I voted yesterday

[Big Money]

Well that may be their real intent but to be honest with you Desh it isn't exactly working for them either. The GOP may have invented a solution to a problem that doesn't exist but it looks like they haven't stopped to many people from voting either so I'm not particularly alarmed by it either. I think that it's mostly funny that the GOP is dancing on the head of a dime trying to convince people why these laws are needed despite the fact that everyoe knows what they're actual intent is. What really makes it funny is that it's evidence that they're still stuck in a mid 20th century paradigm when they would probably be better off focusing on the digital divide between the GOP and Democrats that Democrats have been exploiting far more effectively than the GOP in regards to voter drive efforts. The GOP had a good run from about 1985 to 2005 using a combination of cable tv and talk radio and traditional snail mail for their get out the vote efforts but in the last ten years Democrats have been cleaning their clocks by more effectively using digital technology to base their vote drive strategies on. The GOP has some catching up to do in the new media as it is a more powerful and cost affective method than TV and Radio and direct mailing efforts that are the GOP's standard strategies.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

So is giving your address and/or your signature. My point being you can confirm your ID without a photo ID and that GOP lead photo ID legislation doesn't meet the smell test as there is no significant problem with voter fraud. Why does the GOP feel the need to solve a non-existant problem?

Again... you need a photo ID for so much in life as it is... why do you not want to help everyone get one?

It would be rather hard to prove voter fraud if there is nothing but a check of an address. How would you catch someone if you aren't doing anything other than checking their address?

Dems like to say there is no proof, thus there isn't a problem. Yet why not make sure? Why not make certain every vote is legit? Plus you would be helping the individuals out who don't currently have ID's. Win-Win

 

[leaningright]

Its all about republicans cheating voters out if their votes so republicans get a win

Well, a democrat won this election ... by a whopping 13 votes. We never have republicans around here...well, at least none willing to run for office.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

So is giving your address and/or your signature. My point being you can confirm your ID without a photo ID and that GOP lead photo ID legislation doesn't meet the smell test as there is no significant problem with voter fraud. Why does the GOP feel the need to solve a non-existant problem?

Please explain how someone can confirm an ID without a photo.