Voter ID

[discocrisco01]

I just do not understand why the GOP think that voter IDs will make elections honest. They will not. Expanding voter registration efforts will. Apprarently this tweet sums their attitude.

[MrWendel]

1. Because they know...

that if they had elections straight up, they would lose both the Presidency, House, and Senate. It's a softer cuddlier Jim Crow.

[99th_Monkey]

2. The GOP voter ID canard is a horrid joke on America. A fig leaf if you will

to hide the REAL election fraud that is STILL going on -- though you wound't know it from
the deafening silence from Democrats about it -- with voting machines that flip votes, and
that can be easily hacked.

Call me a conspiracy nut if you want to, but I'm not the only one:

How can we rely on voting results when the cases of voting machine problems are so hugely widespread?

There are over 200,000,000 million registered voters. It would take a huge amount of voter fraud to tilt an election. However, an entire county's votes can be compromised by voting machine problems, and they have, many times over.

The GOP is yelling about Voter Fraud, when the real problems are the well-documented problems with voting machines? You never hear them yelling about this reality.

Ironically (the GOP are the Kings of Irony), the only VOTER FRAUD CONVICTION I could find with a Google Search for "CONVICTED OF VOTER FRAUD" was a REPUBLICAN SECRETARY OF STATE!

And this is all the GOP can dig up to prove voter fraud, although the cases listed are not all voter fraud cases. And trust me, they are eager to prove voter fraud.

DEMOCRATS Arrested and/or Convicted of Voter Fraud Apparently, there's something going on with absentee ballots. I question whether this is a Briebart-like sting operation. I could be wrong. Hardly enough to tip the scales of an election.

Two pics from VerifiedVoting.org show where voting machines are used, and almost 100% of the votes will use voting machines:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/16/1100628/-It-s-the-Voting-Machines-Not-the-Voters

Computerized Vote Rigging Is Still the Unseen Threat to US Democracy: It's Time to Change the System
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27204-computerized-vote-rigging-is-still-the-unseen-threat-to-american-democracy-it-s-time-to-change-the-system

[MrWendel]

3. Not on this site, but ...

stranger things have happened. But I am convinced that with out the GOP voter fraud and Gerrymandering, the GOP does not have a snow balls chance in hell. With the amount of different races and cultures growing they know this.

[99th_Monkey]

4. Technically "voter fraud" is what GOP uses to justify Voter ID crap

and "election fraud" is what I posted about, with vote-flipping voting machines.

I know what you meant, but just saying for future ref.

[MrWendel]

5. Thanks. Anyway we agree. Something has to be done if Democrats...

want to see any real traction.

[99th_Monkey]

6. Yes, we totally agree., as you say. nt

[forsaken mortal]

7. The real reason for this crap is that a lot of democratic voters are marginalized people

who will find it more difficult to comply with the requirements due to their life circumstances. It's just a means of keeping such people from voting. It's especially stupid to require a special ID just for voting since a driver's license or other form of ID should be more than good enough.

[Gothmog]

8. Voter ID laws are solely for voter suppression

[MiniMe]

9. The rethugs don't want everybody to vote. R's do much better if the vote is suppressed

edited for spelling