Skinning the Cat a Different Way
The legislature, unable to override Governor Perdue’s veto, is considering another way to enact a law requiring voters to show a picture ID at the polls. We understand that when the legislature comes back for the Constitutional Amendment session on September 12th there will be an attempt to resurrect voter ID using local bills. Our laws prohibit the Governor from vetoing local bills so lawmakers will lump together several counties and pass bills requiring that a photo ID be presented when voting. That same law also prohibits the entire population from being included in such a local bill so only a few counties can be included in each bill.
Leaders will no doubt cite the revelations in Wake County that several persons voted more than once in a recent election. One has to wonder why so much effort is being expended on an issue that has so little importance to our state. Why not spend the same time on creating new jobs for our state?
The only reason so much time and effort is required is because of the obstructionist governor. If it's no big deal, do it. If you can't get a government ID within a year's time before an election, then maybe your voting enablers are failing you. Why are other low income persons (older Jews, older native Americans, older immigrants) not a concern for the Democrat party, as are the African-Americans? Are blacks the only constituents Democrats think are unable to look after their own best interests in obtaining government verification of their identity?
The rantings of the Democrats on this issue are laughable, if it didn't strike at the integrity of a basic building block of our republic. But then, I've come to expect that of them.
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Sneaky...the way of most politics unfortunately. Who's paying attention? Not many until it's a done deal.
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Government does not creat jobs unless you count the bloated government payrolls. Government should move out of the way so private industry can do its work and jobs will be created
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The only way government can create jobs is to eliminate regulations that hinder jobs.
I personally see no reason not to require a photo ID before voting. If this will stop voter fraud I am 100% for it. There is no doubt voter fraud was rampant in this state in the 2008 election.
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This a pathetic attempt by the right wing to further display their lack of commitment to working together for the good of all. I agree there are much bigger fish to fry than this. It further disappoints and discourages me as I see this as a focus. It should not get this kind of attention.
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Sure hope this voter ID law passes as if will at least I believe a safe way of knowing who voter and/or who should not have. We need ID for everything, why can't government see the importanceof knowing the identity of those who votes!
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Why not? spend the time on getting our voting system to where we can feel like its being done honestly and correctly.
Its such a small thing to show ID when you vote, so what's the problem. You have to show ID to do just about anything anymore. Do we put such a small importance on voting?
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I have watched this program for a long time,may be the oldest person ever to write a comment? (DO
I can recall some of the things during the depression,very little crime as I recall,we lived in the country,had a garden,cow,hogs & chickens alway enough to eat.
I am the sixth child of nine,seven raised to maturity, the first to finish High School.
I recall hearing President Roosevelt saying no american would fight on foreign soil if he was re-elected !
My oldest brother was killed in Germany
9/16/1944, receiving the Army's highest award,the DSC.
The facts were not known until 1952 while I was serving in Germany and ask to visit his grave, then and only then was the fact given to the family by me from the letter receive from the army.
My Dad's Daddy was a confederate soldier moving to North Carolina after the war between the states.
I don't believe my ancestors came to America for big government or a welfare check,so you can know my politics from this brief history.
Third parties elected Bill Clinton and George Bush,do you agree? Until
your remarks about the third parties and voter ID I had no idea of your politics but they make a statement.
Name somethings more important than honesty at the polling places!
Did cook county carry Illinois and Illinois elect John Kennedy who claimed there was a missile gap,later admitting he was wrong?
Nixon lied and had to resign,Clinton lied on TV and got reelected, thanks to the press and the old Byrd from West Va.
Can you recall how the press demonized the prosecutor in the Clinton impeachment trial?
You condemn the Internet and talk radio but without them we would only get the liberal view.(Democrat)
The TEA party was called a terriost group by the Vice President and Harry Reid said it would not survive.
If the Senate will not compromise and the House will not compromise, why is it more the Houses fault than the Senates?
I first voted for General Eisenhower while in Germany(1952). I vote conservative most times and
consider myself an independent,support the TEA party and will work to elect a conservative for President,one that doesn't have his records locked up so
voters can not see his history & his wife's.
Why am I a conservative, all the business people I know are conservatives, all the democrats I know are union,colored or government workers.
DO YOU THINK WE HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING FROM THE EUROPEAN MESS??
PS I have never purchased Starbucks coffee,never expect to and voter for Senator Berger & representative Bert Jones.
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The only reason to oppose a photographic identification before voting is so that one may vote early and vote often--as is done in Chicago--where even the dead rise from their graves to vote.
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One has to wonder why Democrats always put up such resistance to even modest efforts to help ensure that elections are clean and fair.
I think I know......
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Voting is a RIGHT, not a privilege. Voter fraud is a laughably small occurrence--look up the actual numbers. Republicans introduce these bills because they know it discourages young voters and poor voters... i.e., those less likely to vote for them.
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