The U.S. Justic Department this afternoon rejected South Carolina's new voter ID law, calling it discriminatory against minorities.
More information is available from the Washington Post.
You can read the letter from the Justice Department at the right of this story.
South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly said today: "The Obama administration has once again decided that Washington knows best. Requiring voter identification is a common sense safeguard."
Despite efforts this fall by state officials to help South Carolina residents obtain photo identification cards, .
"This administration continues to trample on the states, and voters know that every potential Republican nominee would be one thousand times better than Barack Obama," Connelly stated.
The new law is one of several across the country meant to ensure proper elections, opponents have called the new law discriminatory against the poor and minorities.
The Twitter account for Rep. Joe Wilson, R-SC, wrote Friday night that it was "wrong" for President Obama to "limit our state's rights."
FYI [CLIP] However, voter fraud is already exceptionally rare. The South Carolina State Election Commission told the New York Times that it “knows of no confirmed cases of voter identification fraud... [end clip] http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/speakout/are-new-voting-laws-necessary-or-discriminatory ask numerous times without an answer: does anyone have any examples of "voter identification fraud"...ie, the type fraud SC voter ID laws supposedly corrects... if not then what is the purpose of the law...to suppress BO voters maybe...or surely not racism...
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Hmm, Who else is from Chicago? Some lawyer? Oh that's right, Obama. I go read your "Facts" now.
just because it's bias doesn't mean there are no facts...i read stuff from the heritage foundation. i disagree with their conclusions but dont dispute their facts... huf post say 'labeled "voodoo economics" a year earlier by his [RR] eventual running mate, George H. W. Bush...trickle-down, supply-side, tax-cutting economics -- "doesn't work." It has been tried, he [BO] said, and it "has never worked."' [end huf post] it didn't work in 1929 nor in 2008..so GOPs, .when did it work... top tax rate: 1940-1963: around 90% 1964-1980: around 70% 1981-1986: around 50% 1987-2011: around 35% tickle down, my sacchrine donkey...it's trickle up... starting around 1981 (time of tax cuts for the rich) til 2011 the income of the top 1% rose some 200%...income of the 99 remained same or declined...GOP economists confused up with down... tax cuts for the rich are paid for by cuts to safety net programs (medicare, social security, programs for the disabled), education (teachers), police, firemen, etcetc... let hear it for the compassionate conservatives... [NOTE: figs not exact, but close enough for talking points]
FYI Stanley, seeing how you like to mention University studies- a study at the Universities of Delaware and Nebraska from 2000 to 2006, concluded that voter identification laws affecting turnout is about nothing, and voter fraud considerably benefits Democrats. Do your own research.
regardless of what you learned at SERE or wherever... you well know NO examples of individual voter fraud at the polling place were provided...also as you well know, the only fraud the SC law addressed is "individual voter fraud at the polling place"...so why in hell would you and others provide election officials fraud examples...to confuse the issue maybe...for surely, you know the difference and know SC does NOT deal with election officials and electronic fraud which they should vice wasting time trying to suppress BO voters...eg; "Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th grade science education..." http://www.salon.com/2011/09/27/votinghack/ couldn't find university studies that say, "voter identification laws affecting turnout is about nothing"...anyway... agree turnout AND the "voter identification laws" are about NOTHING...basically a waste of citizens and legislators time-energy... said laws ARE a ploy of the GOPtpers to suppress BO votes...proven by facts there are NO examples of individual fraud at the polling place... the GOPtper will be surprised their antics may not work and in fact may increase turnout...BO by a landslide in 2012...BTW i like all of the GOP candidates...except huntsman...he might beat BO...THANKS TPers for not considering him...
So we need to have open minded thinking to move forward, but also value the tempered experience. It is thought that in our youth we are more liberal, but as we age we become more conservative. I do take issue with statements that de-value "gym" teachers, as it is my belief that the mind and the body must be trained in order to be a balanced person. I know...off topic..now go "play nice". lol
agree...a strong GOP party is needed...but without the BO hater element and one that does not have as JOB#1 to limit BO to one turn...and; both parties need to stop the truth spin bs...need to work for the common good...not to get rich and reelected. ps. i make an effort not to use ad hominems...apologies if i have fallen short......also, i (not a teacher) take issue with anyone who devalues any "good" teachers...believe lee iacocca said: "In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less..."
it's not just clayton...and my comments are not directed at clayton...he just supplies the straight lines...my hope is that others see/read and open their eyes...but "none so blind as those who will not see"
"The purpose of new voter ID laws is to demobilize certain portions of electorate who are more likely to vote for Democrats, a goal laid out by ALEC founder, Paul Weyrich many decades ago who stated that “I don’t want everybody to vote...Our leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populus goes down.” "The corporate organization behind the new spate of voter ID laws is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)...ALEC is a hyper-conservative Republican organization that receives 98% of its funding from corporate entities...[such as] Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. "ALEC drafted model ID voter legislation, and every single new voter ID law was passed with ALEC member involvement. "the Koch contribution to ALEC likely exceeds $1 million. Koch brother involvement in voter ID laws should be of particular interest...considering that David Koch’s project, Citizens for a Sound Economy, spearheaded the effort to repeal Glass-Steagall that enabled banking institutions to gamble in securities and tank the economy in 2008. [end clips] for the rest of the story goto: http://carolineheldman.wordpress.com/ and the GOP sheep "came home wagging their tails behind them"
"In 2011, a sudden wave of state-level voter restrictions in Republican-controlled states has swept the nation, just in time for the 2012 election, with 19 new laws and two executive actions on the books. "The voter ID movement is based on a bald-faced lie that voter impersonation is an issue. It’s not. As the DNC humorously notes, a person is 39 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to engage in voter impersonation, and 3,600 times more likely to report a UFO http://carolineheldman.wordpress.com/ "As Prof. Justin Levitt aptly noted, polling place photo ID restrictions are not merely a solution in search of a problem, but established that the "solution" is so ill-fitted to the grossly overstated problem as to be equated to amputating one's foot in order to cure a "potential" hangnail http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8904
will respond assuming it's not a facetious question: just cursorily saw the clip, didn't know anyone named seigler was involved. not my wife and i have no living female...it was a female right:)... relatives with the seigler name.
thanks for your comments...stay involved...andand, read the liberal rags; repent your sinful, evil, GOPtp ways; and you will be saved :) :) happy new year. ps. as penitent vote BO and say 10 hail mary's
it been longer than 30 years...at least since the 1920's and this voter ID law is a prime example of their tactics...eg; [repeating previous CLIPs] "The voter ID movement is based on a bald-faced lie that voter impersonation is an issue... http://carolineheldman.wordpress.com/ "The purpose of new voter ID laws is to demobilize certain portions of electorate who are more likely to vote for Democrats, a goal laid out by ALEC founder, Paul Weyrich many decades ago who stated that “I don't want everybody to vote...Our leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populus goes down.” http://carolineheldman.wordpress.com/ [end clips] pls see previous post and links for details and context. sad GOPs have done it for so long they are good at it and many actually believe trickle down, voodoo, economics work...despite strong evidence to the contrary. sadder still they pander to a racist element.
re: " I think its actually a law that a citizen have a form of ID" when in a hole stop digging...THERE IS NO SUCH LAW...will apologizes if you can provide a reference... a citizen have a form of ID at all times...are you thinking of the communist and nazis who required papers at all times... might consider cutting a deal with the russian communist to use their siberian gulags for all caught w/o voter ID...