[Vision2020] NAACP to take vote laws to U.N. (Jay Borden)

[viva stowell]

So here are the real issues


   - There are places in this country that did not/would not issue birth
   certificates to certain people (usually people that they classified as
   coloured)
   - There are places in this country that people do not need an ID to live
   (they don't drive!)
   - In order to get an ID proving you are a citizen, you have to pay --
   this is a poll tax.  Issue passports for free and this argument goes away
   - When you lose you papers (those tornadoes recently remind me of this),
   it is very difficult to prove (document) and until you can recreate your
   papers, you are disfranchised even if they know you at the polling place.

Voter fraud is not a problem in this country. If it were, a real solution
would be the federal government providing a database of citizens at the
polling place.  Registering seems silly and antiquated.  There is little to
stop someone in registering in multiple states and voting multiple times.
 Showing an ID at the polling place does nothing to stop this.

As for having to prove your age to drink....that is not the law.  Those
places are covering their own asses.  They can be fined if they serve
someone underage, and obviously to them, you look underage.  When your face
wrinkles and your hair grays, this too will pass.

If anything, the only voting problem we have is people NOT voting.  But I
grew up in Australia where you have to vote or you are fined.

--Viva Stowell
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