I don’t know that they’d oppose it now, but they’ve talked against it in the past:
Hell yes. I’d be a strong advocate for a national ID card if we made honest efforts to get them in every hand.
No, see, that’s still something you can lose. What we’re gonna have is a barcode tattooed on every hand. Or forehead, some people have one or no hands but everybody has a forehead.
What?
Nahh, they’re gonna make us get an implant. You know, those ones they got from the aliens. The ones that identify us, control us, and make us enjoy anal probes.
Anal probes as a test for citizenship is entirely legal and Constitutional, as well as having objective value in supporting voter confidence.
You, sir, should run for office in North Carolina!
But elections are the problem, what with the erosion of voter confidence and the dread threat of voter fraud, which may burst into actual existence at any moment!
Everybody knows that America is a center right country, basically conservative, all *real *Americans know that! What other explanation is possible than knavery and skulduggery when the elections don’t reflect the real heart of America?
American elections are unfulfilled, incomplete! Let the Republicans take charge of elections, and then they will be finished!
Note that Walker also signed legislation to give lobbyists more time during election years to make financial contributions to lawmakers and other candidates (moving the earliest date to April 15 from June 1).
Because priorities.
It would not freeze voters rolls long enough or well enough to still be effective during the demographic shift that is 20 years away. And new voter registration will be a lot easier for folks that trend Democratic during that time because they will tend to already have proof of citizenship.
This is a familiar phenomenon in the north-east. As soon as they no longer need to win election, northeastern Republicans have made it almost a ritual to condemn their party (in other parts of the country) for all the bullshit they try to pull.
Your ability to buy or sell things would also have to be conditioned on having the tattoo (or more likey, implanted RFID chip).
A denarius for a Quarter-Pounder…with “cheese”.
Can someone explain this line from that cite?:
In my experience, and to my knowledge, “absentee ballots” are the ones you fill out and send in via the snail mail. How would Wisconsin know when I filled out my absentee ballot?
Obviously some other mechanism is in play here. Can Wisconsinites fill out absentee ballots via computer, or something?
The GOP’s new voting laws are nothing less than a war on democracy
Even in Massachusetts, you can go visit Town Hall and fill out a ballot right there. It goes into an envelope and into a bin along with the mailed-in absentee ballots.
In Wisconsin, what is referred to as “early voting” is technically in person absentee voting.
Go to the clerk’s office, fill out absentee ballot, seal it and put it in the box. It is not actually counted until election day.
Voting absentee by mail is also still an option.
The new Wisconsin law allows “observers” to stand as close as three feet to you when you register, and again when you pick up your ballot. That wouldn’t be intimidating, at all.
Concerning the right wing’s fear of national ID, Pat Robertson says that buying things by computer is an attempt by Satan to mark you with the Mark of the Beast.
I suspect this isn’t what they intended:
And today, a judge struck down the Wisconsin voter ID law. The court found that
and
The claim that voter ID laws are justified in part by the goal of having the public believe in the integrity of the voting system was also disputed. All the evidence at trial was that claims of voter fraud and passage of voter ID laws makes the public have less faith in the voting system.
The entire 70 page ruling. (No, I haven’t even scanned it.):
http://media.jrn.com/documents/adelmanorder.pdf
Republican state officials have already announced they will appeal the decision. No doubt the Supreme Court will eventually decide. Based on their apparent disdain for voting rights shown last year, I’d guess the GOP still might get its way on this issue.
Uh oh. A judge’s ruling establishes whether people were previously right or wrong when they stated their opinion on a legal issue, right?
What on Earth are you talking about?
A final ruling certainly establishes the state of the law.
This ruling – by a single judge at the federal district court level – certainly does not. It has no precedential value.