Comments (38) (Please sign in to comment)

1. 

   Ryan said, 11 months ago

   LOL
2. 

   Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 11 months ago

   Or take the easier way out and refuse to vote for what you imagine to be the lesser of the two evils. When that evil proves to be no less evil than the other one, at least you won’t be to blame.
3. 

   Ottodesu said, 11 months ago

   Yeah, I laughed as well.
   Seriously, as a foreigner, since GWB assumed power through his brother’s, umm “management”, the world has sniggered whenever “democracy” and “USA” are in the same sentence.
   And I say that as a genuine friend of the USA.
4. 

   ShortStraw said, 11 months ago

   Just remember if you are not caught then there’s no Fraud to record
5. 

   Bob said, 11 months ago

   Sounds like what we have to do to get a drivers license renewal. Passport or birth certificate (No mere hospital paper}.
   Plus two proofs of residence.
6. 

   cdward said, 11 months ago

   Now we get to the true reason for the sudden interest in voter “fraud.” It’s to get rid of legal voters they don’t like – who vote the wrong way. Personally, I’d rather have a few illegal voters slip through than disenfranchise thousands of legal voters.
7. 

   rshive said, 11 months ago

   @Bob

   Yeah, that’s what my wife had to do to get her license renewed. That hospital paper got her into East Germany (when it still existed) as a US citizen. And it’s not good enough for a driver’s license? Somewhere Walter Ulbricht is chuckling.
8. 

   LameRandomName said, 11 months ago

   YOU NEED A PICTURE I.D. TO: Drive, Board an airplane, become a new patient at a medical practice and generally to see the doctor even afterwards, Apply for a job, Fill a prescription. Apply to school, Apply for credit, Establish a Gas/Water/Electric account, Buy a car, Register a car, Get outpatient testing, collect Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security. Open a retirement account, Donate blood, Buy a firearm, Pawn something, Write a Check, Use a credit card, Buy car insurance. Buy train tickets, Buy annual tickets to an amusement park, volunteer at most non-profits, Get a library card. Get a professional license, buy a house or rent an apartment.
9. 

   Rotary12 said, 11 months ago

   How else will the dems win elections if every voter is verified?
10. 

    moreorless said, 11 months ago

    gosh, this is funnier when we ignore reality in all its forms.
11. 

    LameRandomName said, 11 months ago

    @Ottodesu

    Your statement about what happened in the 2000 election is ahistorical.
12. 

    LameRandomName said, 11 months ago

    @cdward

    How does requiring IDENTIFICATION disenfranchise anyone?

    Who are these people who are managing to get through 21st century life without ID?
13. 

    puddleglum1066 said, 11 months ago

    People, read the comic strip! The issue here is not whether it’s a good idea to ditch over 200 years of tradition and require people to present ID at election time (why we have the tradition and whether it’s time to change could make for another discussion), but the way certain states are throwing thousands of people off the valid voter lists, often without reason, and then requiring them to jump through multiple, arbitrary hoops to get reinstated. When the people in question are overwhelmingly likely to vote for the Party Not In Power this sorta reeks of an attempt to rig the upcoming election.
    .
    Seems to me that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander: if we’re concerned that there might be some people who aren’t eligible to vote on the list, then let’s settle it once and for all: delete EVERYBODY, start from a clean slate, and make everybody come in and prove they’re legitimate voters.
14. 

    hippogriff said, 11 months ago

    We have always required voter identification – it is called a voter registration card. It took my mother a year to get Social Security – a lynch mob burned her birth certificate, along with a prisoner and the whole courthouse. How is a bed-ridden vet supposed to crawl to the county seat to register? We’ve got them in Bonham. I used to register voters, starting after the last primary to avoid appearance of party affiliation. Now it is a crime. The whirring sound from the cemetery is Sam Rayburn.
15. 

    LameRandomName said, 11 months ago

    @puddleglum1066

    No, the issue is whether or not asking voters to show identification that they already have is voter suppression.
16. Load the rest of the comments (23).