impression that when one moves they have 30 days to change that
address and get a new license.. I was also under the impression that
the shortest residency requirement to vote among the 50 states is 6
weeks of residency... this means that those that attempt to vote with
an out of state ID as mentioned by Tommytomtom are guilty of at least
a misdemeanor and should be ticketed at the polling place or at most a
felony for voter fraud and should be jailed.
As to being old or crippled and not being able to stand in line for an
ID... get real...all States and their offices allow them front of the
line privileges.. this was an outright lie.
As to a VA ID not being good enough... add an electric or rent receipt
and it is.... again pure crap posted by TOMMYtomtom.
As to the womans name being mis-spelt on a birth certificate... NO it
is not. The name on your Birth Certificate IS your legal name...
everyone knows this... She has been mis-spelling it for many years and
was aware of it. Her social security award letter.. (one is issued
EVERY year) is ID enough combined with a rent/electric receipt.
ad nauseum...........
Tommytomtom.... It is funny how you tend to leave the facts out of
your stories or post only stories that do so....
On Apr 6, 5:18 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Voter Suppression 2012 - Right Wing/Tea Party Conservatives say You
> will not vote if Black, Old, Young, or Democrat
>
> In Texas, the Voter ID law (which, fortunately, got tossed out by the
> Federal court) specifically was going to outlaw the use of out-of-state
> drivers
> licenses (even though government-issued, with a photo, signature, birthdate
> and
> name) as an adequate ID for establishing identity.
>
> The law was intended, of course, to disenfranchise (among others)
> out-of-state
> students... who commonly move from one dorm room or apartment to another
> once or
> twice every year, so usually just maintain their drivers license at their
> more
> stable parents' address until they finish college and set up their own
> homes.
> Meanwhile, of course, they will be at college both for the main elections in
> November, and for the spring elections... since they live on campus for 9 or
> 10
> months of the year, it makes sense for them to register and vote on campus.
> The
> Texas law specifically allowed only a TEXAS-issued drivers license.
>
> One could go on and on, but the more you look at these lame voter photo ID
> laws,
> the more obvious it is that the intention has nothing to do with preventing
> "voter fraud" and everything to do with voter suppression.
>
> (And here in Texas, we have some two-thirds of a million registered voters
> who
> do not have Texas drivers licenses.)
>
> Seniors, Black & college kids not welcome to vote! The only way the
> right
> wing/republicans/tea baggers can win is to cheat.
>
> Voter Suppression 101
>
> How Conservatives (tea baggers, Rabid republicans) Are Conspiring to
> Disenfranchise Millions of Americans
>
> Conservative legislators are introducing and passing legislation that
> creates
> new barriers for those registering to vote, shortens the early voting
> period,
> imposes new requirements for already-registered voters, and rigs the
> Electoral
> College in select states.http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/04/voter_suppression.html
>
> The right to vote is under attack all across our country. Conservative
> legislators are introducing and passing legislation that creates new
> barriers
> for those registering to vote, shortens the early voting period, imposes new
> requirements for already-registered voters, and rigs the Electoral College
> in
> select states. Conservatives fabricate reasons to enact these laws—voter
> fraud
> is exceedingly rare
> <http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/pdf/TruthAboutVoterFraud.pdf>—in their
> efforts
> to disenfranchise as many potential voters among certain groups, such as
> college
> students, low-income voters, and minorities, as possible. Rather than
> modernizing our democracy to ensure that all citizens have access to the
> ballot
> box, these laws hinder voting rights in a manner not seen since the era of
> Jim
> Crow laws enacted in the South to disenfranchise blacks after Reconstruction
> in
> the late 1800s.
>
> Talk about turning back the clock! At its best, America has utilized the
> federal
> legislative process to augment voting rights. Constitutional amendments such
> as
> the 12th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, and 26th have steadily improved the
> system by which our elections take place while expanding the pool of
> Americans
> eligible to participate. Yet in 2011, more than 30 state legislatures
> considered
> legislation to make it harder for citizens to vote, with over a dozen of
> those
> states succeeding in passing these bills. Anti-voting legislation appears to
> be
> continuing unabated so far in 2012.
>
> Unfortunately, the rapid spread of these proposals in states as different as
> Florida and Wisconsin is not occurring by accident. Instead, many of these
> laws
> are being drafted and spread through corporate-backed entities such as the
> American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, as uncovered in a previous
> Center for American Progress investigative report
> <http://campusprogress.org/articles/conservative_corporate_advocacy_gr...>.
>
> Detailed in that report, ALEC charges corporations such as Koch Industries
> Inc.,
> Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and The Coca-Cola Co. a fee and gives them access to
> members of state legislatures. Under ALEC's auspices, legislators, corporate
> representatives, and ALEC officials work together to draft model
> legislation. As
> ALEC spokesperson Michael Bowman told NPR
> <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130891396>, this
> system is
> especially effective because "you have legislators who will ask questions
> much
> more freely at our meetings because they are not under the eyes of the
> press,
> the eyes of the voters."
