-=> Ross Cassell wrote to Bob Klahn <=-

 TR>> I find it disgusting that, in a country where there are
 TR>> elaborate ways to check the ID of someone buying alchohol
 TR>> or tobacco, and there are stiff penalties for using false
 TR>> ID to purchase either one of those products, something as
 TR>> important as voting to elect local and national figures who
 TR>> will determine our policy and how the public moneys gets
 TR>> spent, gets a pass.

 BK>  Yet there is a big problem with underage drinking, there is
 BK>  little problem with illegal voting. The US attorney scandal
 BK>  under Bush was about some US Attorneys who got reports of voter
 BK>  fraud, from republican congress critters, and found the reports
 BK>  were phony. So they got fired for not pulling off a political
 BK>  witch hunt. Remember, these were republican US attorneys,
 BK>  political appointees.


 RC> No stay on point Bob, dont blame everything on Bush..

He was talking about a specific item, Ross.
 
 RC> You people would blame the event that made the Dinosauers extinct on
 RC> Bush if you could..

Not really, that would require intelligence on the part of the perpetrator far
in excess of anything that George III ever demonstrated.
 
 RC> What is wrong with requiring voters to identify themselves when they go
 RC> to the polls to vote?

Nothing. They do so in my state. When I go to the polls to vote, as I do every
election, I am required to identify myself. The first few times I had to show
my voter's registration card. Now I am identified by Mark I Eyeball on the part
of the election judges since I vote in every election and the poll watchers and
election judges tend to be the same folks each time. But, I am identified. If I
move to a different precinct I expect to be asked for my Voter's ID card, etc.
 
 RC> A. One has to present ID when stopped by a Police Officer.

Huh? Since when? You may be detained until the Keystones determine who you are.
But, you are in no way require to produce your "papers".
 
 RC> B. One has to present ID when applying for fishing and hunting
 RC> licenses.

So? One has to present a Voter's ID at the polls where I live.
 
 RC> C. One has to present ID to buy a firearm.

So? One has to present a Voter's ID at the polls where I live.
 
 RC> D. One has to present ID when writing checks to merchants.

So? One has to present a Voter's ID at the polls where I live.
 
 RC> E. One has to present ID to open up accounts at financial institutions.

 So? One has to present a Voter's ID at the polls where I live.

 RC> F. One has to present ID when applying for credit to purchase an
 RC> automobile, Home etc. In fact the purchase of the Automobile itself
 RC> requires ID.

Not true. Purchasing an automobile requires only the requisite amount of ca$h
where I live. 
 
 RC> As I understand it, the objection to voter ID requirements is that it
 RC> supposedly puts a burden on the poor or it supposedly targets
 RC> minorities??? Yet there is no objection to A-F, granted a poor person
 RC> is less likely to do some of them in the daily course of their lives.

Voters in my state must identify themselves to the election commission which
issues their voter's ID. So what? It only makes sense.
 
 RC> So what is wrong with requiring ID at the polls, every state issues a
 RC> acceptable ID card in the absence of a drivers license?

One has to present a Voter's ID at the polls where I live.

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