We need voter ID laws to ensure legitimate ballots are not offset by illegal voters -
BOHEMIA, NY, Jul 6 – “It’s just plain common sense. If you have to show a photo ID to enter an office building, you certainly should have to show some proof of who you are when you vote,” said Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.
The AMAC chief cited a recent poll of more than 16,000 members and visitors to the association’s Web site in which there was almost unanimous agreement that States should be allowed to require a photo ID at the polls. “The margin in favor of an identification document was overwhelming with 99.4% of respondents opting for photo IDs and against the Justice Department suit to bar them,” Weber explained.
“I’d like to know what is so wrong with laws to ensure only legally entitled voters get to cast ballots on Election Day, particularly this year when the presidency is at stake. The Justice Department seems to be going out of its way to facilitate voter fraud by challenging states that dare to pass such laws. It is suing South Carolina, Texas and Florida, three states that have passed ID laws, in an effort to overturn their statutes before November,” Weber pointed out.
Opponents of voter ID laws readily admit that voter fraud exists, but say the numbers of illegally cast ballots are too small to be of any significance. But consider the fact that many elections these days are decided by a handful of ballots, he pointed out.
“For example, it was discovered too late after the 2008 Minnesota election that 341 felons, ineligible to vote, cast ballots in the race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken who won his Senate seat by 312 votes. In Missouri, two years back, a primary race between two Democrats vying for a seat in the State legislature ended with the victor winning by a single vote. It turned out that 50 illegal votes were cast for him by Somalis living in Kansas City.”
Weber said that no matter “how big or how little the problem may be, it still impacts our lives and, thus, safeguards need to be in place. Whether you are Republican, Democrat or Independent, you should be willing to go to extremes to make sure your vote is not offset by illegal balloting. You should, at least, demand a simple ID check.”
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I have one question, if you are not registered in your voting district how can you vote? If you are registered shouldn’t you be able to show you are that person or have a registered person verify you are the same?
I think every state should set up a agency just for this election, it should have people available to go to homeless shelters, food stamp locations, unemployment offices, free food distribution locations, resting homes, senior centers, etc., to register people who want to vote, they just have to be registered somewhere, or be able to prove who they are, with that, they get a state ID, good to be able to vote.
If they can’t prove who they are, they shouldn’t be voting anyway. The idea that people don’t have any records that show who they are, is ridiculous, for example when it came to the DREAM ACT all of a sudden, tens, hundreds of thousands were able to come up with records?
I have to show my identification numerous times in an airport when traveling. In the scheme of things, I consider my right and privilege to vote right up there with traveling by airplane, or driving a car (which requires a drivers license), etc.
I support the requirement that those who vote have valid and current IDs to prove their right to vote.
In this coming election, let’s see if we can find some people who will represent AMERICA, all of us and who can make the decisions that are in the best interest of the country.
The main thing we all need to remember is that we HAVE to vote all the incumbents OUT of office in November. Too long have they ignored We the people.
To vote is the most important right we have as a citizen. It is therefore important to safeguard that right only for the citizen and to ensure that, is to prove that they are that individual person voting by showing their picture ID properly obtained like a driver’s license. It is so sad that there are few who are so corrupt to fight for this important qualification in order to be able to vote.
Career pollitians in Washington, of both parties, will do everything in their power to keep American politics corrupt. That means accepting fraudulent votes. We can change all that in November by cleaning our political house. One good way is to fire every elected official low enough to accept a paycheck for doing nothing for the past three and a half years. That would leave only Rubio, West, and the rest of the freshmen and a very few of the oldtimers. The rest we can send packing and good ridance. Obama, reid, palosi, and the rest of the communists on the hill can all be deported to Russia and America can get on with the business of healing and repairing herself.
Of course there should be voter ID required. What kind of an attorney general would oppose t hat…oh yeah, let me think, Eric Holder, the worst thing for this nation next to Obama. vote then out!
I have lived in Hawaii for the past 13 years and every time I’ve gone to my polling place, I’ve been required to produce a photo ID–and this state is a bastion of the Democratic Party and President Obama’s birthplace. . . .
Hawaii is not the birth place of Obama. What he showed us on the TV is a a forgery.
