I just saw a piece on the news about a County Commissioner in California who is insisting on identification from anyone casting votes this year. And some people are up in arms about it. They found about 16,000 voters on the rolls in LA who don’t even exist. Gee. I wonder if there’s a problem
I don’t care about whether some people “feel intimidated” by being required to identify themselves or not. Voting is a privilege of citizenship, not of residence.
Neither major party is interested in pressing the issue. For many reasons, not the least of which is a fear of making the Hispanic community mad. I’m sick of it. Supporters of open polls rationalize with such witticisms as “They pay taxes, they should be able to vote.” Not if they aren’t citizens.
I don’t care what your politics are regarding illegal aliens. It is irrelevant. They have no right to vote.
I agree this has gone beyond ridiculous. The value of citizenship is being reduced daily with all this nonsense.
Comment by sherry — September 24, 2004 @ 7:29 pm
Add my name to the petition! And that of my bride, 10 y.o. son and two dogs.
Comment by Wallace-Midland, Texas — September 25, 2004 @ 11:45 am
Republicans in New Mexico have been trying for years to get a law to require voter verification, to no avail. I tried to SHOW my voter registration card to an official in Albuquerque, and you’d have thought I was flashing him, so adamant that he did NOT need to see that! And surprisingly, in the presidential voting of 2000, Bernalillo County, where Albuquerque is located, they forgot to tell the computers how to read a straight party ticket. Most Republicans were voting a straight party ticket, due to the years of graft and corruption by the Democrats there! We solved the problem. We moved to Texas.
Comment by DagneyT — September 26, 2004 @ 5:25 am
Is this really an issue? We have trouble getting 50% of actual citizens to vote but all our illegal aliens are lined up at the polls? Freaky.
Comment by Bogey — September 26, 2004 @ 10:39 am
I couldn’t agree more. Citizens are afforded both rights and responsibilities. They come as a package deal… not to be sold separately.
Comment by Drill Sergeant Rob — September 26, 2004 @ 10:48 am
It’s an issue because there are folks out there who who roust illegals and get them to the polls. Illegal in more ways than one.
It just goes back to the issue of citizenship, which is really ownership.
Comment by Bunker — September 26, 2004 @ 11:41 am