How about this: If you don't have a photo ID, when submitting your registration and proof of identity, include a passport sized photo. The proof of registration will be returned with the photo incorporated. Bring that to the polls.
Or how 'bout the Repubs who wrote these laws also make it
easier to acquire a photo ID rather than harder (as it was meant to do) for those that these Repubs knew in advance would negatively affect.
Provisions could have been put in place along with these laws to do just that. But that would have negated the real core purpose of those laws to begin with, now wouldn't they?
And don't you find it so particularly odd that it's EXCLUSIVELY Repub controlled states that are enacting these laws? If voter fraud was such an alarming problem wouldn't the Dems also be as interested and concerned as the Repubs would like everyone to think they are? (given that fraud being equally destructive to both sides.)
Could it be that ONLY the Repubs are having a problem with in-booth voter fraud? Well, the numbers clearly show that isn't the case. What the preponderance of evidence CLEARLY shows is that that type of fraud is for all intent and purposes non-existent. And all I'm hearing from the Repub side of this issue are weak arguments and divertive double speak to avoid facing the facts head-on, because by doing that, they would have to admit they're going way out of their way and spending monies they don't have (closing any DMV's lately?) to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
If the Repubs are IN FACT enacting these laws because they TRULY are concerned with preventing voter fraud, then given the incontrovertible evidence that for all practical purposes it does not exist, the Repubs are making themselves look like idiots spending huge amounts of precious tax dollars that they themselves are making so much scarcer (tax cuts for the rich, remember?) on ghosts that nobody else can see.
Either way, there's no way the Repubs can come out looking clever and patriotic and concerned and HONEST about their intentions.
And beside that, there's no pretense to cover up here. Prominent Repubs have already freely admitted what those laws were really meant to do
and have already done.
An example among thousands of which this was the first that google offered up:
" Last spring, for example, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai told a gathering of Republicans that their voter identification law would “allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” That summer, at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation, former Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund conceded that Democrats had a point about the GOP’s focus on voter ID, as opposed to those measures—such as absentee balloting—that are vulnerable to tampering. “I think it is a fair argument of some liberals that there are some people who emphasize the voter ID part more than the absentee ballot part because supposedly Republicans like absentee ballots more and they don’t want to restrict that,” he said.
After the election, former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer told The Palm Beach Post that the explicit goal of the state’s voter-ID law was Democratic suppression. “The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates,” Greer told the Post. “It’s done for one reason and one reason only ... ‘We’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us,’” he said. Indeed, the Florida Republican Party imposed a host of policies, from longer ballots to fewer precincts in minority areas, meant to discourage voting. And it worked. According to one study, as many as 49,000 people were discouraged from voting in November 2012 as a result of long lines and other obstacles."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...r-id-laws-are-aimed-at-democratic-voters.html
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