Democrats are Racist?!

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Kasz216 said:
A) Wrong.  They have a free Voter ID.

http://wnep.com/2012/08/28/free-voter-id-cards-available-for-some/

B)  Except it's free to get them in states where it's required... and if you didn't need an ID to get a job... how did you get paid?  Also, that 11% claim is a false one.

C)  Agreed

D) 11% claim is a false one.   Currently there is no way to actually catch people committing voter Fraud.  

E)  Good thing there are plenty ot states that have already had these laws in place.   The general reaction?   No voter supression.  Intersingtly in fact voter participation increased higher then population increases.  

 

Also, as for the link..I imagine he meant by stopping fraud.   Voter Fraud via manufacturing votes is historically a Democratic thing.  Hence democrats not wanting to fix it.

a.) Interesting, I hadn't seen that.  Thanks for the link

b.) Direct deposit into a bank account that I have had since I was born.  I imagine its on the high end of the scale, but I haven't seen anything that factually disputes it

d.) There are better ways to prevent it though, ie more thorough registration requirements (prevent people who should not legally be registering) or better maintaince of registration records (prevent dead people from voting) that put no burden on legal voters.  I have a problem with states saying "we are incompetant in securing our voter registration system, so we are passing the burden onto you voters"

e.) Well, I will reserve judgement on the overall effect of these laws until after the election.  

I just find it alarming that there is such a strong push for this with the potential for disenfranchisement when there is not statistical or even reliable anecdotal evidence that this is a problem. Also note that my view on this has nothing to do with who may be disenfranchised.  I would be equally against measures that potentially disenfranchised rural, white republican voters as well.