Obama Blocks Texas Voter ID Law

Went to the bank today. The tellers know me by first name. Just wanted to cash a check. Even though they knew me, I had to show a photo ID. When I bought guns, I not only had to show two forms of ID with my pic on them, I had to fill out the forms for background check. When I use my debit card most places (not all), request a photo ID. I actually ask once why, I was told they were burned to many times so now it is policy. I have to show a photo ID to write a check. To enter a military installation, I have to show my military ID with a photo. As much as I feel for the lady, and hope it all works out. I am 100% for photo ID for voting. Since I always have it on me, not a problem.

The bigger question here should be if there is no real voter fraud going on, then it should be no big deal and the elderly should be assisted in getting their ID's. Then what is Obama worried about?

The problem is not the people who HAVE photo-ID. Duh... The problem is the people who ARE U.S. CITIZENS who, because of age, or problems with obtaining acceptable documents, DO have a problem.

The problem is that photo-ID's that USED to be acceptable, (Student ID's, etc.), the voter-suppression laws are specifically designed to suppress them. Enough anecdotal evidence of this denial has been presented, and is available on the Internet, if one actually cares to find it.

On the other hand, one of the reasons that the DoJ is denying the voter-suppression laws that Rick Perry is trying to shove through is that he apparently cannot come up with any actual documented cases of voter fraud having occurred.

You've got your photo-ID...I've got my photo-ID... B.F.D. That's not the issue...is it.

Not to worry, the Supreme Court has already weighed in on this matter and said that a photo ID is not an onerous burden to overcome when it heard the challenge to the Indiana law back in April of 2008. Not sure why Obama thinks his justice department isn't bound by the rulings of the Supremes - what LJ likes to refer to as "settled law" - but I'm going to be interested in seeing how Obama and Holder plan on showing that the laws passed by these states are in any way materially different than the law that was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2008.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter-identification law on Monday, declaring that a requirement to produce photo identification is not unconstitutional and that the state has a “valid interest” in improving election procedures as well as deterring fraud.

In a 6-to-3 ruling in one of the most awaited election-law cases in years, the court rejected arguments that Indiana’s law imposes unjustified burdens on people who are old, poor or members of minority groups and less likely to have driver’s licenses or other acceptable forms of identification. Because Indiana’s law is considered the strictest in the country, similar laws in the other 20 or so states that have photo-identification rules would appear to have a good chance of surviving scrutiny.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/washi ... cotus.html

And Texas is one of the states that is required to submit changes to their their voting laws to the DoJ for approval because of past historical violations of the Voting Rights Act. Perry violated that provision. I'm going to be interested too...

LadyJazzer wrote: And Texas is one of the states that is required to submit changes to their their voting laws to the DoJ for approval because of past historical violations of the Voting Rights Act. Perry violated that provision. I'm going to be interested too...

But Texas first got caught when the Dems were suppressing the minority vote.

Source?

Over a century of having a governor of the state being a Democrat and you need a source to confirm which party suppressed the minority vote in Texas? That's a joke, right?

So, you don't have one (except the usual garbage you pull out of your a**)... Got it.

[crickets chirping]

And regardless of which party was responsible for it, it was illegal then, and the DoJ says it's illegal now. BFD.

Has anyone seen national polls on this issue? I am guessing most Americans have no problem using photo ID to vote, only uber-lefties think there are large numbers of people without photo ID.
I don't know anyone without photo ID.
And for all the Dems getting in a sweat about all these people being denied their voting rights, I am betting most of the people without voter ID also don't normally vote.