Texas Voter ID Law Imperiled

I'll repeat MY prior post: this "problem" is not a problem. Keep shrinking that big R tent. Us pinko commie lefties are enjoying watching you guys shittin' and fallin' back in it.
 
So you are stating that there is never any voter fraud? Anywhere in the US? And what do you back that up with? Link please if you are going to spout off. Just show your proof that you are right.
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Don't you still have to have a voter registration card though?

I showed up to vote when I was younger and was turned away. I had just moved and not updated my address on my voter ID card. Then I was told that it would take 60 days to update and by then the election would hvae been over.

My vote didn't count and I showed up. I am thinking that if they had an ID requirement it still wouldn't have counted. So there are more problems than just this ID issue.
 
As one Republican Senator said yesterday, this is just Eric Holder carrying political water for the BO administration.

I heard on the radio coming in today that 31 of 50 states have a voter id requirement. We supposedly modeled our law after Indiana's, which has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

If you too lazy or inept to acquire an valid id in the 8 months remaining until the election, you don't deserve to vote.
 
Voter Id cards are free at the DPS. FREE for all legal voting citizens. Illegals/felons can't vote unless they get a voters registration card in one of the 254 Texas counties that run thier own little voter registration empire. Dead people are not taken off the lists, so people can vote for them also. People are on more than one county voters list. 254 Counties doing their own thing, not keeping voter lists current, alot run by people that I wouldn't hire to do my laundry.
That is the root problem. County voter registration, county voter registration lists and the quality of the people that manage them . Every County is different.
For those of you who have time, go get a voters list for your neighborhood or street and see who shows up on it.
Our neighborhood was involved in political battle and pulled our list of current voters for a petition. We had dead people and people that had moved away years prior on the list . We counted 300 voters on the list that no longer lived in the neighborhood.

The solution is to have all Texas voter registrations set up through the DPS:
If you obtain a drivers license or renew a drivers licence, then you automatically registered to vote. If you move and update your license address, you are automatically moved to the new precinct and registered to vote and taken off the list at the former address.
The Voter's lists are computerized by precinct by address for the counties to pull for election.
If you have a drivers license, you are registered to vote.

For non drivers, all new Voter registration cards will also be issued by the DPS at no cost and contain a picture ID.

The DPS would require a birth certificate and Social security card to issue a voter id card or drivers license.
Kind of like me filling out an I 9 when I hire someone to make sure they legal to work here.

Until that happens, the very least is to enforce the voter ID law which will eliminate alot of the Illegals, felons and dead people from voting.
 
People need to be engaged in the voting process. You also need to show proof that the name on the voter ID card matches who is using it!

What is the big deal? EVERYONE needs to have a birth certificate, a Drivers license (if you drive a car), an ID with a photo, and even if you don't travel overseas it's a very good idea to have a passport. These are not documents that are very hard to get.
 
And another thing. We need to tell the feds to stay the hell out of our business. If TEXAS wants to pass a voter ID law, we are WELL within our right to do that. What ever happend to the 10th ammendment of the US Constitution?
 
Watching an update video on SXSW, it made me aware that you have to show an ID to get your badge.

It would take a book to list all the places where you have to show an ID. And do you think anyone attending SXSW does not have a photo ID? How can they even fly here if they don't?

Try filling out a background check to buy a firearm and see if they ask you for a photo ID. They will.

Since the 2nd Amendment protects the right to own a firearm, wouldn't making you have to show a photo ID be denying you that right, should you not be able to have a photo ID?

So I 'vote' the government not insist a photo ID to purchase a firearm. Just any kind of ID as you would present to vote.
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A gentleman from an European country a few minutes ago asked a question at today's keynote at #sxsw -- topic was Coding for America (how citizens can enroll in activities to assist improving technology-based services for government (but the theme is more expansive than that sounds)) -- and I think his country is where Skype was developed, something he tossed out about that in his introduction of himself...

So, he mentioned that his country has digital personal ID cards (I think that's how he put it -- I watched it on live streaming), and accepts digital signatures. Made me think his country is far more advance than we are. Stonewalling on photo IDs is 19th century thinking compared to where we ought to be. We should be moving toward national ID cards that are digital and incapable of being forged or tampered with.

Keynote speaker, Jennifer Pahlka put up these onscreen, worth noting:
"Fighting to slow the crumbling world of our will to do things together."
"Not gonna fix government unless we fix citizenship."
"Government is what we do together. Collective action through technology."

Then to think a group of us will whine about authenticating our identity in an obvious way that is already required to do simple banking, board a plane, or register a firearm, or a long list of other things. When actually we should be moving beyond even photo ID's toward far more sophisticated ways of acknowledging who we are and protecting our identity at the same time.

Just a thought.
 
People who are entitled to vote in the county, dont. Where is the evidence that the unentitled will suffer an unnecessary encumbrance just to cheat: From the linked article in this thread:

Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott, a Republican, launched an investigation in 2005 to uncover what he called an "epidemic" of voter fraud. But reviews of Abbott's investigation two years later yielded no cases of voter impersonation fraud. A Dallas Morning News review in 2008 found the 26 cases prosecuted were all against Democrats, most involved blacks and Hispanics, and typically involved people who helped elderly voters with mail-in ballots, but failed to follow state law by signing their names and addresses on the envelopes.

Abbot's investigation was paid for with a $1.4 million Justice Department crime-fighting grant.

After a five-year hunt for voter fraud, the Bush administration's Justice Department came up with little widespread fraud, finding mostly cases of people mistakenly filling out voter registration forms or voting when they didn't know they were ineligible, The New York Times reported in 2007. But none of the cases involved a person voting as someone else.

Lorraine Minnite, author of "The Myth of Voter Fraud," spent years researching voter fraud after finding that pushes for election reform often raised concerns that the proposed changes could lead to more voter fraud.

Her research turned up one case of voter impersonation from 2000 to 2005: A New Hampshire teenager who cast a ballot as his father, who shared the same name. Minnite said she concluded "the whole problem is way overblown" largely for political reasons.
 
"And another thing. We need to tell the feds to stay the hell out of our business. If TEXAS wants to pass a voter ID law, we are WELL within our right to do that. What ever happend to the 10th ammendment of the US Constitution? "
From the grave Strom Thurmon, Jesse Helms, George Wallace and a lot of Alabama segregationists say "Amen." A lot of this crap started when we let coloreds vote in elections just like reglar citizens. Bunch a yankee do gooders still stirrin up all kinda problems for nice property-owning white folk. Why cain't they just let us be. What about R rights?
 
Thanks Left. It's ridiculous. Bunch of liberal crybabies always playing the victim or the race card.
How can you be too black or brown to obtain a valid ID? Stop you whining! It makes you come across as an idiot. It really does. All kidding aside. I'm gonna say it again; Those that argue against showing proof of identification to vote are total 100% idiots. No need to mince words. It's a shame that something so rooted in common sense can become a point of contention. And we wonder why our country is going down the tubes. Are you people really that stupid?? Never mind.
 
Hey Satchel,

Why don't you tell us how being black makes you less likely to be capable of possessing a valid ID? What about being brown? How does that impede you? Perhaps these "black" and "browns" that cannot seem to find a way to make this work for them need to take a long look in the mirror and stop blaming others.
 
What happened to the conservative meme that champions the creation of laws that are borne only of necessity. There was nothing in the old statue that was deficient. This is Republican's transparent attempt to suppress black and brown voting power.
 
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