>
> The investigative report included for the first time a leaked copy of ALEC's
> model Voter ID legislation, which was approved by the ALEC board of
> directors in
> late 2009. This model legislation prohibited certain forms of
> identification,
> such as student IDs, and has been cited as the legislative model from groups
> ranging from Tea Party organizations to legislators proposing the actual
> legislation such as Wisconsin's Voter ID proposal from Republican state Rep.
> Stone and Republican state Sen. Joe Leibham.
>
> Registering the poor "to vote is like handing out burglary tools to
> criminals."
>
> -Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum
>
> Similar legislation had been proposed during the early 2000s in states such
> as
> Missouri, but the legislation frequently failed to be passed. Seeking new
> avenues, the George W. Bush administration prioritized the conviction of
> voter
> fraud to the point where two U.S. attorneys were allegedly fired in 2004 for
> failing to pursue electoral fraud cases at the level required by
> then-Attorney
> General John Ashcroft. In fact, three years after first prioritizing
> election
> fraud in 2002, Ashcroft's efforts had produced only 95 defendants charged
> with
> election-fraud, compared to 80,424 criminal cases concluded in a given year.
>
> These efforts were dismal in terms of effectiveness and convictions, but
> news
> reports from 2007 pointed out that simply "pursuing an investigation can be
> just
> as effective as a conviction in providing that ammunition and creating an
> impression with the public that some sort of electoral reform is necessary."
>
> With this groundwork laid, ALEC today is spearheading these efforts anew.
> These
> new antivoting laws are being challenged legally by a variety of nonpartisan
> organizations ranging from Rock the Vote to the League of Women Voters to
> the
> Public Interest Research Group. Additionally, the Department of Justice is
> reviewing some of the new state laws for possible violations of the Voting
> Rights Act, which freezes changes in election practices or procedures in
> nine
> southern states due to their history of voter suppression in the past.
>
> This issue brief focuses on both the current status of various antivoter
> measures throughout our country as well as the legal challenges they face.
> Readers will learn how conservatives want to return to past practices of
> voter
> suppression to preserve their political power, and looks at several
> instances
> where progressives are fighting back successfully.
>
> Registration restrictions
>
> Let's begin with voter registration restrictions. In a handful of states,
> legislators aren't just making it more difficult to vote; they're making it
> more
> difficult for citizens even to register in the first place. Lawmakers in
> half a
> dozen states made a variety of changes to the registration process in 2011.
> These include limiting when citizens can register, restricting who is
> permitted
> to help them, and implementing tougher bureaucratic requirements to
> register.
>
> Nowhere has the war on registration been more controversial than the state
> of
> Maine. Since 1973, Mainers have been permitted to register to vote at the
> ballot
> box. For nearly 40 years, the system worked smoothly—separate lines for
> registering and voting are used to prevent congestion—and just two instances
> of
> voter fraud were found in the entire span.
>
> Nevertheless, when an unusually conservative group of lawmakers took over
> both
> statehouse chambers and the governorship in 2010, one of their primary
> orders of
> business was to repeal the state's law permitting citizens to register on
> Election Day. Fortunately, in the ensuing weeks citizens of the state
> rallied to
> collect tens of thousands of signatures and force a vote on the matter. In
> November 2011, 61 percent of Mainers rebuked the legislature and voted to
> restore Election Day registration in their state.
>
> "I don't want everybody to vote."
>
> -Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich
>
> Alas, voting rights proponents in other states have not been as successful.
> In
> Florida and Texas, for example, lawmakers succeeded in placing onerous new
> restrictions on nonprofit organizations that help register new voters. Voter
> registration drives by groups such as the League of Women Voters have been a
> staple of our democracy for years, helping thousands of citizens to
> register,
> regardless of their political affiliation.
>
> In the Sunshine State, however, those may now be a thing of the past. Last
> July,
> the League of Women Voters announced it would no longer operate in Florida
> because of new antivoter legislation—including complicated new filing
> requirements and a mandate to submit completed registration forms within 48
> hours of completion or face a hefty fine—made it nearly impossible for them
> to
> continue their work.
>
> The Lone Star State also placed unnecessary new requirements on groups and
> individuals interested in helping register others. Texas lawmakers in May
> passed
> legislation requiring that people who help register voters, known as
> volunteer
> deputy registrars, must also be eligible Texas voters themselves. The new
> law
> has a number of unintended consequences. For instance, legal permanent
> residents
> who are in the process of obtaining their citizenship would be barred from
> learning the political process by helping register others. Many such
> immigrants
> are currently employed as deputy registrars; this new law would likely
> result in
> their firing.
>
> What's more, disabled Texans who are considered full ...
>
> read more »
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