politics

Photo ID is unconstitutional. End of story.

So I assume that the voter ID law would come attached with a lot of state money so people who don't/can't drive can get state IDs created quickly right? Voter fraud is a serious felony, isn't that enough of a deterrent? I also wonder how Mr Westrup's devise worked. There are a lot of elderly who don't have a licence to drive.

Nothing about jobs or the economy. Just unnecessary crap.

SCOTUS has already ruled that photo ID laws are constitutional and 70% of Minnesotans want it. End of story.

It's not about "quick and easy" of ID laws. It's about fairness. People have the right to vote, whether they can afford to have an ID or not, whether they remember to get an ID or not, whether the state has issued their ID or whether it's still coming in the mail, whether they lost their wallet or got mugged the week before the election or not. If you need an ID, then we should get rid of absentee voting, I guess. Where's the uproar to do that? there isn't one. Why not? Who's checking all those people's ID's? Because absentee voting is disproportionately upper middle class and higher and white. The whole issue is ridiculous. The GOP has more important things to do than to drive away the very voters they need to win over (young, minority, elderly) in order to win the general election. They're just further driving a wedge into their future. Might help them this fall, but it'll hurt them in the long run as they disenfranchise voters.

Requiring voter ID sounds good on the surface, but when one looks a little deeper it becomes clear that requiring ID to vote is all about suppressing the vote of certain blocks of voters: students, people of color, and the poor. Requiring state issued ID means that people will have to pay to exercise their RIGHT to vote and therefore many of these people will be disenfranchised simply because they can't afford the ID, or because they do not have the resources to obtain one. Supporters of ID for voting state that it will prevent voter impersonation, but there are almost NO documented cases of this happening in the US.

You have to pay a fee to get a Minnesota photo ID card. They are not free. That is the same as poll tax. That is illegal. You have to dive, or get transportation to a government service center to get this done. Not everyone the means to do that! Who are these "people" that want to do this? And, just what problem are they trying to solve? How do you show a photo ID when you vote absentee, say like when you are in the service and or overseas?

So how does the guy's card reader prevent voter identity fraud?

"I'm in favor of an amendment to make it between a man and a woman," said Dr. Keith Stinson, who said he saw same-sex marriage as a vehicle for gays and lesbians to improve their health care benefits. This is very disconcerting when a Doctor tries to limit a person's health care. I wonder how he treats his other patients that don't have insurance.

I'm stunned that people were willing to hand over their drivers license to someone to download all their information onto a laptop. I'm more worried about identy fraud than voter fraud. That is a bigger problem we have.