He was born in Kenya was adopted by a British Subject in Indonesia, then came to his grandparents in Hawaii as a British Subject. He probably registered to Occidental University as well as Harvard and Columbia as a FOREIGN STUDENT, but all those papers are under lock and key
I concur with you Paul.
I just bought a can of WD-40 at Lowes. I am 60 years old, and I was asked to produce ID to complete the purchase. (paid in cash). This administration is the biggest disgrace in the history of our Nation.
Congressman/Colonel Allen West is right. Obama wants us to be his slaves
Obviously, if we allow these administration prevail what they want to do, we will lose our liberty and freedom.It is very clear that they are fiercely defending the criminals, voters fraud, voters intimidation, sued their own countrymen like Arizona and Alabama in protecting our borders. They don’t care if they spent trillion dollars of our tax dollars, , we have a whooping 16 trillion dollars debt and a1.6 trillion dollars deficit and rising. Attention fellow senior citizens, once these Obama health care takes effects!, our health care will be rationed, will be controlled by the government, they will determine whether you need care or you are too old and sickly to get medical care. Democrat, Republican, independent, black, white, yellow or brown, all of us Senior citizens will suffer. The 500 billion dollars cut on Medicare is not fair. There are more than 47 million senior citizens today. We shall unite and vote, let them hear us. Adios.
I have already been told that I was too old and weighed too much to have anything done to my knee.
There is no reason to not have voter ID unless one is contemplating to do voter fraud. This president and attorney general have demonstrated a contempt for law and the legal process that, to use Eric Holder’s word, is breathtaking.
Recent primary in Helena Mt. My wife and I had to show out ID’s to vote. I asked if Eric Holder knew about this requiring ID’s to vote. I got a pained, yes he knows from a (possibly?), left leaning poll watcher .And how can a homless person who has no permenent address vote in a local election? There is lack of pragmatic thinking in this country.
And why should a homeless person with no permanent address not be able to vote? Is not that person even more affected by a failed government than you are? Maybe it should only be the landed gentry? Maybe you seek a return to feudalism?
Anyone, even the homeless can have an address. I know of a number of people who use their Church as their address. Here in Calcifornia one can obtain an ID card without it being sent to their “home address”. Also, people who are not citizens can obtain photo ID’s. Does this mean that they can also vote?
I have been a Polling Place clerk once and a supervisor twice. I am convinced that anyone can fullfill a false registration as well as a false ID card.
What concerns me more is that I had to put out voting pamphlets in over 20 languages. It is hard for me to believe that most people in this Country who are not either English or Spanish speaking can gather enough information to place an informed vote.
Stated very simply, the Justice Department is controlled by the Democratic Party and they (Democratic Party) are not interested in truth or anything that has to do with integrity..
Agreed….. what are they scared for., they are scared to do the right thing!. Tell the Democrats to support the voters ID.
The Democrat party will never allow voter I.D. because that is how they basically steal elections. Their constiuants are made up of Acorn members, illegals and dead people and our wonderful media [CBS-NBC- ABC-CNN-MSNBC] cronies never even mention anything about this crime!
If no one mentions “this crime,” then why is it we all hear so much about it? How many legitimate voters do you wish to disenfranchise to prevent a hypothetical ineligible voter from voting? Obviously, you think an Acorn worker (there aren’t any any more) ought not be able to vote. Perhaps all you really want is to keep anyone who disagrees with you from voting. Am I right?
Fraud has become a way of life in America. If you can’t have things legally, well, hey, do it illegally. I cannot understand the thinking of people like our esteemed Attorney General. Here he is, the one man in our country charged with upholding the rule of law, for the entire country, fighting against a law which would ensure that the folks put into public office in this land, are put there legally. There an be only one reason w hy he would fight against such a law. He knows full well that his party uses voter fraud to win elections. We must stop this nonsense! All fair minded people must let our representatives and senators know that election reform is a top priority in this great nation to keep it great!
He knows the problem isn’t voter fraud, but election fraud. Principally Republicans trying to keep Democrats away from the polls, then rigging the machines, stopping recounts, and judicially appointing presidents.
