Southern Republicans Dealt Blow On Contentious Voting Measure
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov 1 (Reuters) - Voters will be allowed to use Memphis library cards as photo identification in the Nov. 6 election, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a blow to Republicans who wanted only ID issued by the federal and state governments to be allowed.
Tennessee is among a number of states that have passed laws requiring voters to show photo ID. Republicans say the laws are needed to deter fraud, while Democrats say they are aimed at depressing turnout by voters who typically support their party.
The Tennessee law, which took effect at the beginning of the year, requires people to show a driver's license, state-issued handgun carry permit, a U.S. passport or another form of government-issued ID to vote. Student IDs are not acceptable.
Memphis, which is a heavily Democratic city in the otherwise mostly Republican state, filed a lawsuit in July claiming the law would disenfranchise voters who used other valid government-issued IDs to vote.
The case went to the Tennessee appeals court, which ruled last week that the requirement that voters have photo identification is constitutional but that the Memphis library cards at the heart of the legal challenge were acceptable at polling places.
Tennessee's Republican Secretary of State Tre Hargett appealed the provision regarding the library cards to the state Supreme Court.
In its ruling on Thursday, that court agreed to hear Hargett's appeal but declined to set it aside in the meantime, saying that "the right to vote has profound constitutional significance" and ordering that the Memphis library cards be accepted for the upcoming election.[/quote]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... f=politics
Dang... Another GOTP voter-suppression piece of garbage struck down...
So that folks can have a slightly balanced and fair opinion, could you post the requirement for getting a library card there. Without knowing this, why even require a card, why not just let people vote upon request.
I personally think the only thing you should have to prove to vote is that you are human and present, but many here are trying to manipulate who can vote (like they give a shit what others think about their lives). You should not restrict this quite relevant piece of information of people may think you agree with me.
Kind of interesting that the people that want more ID are willing to subject themselves to the will of anyone that has one of these precious ID's. I though folks wanted to decide things in their lives themselves. This is not just opium, this is fighting over who even gets to take the opium so they can't see through the wool.
Library card? In Jeffco, IIRC, you needed photo ID to get a card. Or if you were underage without photo ID, when I got mine, I had to bring in the parent's utility bill.
So it seems likely that anyone who could get a library card would already have photo ID if they were of legal age to vote.
Supposedly 11% of Americans of voting age don't have photo ID, I would love to have this number fact checked. It seems way too high. The number comes from a left leaning organization.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
on that note wrote:
I personally think the only thing you should have to prove to vote is that you are human and present
So how would that work? So if I go to vote and know my son is registered but isn't voting, I can then vote again in his name giving me a double vote (or many more).
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
on that note wrote: So that folks can have a slightly balanced and fair opinion, could you post the requirement for getting a library card there. Without knowing this, why even require a card, why not just let people vote upon request.
I personally think the only thing you should have to prove to vote is that you are human and present, but many here are trying to manipulate who can vote (like they give a sh** what others think about their lives). You should not restrict this quite relevant piece of information of people may think you agree with me.
Kind of interesting that the people that want more ID are willing to subject themselves to the will of anyone that has one of these precious ID's. I though folks wanted to decide things in their lives themselves. This is not just opium, this is fighting over who even gets to take the opium so they can't see through the wool.
Y'know, if it's that important for you to have the details, why don't you use Google and look it up?
