Peach
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- Jan 10, 2009
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Because your rights come with reponsibility and your rights do not trump anybody elese's right to a fair and honest election. If we went back to the old system, the waiting period between registration and election day was to allow you do deal with the very issue of a vhanged address. It gave you time to produce proof of your current address and get it changed on the roll. And it was expected that it was the duty of every citizen who expected to vote to be able to do so.
The right to vote is a right so long as reasonable rules and regulations to ensure an honest vogte are followed. It should never be denied to any citizen who is willing to follow reasonable rules and regulation. It should not be a right to sidestep them.
Rules & regulations: SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS! I knew of a disabled woman, MY MOTHER, who had no photo ID, and a friend with a suspended license. WHY should VOTING be a task? Those masses of illegal voters exist only in the minds of those who want to suppress our foremost right, the RIGHT to vote.
I don't know, last week a guy was offered Eric Holders ballot at a polling place and, he wasn't Eric Holder, he didn't look like him etc etc ....and see my post above....
Poorly trained poll workers are a problem that may take money to correct; many states are on tight budgets. But my experience was in a small county, if "voter ID" is available at the registrar's office it might lessen the chance of denial of valid votes.