Well. Nice to know the California Democrats are keeping the state safe for voter fraud:
The Assembly Committee on Elections and Redistricting killed a proposal in January by Assemblyman Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, requiring California voters to show one of six forms of ID at a polling place. Under Assembly Bill 9, a voter without identification could use a provisional ballot but would be required to show a valid ID card to the county registrar within five days. The bill failed on a party-line vote and is dead for the year.The usual gang of idiots.Opponents included the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as public employee unions such as the California Teachers Association.
Critics said the bill raised constitutional problems similar to those in the Supreme Court case and expressed concerns that an ID requirement would impose new costs on some voters and deter others by creating long waits at polling places.Then the critics are a ass. Photo ID costs nothing, so if you're too frickin' lazy to go get one, you have no right to vote.
SacBee story via McGehee, and more here from Prof. Bainbridge.
Posted by Ken S at April 30, 2008 07:17 PM | TrackBack (0) |"Critics said the bill raised constitutional problems similar to those in the Supreme Court case..."
But apparently didn't realize that even the lefties on the Court justifiably thought those "concerns" were BS.
Posted by: Dave J at April 30, 2008 07:34 PMI have very,very little hope our leaders can ever
do anything that is beyond their own self-interest.
It is harder to rent a video than it is to vote.Their answer to the Energy problem is to
eliminate federal taxes on gas!How about the fact we
haven't built an atomic power plant or even an oil
refinery in over 30 years.It's so sad and depressing.
Doofuses all. The ACLU wants the civil liberties of Americans eroded by having their votes diluted by non-citizens, felons, and the dead?
Posted by: Nightfly at April 30, 2008 09:54 PMThe ACLU's new motto: "Vote early, vote often."
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at April 30, 2008 10:21 PM"And keep voting after you're dead"
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at May 1, 2008 05:33 AMThat line about "creating long lines at polling places" is a crock also. The way it's done where I live, you go to the table for the first letter of your last name, sign the line with your name and address in the registration book, and get a ticket to hand to the next official to get a ballot. It would add little or no time for an election worker to check a photo ID while you are signing your name. The whole issue is so transparently bullshit that it boggles the mind.
Posted by: Dave E. at May 1, 2008 07:20 AMDave E.--Yeah, it really doesn't take time as long as people are aware they need to present it. I had to show ID at the primary last week b/c I'd just moved to the district, and it took all of fifteen seconds, b/c I knew they most likely needed to see it.
Posted by: Kate P at May 1, 2008 10:19 AMHere in Georgia we've had to show some form of ID since we moved here, though until recently it didn't need to have a photo.
No, here the objection was (at first) that requiring a photo ID was a de facto poll tax. When the bill was amended to make free state photo ID easier to obtain the usual suspects came up with some other cockamamie objection about discouraging people from voting. Well, yeah -- people who aren't eligible to vote should be discouraged from voting. Jeez.
Anyway, the longest part of waiting to vote that I've ever encountered at a regular polling place on Election Day, was all after I got my ballot, just waiting for a booth to become available.
But that was nothing compared to, I think 2004, probably the primary, when Georgia first tried early voting during the week before the actual election. There's only one place to do that, and I went on the first day.
And that's why, now, I vote at my regular polls on Election Day.
Posted by: McGehee at May 2, 2008 10:30 AM