After making the first post in response to Land Shark's, a few hours passed. I kept reflecting on the posts that were being made by local readers, mulling them over. So, I decided to post some of my first post on this thread directly to the Tennessean.
I offer a couple of cut'n'pastes of some responses, for flavor.
Anyone wishing to enlighten the readers can register (gratis) and post.
http://forums.tennessean.com/viewtopic.php?t=4916&start=0There is one and only one reason a person would not be for voter ID..they favor voter fraud. We already have people voting who don't know who the vice-president, senators and congressmen who represent them are, why go even farther and have non-citizens voting in elections.this memorable one leaves me wondering how to communicate to the poster, other than "Source on that, please?"
Sorry Gallo, however the assertions in your post are correct (sic. probably meant incorrect).
There is massive voter fraud that is concentrated in the democrat party. Dead people voting in Memphis, Chicago, rolling out vote in the Cumberland Plateau. Illegal aliens do try to vote.
I & the majority of people in the US are incredulous that anyone with intelligence & ethics would see anything wrong with having to have a Photo ID to prove one's identity before voting. Using "ET" as an example does not speak well for either your intelligence or ability to make analogies. A better analogy would be if a latino man wearing a white cowboy hat got in line to vote & gave the name Sam Jones.
If there is no photo id requriement, there is no real chance of being arrested for illegally voting. The illegal aliens have no dog in this fight? Not an educated statement, if one looks @ the political landscape & the incredibly huge issue that border security/illegal aliens are in this election. Please do not "talk down" to us - you'll be talking to our shoes. We are quite "up" on things around here.
There is a vote fraud problem in many areas, & the desire by some to make fraud easier to perpetrate. What states do not right now offer free state photo IDs to the indigent? Poo-pooing the vote-fraud issue is no winning issue politically or ethically.If anyone can convey to them that it is our Constitutional right to vote, as citizens, and not something subject to their own current xenophobic whims, I would be grateful... if not actually amazed.
Gives one an idea of what HR 4844 is really about (and makes me wonder how one spells Ku Klux Klan in Spanish).:shrug: