From 11Alive.com:
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Georgia‘s voter identification law does not impose a significant burden on the right to vote, meaning the law will be enforced.
U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy of Rome also praised what he called the state’s “exceptional efforts to contact voters who potentially lacked a valid form of Photo ID.”
Murphy wrote in a 159-page ruling that challengers to the law are “hard-pressed to show that voters in Georgia, in general, are not aware of the Photo ID requirement.”
Also, he said that because voters have the option of voting absentee without photo identification, they are not barred from participating in elections.
Good. You should have to have a photo ID to vote. I don’t want illegal trespassers and dead people voting for who is running my government, and I don’t want some people voting more than once. I have to show my ID to cash a check, board a plane, so many other things. I certainly should have to show my ID to do something as important as to vote.
I cannot understand the intellectual rationale for people who oppose the concept that one should use some form of government issue identification before they cast a vote. Voting is truly one of the most precious gifts/responsibilities that many have bleed and died to protect. Protecting this right, especially when we live in a country that may have as much as 10% of its population here illegally seems prudent and rational.
The first argument was that poor black folks can’t afford to pay for the ID. Then they made the ID free of charge.
Then they said we are too poor to come get it. So the State bought a $300,000 dollar bus to make ID’s out in all these “poor” neighborhoods.
Now they all still feel “dis-enfranchised”. What will make all these people happy? You coddle people long enough and they expect everything and cannot do for themselves.
The tired rant of racism and economic disadvantage clearly is a smokescreen for those with a less-than-honest agenda … usually voting Democratic too.
But Democratic leaders in Atlanta were disappointed in the judge’s ruling.
“My grandpa has voted in the last four elections, but now he’ll be denied his right to vote. And with him being dead for the last 20 years this is really going to be a struggle for him.” – J’tandra Byers, in line at the 14th Street Welfare office
“We have a big issue with this disenfranchisement of minority voters, them being denied their civil right to vote in as many precincts as they have children.” – Mutambe al-Karim, Decatur League of Progressive Voters
“Let me f—ing vote, or I’ll cap your a–!” DJ Killa Yo Rhyme, former Atlanta hip-hop recording artist, currently serving 2-12 in a federal prison for his 2nd felony assault conviction
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