I worked at one of the polls a couple of years. I checked in the would be voters, using their voter cards and matching up their names with the registered lists. I was amazed as seeing several instances, in which indiviudals came in claiming they were a certain person and yet were some else.
Requring a photo ID is needed to prevent fraud. The idea that it is too expensive is just idiotic.
I have ALWAYS been required to show my voter's registration. The last few years a photo ID and a cross check on the voter's registration list. Don't see a thing wrong with it myself. Keeps illegals a little more in check.
The only times I have been asked for photo ID in the last 7 years has been at the voting place. Of course everyone in town knows me and don't need ID to cash my checks.
Urinal Bret? Obviously you haven't been out lately, that happens often. Some guys just are not paying that much attention to things. Which begs the point "Why we would want those same people casting a ballot?" If they can't remember their fly, what kind of schmuk would they vote for in the presidential election?
Like I said, If I walk down the street at night around here The police demand that you have a state ID on you. There is an organization here that will give you the ten dollars needed to purchase the State ID card.
I can't imagine the illegals wanting to go vote. They usually stay away from government buildings and stay in the shadows of society - that's the point of being "illegal".
The problem is too many legal citizens who won't go vote because they feel the same way.
Seems you need ID to get a driver's license. Need picture ID to get a job (I-9), open a bank account, get credit cards, rent housing/apartment/motel room. Parents need picture ID to register kids for school. Persons who cannot afford basic necessities and apply for social service support are issued picture ID as part of that process. It is difficult to believe that most adults (persons 18+) have not been given picture ID at some time.
I always thought that the I.D. was to identify, who you are. With something as important as the vote, it seems logical that one would need the I.D. that establishes who you are.
Do those that mail in their votes need to deliver a photocopy of their I.D. with their vote? Or has anybody bothered to think of that, at all.
I began to wonder about this when I noticed, at my job, their id this strict company rule that when taking peoples checks, for their purchases, we are to get their photo I.D. number, date of birth, phone number, etc...and will be written up, or fired ahould we not get this, yet, we have many who charge at the store, and we require no such info., and when they mail in their checks for payments, no such info. is on the cheks, yet we accept their checks without question. Thing is, these checks have just a great a chance of bouncing, as those checks taken at the checkstands.
If you can't pull out your Driver's License and show it to a poll worker, then how did you get there? Your skateboard?
Sorry Fred, my urinal example was too visual. To have a state ID on you seems pretty common-sense, doesn't it? I don't want anyone voting who can't prove who they are. As Joe T. said above, we here in ChicagoLand vote early and we vote often..............and our crooked beloved mayor from the past, Richard J. Daley, was a master at getting people to vote frequently. State-issued IDs curb that practice. Maybe that's why the Liberal machine here in Chicago is so vehemently opposed to it.
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Requring a photo ID is needed to prevent fraud. The idea that it is too expensive is just idiotic.
The only times I have been asked for photo ID in the last 7 years has been at the voting place. Of course everyone in town knows me and don't need ID to cash my checks.
I hope the people who claimed to be someone else were sent to jail. Voter fraud IS a serious crime. I hope you didn't let criminals go, Juan !!!!
Obviously you haven't been out lately, that happens often.
Some guys just are not paying that much attention to things.
Which begs the point "Why we would want those same people casting a ballot?"
If they can't remember their fly, what kind of schmuk would they vote for in the presidential election?
This is not an illegal issue. Voter fraud has always been a problem in our political driven world. The worse offenders are actually citizens.
The police demand that you have a state ID on you.
There is an organization here that will give you the ten dollars needed to purchase the State ID card.
Enough said.
The problem is too many legal citizens who won't go vote because they feel the same way.
Do those that mail in their votes need to deliver a photocopy of their I.D. with their vote? Or has anybody bothered to think of that, at all.
I began to wonder about this when I noticed, at my job, their id this strict company rule that when taking peoples checks, for their purchases, we are to get their photo I.D. number, date of birth, phone number, etc...and will be written up, or fired ahould we not get this, yet, we have many who charge at the store, and we require no such info., and when they mail in their checks for payments, no such info. is on the cheks, yet we accept their checks without question. Thing is, these checks have just a great a chance of bouncing, as those checks taken at the checkstands.
Sorry Fred, my urinal example was too visual.
To have a state ID on you seems pretty common-sense, doesn't it? I don't want anyone voting who can't prove who they are. As Joe T. said above, we here in ChicagoLand vote early and we vote often..............and our crooked beloved mayor from the past, Richard J. Daley, was a master at getting people to vote frequently. State-issued IDs curb that practice. Maybe that's why the Liberal machine here in Chicago is so vehemently opposed to it.
Don't apologize, that was great!