Florida,s no match list...Follow

so far has snagged over 12,000 potential voters, forcing them to use provisional ballots then prove they are who they say they are.

90 percent of which are minorities, mostly democrats. they include the wife of a congressman, a player on the miami heat basketball team, and other high profile.....minorities.....

the lists kicks out people whose voter registraition does not match their drivers licence. for instance people who tend to move around a bit. like renters, who are mostly minorities. then puts the burden of proof on the people to prove they are who they say they are by going down to the voters registraition office with their proof before they can vote, or after they vote a provisional ballot if they want it to count.

passed by a republican legislature in a partisan vote that was split down party lines.

guess the no paper trail electronic machines supplied by a republican party lobbiest company is out, so new steps had to be taken to tilt the scales.

SOMEONE, or several people should go to jail over this. hopefully, the sheer masses of new voters, especially minority voters, will over come this autrocity to the foundation of our country, democracy itself.

this is sickening. absolutly sickening.

Under Georgia law, since I changed apartment numbers and my registered apartment does not match my drivers license, I would have had to use a provisional ballot.

So I used my passport instead. It does not list an address.

Not everyone has that luxury . . .

No, the Republicans are upset about voter fraud. The Democrats are upset over election fraud.

Hey, what would YOU do if Mickey Mouse actually showed up to vote?

Hardly. It'd be sickening if they were barred from voting completely, but they aren't. They can either fix it then vote, or vote then fix it. The horror!

All a person has to do is fix the problem.

Or are you saying that the majority of them are going to be too lazy and just not vote instead of bringing their driver's license to the correct facility (Secretary of State, or where ever they go in their city) and fixing the problem?

That's a pretty broad, and inaccurate, statement.

Last time I voted, just 2 years ago, I had to show my driver's license. And I'm a white male.

They recommend bringing either your license or your registration card with you when you vote.

Maybe it's state-specific; I'm in California. I'm 33 now and have voted in nearly every election since I turned of age and have never had to show ID. I thought that I would need it on my first time voting and the poll worker just chuckled and said that you don't need to show identification to vote.

I don't recall whether I needed it or not. If I did I felt it was a non-issue. I personally DO NOT understand what the big deal is.

It's really not that hard to get one of those stickers from the DMV to put on your license when you move to a new house/apartment.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2008 10:45am by DaimenKain

They should, and I'm suprised they don't check everyone. It'd be very easy for me just to go to the next county over and vote in the name of someone I know.

But apparently proving who you are is evil.

Ya, make it too difficult and it *might* deter people people from voting. But I see no problem in bringing the same identification you used to register to vote with you when you actually vote.

Just checking Michigan law, apparently we are supposed to bring a state issued Photo ID to the polls. And if we don't have one we are supposed to sign an affidavit saying we are who we claim to be.

I just think it's stupid that I was required to prove my identity (Photo ID or signed affidavit endorsed by the school) when I took my SAT and ACT, yet in many places I could vote without proof of identity. To me, voting is a much more serious thing than a simple test that many schools don't even care about these days.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2008 1:01pm by TirithRR

Lol. When you move, whether you rent or not, you file a change of address at the post office. That way your mail arrives at your new location. The same form *also* changes your registration as well.

The issue isn't whether someone is a minority. I know that's a nice club to use to make this appear to be something sinister, but the same registration rules apply to everyone regardless of your skin color or your economic status. It costs zero dollars to register to vote. It costs zero dollars to change your registered address.

This is a total non-issue that's inflated into one to attempt to make the same tired appeal to emotion every single election. Sigh...