On March 23, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Frank v Walker, the case over Wisconsin’s law requiring certain kinds of government phot0-ID for voters at the polls. Election law professor Rick Hasen writes about that at his blog, electionlawblog. He is an opponent of strict photo-ID laws but is more interested in the Texas case, as he explains.
Wisconsin holds local elections on April 7, and it is not clear whether the requirement will be in effect for that election.
The usual suspects are trying their EVIL best/worst to get TOTAL control of the USA regime FOREVER — a long time — until the SUN goes nova.
Where is that ALLEGIANCE chain from 4 July 1776 USA folks and their kids and later USA naturalized folks and their kids ???
i.e. what was the nation-state ALLEGIANCE status of your daddy the second that you were born — where ever you were born ???
Think 1773-1775 and 1854-1861 — just before things started.
Oregon and now other areas manage to survive with ALL paper mail ballots.
Why should we have to have a national ID card or REAL ID Card to vote. If I don’t drive, then I’ll be forced to get a State ID. Expired Driver Licenses won’t work for these types of laws.
It may be a little inconvenience to get a Voter ID, but the integrity of our elections is more important than someone’s temporary inconvenience. If the inconvenience is too much of a problem, perhaps you don’t need to bother to vote. Alabama provides a “laundry list” of accepted Voter ID’s so there’s little excuse to use this petty argument here.
“If the inconvenience is too much of a problem, perhaps you don’t need to vote.”
What a PERFECT distillation of the problem with voter ID laws, and the intent behind them.
“Dear poor person who is more likely to vote Democratic than Republican – you don’t have a driver’s license and it’s too much of a bother to go to City Hall to get ‘proper’ ID? Well…just stay home, why don’t you? We affluent folks will be glad to do the voting for you.”
One could apply the same rationale to a poll tax.
“What? You don’t think the right to vote isn’t worth ponying up just twenty bucks? Stay home then.”
Those accepted voter ID’s will change to only the REAL ID ACT if the government and states have their way. In states like Montana you can use your Costco Card, utility bill and your registration card. Those are accepted ID’s but these new laws want government approved ID’s or those REAL ID’s. Some states have blocked REAL ID but are still conforming to some of the requirements.