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lol @ another block for Perry.
Lol
Things you need a photo id for:
adopt a pet
purchase a home
purchase an automobile
purchase a gun
obtain a bank account
obtain a credit card
obtain a passport
write a check
make a credit card purchase
apply for a loan to purchase anything
to prove your age
to get married
to receive a marriage license
to drive
to buy a house
to close on a house
to get medical care
to get on a plane
to get insurance on anything
to get a job
to get a post office box
to get a hunting license
to get a fishing license
to get a business license
to cash a paycheck
rent an apartment
rent a hotel room
rent a car
rent furniture
rent tools and equipment
receive welfare
receive social security
receive food stamps
buy cigarettes
buy alcohol
buy a bus ticket
buy a cell phone
buy any antihistimine
go in to a casino
go in to a bar
go to college
have your water turned on
have your electricity turned on
have your cable turned on
have your gas turned on
obtain trash pick up service
pick up a package from the post office
pick up a package from fed ex
pick up a package from ups
pick up a prescription
Things you don't need a photo id for:
vote
More info here: http://www.thenation.com/blog/166741...s-voter-id-law
The data provided by the state of Texas on two different occasions shows that Hispanic voters are more likely than white voters to lack the ID now required to cast a ballot. The law was clearly intended to benefit Republicans; for example, a handgun permit is considered an acceptable form of ID but a university ID is not.
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“We conclude that the total number of registered voters who lack a driver’s license or personal identification card issued by DPS could range from 603,892 to 795,955. The disparity between the percentages of Hispanics and non-Hispanics who lack these forms of identification ranges from 46.5 to 120.0 percent. That is, according to the state’s own data, a Hispanic registered voter is at least 46.5 percent, and potentially 120.0 percent, more likely than a non-Hispanic registered voter to lack this identification. Even using the data most favorable to the state, Hispanics disproportionately lack either a driver’s license or a personal identification card issued by DPS, and that disparity is statistically significant.
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For those voters who lack the proper ID, obtaining the correct do entation can be a difficult task. Texas is required to provide a free ID to voters, but an applicant must possess supporting do entation in order to qualify. “If a voter does not possess any of these do ents, the least expensive option will be to spend $22 on a copy of the voter’s birth certificate,” DOJ writes. That expenditure can be rightly construed as a poll tax, which the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited.
Moreover, getting that ID from the DMV is not as easy as you’d think. Hispanics in Texas are twice as likely as whites to not have a car. There are DMV offices in only eighty-one of the state’s 254 counties. Not surprisingly, counties with a significant Hispanic population are less likely to have a DMV office, while Hispanic residents in such counties are twice as likely as whites to not have the right ID. “During the legislative hearings, one senator stated that some voters in his district could have to travel up to 176 miles roundtrip in order to reach a driver’s license office,” wrote DOJ.
Wouldn't having to show ID to vote help stop voter fraud? Wouldn't it help the organization and validity of votes? If you don't have to show ID, then couldn't you technically vote numerous times?
How much of a problem is voting fraud to begin with? Especially in Texas?
You need to show photo id at the airport too -- racist ers.
You can, for the most part, take a train or a bus if you lack the ID to fly...
"Texas is required to provide a free ID to voters, but an applicant must possess supporting do entation in order to qualify."
There's the rub when you aren't born here.
Texas would've been off the hook if they offered free copies of the birth certificates... apparently, that's not an option...
So mexicans normally lack the money to pay for a birth certificate? Any other bigoted stereotypes you want to pass off?
Why is this not against poor people instead of Mexicans. Unless you are saying that all poor people are mexican. Or that all mexicans are poor.
Just another example of how politicized the justice department has gotten.
Eric Holder is a ing tool.
Can't get and ID by November?
Pffft
You guys can scream all you want about how it holds down the undo ented brothers and has nothing to do with potential election fraud but at the end of the day...
I'm not ashamed to slap an ID down and vote in my country's elections...Are you? If not, who the are you really defending?
If you can't get any type of do ent or card that can show who you are or your iden y, then you're a ing lazy dumbass.
I don't think many poor people are flying, and that's exactly who these voter ID laws are intentionally discriminating against. Not to mention flying isn't exactly a fundamental right (like voting) critical to the health of a (semi-?) functioning democracy.
Politicized? Does the DOJ not have the responsibility to enforce the VRA?
lol fraud
$22 to get a birth certificate...
Sorry...$11
http://birth-certificates.net/texas.htm
lol birther
Even if it's $1, if it's a requirement to obtain your "free" ID to vote, then it's part of the expense, which is forbidden by the VRA...
Apparently, Texas only only provided numbers of hispanics and whites, and skipped asians and african americans... it's on the linked articles.
So it is a poll tax.
Neat.
Under the Voting Rights Act, jurisdictions that have a history of suppressing minority voting — like Texas — must show that any proposed change to voting rules would not have a disproportionate effect on minority voters, even if there is no evidence of discriminatory intent.
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