Comments on: Nuns strike back against voter ID laws.

By: dixie blood

dixie blood — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:16:02 +0000

The next Congress should begin impeaching most of the Supreme Court InJustices!!

By: Cevarius

Cevarius — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:37:16 +0000

For those who don’t live in Indiana (or, for those who do) and don’t understand the law and requirements for voting:

http://www.in.gov/sos/photoid/

http://www.in.gov/sos/photoid/howdoi.html

Photo ID Fact Sheet

By: Cevarius

Cevarius — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:35:14 +0000

For those who don’t live in Indiana (or, for those who do) and don’t understand the law and requirements for voting:

By: theswan

theswan — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:16:45 +0000

Might it be that if the price of gas becomes to high, people will give up driving, and let their licences and their vote expire?
Consequently, in the end, if you can afford gas you get to vote.

By: theswan

theswan — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:10:05 +0000

If you don’t drive, or are poor, your so unamerican that you are deprived your vote.
Is this the USSR?

By: kassandrasduplex

kassandrasduplex — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:42:44 +0000

Republican voter suppression writ large and completely white washed by the corporate Mainstream Media. How to commit election fraud while convincing the public you’re actually protecting the integrity of the election process. Stunning.

By: Jack08

Jack08 — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:53:47 +0000

Clinton takes Indiana by a ‘razor’ and Obama wins North Carolina by a huge margin. Nevertheless, Kentucky, Montana and West Virginia are still to come.

The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates

If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama

If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com

Obama Supporters:

Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It’s that easy…

Clinton Supporters too …. !

It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !

Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…

By: able as

able as — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:40:56 +0000

Don’t the Repubs. realize that our Supreme Court completely ignored the 24th amendment which prohibits a poll tax. The ID law is a poll tax. It may be free, but some people cannot get to the capital to get their 3rd Reich ID.
able as

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:01:07 +0000

Q U E S T I O N:
Who checks your ID when you go to vote using your ABSENTEE BALLOT?

Is the Indiana Supreme Court that ignorant to not even consider that oxymoron?

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:58:18 +0000

P O L L
T A X E S

By: sectionop92

sectionop92 — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:45:25 +0000

Well, if you know there is a Voter ID law in your state…shouldn’t affected voters be mobilizing now to put everything in-order instead of hoping for any retraction of the law? I’m all for fairness, but politics is anything but that. Plus I’ve stated before that having a valid state ID gives a person ownership of their identity. The GOP uses much more than electronic voting machine fraud to rig “swing” states/areas. Taking identities from groups of voters without an identification, spiking the vote in their favor and then they get away with it when it becomes an “irregularity” during the recount is becoming a standard tactic in their playbook.

By: questioneverything

questioneverything — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:04:14 +0000

Nuns, old people, veterans, soldiers, college students, anybody who just moved to the state from another state, the disabled (those who don’t drive), and others I can’t name will all be challenged at the polls in November unless the Democratic party passes a new law (redundant though it is) that guarantees the vote to any citizen of this country. You jump through their hoops and jump through their hoops, and still it isn’t enough. The Nazis will only be satisfied when only the rich white guys and Cindy McCain can vote. Screw em. Contact your state legislators if your state is on the verge of keeping you from voting. And Howard Dean might spend a few bucks and a few brain cells on telling people what they need to do in each state. If everybody knew where and how to register and where to vote, we wouldn’t have this problem, but both parties have cooperated in keeping voters stupid.

How about a class action suit to force uniform voter laws in every state for federal office? How about verifiable voting and required recounts if totals are within a certain percentage? I am so sick of this debate. Aren’t there some powerful experts or lawyers or elected officials out there who have the money and time and access and ideas (and who have taken oaths to uphold the constitution) to get this done? Or are they all working for Hillary Clinton? This is exactly what Karl Rove has been angling for all these years. Roberts and Alito have put the fascist frosting on the cake, and KKKarl must be laughing all the way to the bank.

By: specialist f

specialist f — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:52:07 +0000

source even…:)

By: specialist f

specialist f — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:43:29 +0000

Zooey,you are a c#nt….tinuing scource of inspiration! ;)

By: rollotomasi

rollotomasi — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:33:42 +0000

From the AP article:

They weren’t given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back in the 10-day time frame allotted by the law, Sister McGuire said. “You have to remember that some of these ladies don’t walk well. They’re in wheelchairs or on walkers or electric carts.”

This is a law aimed at making it more difficult for the poor, the infirm and the elderly to vote, constituencies that typically tend to not vote Republican. The has been no proven need for this law. When this law is combined with wholesale voter purges, which well may have happened to these nuns, it stacks the deck even further.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:47:15 +0000

gummitch Says:

Heyyy, are you calling me a middle school surrogate?
May 8th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Yes. :-)

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:30:35 +0000

republicans hate facts Says
May 8th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Also a distortion. They told them their votes wouldn’t count unless they went and obtained their ID within 10 days – a reasonable period by most people’s standards.

Their votes won’t count, if they refuse to vote, and refuse to go get their IDs, but in both cases it wasn’t someone preventing them from voting, it was them CHOOSING not to vote, and to not get their IDs. Sorry, but this was a protest, pure and simple.
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Ten days would be a reasonable period of time to get an ID, but there are a couple of other factors worth considering.

1) What about the nuns who have no birth certificate or other ID? It takes ID to get ID, and if the election board won’t take a voter registration card as proof of identification, why would any other ID place, such as the DMV?

2) Are the nuns going to be able to get their photo ID at no charge? If they have to pay for identification that they need for no other purpose than to be able to vote, this amounts to a poll tax, which is illegal.

By: gummitch

gummitch — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:28:08 +0000

Zooey Says:

gummitch, will you write a note to rhf for me? Please!!!? Then fold it into a bird of paradise, and slip into the vent in his locker at the nut house?

I’ll be your best friend if you do!

Heyyy, are you calling me a middle school surrogate?

By: StratRat

StratRat — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:12:13 +0000

Good for you! It’s always fun to read what you have to say.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:10:33 +0000

StratRat Says:

I think it’s fun to get him to call me the c-word. :-D

I don’t, he was being very rude to you; but maybe he has limits to his vocabulary. I remember you didn’t like it when I referred to you as ‘Ma’am’ a few days ago. THAT was supposed to be a compliment. Cheers…Is is still chilly up in Idaho?
May 8th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

I was joking when I took “offense” at being called ma’am. I knew you were being complimentary. :)

Yes, he was being very rude to me, quite ugly in fact, and I know he’ll get to that level on his own. But I’d rather make him do it — he shows himself to be the pig he is on MY TERMS.

It is still a bit chilly here, but the sun has been shining all week, which is heavenly.