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GOP admits voter id laws will "allow" Romney to win

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How about instead of requiring ID's, you give a fingerprint when you vote. The fingerprint is not connected in any way to your name or identity - it is just used as a way of making sure only live people vote, and only vote once. There must be a unique fingerprint for each vote cast, any excess and you call a miss-election.

This would eliminate all instances of multiple voting, and the "oh look we found this box of votes we forgot to count in an abandoned car, looks like we win lololol" trick. You can't complain about that violating any civil rights since it doesn't even forbid illegals and felons (Dems other their primary constituents after dead people and non-existent people) from voting.
 
It's refreshing to see, after all this time, that the Dems finally found one Republican dumb enough to let the cat out of the bag. The GOP should have never trusted Turzai with their deepest and darkest secrets...fucking blabbermouth!
 
QuantumPion said:
How about instead of requiring ID's, you give a fingerprint when you vote. The fingerprint is not connected in any way to your name or identity - it is just used as a way of making sure only live people vote, and only vote once. There must be a unique fingerprint for each vote cast, any excess and you call a miss-election.

This would eliminate all instances of multiple voting, and the "oh look we found this box of votes we forgot to count in an abandoned car, looks like we win lololol" trick. You can't complain about that violating any civil rights since it doesn't even forbid illegals and felons (Dems other their primary constituents after dead people and non-existent people) from voting.
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So a man with no arms walks into a polling place...
 
dank69 said:
So a man with no arms walks into a polling place...
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Obviously you can make exceptions for people that have no fingerprints. You can use footprint, voiceprint, retina photo, facial recognition, whatever. The specifics of implementation are completely besides the point.
 
QuantumPion said:
Obviously you can make exceptions for people that have no fingerprints. You can use footprint, voiceprint, retina photo, facial recognition, whatever. The specifics of implementation are completely besides the point.
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I don't think either side would be ok with that due to privacy concerns. I think costs would be extremely prohibitive too. Also you have to build a massive database of that information that doesn't yet exist, sure it might be useful in the future if we start building it now, but it wouldn't work for many elections to come. And since it is much less likely to disenfranchise voters, you know the GOP would say it's a waste of money.
 
thraashman said:
I don't think either side would be ok with that due to privacy concerns. I think costs would be extremely prohibitive too. Also you have to build a massive database of that information that doesn't yet exist, sure it might be useful in the future if we start building it now, but it wouldn't work for many elections to come. And since it is much less likely to disenfranchise voters, you know the GOP would say it's a waste of money.
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Hell you could just use the purple thumb ink like in Iraq. Using a compound that is semi-permanent and can't be erased. How about that?
 
spacejamz said:
How do these millions buy food?
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Cash? Checks at a store that knows them, maybe even delivers? Debit card? Other family members? Your lack of understanding doesn't change the facts.


Visit their doctors?
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Many probably don't have doctors, or have doctors who still make house calls, or have some sort of public assistance for medical care. Many of them live in care facilities of one sort or another, where doctors come to them. Once again, that you live one specific lifestyle doesn't alter in the least that millions of American live different lifestyles.


get their prescriptions filled?
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My mother gets hers delivered. I don't know about the rest of the millions.


Buy daily household items from the store (toilet paper, shampoo, soap)?
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You're being redundant. Likely the same way they get food.
 
QuantumPion said:
How about instead of requiring ID's, you give a fingerprint when you vote. The fingerprint is not connected in any way to your name or identity - it is just used as a way of making sure only live people vote, and only vote once. There must be a unique fingerprint for each vote cast, any excess and you call a miss-election.

This would eliminate all instances of multiple voting, and the "oh look we found this box of votes we forgot to count in an abandoned car, looks like we win lololol" trick. You can't complain about that violating any civil rights since it doesn't even forbid illegals and felons (Dems other their primary constituents after dead people and non-existent people) from voting.
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Interesting idea. Tricky with absentee ballots, but it has potential.
 
Doc Savage Fan said:
It's refreshing to see, after all this time, that the Dems finally found one Republican dumb enough to let the cat out of the bag. The GOP should have never trusted Turzai with their deepest and darkest secrets...fucking blabbermouth!
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It's OK. It wasn't really a secret. Or, more accurately, it wasn't really a secret to anyone but the most gullible of the Republican base.
 
nehalem256 said:
Hmm. I appear to have mixed up 2 threads about driver's licenses. But if they can get free photo ID there should be no problem.
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Except that state budgets suddenly don't matter when you're trying to solve a non-problem that hurts all the wrong people.


Also, it's not clear how they "get" that "free" ID.
 
nehalem256 said:
The same way you get non-free ID, except you do not need to pay for it.
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I already replied to you once: "As has already been explained, the ID may be "free", but the documentation, time, and transportation required are not. Your parroting of discredited talking points adds no value."

What part of this is too hard for your little mind to digest?
 
Bowfinger said:
I already replied to you once: "As has already been explained, the ID may be "free", but the documentation, time, and transportation required are not. Your parroting of discredited talking points adds no value."

What part of this is too hard for your little mind to digest?
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Documentation... that you should already have.

Time... which if you do not have a job you have plenty of.

Transportation... which you already need to vote.
 
Bowfinger said:
It's OK. It wasn't really a secret. Or, more accurately, it wasn't really a secret to anyone but the most gullible of the Republican base.
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Bowfinger, this is just one tiny part of the vast right wing conspiracy that's finally been exposed. The Dems are forever vigilant in such matters and I vigorously applaud their efforts! :biggrin:
 
It's hilarious that the dimlibs actually argue that having to present something as basic as an ID is somehow an insurmountable hurdle to the point where "millions" would be disenfranchised. Do you dimlibs actually believe that drivel, or is it just a ploy to allow more "undocumented" voters to be able to vote?
 
PokerGuy said:
It's hilarious that the dimlibs actually argue that having to present something as basic as an ID is somehow an insurmountable hurdle to the point where "millions" would be disenfranchised. Do you dimlibs actually believe that drivel, or is it just a ploy to allow more "undocumented" voters to be able to vote?
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Did you finish? Or do you need to rub out a little more before you're done?

Not hard to see why you end up on ignore lists.
 
PokerGuy said:
It's hilarious that the dimlibs actually argue that having to present something as basic as an ID is somehow an insurmountable hurdle to the point where "millions" would be disenfranchised. Do you dimlibs actually believe that drivel, or is it just a ploy to allow more "undocumented" voters to be able to vote?
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It's hilarious that the republitards actually argue that having to present something as basic as proof of rampant voter fraud is somehow an insurmountable hurdle to the point where millions would be disenfranchised by unnecessary voter ID laws. Do you republitards actually believe that drivel, or is it just a ploy to deny more American voters the right to vote?
 
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