Yes, I was asked for a picture ID and I’m glad. I do not want anyone voting in my place.
No. I live in a civilized, non-racist state.
Reduce Speed, NY. Sig matching only, and the only time it ever came close to a problem was one day years ago when I was a bit hung over and my sig was shaky. But since I had come in with my brother, and several of the poll workers (who’ve known me since I was a kid) had greeted us by name, she just hesitated at the sig a couple of seconds, and left it at that. I had ID, but even if I hadn’t it almost certainly would have been enough to tell her “Ask Joan over at district x’s table, or Leona at district y. They both know me.” I kinda like that aspect of living at the ass end of the world.
1/10. Try not to be too obvious next time.
I have no idea what this means.
I live in kind of a backwater, but how did my day spent checking IDs prove that my backwater is uncivilized and racist?
Because the primary motivating purpose of such laws is to suppress minority turnout,.
Ohio laws just require a form of address with an address that matches the address in the registration signature book. I’m not sure how a utility bill is oppressing anyone.
Whay about people who don’t have addresses?
That’s not checking ID, by the way.
Funny, in my little book I got when I had training to be a presiding judge, that’s what they called it: “Checking IDs.” I guess the state of Ohio is wrong and you are right.
And I guess the paper that was sitting on my table all day that said that the state of Ohio forbids any election official from asking for proof of citizenship was also wrong.
Who said anything about asking for proof of citizenship. My point is that asking for ID (which is most commonly understood to mean asking for drivers’ licenses or some kinmd of actual proof of identity which a cable bill does not provide) suppresse minority turnout in that minorities are more likely to be poor and to not have driver’s licenses.
I figured you were probably going to go after the whole citizenship thing. I’m glad you’re not.
Identification for the purposes of voting in Ohio is something that says who you are and where you live. This may, indeed, keep the homeless from voting, though there are definitely procedures for ensuring voting rights for at least some subsets of the homeless.
In my state, incidentally, we get asked for our naame and address, they look them up in a book and we sign next to our names. We have no voter fraud (even as rancorous as the Franken/Coleman fight became, and the accusations of fraud from the Republicans, no voter fruad was ever discovered), so that system sems to work pretty well, and nobody is denied their rights because they don’t drive.
What about the homeless?
I have no idea what they do with the homeless. My wife does a lot of work with the homeless, though, so maybe she knows. I’ll ask her. I’ll be right back.
Ohio here. They ask for my ID(Driver’s license) the last 5 years. I have no problem with it.
This is how it’s done in Illinois. One person in line around the time that I was there was asked for an ID. Otherwise you walk up, give your full name, they look you up in the book, you sign by a copy of your signature. To fake voting for someone else, you’d have to suspect they weren’t going to turn out to vote, know that someone by that name was registered at that voting station, and be able to kind of fake their signature.
Ok, I guess Minnesota state law allows registered voters to vouch for the residency of homeless people who live in their precincts. Apparently this is mostly done by shelter workers. Effectively they can use shelters as addresses as long as they get someone who works there to vouch that they are frequent residents there.
Incidentally, you do need to show ID in Minnesota when you register or if you’ve never voted before.
Virginia, they always ask for ID and check it against their list. It never occured to me that it should be any other way. There are usually at least 10 people with the same name as me in any large group so they end up checking my address against their list too. If they didn’t do that I could vote 10 times!
So there are states where they don’t even ask for any confirmation that you are who you say you are? Next time I’m in that state on election day can I just drive around to polling places, say I’m John Smith and cast his vote? Seems odd to me.