I’ve been showing ID at the polls for several years here in Connecticut. The first time I was in line with a neighbor, a Probate Judge. The monitor was a next-door neighbor of mine. We three had a laugh together but realized the seriousness of protecting the ballot. I have moved to a new town but expect to go through the same routine. It is no burden to me. Why is it such a burden for folks in other localities unless they are ready to vote fraudulently?
democrats: they don’t prosecute voter fraud for 1 reason
that’s how they plan to win this election!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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not just this election that’s how they win every election, joe was right back in the fifties but the democrats just laughed at him so the communist took over the democrat party and the few democrats left refuse to recognize that fact the ones that do have started calling themselves republicans that’s where we get the RINO’s
In the early days, only land owners had a vote. They were considered responsible citizens, and their input was valued, as the voice of reason. In today’s world we could modify that in a meaningful way. Only taxpayers with photo ID will have a vote, and no mail-in absentee ballots. I realize that would disenfranchise nearly half of the U.S. citizens and all of the illegals and the deceased, but it would go a long way toward correcting the downward spiral which has seized our country and our culture today. Those who are not contributing members of the society will not have any say in how the policies are decided, or how the public money is spent. Now is the time to take back our country from those who would be king.
there is one small fallacy in your statement, i spent twenty-two years in the service of this country for which i receive a pension of less than fifteen hundred dollars per month plus s/s since my wife and i are both over sixty-five we get double deductions which means we don’t pay income tax that means you don’t think i should be able to vote
one modification to this i firmly believe in voter ID
How very true!
I have fought against voter fraud in California for the past three years. Photo ID to vote must be a national law. Elections in CA are full of fraud and our Secretary of State who’s in charge of elections statewide was put in the job by George Soros. Know what that means? Progressives calling themselves Dems win most elections. Check out stopvoterfraud.info to learn how they use our colleges and universities to steal our elections. We had 130% to 101% voter turnout here!
That is done SO that thousands and thousands of ACORN (or what ever their current name is) can vote for thousands and thousands of dead, illiterate, absentee people, sick etc .
Vote early, vote often. That’s the Chicago Plan. And don’t let death stand in your way.
Keep voting posthumously. AG Holder thinks that’s just fine.
When we see that our lax regulations are leading to voter fraud, we need to take action.
Why is the DOJ attacking those states that have addressed the issue? Better question;
Why is Eric Holder still in office? This nonsense has gone too far! We need to impeach
AG Holder and vote his boss into retirement.
I know some of you may disagree with this, but we need to stop absentee voting as well. A significant number of “absentee” votes were delivered to the poles by ACORN members just “helping out”. No investigation or follow up as to how many were real, or how many were names of people in comas, or in the final throughs of Alsheimers.
I don’t mind early voting if done at City Hall or some other controlled location where a photo ID can be checked, but no more vote by mail or Absentee Ballots being delivered by SEIU Union Members.
I realize that a few people would be unable to vote because they could not make it to the poles, but I’m willing to accept that to eliminate the fraud.
One area I do see as needing to be addressed is those who were born without birth certificates in the south before the civil rights fight several years ago. But the one thing I think is that somehow they made it all these years without a picture ID. Some have taken it on themselves to get all these to have picture ID, so this is one way to address the problem.
But we all need to fight for what is the right thing to do and to keep on fighting no matter what discouraging time it is, for this is the only way to overcome the wrong things. This was shown in the civil rights fight several years ago. It took a number of years to overcome very evil things. So now we need to pray and continue to fight for the right.
We no longer live in a world where a handshake sufficed for your word. Without stating the obvious, we now are required to show picture identification for nearly all facets of our lives. So, absolutely, identification for the most precious right we as American’s have seems right. And, yes, one must, indeed, wonder why the attempts to avoid it.
Having been born in this country am pretty darn proud of it I would like to say “my great grand parents came here from England, Scotland, Ireland and God knows from where else.) The difference is that when they came they had to stay with relatives until they got a job and got on their feet. There was no SS, Welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, free cell phones (no phone because only a few folks could afford them) so I see them really wanting to come to this country to prosper. Now days so many come illegally and are breaking our laws but they never want to talk about breaking the law. It is always that Americans just don’t want to them to feed their families etc. and that is just not true. If you are lucky enough to get here LEGALLY thank your God whomever it may be and speak your country of origin’s language in your home and among your family and friends but if you are lucky enough to have a job then speak the language of this country so we can understand you. Teach you Mom and Dad and grand parents to speak English. It should not be incumbent upon me to have to learn all the different languages that have come here.
