Federal Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Law Requiring Photo ID at Polls

[mota bhai 2,675]

Down with a national ID; quit trying to make me a serial number!

I do not understand the opposition to a national ID.

[UncleBeer 244]

I don't think the gov should give free IDs to everyone, how expensive it would be! For what?

Wha..? The preznit sqauandered a trillion bucks on the TARP slush fund without batting an eyelash. That's a stack of $1,000 bills, 67 miles high. And there's nothing to show for it. The cost of these IDs wouldn't even be a rounding error in the preznit's world.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Woo! Down with voter ID!

I don't think the gov should give free IDs to everyone, how expensive it would be! For what?

Down with a national ID; quit trying to make me a serial number!

This whole thing is a smokescreen. The people who cry "voter fraud" don't even understand what it is, and use bullsh!t data to come up with spurious conclusions. Like, how many dead people are on voter lists. Voter lists aren't updated in real time, so if someone dies, they are still on the list. It doesn't mean that that person is voting! They never question who voted, just who is on a list.

However, it is a very efficient smokescreen...

It works like the next shiny thing... Look there... I see dead people voting...

Meanwhile they pretend all is well with the economy, unemployment, and other really important issues about which they do nothing but point fingers at the administration, as though they were not part of the administration; and also part of the problem.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I do not understand the opposition to a national ID.

Why do we need it? Do you want to have a mandatory ID? Should we be forced to carry it at all times? Should it have your marital status on it and the name of your spouse and kids like my husband's country? Should we have to update that if someone gets divorces or has more kids? Should we have that on top of Driver License and passport? Wait in a lot of lines to get it?

As it is now, if I choose not to go abroad or drive then I don't have to have any ID at all. I didn't get my first passport until I was 16, around the time I got my driving license. Should I have had a national ID card my whole life?

I don't want a national database about me, about my family, about my whereabouts. We already have a system that works fine, that can identify people, we don't need another one.

Plus I think it's cool that I could get of the grid, even if only in my imagination

[mota bhai 2,675]

Why do we need it? Do you want to have a mandatory ID? Should we be forced to carry it at all times? Should it have your marital status on it and the name of your spouse and kids like my husband's country? Should we have to update that if someone gets divorces or has more kids? Should we have that on top of Driver License and passport? Wait in a lot of lines to get it?

As it is now, if I choose not to go abroad or drive then I don't have to have any ID at all. I didn't get my first passport until I was 16, around the time I got my driving license. Should I have had a national ID card my whole life?

I don't want a national database about me, about my family, about my whereabouts. We already have a system that works fine, that can identify people, we don't need another one.

Plus I think it's cool that I could get of the grid, even if only in my imagination

You sound like a potential enemy of the state.

[Teddy B 17,252]

You sound like a potential enemy of the state.

She should be detained and interrogated.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

You sound like a potential enemy of the state.

Why? Because I don't want to wait in line even more or have more tasks to do in my life? Because I value my personhood?

[mota bhai 2,675]

She should be detained and interrogated.

Hold on there, cowboy. I'd start by intercepting her Internet and phone activity.

Why? Because I don't want to wait in line even more or have more tasks to do in my life? Because I value my personhood?

Because the level of passion you have regarding this tends to be associated with people who want to subvert the state.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Hold on there, cowboy. I'd start by intercepting her Internet and phone activity.

I'm an upstanding citizen with nothing to hide. Should I give up my privacy to prove it?

[mota bhai 2,675]

I'm an upstanding citizen with nothing to hide. Should I give up my privacy to prove it?

Privacy is dead. We killed it.

Please move on.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Because the level of passion you have regarding this tends to be associated with people who want to subvert the state.

Why? Any police or gov can find me, but why should I comply with an extra thing to get rounded up and put on a list? Doesn't that annoy you at all?

I am also against cameras and drones.

[UncleBeer 244]

Meanwhile they pretend all is well with the economy, unemployment, and other really important issues about which they do nothing but point fingers at the administration, as though they were not part of the administration; and also part of the problem.

All is clearly "not well" with the state of the nation, but you expect the party that's only 1/3 in control to fix the preznit's cockamamie policies for him? Or even agree to go along with them, when they've clearly caused the current state of chaos, and he's made no effort to garner their support?

Perfect example: Obamacare. Not one Republican voted for it, and even the Dems had to be bribed and bullied into passing it. But now the GOP is to blame for not 'getting behind' Obamacare. Why the hell should they? Because it's the "law of the land" as the preznit keeps sneering? He clearly has no respect for the "law of the land"....

It works like the next shiny thing... Look there... I see dead people voting...

Heh: like the preznit wasting his time on basketball soap opera? Surely he has better things to do with his time. Like go golfing.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Woo! Down with voter ID!

I don't think the gov should give free IDs to everyone, how expensive it would be! For what?

Down with a national ID; quit trying to make me a serial number!

This whole thing is a smokescreen. The people who cry "voter fraud" don't even understand what it is, and use bullsh!t data to come up with spurious conclusions. Like, how many dead people are on voter lists. Voter lists aren't updated in real time, so if someone dies, they are still on the list. It doesn't mean that that person is voting! They never question who voted, just who is on a list.

The notion that voter ID is foolproof or even the best method to prevent a non-existent problem is about as ridiculous as RWnuttiness gets.

[UncleBeer 244]

The notion that voter ID is foolproof or even the best method to prevent a non-existent problem is about as ridiculous as RWnuttiness gets.

I've shown it's not non-existent, and ANY voter ID requirement is certainly more 'foolproof' than not asking for proof of identity.

[Jacque67 7,328]

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