If Illinois had a voter ID law, 685,000 residents — about 1 of every 10 voters — could not cast a ballot. That’s according to the results of a statewide survey released recently by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
“We all want clean elections," said David Yepsen, director of the nonpartisan institute, in a statement. "yet no one should inadvertently disenfranchise voters either. This poll shows Illinois policy makers need to tread carefully if they want to pursue voter ID laws.”
The poll results are in line with other research that shows about 11 percent of voters nationwide lack a government-issued photo ID, according to figures compiled by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. The research notes that the percentage is higher for senior citizens, minorities, people with disabilities, low-income voters and students, mainly because they lack access to their birth certificates, which are required to obtain the photo IDs and can be expensive or difficult to track down.
Yepsen said he does not expect a voter ID law to go anywhere in Illinois anytime soon because Democrats, who traditionally opposed this law, control the Governor’s Office and both houses of the Legislature. In addition to Pennsylvania, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin passed voter ID laws in 2011 or 2012. More than 30 states have passed voter ID laws, according to the bipartisan nonprofit National Conference of State Legislatures.
You can read Jayette's full report at: http://watchdog.org/57939/il-poll-shows-10-of-illinois-voters-dont-have-valid-photo-ids/
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A legal ID is simple enough to get at the DMV. All that is needed is a birth certifiate and a Social Security card, correct? How does someone with no photo ID of any kind get a check cashed, buy a car, get a post office mailbox, a library card, register to vote or rent a house or apartment or get into a R rated movie, etc.? Not having one is not an option for almost all every day life! How many of those 685,000 people are 1) Legal Residents, 2) Adults and not children (who MUST have a SS card when born so parents can legally claim them on income tax forms) etc?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12fraud.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
ive years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews. >>---snip for fair use===<< Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.
The inescapable conclusion is that Republican mischief and declining numbers of angry white guys require we throw an estimated 11% of the population off the voting rolls so they can cling to power.
So using Jefe's logic, Since I haven't been in an accident and don't have any tickets I don't need a drivers license or insurance to prove I can drive.
Stiffe uses dummycrate logic
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