I travel Amtrak frequently, and ID is required to get your ticket. Same goes for Greyhound. Just because the rules were broken for you doesn’t mean it’s not required.
Your reference to pay stub implies ID, since again, you can’t work without ID.
To tell you the truth, I despise ID requirements for a lot of things. If liberals also opposed ID requirements for many of these things, I’d consider them sincere in their opposition to ID for voting. Since that is the ONLY case where they are opposed to ID requirements, then it’s reasonable to conclude that they see political advantage in it.
I believe SS money is sent electronically to most people’s checking accounts, if not for everyone.
Your arguments are not making your side look good at all. Voter ID fraud hasn’t been proven to exist in any great number, so why do Voter ID at all?
I’m also not sure I understand why you think Republicans should moderate their tone on same-sex marriage but not other things. They don’t have to give up on their pro-life stance, just stop being so extreme about it and continuing to stay stupid nonsense that doesn’t need to be said and can’t be defended.
There’s nothing to physically give a bank and no need to ever withdraw physical money. In fact, all benefit money paid by the Federal government is required to be done by electronic transaction. I don’t think you understand how Social Security, VA Benefits, or similar Federal benefits work. Fortunately, the Treasury Department understands that it can be confusing, especially considering that many of the people collecting social security have difficulty with technology. So they created this handy page to explain how it all works. You may be particularly interested in the Direct Express cards.
Alternately, for other ways in which people survive without ID you could read the link provided by Little Nemo earlier in the thread.
That’s what I’ve been saying. Being pro-life didn’t hurt the party in 2012 anymore than it hurt the party in any other election. Todd Akin and Dick Mourdock hurt the party.
And the problem with not requiring ID to vote is that you can’t prove voter fraud without it. However, in areas where voter fraud is trackable, such as with absentee ballots, there’s a lot of it. Naturally, Democrats want to expand absentee balloting, and reduce the ability to detect fraud.
Democrats also oppose voter purges, even though maintaining the voter rolls is the law, and there is evidence that thousands of voters double vote or vote outside their precinct.
Democrats don’t want people who are ineligible to vote, they want to make it easier for people to be eligible. This may or may not be because people who have a hard time proving eligibility tend to vote Democrat, but there is no question that Republicans want to make it harder for people who are eligible to vote if they think those people will not vote for them. Hell, they don’t even hide it.
The Pew Research Center came out with this report in January.
That bolded part could be the answer. The abortion issue might ultimately be “resolved” not by disagreement fading, but by interest fading. Which amounts to final victory for the pro-choice side. And bodes ill for any pols campaigning on anti-abortion.
Just as with voter ID laws, some purges are illegal. It all depends on how you go about it and the courts almost always get involved. In the case of the 2012 voter purge, it was completely justified, and Florida beat the federal government in the lawsuit. Mainly because the voter purge could have been accurate had the federal government shared its database. Plus, purges are required by law under the Help America Vote Act.
Republicans want an election system people can trust. You can’t trust a system in which James O’Keefe can get Eric Holder’s ballot and vote in his name.
The pro-choice side has already won on policy. Abortion will be legal in the first trimester nearly everywhere, even if Roe is overturned, which is unlikely.
When Republicans legislate on abortion at a time of economic anxiety, I want to pull my hair out. So I agree with that much, Republicans shouldn’t be making it as high a priority as they are.
He said, “I’m Eric Holder”, got the ballot, and all he would have had to do then was vote. He didn’t, because he didn’t want to be on film actually committing voter fraud, but he did show how easy it was.
Nothing makes me trust the system more than when the appointee of a candidate’s brother will not recount an election decided by a few hundred votes in which people were mistakenly (or intentionally) thrown off the voting rolls because their name was similar to that of a felon and then the Supreme court votes along party lines to halt a recount.
Unless of course, it’s where the maker of voting machines is a large contributor to one of the parties.
Not correct, in a number of states, statutes enacted prior to the decision of Roe 1973 remain on the books, and even others that put more restrictions are just in the books, also waiting.
No he did not, the reality is that they chickened out and they missed the followup, that is that when Holder was going to vote then the gig would be out.
Hmmm. So in fact, an ID is not necessary for all work. A person can be a “contractor” and perform work and get paid without any ID at all. Guess what? Your own cite proves you wrong.
This is what I meant earlier about how conservatives’ view of the world doesn’t actually comport with reality. They think things are the way they want them to be, but things aren’t that way at all.
