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uhnope

(6,419 posts) Wed Dec 2, 2015, 08:53 PM Dec 2015

Fight against Voter ID law continues

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/12/fight-against-voter-id-law-continues

To chants of “Sí, se puede,” people of different ages, races and genders held posters with phrases like “Vote Your Dreams, Not Your Fears” at an N.C. NAACP press conference Tuesday. The news conference marked exactly 60 years since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. The conference announced the new “It’s Our Time, It’s Our Vote” campaign, with one of its goals to push voter registration for 80 days until registration cutoff for the spring primary elections. “Rosa sat down that we might stand up,” said the Rev. William Barber II, president of the N.C. NAACP, at the conference. “Too many sacrifices have gone on for us not to fight for and exercise the right to vote.”

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Fight against Voter ID law continues (Original Post) uhnope Dec 2015 OP

Throw a picture on the voter card. How hard is this? Can't believe nobody thinks of this. yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #1

Good idea, but that's not the point meow2u3 Dec 2015 #2

Which is why a picture on a voter ID card is ideal yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #3

I like the idea of putting a photo on your voter reg card meow2u3 Dec 2015 #4

The NC voter id was already largely gutted and so this lawsuit will be fun to watch Gothmog Dec 2015 #5

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

1. Throw a picture on the voter card. How hard is this? Can't believe nobody thinks of this.

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 08:55 PM

Dec 2015

meow2u3

(24,771 posts)

2. Good idea, but that's not the point

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 09:15 PM

Dec 2015

The whole point of voter ID laws is to force voters to jump through hoops, especially financial hoops, to vote. The repuke proponents then turn around and deny those laws amount to a poll tax.

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

3. Which is why a picture on a voter ID card is ideal

Reply to meow2u3 (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 10:24 PM

Dec 2015

Especially when getting a drivers license. Throw a picture on both and done. The others could go to a govt office and get it done. Have visiting voter registration people go to elderly and others who have a hard time being mobile. It's so easy yet so hard.

meow2u3

(24,771 posts)

4. I like the idea of putting a photo on your voter reg card

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 10:48 PM

Dec 2015

Mark my word, repukes won't go along with this because it makes it easier for everybody to vote. They want only the right people to vote, and by the right people, they mean repukes only.

Gothmog

(145,496 posts)

5. The NC voter id was already largely gutted and so this lawsuit will be fun to watch

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 10:30 AM

Dec 2015

To try to head off a lawsuit, the NC GOP amended their voter id law to largely gut it by allowing one to vote by signing an affidavit. The state of South Carolina settled a DOJ lawsuit with this proposal back when there was a Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This lawsuit will be fun to watch

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