wobblies
Mayor
I have maintained for some time that rules to require individuals to show proof of eligibility to vote were an understandable obligation of voters. I even balked at comparing voter ID legislation to a poll tax, but having to go to extraordinary lengths or pay money for appropriate ID makes these rules just that: a financial and personal difficulty that citizens should not have to endure.
I naively assumed all of this time that proponents were well-meaning. I realise after reading or seeing news pieces on the idea that their goal is to reduce the number of people that can vote Democrat. I would still like to see some kind of system set up that provides a mean of preventing cheating, but it should not be put in place unless and until all eligible voters have a simple means of acquring that proof.
The disenfranchisement of Florida voters in 2000 should have been a huge red flag that all should have seen and reacted to. People should be reminded that GWB's state government falsely accused thousands of former Texans now living in Florida of being felons. That action alone changed the outcome of the election but has received little information.
I was once asked about procedures that the GOP has put in place. The GOP is relying upon keeping people from voting in order to win: all proposals to insure voters are eligible need an adequate lag time for procedures to be in place and and proposals should be done using public financing including, for instance, driving voters to a location to get a valid ID.
God Speed,
David
I naively assumed all of this time that proponents were well-meaning. I realise after reading or seeing news pieces on the idea that their goal is to reduce the number of people that can vote Democrat. I would still like to see some kind of system set up that provides a mean of preventing cheating, but it should not be put in place unless and until all eligible voters have a simple means of acquring that proof.
The disenfranchisement of Florida voters in 2000 should have been a huge red flag that all should have seen and reacted to. People should be reminded that GWB's state government falsely accused thousands of former Texans now living in Florida of being felons. That action alone changed the outcome of the election but has received little information.
I was once asked about procedures that the GOP has put in place. The GOP is relying upon keeping people from voting in order to win: all proposals to insure voters are eligible need an adequate lag time for procedures to be in place and and proposals should be done using public financing including, for instance, driving voters to a location to get a valid ID.
God Speed,
David
