US Supreme Court Says: Need ID to Vote

[jkp1187]

Re: US Supreme Court Says: Need ID to Vote

Originally posted by asleepathewheel

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080428/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_voter_id

Agree with the ruling or the dissent?

Personally, I'm a bit disturbed that people used to be able to vote with just the voter card and no ID, so I'm all in favor of this. A picture ID is quite easy to get and its not an unreasonable restraint, imo, to better protect the integrity of the process.

I suppose the argument by the ACLU is that some people might not be able to locate documents to give to the licensing branch, ie, moved and no birth certificate, or way too old.

By the way, the Sup. Ct. did NOT say that American citizens need a photo ID to vote. The Court held that the Indiana statute mandating a photo ID check as verification at a polling station was Constitutional. It will be interesting to see if there's a stampede to enact this sort of requirement in other States, but as of right now, I think Indiana might be the only one with such a law.

Just wanted to clarify for those foreigners who are not familiar with how the Court systems works here, and might be under the misapprehension that this is now a nation-wide rule. (Or citizens, for that matter...)

[rah]

Personally I've always found it silly that an ID is not required. Yes the state should probably provide them for free.

[DinoDoc]

I'd also support purging the rolls every few years and having people reregister to make sure the list is up to date.

[Arrian]

That seems overly onerous to me, DD.

-Arrian

[Ramo]

IN ferrets out some voting fraudsters :

Nuns are turned away from Indiana polls under voter ID law

The recent requirement says voters must bring photo identification, which the retired sisters didn't have.
By Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 7, 2008
A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana's stringent voter ID law since it was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The nuns, all residents of a retirement home at Saint Mary's Convent near Notre Dame University, were denied ballots by a fellow sister and poll worker because the women, in their 80s and 90s, did not have valid Indiana photo ID cards.

Though state officials reported no significant problems, advocates monitoring polling places said there was occasional confusion.

"We were at one polling place for a few hours and picked up three or four different stories of people being turned away," said Gary Kalman of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington. "I don't have numbers about how widespread it is."

"It's the law, and it makes it hard," said Sister Julie McGuire, who was working at the polling place and had to explain to the nuns that they could not vote. "Some don't understand why."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-voterid7-2008may07,0,1089053.story

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Arrian
That seems overly onerous to me, DD.

In what way?

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Ramo
IN ferrets out some voting fraudsters :

Nuns are turned away from Indiana polls under voter ID law

The recent requirement says voters must bring photo identification, which the retired sisters didn't have.
By Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 7, 2008
A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana's stringent voter ID law since it was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The nuns, all residents of a retirement home at Saint Mary's Convent near Notre Dame University, were denied ballots by a fellow sister and poll worker because the women, in their 80s and 90s, did not have valid Indiana photo ID cards.

Though state officials reported no significant problems, advocates monitoring polling places said there was occasional confusion.

"We were at one polling place for a few hours and picked up three or four different stories of people being turned away," said Gary Kalman of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington. "I don't have numbers about how widespread it is."

"It's the law, and it makes it hard," said Sister Julie McGuire, who was working at the polling place and had to explain to the nuns that they could not vote. "Some don't understand why."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,1089053.story

I thought Catholics were Clinton's base. Damn those Obamiacs, disenfranchising just like the repugs...

[Ramo]

Time travelling abilities.

[snoopy369]

They say 'could not vote', as if they weren't allowed to cast provisional ballots (as they are).

Yay, media contorting the truth