On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > You do realize that we've had voting for centuries in our country, > with rolls, where most people didn't have government issued ID, right?
Isn't that how Kennedy became president? > Voting, unlike driving, having a bank account, etc. is a > Constitutionally guaranteed right of *every single citizen*. Nope. > Any time > you have a constitutionally guaranteed right, you have to set a very > high bar indeed to justify any incursion against it. Not a sense of > "this seems reasonable" but a seriously high standard. Yes, Felons can > have their voting rights revoked while they are in prison. That is a > very severe case. But even then, the right to vote is either restored > automatically upon being released or else can be regained by petition > after you finish your sentence. Differs by state > Requiring ID to vote is a solution in search of a problem. There are > no modern documented incidents of voting fraud. There are some > incidents of registration fraud, fairly few and far between, but no > incidents of voting fraud. There is nothing requiring *any* incursion > against a guaranteed constitutional right no matter how "reasonable" > you or anyone else thinks it might be. Period. 64,000 in New Mexico for starters. > Voting is a right, not a privilege. That means you don't get to fuck > with it even if you think it's a nifty idea. Is it ok if we fix it? . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339209 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
