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	<title>Comments on: Bush Operative Pushes Voter-ID Law</title>
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		<title>By: evie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our family was discussing what a wasted effort this issue was, and see no problem with voter ID laws.  After all, ID is required for cashing checks, obtaining social welfare, a drivers license, passport, boarding airplanes, to open bank accounts, to notarize documents, to buy guns and ammo...

Missouri State photo ID card is $12.  Don&#039;t say $12 is out of reach for some folks. That much can be picked up recycling beer cans, or going without a couple of  BigMac meals.  A valid birth certificate is proof of citizenship - amazingly almost no one has trouble getting a birth certificate and social security card and filling out the forms to receive benefits from the Department of Social Services or Social Security.

&quot;... submitted an amicus brief...&quot; ACLU does that all the time doesn&#039;t it?

This may come as a shock to democrats but I know several &quot;minorities and poor people&quot; who vote republican. Their reasoning for voting republican may be somewhat skewered but nonetheless they vote republican.

Democrats seem to think proof  of ID is a hardship for poor and minorities and I see more and more minorities and poor folks who don&#039;t want to be associated with a party whose followers are that hard up, whose followers are so ignorant they can&#039;t perform the simple steps of identifying themselves. 

Where once the Democratic party may have been the champions for the poor, the underdog, the victimized - more and more they give the impression they represent the dregs of society. That last phrase may jerk a few knees - how dare anyone say there are dregs in American society.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our family was discussing what a wasted effort this issue was, and see no problem with voter ID laws.  After all, ID is required for cashing checks, obtaining social welfare, a drivers license, passport, boarding airplanes, to open bank accounts, to notarize documents, to buy guns and ammo&#8230;</p>
<p>Missouri State photo ID card is $12.  Don&#8217;t say $12 is out of reach for some folks. That much can be picked up recycling beer cans, or going without a couple of  BigMac meals.  A valid birth certificate is proof of citizenship &#8211; amazingly almost no one has trouble getting a birth certificate and social security card and filling out the forms to receive benefits from the Department of Social Services or Social Security.</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230; submitted an amicus brief&#8230;&#8221; ACLU does that all the time doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>This may come as a shock to democrats but I know several &#8220;minorities and poor people&#8221; who vote republican. Their reasoning for voting republican may be somewhat skewered but nonetheless they vote republican.</p>
<p>Democrats seem to think proof  of ID is a hardship for poor and minorities and I see more and more minorities and poor folks who don&#8217;t want to be associated with a party whose followers are that hard up, whose followers are so ignorant they can&#8217;t perform the simple steps of identifying themselves. </p>
<p>Where once the Democratic party may have been the champions for the poor, the underdog, the victimized &#8211; more and more they give the impression they represent the dregs of society. That last phrase may jerk a few knees &#8211; how dare anyone say there are dregs in American society.</p>
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