It seems to me that we that are lucky enough to be born here are the losers because you never hear anything but how bad this country is and how we have made mistakes (like whatever the country they came from has not. ) If you love your country so much then please go back from where you came and complain there. I never see or hear of one person trying to get out of this country so if it is so bad “they why did you come?” Come here legally, get a job, take care of your family ( I should not have to do it for you!”) and you will find you will be welcomed with open arms. I know I would. If not quit taking from me and others like me because you refuse to obey our laws and refuse to speak English, and expect the legal folks no matter where they come from to make the effort for you to become a citizen’s and then have to then take care of you and your family. God Bless America.
On Homeless Vote scroll back up to my comment at 5:32 pm. Voting In THe United States.
I think we all agree that voter ID is appropriate and should be invoked in all states and fought in courts if necessary. Florida’s voter ID was recently upheld.
Let’s face it, this administration (???) and the cronies in the DOJ and all the Tzars are of like mind and I wonder why we all complain about it without saying it like it is. The intent is to destroy this country and we are under attack from within. This president (lower case p intentional) and his crowd are bent on bringing down America. Just look at the things going on in the UN. Our government is complicit in that too with member nations of human rights violators and worse. VOTE HIM OUT!
I hope every govenor of every state will get the backbone to demand voter ID and do whatever is necessary to ensure honest balloting.
Answer to the Homeless Voting blog, check out Wikipedia,VOTING RIGHT’S in THE UNITED STATES, under Contents, # 4 . This will give you the voting for Homeless also other good information on voting in THE UNITED STATES, it is quite long but good information.
I think that everyone who votes must dip their finger in ink like that required of the Iraqi’s. That way no-one can vote twice and the dead will not be counted.
I guess you have never been to Chicago.
It makes sense for liberals to stop the cleanup of voter fraud. They get all of the illegal alien & dead votes!
Simply because they are perpetuating IT!
I live in kansas and had to show my drivers license to vote in the last local election-whats the big deal-if you dont show proper id you could vote more than once-anyone can get a photo id very easily-oh yah I forgot -dead peeps would have a hard time voting without their photo id rofl
YES…. voter ID is a must….. If you cannot get an ID, you don’t have any business voting…
I think we need a revolution NOW….. Just say where and when and I will be there…
It’s all about the votes. Who do you think an illegal alien alien is goingto vote for? That’s also the reason the Democrats want lax border security. An illegal alien not having to show ID will vote Democratic as will their spawn. It’s also why Democrats want felons to be able to vote. And how about this: to be able to vote you have to be a U.S. citizen (supposedly) and to become a U.S. citizen you have to show profiency in english. So what do we do? Print the ballots in Spanish!
There is no logical reason for an adult in the U.S. not being able to show an ID in order to vote. If they are a registered voter, then they should show their ID and vote!
At my elementary schools, where the majority of parents were immigrants and spoke Spanish and or languages other than English, all our parents were mandated to and were able to show a photo ID when picking up their children before the end of the school day. Often parents were called to the school when their child was ill or if they were being taken out for doctor appointments or other reasons. This was a school district safety procedure where the person picking up the child had to match those names written on the children’s emergency cards. In regards to the homeless, at one of the schools in Hollywood where I was the school principal, the parents had no problem using another address, usually one from a nearby homeless shelter or the address of a nearby hotel to obtain their California ID. There were numerous aid agencies working with my school that helped these individuals to not only get their ID but also often free medical care and other services.
The illegals plus the amnesty millions plus the food stamp army plus the zombi (dead) plus the multiple (like Chicago)
voters are planned to be enough to swing the election to the non-citizen muslim candidate. The US does not belong to Americans anymore.
