Discussion for article #222166
Even if we do get voter ID everywhere, someone has to check the IDs and verify them at the polls. What is the check against the abuse of THAT power?
Good News. Does this include the part so students can use Student IDs now?
Let’s get rid of all of these laws enabling voter suppression!
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I hope this is the beginning of the end of voter suppression laws.
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And these efforts for voter suppression are mostly Republican actions that are calculated to reduce the number of Democratic votes by imposing restrictions that are more likely to be suffered by Democratic voters!
Isn’t this also outrageous! And wouldn’t the Donald Sterlings on our planet have a different opinion?
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You know, maybe the best argument to use against the GOP regarding voter ID’s is to agree with the need for them and go one step further- at age 18, you are automatically and for free issued a national ID that includes your photo and vital information. Voila, the GOP will whine about it and it’ll put them right off this.
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I’d add something else: any citizen who is denied the vote for any reason is entitled to compensation. Say, $1000. The person who denied the vote has to pay up.
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which is why, in some states pushing new voter ID laws, there are also provisions where anyone can challenge anyone’s ID at any time. You can imagine the Rs organizing groups of voter “challengers” to provide exactly this service. If challenged, that vote can’t be counted until such time as additional verification has been provided (perhaps after the election is called, right?)
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It sounds like he struck down the whole law. The law prior to adoption of this was that no ID was required: I voted in Wisconsin from 1978 to 2010 and never had to show an ID, unless I did when I first registered.
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Somebody bring that judge to Texas!
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First the EPA won their coal ruling, now democracy in Wisconsin scored a win. If the SCOTUS shoots down Hobby Lobby it will make my week.
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Republican poll watchers within 3 feet of your vote, snark off.
Skank Wanker and his minions have fallback legislation on ALEC’s desk. This ain’t over yet…
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Here’s to hoping. My bet is the RW will double down, given that the polls show only a few points (if that) between Dems and the GOTP this November.
My worry is they’re setting us up for the fall on that one. There were a couple of RW decisions that were issued before the DOMA/Prop 8 decision, and the same thing happened before the ACA ruling. SCOTUS tends to do Good News/Bad News; I’m hoping we’re not on the “bad news” side this time.
Well, that’s some good news, although Walker says he will sign the bill that will now come out of the Wisconsin Lege that will circumvent the ruling.
Somehow, I find this story–a federal court striking down a voter id law transparently intended to suppress the African-American vote under section 2 of the VRA–just a teensy bit more important than whether a single racist .1%er gets some of his toys taken away from him for being a racist douchebag.
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A judge in PA Commonwealth Court today refused to reconsider his ruling that struck down PAs voter ID law 
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Ironically, the $550 million Milwaukee Bucks will likely set the opening bid for the Clippers’ sale. The old creeper’s going to be a billionaire for sure,