Stop the ACLU Blogburst Thursday
How does a law that requires a person to present a picture ID upon voting prevent people from voting? I don’t know — but the ACLU, who is challenging a picture ID law in GA, says just that.
An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who led the legal team attacking the law told U.S. District Court Judge Harold L. Murphy that the lack of documented complaints before the Elections Board shows impersonations are not the real reason Republicans passed the law.
He said the goal was to discourage people too old or poor to have cars from voting.
“It is itself a pretext and a fraud,” said the ACLU lawyer, Emmett Bondurant.
But …
The Republican sponsor of the bill, state Rep. Sue Burmeister of Augusta, has said the law was designed to assure the integrity of elections by preventing people from impersonating voters.
She didn’t attend Wednesday’s hearing, but Randy Evans, a Republican appointee on the State Elections Board, told reporters during a recess that a newspaper investigation revealed 5,400 people had voted who had names similar to those found on a database of dead Georgians.
“Every dead person voting is an impersonation,” Evans said.
How does trying to prevent dead people from voting translate into “discourag[ing] people too old or poor to have cars from voting”?
I have no idea. Can someone please explain?
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1PCD
wrote on 13 October 2005 at 9:16
Jo, it is simple. By requiring positive ID, the law prevents the Democrats from stuffing the ballot box to steal elections. With fewer Democrats in power, you get fewer dingbat judges like Justice Stephen Breyer who can’t read the Constitution or other US passed laws, but resort to making up law on the spot or imposing rulings from other countries upon the citizens of the US.
The ACLU does not want the Constitution enforced when it keeps Liberal Activists judges off the bench that usually rule for each and every case the ACLU brings to them to enact Liberalism by Judicial fiat, not by the legislature or the people’s vote.
2bubba
wrote on 13 October 2005 at 12:04
As I don’t have a driving license but still vote. I guess its hard for folks to figure out how its done. I am disabled and retired. A picture ID is easy to get. The DMV gives them out or I use my veterns card.