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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 09:52 AM Original message |
Ellison wants to ban photo ID as requirement for voting |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. When you register to vote your information is checked before you go on the rolls. |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. That was just the republican government in Indiana did to force |
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SyntaxError (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
3. How would it work without IDs though? |
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Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. It's been working just fine without them for a couple hundred years |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:18 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Who would do such a thing? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. It's a distraction from election fraud AND it enables vote shaving |
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rox63 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. The poll workers check you off the list before and after you vote |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:22 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Exactly the current system works fine |
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SyntaxError (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Or... |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Have you considered the logistics of such a system? |
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SyntaxError (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:44 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Official IDs are useful in many situations... |
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SyntaxError (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. point taken. |
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goodhue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
19. You sign by your name on roll, I've never had to show a photo ID to vote here in MN |
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FyurFly (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
6. Photo ID should be required n/t |
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goodhue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
20. They are not required in MN |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
12. Good GRIEF.. It's the 21st century, people..not the wild west frontier |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Passports will not resolve election fraud. We don't have a significant |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:48 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. If people cannot afford it, they should not have to pay. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:01 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. They're never going to shut up. They've learned that |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. passports are not expensive, less than $100 |
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goodhue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. In MN we don't need photo IDs to vote, requiring so would be moving backwards |
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goodhue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
18. We don't need IDs to vote here in MN |
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mvccd1000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
22. I was turned away from a local election in Michigan when I was 18... |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:37 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. So if you had whipped out your Photo ID, what would have changed? |
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mvccd1000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:42 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I don't know - at that point, it was too late to do anything. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
23. Senior citizens can have a difficult time getting ids |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
24. kick |
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