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I don't consider voter id voter suppression. I think it should be mandatory as a matter of fact. To think otherwise is not a responsible thought. You need id for many other life staples. I don't hear anyone crushing those areas.
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1SG William Svoboda
Here's my 2 pennies. I remember watching my father a communism escapee from Bohemia, WW ll veteran, and naturalized citizen reach for his wallet every time he went to vote and the clerk ran a ruler down this thick ream of paper to find his name and verify both the ID and the ream data matched. I proudly show my ID card whenever asked. I have to show it to get the 10% discount from a home store. But not to vote? I think voting is in our country's mission METL and it falls under the Do essential things first cat. My opinion is it keeps everything above board and is an equalizer.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
@ Maj. J. Bell; waive it for Cmmty Svc.. sug;sweep out the DMV park lot.. before open’g..
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SSgt Gary Andrews
I don't have a problem with showing an ID.....but what is happening in some places, is that ID's are being rejected as insufficient, and people are not being allowed to vote. Sometimes, the address on the ID has been changed, but it doesn't match the address on the voter registration now.....or the street address says Ave on one, but Avenue on the other, and the ID is rejected because of the discrepancy.....other times, a middle initial is used on the ID, but not the voter registration, and the person is not allowed to vote. In all of these cases, the person is entitled to vote, but is turned away on a technicality. That, I have a problem with. If voting is a "right" afforded to all U.S. Citizens, we shouldn't be looking for technical reasons to deny them that right.
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I always laught at the idea of voter suppression. They have a voter ID law here in Georgia. It was challenged in Atlanta by a women who claimed she couldn’t get proper ID to vote. The Judge asked her how she got to the court house. She told him Marta, she had a Marta ID pass. The Marta ID pass is a photo ID acceptable to vote. Apperantly she didn’t realize that. So the judge asked her to empty her purse on his bench, pulled the Marta ID and dismissed the case. There was a case in Texas where an individual was told he couldn’t vote because he lacked an ID. He claimed he couldn’t get to the court house to get an ID, BUT he did manage to fly to DC to testify before Congress. Gee how do you fly with out photo ID. If you can get from Texas to DC how hard is it to get to the county court house? Oh never mind. You can cast a provisional ballot in Georgia with out an ID, but you have to bring documentation in for the ballot to count. Every election in my county 4 or so people cast provisional ballots an never follow up. Is requiring an ID to buy alcohol alcohol suppression? Is requiring a photo ID to bank financial suppression? Is requiring a photo ID to drive a car, board commercial transportation travel suppression?
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There'd been another thread on here awhile back about non-citizens being allowed to vote...the concept was enough to positively make my skin crawl...a simple drivers license or something equivalent, needed to justify being allowed to vote, I, for my part hardly consider as being overly intrusive...I realize that's my own thought, of course, however, I could quite easily see a law being promulgated to necessitate that, by all means, that, at least to me, seems by no means excessive, certainly, at least to my own turn of mind....
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