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Ex-House speaker Jim Wright rejected for voter ID card

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Monday, November 4, 2013 4:08 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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Just how tough are new voter identification requirements in Texas? Apparently tough enough that former U.S. House speaker Jim Wright reportedly was denied a voter ID card on Saturday.

"Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn't give me an ID," Wright, a Democrat who resigned from Congress in 1989, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a story about his experience at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.

The 90-year-old told the newspaper he realized last week that he didn't have a valid ID to vote in Tuesday's elections. He said he was refused a voter ID card because his driver's license expired in 2010 and his faculty identification from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where he teaches, doesn't meet requirements under the state law enacted in 2011.

"I earnestly hope these unduly stringent requirements on voters won't dramatically reduce the number of people who vote," said Wright, who in the early part of his political career pushed to abolish the poll tax. "I think they will reduce the number to some extent."

Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat, recently had to sign an affidavit because the name she uses on her driver's license doesn't match the one on voter rolls. She was allowed to cast a regular ballot in early voting for the election. Attorney General Greg Abbott, Davis' likely GOP opponent for governor next year, will also have to sign an affidavit to vote because the name on his driver's license doesn't match the one he uses on his voter registration. http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/11/03/jim-wright-voter-i
dentification-texas-speaker/3422047/



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Monday, November 4, 2013 8:21 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Non story.

Present the valid, updated items required,and you're fine.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 5:30 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


You've got to be kidding me.

Obviously, it is a story..............The Texas Telegram reported it (just the facts ma'am)


SGG


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Non story.

Present the valid, updated items required,and you're fine.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall


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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 5:45 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


I recently saw a Nightline report that had a Texas Judge with a similar problem,

A new voter ID law requiring strict uniformity across all forms of identification nearly kept a Texas district judge from being able to cast her ballot in the state’s early voting session. According to Think Progress, Judge Sandra Watts was challenged at the poll when she presented her usual ID.

“What I have used for voter registration and for identification for the last 52 years was not sufficient yesterday when I went to vote,” 117th District Court Judge Sandra Watts told KIII-TV.

Watts said she has voted in every election for the last 49 years and that her name on her driver’s license has remained the same for the last 52. The address on her license and voter registration card have been the same for more than two decades. However, on Tuesday, at the outset of early voting for the Nov. 5 election, the judge was asked to sign a “voter’s affidavit” saying that she is who she says she is before she would be allowed to vote.

A Judge, who is sworn to uphold the law, was forced to sign an affidavit.
Texas is filled with Wacko-birds. I would like to see how many people will be affected by this unnecessary law (less than 1% voter fraud nationwide), so who is this benefitting and who is it hurting. I want the Republicans to monitor the voter fraud after this latest idiocy.


SGG



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Just how tough are new voter identification requirements in Texas? Apparently tough enough that former U.S. House speaker Jim Wright reportedly was denied a voter ID card on Saturday.

"Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn't give me an ID," Wright, a Democrat who resigned from Congress in 1989, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a story about his experience at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.

The 90-year-old told the newspaper he realized last week that he didn't have a valid ID to vote in Tuesday's elections. He said he was refused a voter ID card because his driver's license expired in 2010 and his faculty identification from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where he teaches, doesn't meet requirements under the state law enacted in 2011.

"I earnestly hope these unduly stringent requirements on voters won't dramatically reduce the number of people who vote," said Wright, who in the early part of his political career pushed to abolish the poll tax. "I think they will reduce the number to some extent."

Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat, recently had to sign an affidavit because the name she uses on her driver's license doesn't match the one on voter rolls. She was allowed to cast a regular ballot in early voting for the election. Attorney General Greg Abbott, Davis' likely GOP opponent for governor next year, will also have to sign an affidavit to vote because the name on his driver's license doesn't match the one he uses on his voter registration. http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/11/03/jim-wright-voter-i
dentification-texas-speaker/3422047/




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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 6:00 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



What if you were told that , if you liked your old voter ID system, you could keep it. Period. Would that make it all good?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 8:24 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yeah, Shiny, that's about it...and I saw the story on the judge, too. It's not a story when they pass laws that keep regular Americans who've voted all their lives from voting, laws some of them even admit openly are precisely intended to keep legitimate people from voting, and when there is no actual "voter fraud" problem, but hey, it's a massive story and all we should talk about when they don't want a law which tries to fix the ENORMOUS, gigantic health-care problem in this country which is affecting ALL of us financially. We understand.

And to go beyond that, have you noticed that they're now calling Obamacare the "biggest voter fraud scheme in history"? Yeah, that bullshit conspiracy theory is all over the internet...sigh... (NOW Rap will want to talk about it!)


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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 1:45 PM

ELVISCHRIST


What if you had to present the exact same documentation to buy a gun?

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 2:41 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
What if you had to present the exact same documentation to buy a gun?



No, you have a Constitutional right to own or buy a gun.

The legislature has the right to set the qualifications for voting.

( Sarcasm mode off, but that is, in fact, the correct interpretation of the laws. )

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 2:50 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Quote:

Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
What if you had to present the exact same documentation to buy a gun?



No, you have a Constitutional right to own or buy a gun.

The legislature has the right to set the qualifications for voting.

( Sarcasm mode off, but that is, in fact, the correct interpretation of the laws. )



True.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 9:45 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Wait a minute; don't citizens have a constitutional right to vote as well? Are you saying we have more of a right to own a gun than we do to VOTE? Don't the legislatures, and The Legislature, also set the qualifications for gun ownership?

My gawd. What happened to my country...?


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Wednesday, November 6, 2013 12:46 AM

FREMDFIRMA



Point.
One I've been flamed on here and there, but still a valid one - tryin to have it both ways is bullshit, the right to vote should be absolute, and infringements upon it viewed as a fundamental threat to democracy itself.

I also don't hold with the Felony-Forever mark of doom, what a person has or hasn't done should not deprive them of their right to vote, and should *only* deprive them of the right to bear arms in a seperate (from the criminal case) hearing regarding the nature and commission of the crime itself.
(For example, robbing a bank with a stolen piece and shooting up the place, yeah... but an embezzler... no, makes sense, right ?)
About the only thing ever I think should call for the right to vote to be even temporarily suspended would be a conviction for vote fraud, and the decision on whether or not to apply such a measure should also require a seperate hearing.

All Rights, All Humans - anything less is Tyranny.

-Frem

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