Quote:I've never heard a liberal say that they think identification to vote is bad, but I have heard of some liberals that don't like the republican sponsored ID voter laws that are designed to attempt to disenfranchise people who are more likely to vote dem than repub.

 

A good example is that in most states gun permits count as positive ID but state institution issued student IDs don't count as ID.

 

Of course there is also the 14th and 15th amendment issues along with a significant history of case law essentially declaring any sort of poll tax illegal, and making people need an ID that costs them either in actual money or causes them to need to miss work in order to get one is arguably afoul of the constitution and established case law.

 

Of course the biggest issue is in what the laws are intended to do. There's never been any evidence of significant in person voter fraud, most of it appears to happen via absentee, something these laws doesn't address at all.

 

So if the effect of the law is to disenfranchise groups likely to vote in a certain political direction and doesn't address the most significant avenue of voter fraud then what was the law really passed for?

Thanks for proving the ineptitude of the argument from the left. A government issued ID is just fine for welfare and foodstamps and a dozen other entitlements. It's just too much of a burden for someone to go through to cast a vote.

 

The poll tax thing was sort of funny though. I did get a good chuckle out of it at least, so reading your response wasn't a complete waste of time.

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