Keeping people of color from voting

From Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning: The truth about voter verification


Friday, September 26, 2008

There have been many misstatements and confusion over the recent implementation of the Voter Verification law otherwise known as the “no match, no vote” law originally passed in 2006. The Division of Elections’ mission along with local supervisors of elections is to register voters and make sure that they can cast a ballot on Election Day that will be counted.

And just to clarify, this law will not affect the status of the 10.7 million already registered voters. The law will apply to all new applications received on or after Sept. 8. The implementation started then due to prolonged litigation and the need for computer updates to provide timely notice to applicants.

Unlike what activists are saying, obvious errors, including nicknames or typos will be resolved and that applicant will be registered to vote. Every voter registration applicant must provide (if issued) a Florida driver’s license number, state identification card number or the last four digits of the Social Security number.

The identification number is automatically cross-checked against the Florida driver’s license database or the Social Security Administration database. If that number does not match, the Bureau of Voter Registration Services manually reviews for identifiable typographical errors or a difference between a nickname and formal name based on available records and the actual voter registration application.

If the number still cannot be matched, the applicant is notified to provide a photocopy of his or her identification by mail, by fax, or by e-mail; or the applicant may show identification in person.



If proof is provided before the election, the applicant becomes registered and is able to vote a regular ballot.

If proof is not provided before the election, the person may vote a provisional ballot.

The person may provide proof up until 5 p.m. of the second day after the election for the ballot to be counted.




This law does not keep any person with an unverified number from being able to vote. This law is about verifying identity at the time of registration, so that when the voter goes to the polls the voter can vote a regular ballot, not a provisional ballot. ID required and checked at the polls is used solely to confirm the voter’s identity, not to verify the voter’s ID number or address. The photograph on the ID is compared to the person standing before the poll worker and the signature on the ID is compared to the signature on record.

This law does not target specific groups. The U.S. Department of Justice reviewed the law in 2005, and after revisions to the law in 2007 and 2008, found that the law did not deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color or membership in a language minority group.

The courts have held that the Voter Verification law is valid because the state has a compelling interest to have accurate voter rolls. And despite what others have said, the state provided examples of fraudulent applications that had come through the system because the law had been temporarily stopped.

This is a good law that will help our voter rolls achieve more accuracy and less fraud, while creating minimal inconvenience for prospective voters. We encourage you to register now, review your application before submission, and call your local supervisor if you have any questions.

See you on Election Day.
 
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yeah like I believe anything he has to say about it.

He is part of the republican machine who gave us Felons lists that knocked thousands of legal voters off the list in 2000
 
It is designed to knock voters off the voting rolls.

Just like the Felons list.
 
New voter registration law snares mostly minorities - St. Petersburg Times


TALLAHASSEE — Hispanics and blacks account for more than half of the people in Florida whose voter registration forms were rejected in recent weeks under the state's controversial new voter verification law.

Democrats were four times as likely to be tripped up by the law as Republicans, and more than half of the people affected are 30 years old or younger. One of every four unmatched voters lives in Miami-Dade, the state's largest county and the one with the largest Hispanic population.

Between Sept. 8, when the law took effect, and Oct. 10, a total of 8,867 people were placed in a separate database, their voting status in limbo for the moment, according to state records released Thursday.

Are you implying that Hispanics and blacks can't possibly be expected to register themselves properly and only whites and Asians are able to do that in the state of Florida? Give me a break. This is a prime example of the Democrat paternalistic racism and their "nice" way of trying to say "blacks and Hispanics can't possibly be expected to handle a task considered pretty easy by whites and Asians" -which is no less damaging than their overt racism of the past. (Congressman Lewis apparently chose to ignore the fact that Wallace was a lifelong DEMOCRAT when trying to make the slanderous and phony comparison between Wallace and McCain.) Unlike Democrats, I think blacks and Hispanics are quite capable of registering to vote properly and it is not a "skill" unique among just whites and Asians.

Why is it that at the VERY same time Democrats claim that the least intelligent people in the country vote Republican - they are also insisting it is actually THEIR own voters who can't possibly understand how a butterfly ballot (designed by a Democrat) even works in spite of arrows going from the name right where to vote for that person, and therefore thousands of only their voters voted for someone they never intended to vote for; only their voters can't possibly understand how to push a stylus completely through a punch ballot and actually make a hole with it; and NOW only their voters who can't possibly be expected to know how to properly copy their own driver's license and Social Security numbers on a piece of paper? And in spite of the fact that assistance with doing all these things is readily available by just ASKING. When registering there is a person right there to ask and at the polls the fact assistance is available to explain how to use the voting equipment and what to do if you make a mistake is posted in at least two dozen different languages. They can't possibly be expected to even ask for assistance either? Gee, can they at least be expected to use their own names and not use Mickey Mouse or Jive Turkey? Only the far more stupid Republican voters actually know how to do these things? Or is it the fact that Florida is one of the 12 states where ACORN is under investigation by the FBI for massive voter registration fraud that may have far more do with this?

