Voter ID

Here in Ohio I have to show ID when I vote and I'm comfortable with that. I do not want anyone choosing my public officials that is not a valid resident of this country. We have enough people voting to pick my pocket for their own profit, we don't need unqualified voters doing so!

Here's what it comes down to for me. If you want the most votes possible for yourself or for a candidate or ideology you're supporting, you would obviously benefit from lax standards and possibly even outright fraud. While you need an ID to drive, buy smokes or booze, get a job, and a million other things, you would say that it's discriminatory to require an ID to vote, because if you didn't, people would realize that having an ID to vote SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN THE LAW IN EVERY STATE!

Actually, yes. Just about everywhere I go an I.D. is required. It is required for voting, and it is required for purchasing medicine, and getting certain things, and they do it to protect people's identity. Some of you may not have ever been victims of identity theft, but I have had friends and family who have been. One of my friends had her wallet stolen at Universal Studios City Walk in Hollywood, CA, and her California ID, her Green Card, and her credit cards were all in there, and she had a Hell of a time trying to cancel things, and prove to people that she was who she said she was. I had another friend who had her's stolen when she was a baby. Someone had been using her Social Security Number because they figured since she was a baby, and wouldn't be using it, that they could get away with using her SSN, but when she became an adult, and try filing for taxes, getting jobs, and other things like that, people started to question her and she no idea why. Luckily, her mother is a county employee, and the people that she knew were able to get to the bottom of it, and it turned out that someone had been using her SSN since she was a baby. Again, these identity laws are around to protect people because when you have your identity stolen, it can be a nightmare. Whenever anyone ask for my ID I am happy to show it to them.

It is hypocritical of Liberals to require a photo ID to get a job, health treatment or to travel, but fight it when it comes to voting. Are they afraid of losing their voter base - repeat voters?

Florida has had this law for as long as I have been voting ( that is a long time too...lol). Now the liberals are challanging it as if it was JUST forced down their throats recently. Of course they are the ballot stuffers...

I totally agree with you. You can't really do anything without some type of ID. Voting is a privilege and if you want to vote bring / have your ID with you. In my opinion that should be the end of the discussion. The fact that the US government is now getting in the uproar makes me wonder how much voter fraud there is, especially when a person doesn't have to show ID to vote. I also think it is shameless when the US Attorney General says you can't make people show ID's to vote.

For all the reasons you just named, I do not understand people protesting. Our state has signed into law an ID requirement as well. Here in the US we are fortunate that we do not have to show one as often as some other places, but it is no big deal. In most states you can get a non driver's ID at the same place you get your license. It does sound like conflict of interest there in Wisconsin.

In the state of California you don't need anything to prove who you are. They ask me for my name and look up on the sheet to see if I'm on the list but anyone could walk in with my name and be able to vote for me. They do ask me to sign next to my name, but that proves nothing either. I have always felt the ones opposing this law do so only for their own personal gain, meaning that they support illegals coming to this country and having equal rights to Citizen's, so they cater to those votes. If we required proof of ID then that would put a big wrench into those that aren't able to vote from voting, and that wouldn't be good for those politicians needing those votes. In the state of CA, you have to show 2 forms of ID to work, you have to have a picture ID to cash a check, I have to have a driver's license (picture on it) to drive. If I go to a bar (rarely) I must have a picture ID. If I win at a casino (rarely) I have to show ID. To use my credit card I have to show ID. To open any account or apply for a place to live I have to show picture ID. I can't think of much that I don't need it for. Now in the state of CA a picture ID can be a driver's license, a CA ID card, a passport or military ID, now I don't know if all of these are excepted as proof for all that I mentioned but most. So I see no legitimate reason as to why someone wouldn't have one of these forms of ID, unless your hiding from the law or don't belong here in the first place. I think it's time to get rid of all these people sitting in places of authority who don't want to uphold the laws in place or want what the majority of the people want. Seems to me the majority has no problem with showing an ID to go in and vote. As always just my 2 cents worth!!!

Do you ever wonder how much good liberals could do if, instead of fighting these laws, they actually helped the affected people get ID?

I agree that people need ID's for everything, and they shouldn't even question it if it's required for voting. I don't see a thing wrong with requiring one! I don't know right now where we stand in our state.....I know it's been an issue. Many places have tried it and the people working at the poll love it!

I can't picture going anywhere without some form of ID. You need it when driving and almost everything else. I know if you are traveling they don't let you go anywhere without some form of ID, most commonly a passport (at least if going out of the country). If they don't require ID at polling places, the ballots involved (given without ID) should be put separate so they can be questioned if there is any doubt about the legality of the voter.

Technically we should make it 2 forms of I.D. because people can always get a fake ID. This is how bureaucratic BS gets started. We should be making things easier not harder. This is one of the reason why this country is always in so much debt because of bull crap laws because society keeps trying to get something over on the other side.