I have to agree with Mike B. We seem to be so afraid of offending someone that we have let this country be controilled by small groups of people. I am logical in my thinking and feel we need to say it like it is. We should be able to have a discussion with varying viewpoints and not call each other names. I am not a racist at all but see how Obama panders to the black population (not all blacks) only those that have been taught to rely on the government for anything they need. Thedre are other races that need help too but most are only on those needy rolls for short periods of time not their whole life!
Amen Judy, we have to get back to standing up for what is right.
Food stamp recipients are 37.2 percent Black and 46.2 percent White. Medicaid benefits are paid to 27.5 percent Black recipients compared to 48.5 percent White clients. While as a proportion of the population blacks receive more aid, you cannot dispute that blacks are less likely to attend a quality school or be born into a supportive environment that enables further education and work ethic, all things being equal they also are the first fired, last hired. Given the adversities, it’s a wonder the numbers aren’t worse. And don’t try to claim it’s all made up for by affirmative action. For the vast majority, especially at the lower end of the economic scale, it’s not even close.
This administration is fraught with deciet and the uncredentialed Fraud in the WH is a card carrying communist. There is no need to fret about why voter fraud legislation is being opposed, that is a known quanity…communist always lie..axiom
They are geared to lie, steal, prevaricate and abscond with all you hold dear and impose a sytstem of misery and depression on mankind as a reward for their kindness..you might get to live.
Those of you who have fought in third world countries where communism is not unknown and shariah law prevails know that this form of government and this cult belief is geared for accomadating criminal behavior and justifying it with any kind of lies.
So wrong on so many levels. You’ve tied a Gordian knot of nonsense.
I thought my name would not be published! Can you remove it from my post? Can it be changed to just “Jackie” ? I fear what some of the Obamacrats might do. I trust none of them.
So you trusted this right wing wacko front for a profit-hungry exploiter of its own ilk?
We definitely need photo IDs for voting. Already, in Georgia, we need much more ID than that to get or renew a driver’s license! Voting should be a privilege FOR LEGITIMATE CITIZENS ONLY, and if a person can’t prove he is one, then he should not be allowed to vote. Seems like the Obamacrats are the ones pushing the loose standards, as they do on most things, including legit requirements for the Presidency. I firmly believe we have a Fraud “President” who should not be in the White House.
Fed up in Georgia
A shelter addresse will suffice in order to obtain a photo ID. Photo cost avg. $12. If they really want to vote they can pah handle to money?
This is too funny, I wouldnt want homeless people to vote they would all vote democratic so they can get freebees
It seems all our government does these days is promote fraud!! Of course what you have written makes perfect sense.
I’ve never in my life hoped for Nov. & the voting box to get here as much I have this year!!
yes that is true the democrats want fraud in all places that they can get it, that is the only way there going to win the election this year, and I might add I am disgusted with the Republicans they are not doing there job to impeach the new ruler and Mr. Holder for there crimes, so I can only come to the conclusion that they all want us to be a communist country
My state of Illinois allows a person to obtain a Homeless Status Certification. And the certification can be presented when obtaining a photo License or photo state ID card.
The problem is we make everything about the one off or the small exception,” like what about the homeless”. When is this nation going to wake up and start doing what is best for the majority and quit making all the laws and rules for the minority, I am not implying anything racial what I mean is small groups who ever they may be are ruling this country because we are so afraid of offending someone. If you are going to have a say in who runs this country then you should have to prove you have that right.
July 1, the State of Georgia’s ID law became into effect that a peron must have 3 IDs and a photo ID to renew driver’s licenes. This is to help protect our idenity from people wanting to commot fraud. Mike B is absolutely right in that one vote be it be a legal or non legal voter could change the outcome of an election and in turn the outcome of how we live under the person who is running our nation. Fighting the voter ID shows that the present adminstration is operating under a scheme to stay in power whatever the cost.
And just how is a homeless person supposed to get a photo ID with no fixed address?
Oh, they can get a PO box you say? Well how can they rent a PO box if they have no money?
Homeless people vote now? CRAZY!
Maybe fingerprints???? like they do at banks
That is one of the reasons for having homeless shelters.
Amelia in a response above this one, addresses that. Scroll back to her comment.
I have observed that many of them seem to have nice cell phones.