DrDoomNGloom
Gold Member
I think you got so caught up in avoiding my request to post a link you forgot the OP. No one is arguing about if its a state right or not to determine the . We are talking about why some people dont want it as a requirement to cast a vote. As a right it shouldnt be contingent on presenting an ID. If you are already registered you should have no need for it. I like the suggestion posed by Candycorn.Sorry but the Bill of Rights says its a right. States may determine the rules but they cant do so and keep others from voting. Everyone has the same right. They cant for instance say only people with green houses can vote. That would be a privilege.SC Ruling ..
In its 2000 ruling, Alexander v Mineta, the Court decided the 600,000 or so (mostly black) residents of Washington D.C. have no legal recourse for their complete lack of voting representation in Congress (they have one “representative” in the House who can speak, but cannot vote). The Court affirmed the district court’s interpretation that our Constitution “does not protect the right of all citizens to vote, but rather the right of all qualified citizens to vote.” And it’s state legislatures that wield the power to decide who is “qualified.”
As a result, voting is not a right, but a privilege granted or withheld at the discretion of local and state governments
Privilege.
See you understand but you don;t , states have the right to determine an ID is required to vote ............... kind of like determining about legalization of marijuana and gay marriages, states are ignoring federal law more and more and determining what is best for their constituents.
The "right to vote" is not explicitly stated in the U.S. Constitution except in the above referenced amendments, and only in reference to the fact that the franchise cannot be denied or abridged based solely on the aforementioned qualifications. In other words, the "right to vote" is perhaps better understood, in layman's terms, as only prohibiting certain forms of legal discrimination in establishing qualifications for suffrage. States may deny the "right to vote" for other reasons.
I know you have comprehension problems, so once again from Wikipedia ...........
You want to keep arguing it's a right, it is not ....................