South Carolina man says new photo ID law will prevent him from voting

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By David Edwards

Larry Butler told SC Progressive Network that South Carolina’s new voter photo ID law will prevent him from voting. The state won’t issue him a driver’s license because he can’t produce the necessary documentation. Butler does not have a birth certificate because he was not born in a hospital and the elementary school he attended burnt down many years ago so the required records are not available.

Opponents argue that voter photo ID laws unfairly target minorities and the poor who are less likely to have photo identification.

Watch this video from SC Progressive Network, uploaded June 7, 2011.

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/south-carolina-man-says-new-photo-id-law-will-prevent-him-from-voting/

[RT Atlanta]

1. Exactly what's intended by this type of law

if this ruffian cannot produce the necessary documentation for a photo ID, he's surely not worthy of participating as a voter; probably couldnt even pay his poll-tax (if we still had 'em)

:sarcasm:

In all seriousness, that's unfortunate and surely not the last person that will be disenfranchised by this type of law (exactly what the 'pukes were hoping to achieve).

[NightWatcher]

2. so he gets through life without any kind of photo id? does he have a job, cash checks, drive?

Most states will give you a free photo id and I find it hard to believe that he cannot get one somehow.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Those free state photo ids still require the same documentation.

[csziggy]

17. And in some states those photo IDs are NOT free!

In Florida they cost $25 to get and $25 to renew. I'm not sure how long they are good for.

[Hippo_Tron]

18. How is any of that relevant to the fact that he's being disenfranchised?

[FLPanhandle]

3. Voting is the least of his problems then.

He can't fly, he can't use a credit card in many places, he can't open a checking account, he can't cash an check, he can't drive, etc.

Forget about voting, how does this guy live?

[kestrel91316]

6. He has probably lived in the same town his whole life, and does business

pretty much exclusively with people who have known him forever.

[FLPanhandle]

11. What happens when those people who've known him forever retire?

Or leave, or new business take over old ones?

He can have no government assistance, no passport, no travel.

Like I said, his problems are much bigger than not being able to vote. He needs to get that fixed in order to live.

[kestrel91316]

15. Correct, but he's probably so old already that those who knew him as a boy are gone.

This should have been taken care of years ago. There are procedures in place. Used to be LOTS of people didn't have official birth records and had to have people attest to witnessing it.

[Hippo_Tron]

16. That's no excuse to disenfranchise him

[kestrel91316]

5. Can't even get a passport to leave this shithole of a country.

[Renew Deal]

7. Wouldn't a birth certificate be registered with a county clerk?

I thought you needed one even if you weren't born in a hospital. Maybe it was different in the old days.

[shraby]

8. Supposed to be, but if he was born at home, it's possible

his parents never got around to registering his birth.

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. I don't know his age, but he looks pretty elderly.

My grandmother was born at home in rural north Florida. She didn't get a "birth certificate" until she was an adult. I put it in quotation marks because I'm fairly certain what she got wouldn't hold up to Tea Party standards.

[RebelOne]

10. No, if he wasn't born in a hospital or had a midwife at the birth.

My ex-husband was born out in the country in Alabama. He never had a birth certificate and his birth was never registered. His mother was a dumb country girl who did not even know she was pregnant. But he never had any problems getting any ID or drivers license.

[SouthernLiberal]

12. But now the rules have changed

First, we had the impact of the so-called 'Real ID', which required states to make identifying yourself in order to get a driver's license or state-issued id harder. I'm pretty sure this originated before the 'you're a terrorist until you can prove you're not' movement, so it's probably of the 'keep those illegal aliens from getting id' variety. South Carolina 'opted out' whatever that means, but does require proof of citizenship.

Still, though, this law here in SC isn't about preventing voter fraud, because when asked about the so called problem, a supporter of the bill in the state legislature referred only to the amount of news about voter fraud, and said that he didn't think South Carolina was exempt. In short, he did not know of a single case of voter fraud that would have been prevented by this law.

Even in the news, I have never heard of any such case. It's all rumors.

I am convinced that this is all a a stunt to with the goal of preventing likely Democratic voters from being able to cast their vote.

[nichomachus]

14. Not everywhere. In my hometown, these records are in the city hall.

[nichomachus]

13. I thought the Mormons had all these records on microfilm

So, they could baptize you by proxy as Mormons without your knowledge or permission.

[Hippo_Tron]

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