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  1. Chillbilly

    Chillbilly said, 3 months ago

    The fact that the deep south has as many black people as it does and still maintains a rock-solid GOP majority nearly everywhere should be pretty good evidence that whatever is happening electorally isn’t working.

  2. Rockngolfer

    Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago

    We need jobs, jobs, jobs, and we get abortion, gay marriage, and voting rights arguments.

  3. Bruce4671

    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    Mike, uh let me ask you, do you need a photo ID to legally buy a gun – any gun even a BB gun – from a federally registered gun dealer?

    Of course there is the problem that anything I already own I can sell to anyone I want to with out government oversight. So OK make that law that all sales must be done through a federal licensed dealer (lol like that will be observed). BUT you must also require that anyone that wants to vote (me included) must produce a government issued ID. Fair enough?

  4. d_legendary1

    d_legendary1 said, 3 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    Probelm with the Brucey is that my right to vote is not quite as dangerious as say obtaining a firearm. My voter registration card won’t be going on any killing sprees any time soon.

  5. 1opinion

    1opinion said, 3 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    “Having never been to Oklahoma, never going to go to Oklahoma and have no interest in what happens in Oklahoma I have no idea who you are talking about.

    But I see lots and lots of people that do not work full time and yet receive full pay and benefits. In fact, I could probably list almost 535 people like that."
    .
    and are they on the government payroll, state or federal?

  6. Bruce4671

    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    @1opinion

    yep.

  7. Bruce4671

    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    @d_legendary1

    Such hate. What don’t you want to bargain?

  8. omQ R

    omQ R said, 3 months ago

    I’m a little puzzled. I confess that I was “born” into national IDs, both in South Africa & Portugal so having them wasn’t ever much an issue until I came to Britain and discovered there were countries that didn’t have national IDs, like the U.K., USA & Austria. I was told that this was viewed as an encroachment to civil liberties etc. Fine, fair enough.

    I hear the civil liberties argument from both left & right but most strongly from the right. However, a few years back a Labour(left-of-centre-ish) proposal to introduce a National ID was resisted by the Tories (right) & the Liberal Democrats (also left-of-centre). With the Tory-LibDem coalition government , the whole thing was scrapped 2 years ago.


    So, in the US, which is it; are the right ok with a national ID or against it? Is it viewed as a civil liberties encroachment or not? What is the US liberals’ take on a national ID or any ID at all?

  9. eaglefalcon

    eaglefalcon said, 3 months ago

    @Rockngolfer

    And your point IS ?

  10. 1opinion

    1opinion said, 3 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    Is that not the type of government abuse people should be trying to end?

  11. saywhatwhat

    saywhatwhat said, 3 months ago

    @omQ R

    In the U.S. there really isn’t much interest in establishing a national (ie. Federal) ID card; not on either side. In all states (as far as I know) the drivers license has become the de-facto photo ID. Until recently though, there hadn’t been a requirement to have one to vote. States felt the need to issue an ID (for non drivers) so young-looking people who didn’t drive but were over 18 could buy alcohol. It was felt that if they wanted to drink, the burden of proof (and cost) should be on them. So now the problem is, when people are required to have one to vote — and the majority who don’t drive are poor inner-city or poor rural — the cost becomes a pole tax. Poor rural people have become “few and far between” and poor inner-city people tend to vote for Democrats. So guess who is pushing to require picture ID’s for voting. In addition to the cost, the process of getting a card can and has been made into a barrier to voting.

  12. saywhatwhat

    saywhatwhat said, 3 months ago

    But all these photo ID cards are on a state level.

  13. coraryan

    coraryan said, 3 months ago

    @omQ R

    Can only speak for myself. Being a Republican Conservative, I see nothing wrong with a national ID. Let’s have one, I’ll go get mine tomorrow. But they need to be required for voting. Ohio citizen hit the national news admitting that she voted for Obama twice & saw nothing wrong with it! And she has been a poll worker for years, Go figure. She got an absentee ballott and then voted in person also. Needs to be a stop to this! How many others did the same thing? The election was close, this could have swung it to Oblamer.

  14. coraryan

    coraryan said, 3 months ago

    @saywhatwhat

    Excuse me, you need to be 21 to drink, not 18. Sheesh, the level of ignorance in this country is just mind-blowing.

  15. coraryan

    coraryan said, 3 months ago

    @saywhatwhat

    As for your comment on the cost, if people truly cannot afford it, I believe the states are willing to provide ID’s at no cost. Surely the Fed Govt. would do the same, they give away everything else, God knows.

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