Yay, GOP voter suppression is back!

[Uncle Sparky]

Chaos Caused By New N.D. Voter I.D. Law

Posted: Nov 04, 2014 7:20 PM CST


Updated: Nov 04, 2014 7:38 PM CST



By Neil Carlson, Reporter/Photographer

North Dakota's new voter ID law caused chaos for university students who tried to vote in the Valley. An election judge at UND in Grand Forks tells us that 90-percent of the students, who showed up to vote, didn't have the proper ID. It's all left students at NDSU and UND complaining.
A Grand Forks election judge says the vast majority of UND students didn't get the word that, under the new voter ID law, their driver's license is no longer a valid ID to vote, unless it shows a Grand Forks address.

Gerry Nies, Election Judge: “There are very few students, who have come here with the correct identification.”

Reporter: “But, would you say most of them can go over here and print out their certificates?”

Nies: “Yes, yes.”

And since student IDs don't show their addresses either, a station to print out print out a university certificate that allows students to vote was set up. However, if students had not changed their address to Grand Forks in the University system within the last 30 days, they were turned away.

Reporter: “Any idea how many people we're talking about?”

David Evers, Pres. University Democrats: “Within the last hour I've been here, we've seen more than a dozen students have this problem.”

http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/...d-voter-id-law

[Sava]

despicable

[molly bloom]

Better question - are you ok with legal fruitcakes like myself voting in the US election?

As long as you voted for the usual insane rightwing religious nutjob, who cares ? It's only when the likes of you vote for socially liberal conservatives that its gets scary.

[molly bloom]

I find it strangely unsurprising that you have a list of people who have assaulted you.

I suspect that he has a queue of people waiting to assault him, a la 'Airplane! '.

[Jon Miller]

http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/5/7163935/midterms-voting-rights-election-problems

I guess it is OK because it comes from Republicans, but if it was Democrats doing it it would be bad?

JM
(yes, I know democrats use to do it in Chicago/New York)

[Berzerker]

I had to get a duplicate of my birth certificate before getting a drivers license, but all I did was send my request to the state of my birth. They didn't confirm my identity, not that I remember anyway - maybe I had to send them proof I lived where they'd send the certificate. But that was before 9/11...and 9/11 changed everything.

So how do you get a birth certificate if you dont have the proper ID to begin with?

[DinoDoc]

I had to get a duplicate of my birth certificate before getting a drivers license, but all I did was send my request to the state of my birth. They didn't confirm my identity, not that I remember anyway - maybe I had to send them proof I lived where they'd send the certificate. But that was before 9/11...and 9/11 changed everything.

So how do you get a birth certificate if you dont have the proper ID to begin with?

How do you open a bank account without any form of identification?

[Berzerker]

but I cant use a bank acct as ID for voting or a birth certificate

[DinoDoc]

but I cant use a bank acct as ID for voting or a birth certificate

Voting is the least important point here for me here. I'm actually just trying to understand the people that claim they don't have any form of acceptable identification and lack access to such things. Given how many things require having ID of some sort, it's an interesting concept for me to get my head around.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh, there are definitely folks without bank accounts. Why do you think check cashing places exist?

[DinoDoc]

Oh, there are definitely folks without bank accounts. Why do you think check cashing places exist?

Rank stupidity? Same reason I believed lotteries, payday loans, and sub prime loans existed.

[Kidlicious]

It's not 11%. That's for sure.

[Jon Miller]

Example:
"How do you get a birth certificate without an ID and an ID without a birth certificate??
My aunt is 89 years old, she has never had a liscence before and she has no government issued pic id. She needs to get her birth certificate from TX, but they want a gov pic id, and when she goes to dmv, they tell her that they can't giver her one unless she has a birth certificate. How do we solve this? The birth certificate she has, is soo old that no one can see the writing, (it's from 1918!) It was legiable enough 35 years ago to get Social Security started. Another problem is we are in CA and we are dealing with everything over the phone in El Paso, TX. HELP!!!"

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070923080406AALsc3F

JM
(from the same thread
"I am having the same problem trying to get my brother's birth certificate. I have sent my ID, my mom's death certificate and a dozen other forms of ID and they won't budge. I have tried everything listed by the other people and none of that worked for me. I am resorting to trying to get him a fake ID like the illegal immagrants get just to try to get his real birth certificate. What a bunch of crap. I have been at this for 6 years now."

"Many states allow an exception if a number of family members (usually 2 or 3) who have IDs will vouch for the person -- that lets you get past one of the two hurdles. "
)
(( My mother had to help my brother to be able to get his, if it was a few decades later and my mother was dead, I don't know how he would have gotten a DL ))

[Berzerker]

and now its the GOP pushing "papers please" laws