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gergroy on 25 September 2012
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crissindahouse said:
Kasz216 said:
crissindahouse said:
every citizen who is allowed to vote could get a mail with information when and where the citizen can vote on election day weeks before election day. when this person wants to vote, this person has to show some people sitting at the polling place his id, they check in a list if he is in the list and allow him to vote then and his name will get crossed in the list so he can't come a second time (but i believe that#s already not possible right?)

that system works pretty easy, don't know why you have problems with illegal votes in usa. only people allowed to vote even get the mail, if you go to vote then or not is your problem.

It's possible, it's just democrats think it's racist.

Well... except in places like Deleware where Democrats passed the exact same damn law.

why is that racist? they don't even have to show anything except name and address on the id (not sure how this thing looks in usa), if they are on the list the people have in front of them they can vote, if they aren't on the list, they can't vote.

is it allowed for some non-us citizens to vote in usa? if not, there should be the same on everyone id who can vote right? so that can't be racist then because there can't be something else as "nationality: usa" and if there are some non-us citizens allowed to vote, maybe these id's should get the nationality on the backside so you only have to show the front site with your name and address and the rest which could be racist is on the side no one will see.


Most of the states here in the usa are set up just like you describe.  However, in some states, most of which seem to be battleground states, a person just needs to register in advance, which can be done through mail or internet, and show up and tell the polling attendent who they are.  The polling attendant then finds them on the list and checks them off.

Still kind of hard to rip off a system like that.   However, imagine if you really wanted some politician to win and you vote early in the day.  When you get home, you find out that your neighbor isnt going to vote, so you head back and say that you are the neighbor and you get to vote again.  They can also lie about their citizenship and register to vote that way if they arent legal citizens.  There is no check on the accuracy of peoples claims to citenship.

Requiring an id is a common sense solution to close an obvious risk of fraud.  The majority of the states in the country have laws just like this.  It is common sense.  The problems people have arent with the law, it is with the politics.  Republicans and Democrats have politicized the laws so that now both sides are getting all riled up over what is actually a simple logical law.