I call bullshit. The whole CON argument of 'you need ID to blah blah blah doesn't hold up. As trish has pointed out many times in this thread, reliable studies -
http://www.brennancenter.org/content...stands_strong/ -show that as many as 11% of US citizens of voting age do not have photo ID. Those are the facts, so a lot of Americans are getting by without photo ID.
It's nice that Kansas and some other states are willing to help folks get ID, but are they willing to provide transport and costs to get the ID needed to get photo ID? Replacing birth certs and SS cards are where a lot of the hassle and expense comes in. Is Kansas one of those states where the local DMV is only open once in a blue moon?
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'It is not so simple to obtain a government-issued ID when the nearest DMV is 30 miles away and is only open every fifth Wednesday in a month (the DMV in Sauk City, Wisconsin is open only on the fifth Wednesday of any month; there are only four months in 2012 that have five Wednesdays), you have no access to a vehicle and your county is so poverty stricken it has no public transportation. On top of that, you would need to request time off from work to make it to the DMV (somehow), which would cost you an entire day
’s worth of pay (if your boss allows you to take the day off) and you may have to spare an additional $8-$20 to get your ID. On top of that, you need to provide paperwork in order to get your photo ID, which may involve an even more complicated process. If that does not seem impossible, it is at least a very difficult process to go through in order to cast your vote. It should not be so burdensome to have your voice heard in the democratic
“land of the free.
” The process is most difficult for the suffering people in this country who need their voices heard the most.
The Brennan Center for Justice found that in two areas along the U.S.-Mexico border making up 32 counties in Texas, there are approximately 134,000 voting-age citizens. About 61 percent of them are Hispanic, which is almost twice the relative concentration of Hispanics in the rest of the state, and the poverty rate is 22.4 percent. 9 of the 11 offices in these 32 counties are open part-time (only once or twice per week). Some voters, like those in Cotulla, a small rural town in south Texas, live an hour
’s drive from the nearest part-time ID-issuing office, and that location is often open only one day per week. The study also found that the Southeastern quadrant of Dallas County has no ID-issuing offices where there are 244,100 eligible voters: nearly 30 percent live in poverty, and 52 percent are black. By contrast, there are eight full-time offices in the rest of the county.'
http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/debate-left-724/
Reliable links to the allegations in your second paragraph would be helpful. I'd really, really like to know how 'fictitious people created by ACORN' managed to get registered, let alone vote. Was the local election bureau asleep at the wheel? As for your buddy in Kansas City, did he somehow register in multiple places under assumed names or did he use his own identity in each place? I'd love to see how he managed that trick.
