Should We Be Worried About This ???

[WillyT]

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2557598

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[NEDem]

2. Go ahead if you want to

but I won't lose any sleep over it.

[Pragmatic Pilgrim]

3. Voter ID is the real threat.

I'm baffled why more people aren't talking about it. African-Americans & Hispanics, especially, should be marching in the streets to protest this sly assault on their civil rights by Repulsives and by the complacent majority who own driver's licenses and think it's a petty issue.

In states like mine (IN), we could easily lose 50,000 Dem voters because of our Voter ID laws. A University of Wisconsin study of that state (the only such study I've seen on this) showed that nearly half the African-Americans in Milwaukee County lacked driver's licenses, and ditto for the Hispanics. (85% of the Whites, statewide, had driver's licenses.) The elderly will also be hit by these laws--more than 177,000 of them in WI lack driver's licenses. Considering that Kerry won WI by fewer than 15,000 votes, the hurdles erected against voting by people who lack driver's licenses could easily swing the state for the Repulsives. And that was in a Presidential election. People are far less motivated to go through all the time & expense required to obtain a Voter ID for a Congressional election.

In most cases, obtaining a Voter ID requires that they first send away for a Birth Certificate ($10-15). Then, when it arrives, they must somehow get to a Driver's License Bureau. Remember, these are people who don't drive, and most areas of America don't have public transportation! In Missouri--which had a Voter ID law as bad as Indiana's until it was temporarily set aside by the courts last month--the Republican state officials had apparently been stalling Birth Certificate applications for as long as 8 months! And here in Indiana, our Republican Dept. of Motor Vehicles closed the only full-service Driver's License Bureau in the City of Gary--pop. 100,000, 80% of which is African-American--and replaced it with a limited-service substation that's closed evenings and weekends (which means people would have to take a day off work to get a Voter ID).

If we lose, maybe we'll start rising up against these deliberately discriminatory laws. Till then, I guess I'm just a voice in the wilderness.

[Virginian]

4. It seems to also discriminate against certain handicaps.

The blind don't drive in Indiana, do they?