The right to vote is like every other right we have -the individual also carries a responsibility with that right. That means your right to free speech does not include a "right" to an audience or a "right" to slander or libel someone or shout "fire" in a movie theater; your right to free assembly does not include a "right" to usurp the assembly of someone else and hold those assembled hostage to your own agenda, etc. And the right to vote means the individual carries the responsibility to make sure to present the very, very minimal requirements needed to show one is qualified to vote in their state and then carries the responsibility to cast their vote in a manner that makes their choice clear to the counting method employed. Or it won't be counted at all. Democrats are increasingly insisting that with THIS right, individuals can't possibly be expected to assume any responsibility in order to exercise it. So Democrats are insisting that a registration form that asks even fewer questions than people are expected to fill out when applying for government entitlements, or when applying for a job, or must answer on a renter's application or in order to buy a car -just throws them for a loop when asked to write down nothing more than their name, address, driver's license number and SS number? Even with someone standing RIGHT THERE to help with that oh so "complicated" task?

Although Democrats claim they are able to mindread the voter's intent in an unpunched ballot, no country with free elections anywhere in the world considers that a legitimate way to count votes. Likewise, no country with free elections releases individuals from their minimal responsibility to prove they are qualified to vote -in order to exercise their right to vote.

You are either in favor of clean elections where only qualified voters are casting votes and expected to make their choices clear and if in doubt, then expected ask for assistance in order to make sure they do. A very minimal responsibility in order to exercise that right. Or you are in favor of some other kind of system -but not the one in this country. Maybe one worthy of a third world banana republic but not a democratic republic.
 
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hes a republican who served under Jeb also.

They screwed thousands of legal voters out of their vote in the past.

Who are you kidding? The ones with extensive practice at cheating are always Democrats. The three most corrupt political machines in the nation with overwhelming evidence of consistent election fraud -exist in Chicago, New Jersey and Louisiana. And all are Democrat ones.

No one screwed "thousands" of legal voters out of their vote in Florida. Until the recounting began and then suddenly only legal, votes previously counted by machine that were for Bush -just disappeared. Just imagine what Democrats would be saying to this day if it had been Gore who saw nearly 1,500 votes just DISAPPEAR and ONLY his previously machine counted votes disappearing more and more with every recount. Inserting humans into the counting process instead of unbiased machines is a KNOWN means of stealing elections, increases the rate of errors and is LESS likely to be accurate -not more accurate. Which is why MY state never allows human counting.

In fact this "disappearance" of previously machine counted Bush votes is WAY outside statistical probablity -and several statisticians to this day insist it is absolute proof of election fraud. In fact, given the specific counties WHERE they disappeared and the fact that their stacks of "spoiled" ballots was also growing larger at the same time while Gore's numbers didn't really change much at all one way or the other and was within the statistically expected -Democrats to this day just gloss over the fact that the real disenfranchisement of voters was done by them. And unlike the Democrats phony claims -this one was real. Not even counting their attempt to throw out military votes -how "patriotic" of them, huh?

With punch ballots it was impossible to turn Bush votes into Gore ones -which is why Gore's total count essentially didn't change. But it was very easy to spoil entire stacks of Bush ballots -by simply poking an additional hole into the Presidential race and through the entire stack. Which is exactly how Bush's initial win in Florida went from more than 2,000 over Gore - to just 573. There were no "undiscovered and previously uncounted" Gore votes that changed the final count. It was entirely due to disappearing Bush votes that had already been accepted and counted by machine -but then disappeared -that changed the final outcome numbers. I have no doubt that Gore would have insisted on his selective recounting over and over until Bush continued to lose enough votes for him to steal what was never his to begin with.

Watching what Democrats did in Florida was revolting. While doing their phony whining that Bush "stole" that election, their real complaint is that they weren't given enough time to make enough valid Bush votes disappear to allow Gore to steal it. You can only steal what isn't yours -and that win was always Bush's at all times. No one will ever accuse Gore of having any class or having the best interests of the nation at heart when he made his attempt to steal that election.
 

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