Adolph Hitler, Speech, Reichstag, 1936]
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland. [Message, signed Hitler, painted on walls of concentration camps; Life, August 21, 1939]
Woman’s world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men. [Adolph Hitler, quoted in Lucy Komisar, The New Feminism]
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . we need believing people. [Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordant of 1933]
What we have to fight for…is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator. [Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 125]
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so [Adolph Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941]
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook. [Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 171]
November 7th, 2006 at 5:27 pmAccusations of voter fraud/intimidation have been getting worse [since the 2000 election]. Only one party continues to use citizens ignorant fears, scare tactics, and cheap scams in order to remain in power.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:32 pmToday Christians … stand at the head of [this country]… I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit … We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the *poison of immorality* which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of *liberal excess* during the past … (few) years.
[The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pg. 871-872]
November 7th, 2006 at 5:41 pmWell, did the people that snapped the shot take the sign down?
November 7th, 2006 at 5:42 pmGreat, $67 to vote is still too much.
It lasts ten years. That’s $6.70/year. Although I don’t think we need a national ID which was the point of mentioning the passport.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:42 pmRegarding KEVIN, the issue is simply that American citizens are not required to carry a picture ID in order to be American citizens… therefore, the state cannot require citizens to obtain a picture ID (at their expense) before they can exercise their right to vote.
If you think it’s a good idea to require a picture ID before allowing a person to vote, then you need to first require all American citizens to have/carry some form of picture ID… National ID card, maybe… and good luck with that.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:54 pmYes I felt unclean voting on a Diebold machine! At the last you touch the screen to record your votes, and it says on the screen completed, then the access card pops out, but there is absolutely NO evidence that your votes are counted, or they could be flipped/switched to GOP candidates. I think the Diebold machines should be taken to shooting ranges and used for target practice > they are overpriced pieces of crap!
November 7th, 2006 at 6:17 pmWhile I was voting today in Cherokee County GA around 2:30PM EST, one of the Poll Workers said, “We just got a call, and they’re telling us we have to remove the ID Required from anything on paper”. The call came in as I was signing in, I had to sign an Affadavit that I’m eligible to vote in this county.
I told him that I didn’t need Identification to vote, and he looked at me like he had just been awakened. After a few seconds of his unthought, I just dropped my drivers’ license on the desk so I could get on with things.
I found it interesting that at 2:30PM they got the call saying they had to cover over anything that said that ID was required in order to vote. (”We have to mark it out, or black it our of anything printed”). I live in a very southern Red / Evangellical county.
Just wanted to post it for the record in case anything comes up. I hate living in the South.
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pmI forgot to mention, that we had the _exact_ same voting signs in front of our polling places. My polling place is the Holly Springs Public Library (http://pix.epodunk.com/locatorMaps/ga/GA_7856.gif) [ 2740 E Cherokee Dr, Canton, GA ].
November 7th, 2006 at 7:49 pmI voted today around 3 pm, here in Tucson. We still have the type of paper ballot where you fill in the ovals, then feed the ballot into a machine.
There was a guy standing at the doorway who asked me if my address matched that on my picture ID. I replied yes, and he signalled me to go ahead. I was required to show my ID to the guy handling the sheets where you sign.
Arizona just passed a law that your address on your picture ID (almost always a driver’s license) has to be current. I think that they do provisional ballots for people whose ID has an old address, but I’m not sure. I didn’t think to ask.
In any case, I had no trouble. Two of the poll workers were of Hispanic extraction and since I speak some Spanish, was joking with them in that language. I filled in my ovals, with my sample ballot in hand, as there were like 20 propositions on the ballot. I saw that one of the Ohio pols, a Repub, had trouble getting the machine to take her ballot, but the machine here took mine just fine.
As for requiring ID, I would be ok with that IF it’s free and if they are offered in multiple places easy to get to. I also agree with others posting, that there is no big problem with voter fraud where someone votes under someone else’s name. The big problem is with Diebold. And illegals aren’t out there voting. DUH. They’re too afraid of the INS.
November 7th, 2006 at 8:17 pmI live in the metro Atlanta area. I voted today, and I signed the voter registration form which consisted of:
1. Name
2. Address
3. Date of birth
I then proceeded to give the registration form to an election official. She immediately asked to see my driver’s license.
I’m not lawyer, but it appears to me that asking potentional voters for their driver’s license is an infraction of Georgia voting laws.
If this is true, all Georgia election results are null and void. How could they not be? It would be interesting to know how many potentional voters were not allowed to vote, if they did not present an ID?
John
November 7th, 2006 at 9:11 pmI always thought that everyone would have some kind of picture ID until I was at the post office a few days ago and a senior citizen was there to pick up a package, without a photo ID. Even though she had quite a few things with her name on it, SS card, Checks, CC, the supervisor had to sign off on the package for her to have it. In a small town like mine, I wonder how many other seniors (women) don’t have photo ID, having never driven a car?
November 8th, 2006 at 5:41 amDo those of you who refer to the republican party as Nazis know who the real Nazis were? what the real Nazis did? what they stood for?
Comment by stan — November 7, 2006 @ 5:20 pm
Yup. Here are some quotes from the head Nazi’s mouth… they sound a lot like GW Bush, don’t they???
You’re an idiot. Just because both men believed in God and had faith doesn’t mean that they are similar in their actions. So, in your argument, all people who believe in God are essentially Hitler, simply because they cherish the foundations of the church? Did or has W persecuted millions of Jews? In short, did his faith carry him to an extreme hate of a certain type of people to the point where they should be eliminated? The answer is no.
If anyone is more like Hitler it seems to be you and other far-left folks who want W and those who think like him wiped off the map - kinda like Hitler did and Ahdmeinijad wants to now.
Think about it.
November 8th, 2006 at 1:50 pm