I am not what most would consider an advocate of voter ID laws, but so far, when I have asked proponents of them how exactly the laws will impact minorities more, no one seems to be able to answer the question.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I expect Texas to lose the current case challenging the validity of its > voter id law. Not because it is unconstitutional, but because there will > be 2 Democrats and 1 Republican making the decision. Then the case will go > to the Supreme Court. With five judicial legislators on the court, it > might even lose there. > > Still, one can get a chuckle out of some star witnesses in the case. > > > One witness was Victoria Rodriguez. Victoria was the DOJ's representative > of the alleged 1.5 million people who will be disenfranchised. Victoria > claimed to have no photo ID, no documentation to get one, or no money. > That's what one would expect her to say. > > On cross, it came out that Ms. Rodriguez in fact has a birth certificate, a > social security card, and a voter registration card. Only two out these > three are required to get a FREE voter id card. At this point, Victoria > started that she did not have time to go to the DPS office in order to get > a card. Ironic considering that she had time to fly to Baltimore, catch a > train to DC, and then sit in court waiting to testify (don't you have to > have a photo id to get on a plane?). > > Another star witness, J. Morgan Kousser, was the mud slinger. His job was > to propagate the message that the GOP are racists and this is all just a > ploy to disenfranchise minorities, not protect the integrity of the vote. > Then, under cross, it came out that he got many of the facts he used to > support this claim from Wikipedia. > > Another star witness, Harvard professor Stephan Ansolabehere had the job > of showing that the law will adversely effect minorities more than anyone. > But under cross, he stated the law would hardly effect anyone. > > Another expert produced a list of disenfranchised voters without photo ID's > like white man Rodney Ellis. Oops. Rodney actually testified for Texas. > He is a state Senator who does have a driver license and is actually > Black. > > > I guess the DOJ knows the courts are stacked in its favor so they don't > have to try to hard since its obvious that they aren't even vetting their > own witnesses. A good screen writer could make a great comedy out of this. > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:352701 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
