Hello Bob!

17 Jul 10 16:26, you wrote to Tim Richardson:

 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.


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

You people would blame the event that made the Dinosauers extinct on Bush
if you could..

What is wrong with requiring voters to identify themselves when they go to
the polls to vote?

A. One has to present ID when stopped by a Police Officer.

B. One has to present ID when applying for fishing and hunting licenses.

C. One has to present ID to buy a firearm.

D. One has to present ID when writing checks to merchants.

E. One has to present ID to open up accounts at financial institutions.

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

As I understand it, the objection to voter ID requirements is that it
supposedly puts a burden on the poor or it supposedly targets minorities???
Yet there is no objection to A-F, granted a poor person is less likely to
do some of them in the daily course of their lives.

So what is wrong with requiring ID at the polls, every state issues a
acceptable ID card in the absence of a drivers license?

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