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jeredh:

--- Quote from: AAllen on January 22, 2012, 08:53:05 PM ---But I find it interesting that those that are complaining that the requirement of an ID that the state will give away for free to vote is a violation of someones rights, are the people that push to charge hundreds of dollars for a permit to carry a firearm, and wants to limit when where and who may even posses firearms.

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You're right; it's essentially the same argument we make about gun control.  I think that's what makes me uneasy about supporting this bill -- just a matter of consistency. 

At its best, this law would be another layer of obfuscation, but anyone who's sufficiently motivated to commit voter fraud will produce fake identification and vote anyway.  At its worst, it disenfranchises honest people who would otherwise vote, but don't care enough to take the extra step (regardless of how simple that step may be).

In all likelihood, we're just adding more laws without changing much of anything.

(Also, sorry about making this my first post!  I actually came on today find information about target shooting at WMAs!)

CitizenClark:

--- Quote from: FarmerRick on January 29, 2012, 08:40:54 AM ---I'm pretty sure it slips through the cracks most times and never even gets investigated... but here's one for you:

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Suttle_Supporters_Bus_Homelss_To_Vote__113390539.html

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Obermeyer said a lot of people in north Omaha do not have vehicles and Forward Omaha is helping them to vote early. In this case, Forward Omaha bused 60-people from the shelter to the election office -- an 8-mile trip. The Suttle supporter stressed that Forward Omaha was not telling the homeless or anyone else how to vote.

Forward Omaha says no one was paid to vote or told how to vote.
"The truth of the matter is we have registered voters in homeless shelters," says Noelle Obermeyer with Forward Omaha. "They have a right to vote and they need a ride and we're here to give them a ride. We're not telling them to vote one way or another. We're there to just give a ride."

Obermeyer insisted nothing they are doing is illegal and she also noted that 13 people who signed the recall petition gave addresses that were homeless shelters.

If you don't have a home, state law allows one to use the shelter or the election office as your registered address.

Homeless people aren't barred from voting, so I guess I don't see the fraud in this incident. When I was a resident advisor in my dorm in college, I gave many of my residents a ride to the polls on election day. I made three or four trips. Fraudulent?

FarmerRick:
Try this link:  http://omaha.com/article/20110113/NEWS01/110119814

I clicked the wrong one in my earlier post.

Gunscribe:
Since you have to have a Gov ID to get welfare, foodstamps, prescription drugs and check out library books, who is disenfranchised by this?

The people they claim that are affected by this already have ID.

Unless there is one or two lost hermits who grow their own food, chop their own wood, make their own clothes, candles and tools and only come to town once a year for the single purpose of casting a ballot everyone already has ID.

Yes ID for all registered voters!

Dan W:
I am pretty sure you have to give ID to register to vote, I think the application calls for a drivers license or a Social security number. I think one can also use a bank statement or a utility bill to establish an address. 

But if you can't provide any of that information, in a legitimate form, you are not voting.

I don't quite see the difference between that and showing ID to cast a ballot.

Seems like the requirement to identify yourself is already there, so how can it be a burden the second time around.

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