Can the smart people help me with my ignorance once again

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

How does needing a photo ID to vote become a racism issue?

Thanks in advance

 

[koalabear]

Vampires can't be photographed.

 

[Spinaroonie]

They take your picture against a black background

It also doesn't let illegal immigrants vote.

 

[alexandraaah]

Hmmm...not sure why you brought this up, so I can't really answer the exact question.

Everyone has the right to vote. However, getting a photo ID can be the tricky part. You see, there are a lot of people who are homeless or live in shelters...they do not have an address, they cannot receive their card in the mail, they have no address to put on their card.

Could this have anything to do with your wonderfully cryptic and slightly annoying in its vagueness question?

 

[lilminx]

Question, Lo: why should illegal immigrants be allowed to vote?

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Hmmm...not sure why you brought this up, so I can't really answer the exact question.

Everyone has the right to vote. However, getting a photo ID can be the tricky part. You see, there are a lot of people who are homeless or live in shelters...they do not have an address, they cannot receive their card in the mail, they have no address to put on their card.

Could this have anything to do with your wonderfully cryptic and slightly annoying in its vagueness question?

I don't buy the homeless no address excuse I have read it a lot in regards to this issue.

I went over to Bangor Maine USA. walked into a government services offices, asked to get a photo ID for crossing the border, they took me to the right office i should have been in I waited 45 minutes and paid 5$ and walked out with a photo id. No address was neccesary except what province i lived in.

 

[alexandraaah]

I don't buy the homeless no address excuse I have read it a lot in regards to this issue.

I went over to Bangor Maine USA. walked into a government services offices, asked to get a photo ID for crossing the border, they took me to the right office i should have been in I waited 45 minutes and paid 5$ and walked out with a photo id. No address was neccesary except what province i lived in.

Okay, freak, but you were in Bangor. So, what the hell happened that you ask this question? Maybe that would be a good starting point.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Okay, freak, but you were in Bangor. So, what the hell happened that you ask this question? Maybe that would be a good starting point.

Was just reading a commentrry/speech by Tom Dashole and Jesse "Slogan Master" Jackson on how racist it would be to demand that voters have a photo ID in order to vote.

It was a rebuttal to one of the republicans efforts to reform the voting system by wanting people to have a phot id to prove they are who they are and that they are american

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

where did all the smart people go, I still need answers

 

[seXieleXie]

erm... if that is what the article was about why don't you look there for answers? can you give a link for the uninformed to see what you're talking about?

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

erm... if that is what the article was about why don't you look there for answers? can you give a link for the uninformed to see what you're talking about?

I'll try to dig it up I hit it while surfin CNN a couple of weeks ago.

I was actually looking for real peoples opinions not just politicians

 

[bored1]

Its not racist. But then, in todays world, any opinion other than the PC line is called racist. The word has lost its effect on me. It reminds me of the little boy who cried wolf one to many times.

 

[teresafannin]

I don't consider an photo ID to be racist, but that is just me. One reason that they want photo ID's in Texas is because in certain counties down here, dead people regularly vote or at least they used to.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

I don't consider an photo ID to be racist, but that is just me. One reason that they want photo ID's in Texas is because in certain counties down here, dead people regularly vote or at least they used to.

say its not so, dead people voting, perposterous

 

[teresafannin]

It actually happens more than people think. I don't remember when, but at one point, there was a similar voting problem in Chicago. Back in the 70's, it was a huge problem in some parts of Texas. American politics can be very interesting,at times.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

It actually happens more than people think. I don't remember when, but at one point, there was a similar voting problem in Chicago. Back in the 70's, it was a huge problem in some parts of Texas. American politics can be very interesting,at times.

so theswe dead people they were voting republican?

 

[bored1]

so theswe dead people they were voting republican?

Actually, in 1960 all the dead ones in Chicago voted for Kennedy

 

[teresafannin]

In Texas, I seem to remember Dolph Briscoe got a lot of votes from dead people when he ran for Governor. I was very young then & it has been a lonnnnnnnnng time since I took Texas Government in college. I think Dolph Briscoe was a democrat, but knowing Texas, I would bet that both candidates got some votes from dead constituents.

 

[phrodeau]

say its not so, dead people voting, perposterous

Sorry, it's so. Most elections allow for voting in absentia, or mailing it in. Sometimes death doesn't automatically remove a voter from the registry, and the deceased's ballot is forged by dishonest surviviors.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

I suppose you people are going to tell me that illegal immigrants are voting as well

 

[morninggirl5]

In Georgia, you are required to show a photo id to vote.

If i chose to do so, i could still vote twice though. There is another woman in my voting precinct with the exact same name. Every time i go to vote, they pull her card first. My picture id matches her name, my face matches the id. Voila, i can vote as her, wait until after the poll workers change shifts and go vote as myself.

While it might ensure the name matches on the voter card and the id, it doesn't prevent fraud.

As for being racist, i have no clue.

 

[sch00lteacher]

I don't see it as a racist issue. A class issue maybe.

But I also see it as another governmental intrusion into people's lives. We are not required to carry ID. I get so pissed at the reality cop shows on TV, and the cop demands to see ID. We, as Americans, do not have to carry ID.

Don't pay a lot of attention to what Brother Jackson has to say about anything.

 

[Sillyman]

The thing about the homeless is that first off even a piddling amount of $5 is considerable. That's food, maybe a Salvation Army coat or blanket, cigarettes, alchohol, or a shot at getting to use a shower. The ID on the other hand is a more or less useless piece of plastic that can't be traded for anything or eaten. Don't forget you also generally need some other form of ID to get a another ID with the exception of a Birth certificate. If they no longer have their driver's liscence, I'm sure they'll have their SS card.

Plus being on the street means you get rolled and anything you own can be taken at any time. You have no way to keep your shit safe from anyone stronger than you, and when you are starving and sick that's a whole lot of fucking people.

As for why it would be rascist, I have no idea. I am smart too, I've got test scores to back me up.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Question, Lo: why should illegal immigrants be allowed to vote?

Question: Why ask Lo, when it was me that said it

And it was a joke

 

[lilminx]

Ack! I'm getting dumber and dumber by the moment! Your avatar is confusing me!