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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why aren't these same people complaining about all the other things in ordinary life that require presenting ID?

How come no one is protesting showing ID to buy alcohol or cigarettes? Or prescription meds? Or to receive govt benefits?

How is it the *only* thing people get outraged about having to show ID for, is *voting*? Being required to show ID for all the other stuff is fine with them.

It really is a magical contradiction, isn't it? [/quote]

Are those things enshrined in our constitution as a right?[/quote]

Just like free speech and gun ownership has responsibilities attached to them, so does voting. [/quote]

The responsibility is to go vote.  It's not for one group of citizens to do what they can to make it harder for other citizens to vote.[/quote]

Sure. To go vote, multiple times, under various previously-registered names! Enabled by not having to show an ID proving who you are.

If I wanted to, I could complete a half dozen (or more... many, many more) voter registration forms under made-up names, or names of dead people, and then on election day go and vote as each of those people, with only my mouth as my proof of being who I am. Or even easier, just request absentee ballots for each and vote that way.

[b]It republicans were doing this, democrats would be marching with pitchforks on their local boards of election demanding voter ID.
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Maybe that's what needs to happen. [/quote]

But Democrats are NOT doing this. So why are you trying to disenfranchise people? It seems to me that you hate the Constitution.[/quote]

Ok, then let's play Devil's Advocate....

Shouldn't you WANT a voter ID law to prevent this "GOProjection"?!?!

I mean, if you think Republicans are ALREADY doing this, why wouldn't you want to stop it?!?! [/quote]

If your voter id laws and policies regarding times and places people can register and times and places people can vote are keeping hundreds and even thousands of people from voting while only preventing one fraudent vote, do you consider that a victory?  Of course you do, you're a Republican.

Republicans know that the only way they can win is to gerrymander and keep voting numbers down.  The higher the voter turnout, the worse Republicans do. That's why they try to keep turnout low.

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