And in many places, you would have been allowed to vote without ID. Voter Fraud would only come up later if it turned out you weren’t who you said you were.
Earth to Perry: voting isn’t the same as flying on a plane. You aren’t likely to be hijacked while in a voting booth.
Jeebers these crackers are slow.
There are thousands of people in this country who have never flown in a plane, but yet have managed to vote, Rick Perry. While flying is an important means of travel, it is no where near as fundamental as voting Gov. Ooops.
Someone ought to finally stop that bloody GOP excuse by saying, “Yes, and as you WELL KNOW, flying on a plane isn’t a Constitutional right, like voting!” and shut their effing pie holes down ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Plus, one can use a Medicaid Food Stamps, or other disallowed by Republicans photo ID to get on a plane. How can you EVER trust anybody who so blithely engages in this half-truths and ignorant statements?
Every talking Bobble-head interviewing Rick Perry should ask him if he still wants to eliminate three Cabinet positions, and FORCE HIM to name them! Maybe that way Rick will finally memorize them, eventually.
Y’know, that’s a fantastic idea. There are a number of states below the Mason-Dixon line that could benefit from a long sojourn in Cuba.
When was the last time a terrorist bombed a ballot box? You were an idiot in 2012 and you are still an idiot today.
You took the words right out of my mouth, McBain. Although I was going to refer to “oops” Perry as a stupid shitheel just for good measure.
Oops, you got it wrong again. You don’t need an ID to fly on a plane. You will be well screened and you need a good reason why you don’t have one, but you don’t have to have an ID.
A stupid point given that nobody has a right or an incentive to fly on a plane. All this is would be an attempt at distraction and confuse people. He would be the first one up against somebody who went this route for gun control. You could live in the same place and walk to work everyday and never have a need to get on a plane but still want to participate in government.
I do think it is rarer to not have somebody with some form of photo ID, however many red states have made it harder to get those or what sort of ID actually counts as legit. On top of that the number of drivers licenses issues are supposed to be dropping as well.
If the GOP wanted to do the right thing and have voter ID, than it should be a major state issue to get to the people to get them involved. As opposed to putting it all on the voter.
The GOP is not worried about voter fraud (I assume you know this already, but I am going to say it anyway). They are worried about participation by the wrong kinds of voters - young people, minorities, poor people, and some old people - i.e., the kinds of voters that tend to vote Democratic. They’d let Joe The Plumber and his Teapublican friends vote 10,000 times each in every state in the country if they could.
I guess Rick Perry is part of the "DEEP BENCH"that Gloria Borger and Jake tapper were describing the other day on CNN,Borger even went on to say in Perrys case he’s “WAY” ahead of the other candidates because of his “EXPIERIENCE”
he has gained from the last time he ran.Can’t make this stuff up.
If sometime in the future this country created and required a national photo ID for all citizens, then I’d consider a requirement to show ID in order to vote. I think I remember President Clinton advocating for a national ID, but Republicans blocked it because they felt it was too “big brother” like. Until then, Voter ID Laws are only good for one thing: suppressing votes.
Perry Responds To Clinton On Voting Rights: You Need ID To Fly On A Plane
Lucky for you no intelligence is required to grift for the job of POTUS.
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The bigger problem is you have to pay to get an ID in the state of Texas. A drivers license costs $25, and $25 every time you renew it every six years. If you lose your ID it costs $11 to replace it. The cost of an state ID is $16, which you have to pay every six years to renew. Replacing it costs $11.
Now, if you live downtown, work up the block and don’t have a car, why would you need drivers license? Why would you need a state ID at all? If you are living paycheck to paycheck, that $25 could be a week’s worth of food. You’re not going to go get an ID.
Bottom line, the ID requirement is a poll tax. And they know it.
At the least, an association of “Dixie” with Cuba, though forced, would greatly improve both the quality and degree of access to medical treatment.
So Rick Perry contends that the people of Texas passed the law. Actually, not only does he know nothing about the US. Constitution, he knows nothing about his own state government. His toadies in the Texas legislature passed the law – not the ‘people of Texas’ – and I’d bet that the Republican majority that voted for it is not exactly representative of the minorities and young people that the law is designed to disenfranchise.
Hey, in fairness he has gotten better. Notice his strict adherence to a single talking point? No more of that silliness about having three things to remember, no siree. It’s gonna be one single thing and he will not be deterred from it by anything less flashy than a…
LOOK!! A flying squirrel!!
I hate to do it, but it’s kind of important to understand what’s really wrong with the idiot argument de jour.
Actually, the right to travel is, in fact, a fundamental right, just like voting, procreating and child-rearing, speech, religion, petitioning for redress of grievances, and the right to be secure in your person and your home from unreasonable searches and seizures.
The government may only restrict fundamental rights when it can show a compelling state interest in doing so and the means chosen must be narrowly tailored to accomplish that end.
This is why you can be required to show a photo id to board a plane, but not to be a passenger in a car. The government has a compelling interest in keeping terrorists from flying airplanes into buildings and the magnitude of that interest, justifies a degree of intrusion and impedance that doesn’t apply to, say, driving. Likewise, the government can require training and licensing to drive, as well as impose things like insurance requirements, inspection requirements and implied consent to breathalyzers on drivers, but not passengers.
The problem with voter id laws is that the record that made it up to SCOTUS when it heard the Crawford case was profoundly defective–bad lawyering by the plaintiff’s counsel made bad law (pretending, as we often must for rhetorical purposes, that trivial things like law, records Constitutional limitations mattered to the Roberts Super-legislature the way they do to real courts). The record before the Court failed to properly establish the burden of obtaining a photo id on the poor and likewise failed to properly reflect both the actual threat, and the rationality of the perceived threat, of “voter fraud.” Nor, for that matter, did the plaintiffs do a proper job of showing that photo ids are not capable of stopping the only kind of “voter fraud” that does happen.
And so, on the record before it, the Court was able to affirm a finding that the risk of a perception of corruption in the voting process was a very real danger that presented a compelling state interest and that voter id laws were a narrowly tailored, minimally intrusive means of combating that “problem.”
A court with five functioning brains would have sent the case back for further fact finding on those issues. The Roberts Superlegislature, however, was just fine with the record as it was. And so now, we’re fighting an uphill battle.
What a wonderful example: A system that was just measured and found to have