Why We Need Voter ID, According to Disillusioned Democrat Artur Davis
And while I’m not an expert on United Nations terminology, basically they filed a complaint against us with the UN Commission on Human Rights, and the basis for the complaint was the incredibly devastating potential to suppress this little thing I’m holding up, or so they were told.
Now I won’t even get into the fact that Cuba sits on the UN Commission on Human Rights and Cuba would not know a free election if it walked in and did a burlesque dance in front of it.
I won’t get into the fact that China sits on the UN Commission on Human Rights — and China has many great virtues as a great competitor and sometimes partner of ours, but in China, unless you’re one of a small group of provinces that actually do get to cast votes in some of their local races, China has never had a free election in many histories of dynasties and centuries. They make us look like the rookies as old as that civilization is; they have never had a free election.
Saudi Arabia sits on the UN Commission on Human Rights. Saudi Arabia occasionally experiments with voting, but if you’re a woman you’re not part of the experiment.
You get my point. Not quite the group I would expect to judge our integrity when it comes to elections.
[South Carolina] Attorney General [Alan] Wilson touched on this [during today's panel discussion], some other speakers touched on it. You know the arguments on the other side, and frankly the most powerful argument rhetorically on the other side is, oh, to have photo ID it will have this effect of diminishing participation, it will have the effect of crushing the ability of all kinds of people who wish to vote, and they’re talking very candidly about many of our minority citizens.
Ladies and gentlemen, can we dial the clock back four years ago when some of us had no gray hair and some of us had more hair?
If registering is such a mental challenge then you’re definitely too stupid to vote.
Why all this resistance to ID laws? It seems to me it is just predatory behavior by an elite class to control the mentally challenged.
This “elite” class also wants to make it easier for repeat voters.
The more, the merrier, they say.
Radicals do what radicals do best – they lie, and then lie some more. On top of it, they pretend they are taking the moral high road, attempting to protect the underclass in the process. Hogwash.
The above meme has to be destroyed at EVERY turn. It is easy to do. If one contends that showing proper ID to vote disenfranchises the poor/minorities, then one is stating that ALL ID’s are unnecessary.However, if one wants to confuse the voting process, thus padding the Dem rolls, then by all means their screams of racism etc are on target.
In any case, the far left has a death grip on the Dem party, and they are hell bent on destroying the American process. The following describes the thugs in charge of the regime, and targets their surrogates too -
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/07/when-authentic-revolutionaries-hold-the-reins-of-american-power-centers-via-the-most-radical-regime-in-u-s-history-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Look, if it were really that simple, honest people wouldn’t be arguing about this.
Oh, wait…
You can’t get a Sam’s Club card or a Costco card without a picture ID.
We have 12 million border crashers living in our country. ACORN/SEIU were engaged in massive voter registration fraud.
We have Democratic OFFICE SEEKERS who fraudulently voted in multiple states.
The Lawless Presidency seeks a lawless election process. Only a fool says that a picture ID is too heavy of a burden to try to prevent leftist voter fraud.
I don’t care about leftist voter fraud, cf.
I care about voter fraud.
It should be a hanging offense, whoever commits it.
I’m all for disenfranchising voters;
The Dead
The Non-Citizen
The Ficticious
The Alter Egos (second and third name on the voter rolls)
I guess I’m just a Neanderthal.
I’m with JD, but I’ll add those who register in multiple locations and can mosey along and vote more than once abetted by early voting.
Why is this man still a Democrat?
As much as he hates communists and racists, he has a vision that is still left of center. He still believes that Government should be Charity, in the idiotic biblical sense.
He is not. He changed parties.
Kudos to Congressman Davis for having the guts to make the case!
Sadly, the Left wants to throw African-Americans under the bus and have illegal voters take their place. African-Americans were the most important Democratic voter group 30 years ago. Since then, Hispanics have overtaken them as the largest minority, mostly through illegal immigration. Obama’s illegal “DREAM Act” benefits for Hispanics is a NIGHTMARE Act for struggling African-American workers.
Authentic African-Americans are already “in the system” and have or had authentic driver’s licenses, military ID, welfare cards and other government ID, and can easily get current ID anytime they want.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder want to give votes to illegal aliens, felons and the dead. With these voting blocks safely locked in, Democrats won’t listen to African-Americans’ complaints about jobs, schools, health care etc.
The debate over Voter ID laws are one of the most cynical lies in Washington. Democrats don’t give a damn about “disenfranchising” anybody. They calculate that loose voting requirements help them in elections, and that tightening up the rules will cost them votes.
It’s as simple as that. All those sanctimonious protestations about “disenfranchising” poor black voters is nothing more than a smoke screen.
And everybody knows it.
I was just in DC and visited the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum. There was an exhibit chronicling the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the election of Nelson Mandela as President in 1994. It struck me that, when blacks were given the right to vote, 15.5 MILLION new voters were registered and given photo IDs in time for the election (to the best of my recollection). And we say it’s too much of a burden? How many of those voters probably didn’t have transportation to get to the ID location? Or couldn’t afford the transportation? Yet the South Africans were able to make it happen…
I would like someone to show me just one person who doesn’t have ID. That is, a person that WANTS ID and can’t get one.
Most people without ID CHOOSE to be without ID.
How do those voters without ID purchase booze and smokes?
They go to stores where they don’t check ID very carefully, if at all. Lots of places like that where I live. They know your face, they know you’re not a fed or a cop so they don’t even look at your ID.
Really?
Let’s go further and say how do they earn their money – ID required for a job – and in answer to what you will probably say next “They’re unemployed” well then, how do they sign up for welfare?
This can go around in circles, but bottom line is, everyone needs an ID to manage any money they have and if they don’t have one, they can get one for free most of the time.
Your comments and argument are NOT valid.
Glad Mr. Davis is speaking out about this issue. If you listen to the ACLU, you would think that a large portion of the population is disenfranchised by state ID laws. The fact is that in many states a resident may be able to get a state ID for free. You do have to have proof of citizenship but most people should have that anyway. I also told the ACLU that instead of spending money stopping these laws from being passed why not use their funds to help people obtain the ID.
I currently live in my hometown in Illinois (Illinois does not have a state ID law requirement for voting although they were trying to pass one.) but for a time I lived in Pennsylvania. When I moved back to Illinois, I had to provide a birth certificate in order to get an Illinois driver’s license despite having a Pennsylvania one. I went to the county office and picked up the certificate. No big deal!
By the way Obama knows all about voter fraud in Chicago. That is how he and his fellow Democrats are hoping to get re-elected.
How will the dead in Seattle present their ID? Should they have their loved ones glue a photo ID to their tombstone?
For anyone who would like to get the full story on voter fraud, I suggest they obtain a copy of the book, “Who’s Counting”, authored by John Fund and Hans Van Spakovsky. Both gentlemen have impeccable credentials and are non-biased and the book is a searing expose’ of voter fraud (by both political parties).
The usual argument against requiring a photo ID is the hardship it would place on seniors and the poor. Let’s forget about an ID being required for such things that most of us take for granted: driving, flying, opening a bank account, cashing a check, using a credit card, checking into a hotel, entering certain buildings, obtaining a library card, etc., and look at those the Democrats claim would be adversely affected — seniors and the poor. In order to qualify for ANY of the benefits that most in these catagories receive (i.e., Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Obamaphones, etc.), a photo ID is a standard requirement.