One advantage of vetoing questionable legislation
Submitted by scharrison on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:21pm
It gives everyone time to consider how wrong it is:
Dorothy Cooper is 96 years old, and she's voted in every election but one since she was eligible to cast a ballot. But because Cooper's maiden name was on her birth certificate, she was told she needed a marriage certificate, too, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. She didn't have one. She was denied a voter ID.
Those of you who think this Voter ID thing is a good idea, do me a favor: Go find your marriage certificate. If (when?) you can't find it, see if you can get a replacement copy. I'll be waiting. I...won't really be waiting, that's just one of those things that you say. ;)
Absentee ballots
To whom do those who vote via absentee ballot show their photo identification?
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- sign on Einstein's office wall.
Extra challenges
Depending on the agency or organization, changing your last name based on a marriage certificate obtained in a state that does recognize your marriage, then taking it back to a state that doesn't can pose extra challenges to having correct and updated ID.
A lot of it depends on the mood and personal beliefs of whoever shows up on the other side of the counter at the time, and sometimes requires multiple tries, so I could see this potential law negatively affecting the LGBT community based on marriages, and for transgender people I imagine the name changing that often goes along with that process posing additional challenges to having correct and updated ID.
Wouldn't such an
Wouldn't such an administrative hurdle disproportionately affect straight couples? And even more so conservative ones.
Oh, wait. I forgot--true conservatives long for the glory days of 1781, when women didn't have the vote.
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Garner, NC
I wouldn't recommend drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I don't believe for a minute
I don't believe for a minute that a voter ID law will pass. I don't believe the Republicans think it will either. I do believe they are using it as a diversion to get us to look away from issues like education, jobs and the economy.