zorro
8 Answers
jhharlan
Best answer!
lindilou
Bob/PKB
Providing a valid identification at a polling location is a good idea. I'm all for checks and balances to prevent fraud as much as feasibly possible.
I have the right to exercise the privilege of voting. Many do not, but it is my choice, and the freedom of that choice needs to be protected and respected.
(For years, MY vote has been the "kiss of death" for a candidate)
| 9 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
I am saying there is a lot of identification fraud.
My kids had to have photo identifiction to get on an airplane, when they were children.
Why should an adult be exempt from providing photo identification?
Furthermore, no one asks for identification when one registers to vote.
But, I digress. I asked you (30 days ago) to give me a good reason why someone who is going to vote shouldn't have a valid ID. I guess when you admit you could have committed voter fraud but didn't, it bolsters my argument.
I haven't said someone's not "vote-worthy". I'm saying people should have photo ID at polling places.
Vote-worthy is not the issue; your argument is subjective, defensive and personal. My opinion is objective. I don't care what color one is or if one lives in a mansion or under an overpass. Show a photo ID at the polling station.
Voting is a privilege, as it CAN be taken away. If it means enough to someone to exercise the privilege, (s)he will make an effort to ensure (s)he doesn't lose it.
Certainly, anyone in the housing situations you suggested should have some sort of valid ID. In today's world of transient, illegal, and terrorist concerns, I would prefer identified people are casting votes that affect our well-being.
Felons often lose their voting privileges. What's to prevent them from giving false info to a voter registration "hawker"? You spent 12 years with a voter registration stub as your only form of identification. In my pampered, sheltered world, it makes no sense. I doubt you'd have gotten on an airplane to Los Angeles with that as your only identification. Why should voting require less than admission to a plane?
I love you, as you know...we'll never find middle ground on this.
mycatsmom
I don't like mandatory anything, except for young parents taking mandatory parenting classes before they can take their baby home from the hosp; and before they can keep a home birthed baby at home. The adoption laws are just as thorough........even stricter. They do a home study before you can adopt.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
Colleen
No.
1. It would open the floodgates for crappy voting from people who are politically challenged. These people typically stay home and do not vote which is a good thing.
2. People would resent being forced to vote so would vote like they were taking a multiple choice test that they didn't study for. A check here, a check there, without even recognizing who's name they were checking.
3. It would take days just to get through the polling station if thousands more rushed to the polling station on election day.
4. Mandatory voting infringes on our freedom of choice.
5. Not without forcing a voter ID law
6. Would force the senate to come up with funding to hire a Gestapo to search the data base of 300 (or so) million people to make sure they voted.
7. Obama saying it would be "fun" for the U.S. to consider amending the Constitution over this just shows he thinks the office he holds is all about having fun and tossing out ideas to see which ones stick.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
nomdeplume
terryfossil 1
I seen a news report concerning voting in america,,one of our shows crossed to a report from Mike Amor, he is an Australian who lives and votes in America,,don't ask me how that works....they were discussing compulsory voting,,Mike said he doubts compulsory voting will ever be in America,,he said he lives in an upmarket place and it takes him a coupla minutes to vote,,but if you live in a lower market place,you could be standing in a line for up to 4 hours,,designed to put you off voting ,,,i guess it works because i would be heading home after 5 minutes,,and considering the amount of money that goes into the voting system..it would seem only the rich have a say..i am not saying that is how it is,,from me looking from the outside,that is how it looks,,>>>>>>><<<<<<<
| 9 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
sunnyB
Voting is not compulsory here in the UK. I don't think it should be, you would be forcing people to vote who take no interest, and therefore wouldn't know what they were voting for. It should be part of our freedom to not vote if that's what we decide, that way you can also use that right as a protest.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
