Originally Posted by **********

Howdy -

You're missing the point. Asking for ID is normal for anything such as banking, etc, and its ok to ask for it for voting too. The problem is that most of the ID's that SOME people have are now, suddenly, good enough. For example, in some states, a drivers license was not good enough. I don't recall the details but there are stories of some 90+ elders who had always been able to vote in the past, but now find that things like their birth certificate, marriage license etc, are not good enough.

To get the proper "NEW" ID, meant that it would take weeks or months, or having to jump through many hoops, or do a lot of travel etc, just to get the ID.

At the same time this was going on, many polling stations were being moved to hard to get to areas, or had the number of voting machines reduced to increase already very long voting lines.

They also took away things like Sunday voting which was very very popular with the Cristian black groups.

All of there above were policies put in place by republicans. They seem to be making it harder and harder, for minorities and or low income people to vote.

GFY'ers here love to find correlation between unrelated events, stitch them together and call it proof. But when it seems to fly in the face of perceived conservative values, they protest, and sometimes too much.

Peace.