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Voter ID

As for voter ID, my home state Texas has the best system that I know of.  It is very flexible.  You can show driver's license, passport, citizenship papers, voter registration card, etc.  If you have nothing else, you can show a utility bill.  I don't think a street address is a requirement, but it might have to have a zip code, which narrows the location down to a neighborhood.  

As for the Native Americans,  OF COURSE they should be provided with a way to vote, without having to provide a street address.  If this is not happening, then that is wrong.

posted by GoldenMean on November 6, 2018 at 7:10 AM | link to this | reply

As to the change in the law requiring addresses.....That's important because in one previous election, North Dakota residents were allowed to vote using just a P.O. Box.

But.  A federal appeals court overturned that, and the U.S. Supreme Court let that decision stand.  It's not that hard to set up an address system, and they knew about it in advance, new I.D. cards should have been prepared.   We had the same problem when we added zip codes.......

posted by Corbin_Dallas on November 6, 2018 at 7:05 AM | link to this | reply

Re: There is no monopoly on cheating

What's being described here is not cheating.....Most states require voter rolls to be purged and if a person hasn't voted in a specific (by law) number of years (3-5) their names are removed from the books..  That helps to prevent someone from voting those names....yes, I know you have to show an ID...but in a precinct that say only one party ever sends the precinct workers there...it's open season on voting the dead.

posted by Corbin_Dallas on November 6, 2018 at 6:55 AM | link to this | reply

There is no monopoly on cheating

Some elements of both parties cheat.  I have seen reports throught the years about Democrats being caught cheating.  Democrat officials have been fired because of cheating.  The problem just as bad,  is with people who ignore the cheating on their side, and scream to high heaven about the cheating on the other side.  There is a word for this:  hypocrisy.  I try to see the faults on both sides,  but I will support conservative values and philosophy, wherever I find them.... as you seem to do on the liberal side.   Cheers   

posted by GoldenMean on November 6, 2018 at 6:22 AM | link to this | reply

they need to go to the aclu and have them file a complaint with the courts in their area...make a ruckus....get the media involved...get on fb, instagram and twitter...they don't like their shenanigans made public

 

posted by Annicita on October 17, 2018 at 12:29 PM | link to this | reply

Politics just gets worse and worse, or maybe it's just that I'm getting older and older and have no patience with it.

posted by TAPS. on October 17, 2018 at 1:51 AM | link to this | reply

As far as I can understand people of first nations in that State have PO box only for addresses. from an Observer this appears to me to be a very poorly made decision against a people who should have more rights to vote in their land than any one else.Who knows who they will vote for, that is their business or even if they will vote, but surely they have the right to use the address that they do have. Just saying. 

posted by Kabu on October 15, 2018 at 6:19 PM | link to this | reply

Hi there! I saw this on tv. i don't get political here at Blogit. 

posted by Sea_Gypsy on October 15, 2018 at 3:57 PM | link to this | reply

Most of the states in the US require purging of people who haven't voted in a specified numbers of elections.  If you don't vote, you get purged.  The Secretaries of State are required to purge the registration rolls a specified number of days prior to the election.  

If you move it is your responsibility to update the new address with the (usually) Country Clerk.  It is also done to purge voters who have died since the last election.  Dead votes are a favotite tactic in the Dem controlled larger cities.

posted by Corbin_Dallas on October 15, 2018 at 7:35 AM | link to this | reply

The Supreme Court has already ruled on N. Dakota

Native American voting rights activists in North Dakota have launched an audacious plan aimed at pushing back against a Supreme Court ruling that threatens the reelection of Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) — and that could decide the fate of the Senate in the process.

The high court decided 6 to 2 Tuesday to leave in place a state law that requires residents to provide an ID displaying a residential address rather than a P.O. box number to vote.

 

posted by Corbin_Dallas on October 15, 2018 at 7:26 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Re: Corbin Dallas,

Oh...I will.

posted by Corbin_Dallas on October 15, 2018 at 7:20 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Corbin Dallas,

If one is going to want to do further research, one might try doing a search on Voter Disenfranchisement and find plenty of their own links.

 

posted by Ciel on October 15, 2018 at 7:16 AM | link to this | reply

Just curious...if one is going to make these types of statements, shouldn't one provide links to sources....

posted by Corbin_Dallas on October 15, 2018 at 6:50 AM | link to this | reply