APNewsBreak: Suspected noncitizens found in Colorado

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

It's not the voter ID. Here in FL the Republicans dug deeper into the trick box to make sure voters have a harder time registering as well.

What have they done? According to the ncsl.org website Florida chose not to enact strict voter ID requirements.. Florida requires A photo ID, but if you do not have any ID you are still allowed to vote using a provisional ballot and your status is verified at a later time by comparing signatures before allowing your vote to count.

My state enacted new legislation for photo IDs.. Virtually the same: a Photo ID but if you do not have it an affidavit must be signed that you are who you say you are and you are allowed to vote on the spot.

Four strates have the "strict" photo ID requirement.. Even in these states you are allowed to vote without a photo ID .. but if you do you have to show a photo ID within three days for your vote to be counted.

These do not seem to be overly draconian requirements.

State Voting Requirements

Edit: Ah registering.. Sorry I missed that part and just reread it.. What have they done to make it more difficult to register?

Edited October 24, 2012 by OnMyWayID

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

What have they done?

Aside from passing a voter registration law that practically ended voter registration drives and ridiculous early voting restrictions? Nothing. These two voter suppression efforts - although both now sacked by the courts - will have a greater impact on the election outcome than 207 ineligible persons that are registered to vote.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,235]

An illegal immigrant needs to work to bring food on the table, and he needs to drive to work, but he doesn't need to vote. Hence, it would be outright crazy for an illegal immigrant to take such a huge risk of exposure if he has no benefit from it.

Green Card holders will not vote because they would risk to lose everything. So they too would be outright crazy to vote.

Is it possible that a few non-citizens are on the voters registry? Yes, and I tell you why: because the DMV drones urge everybody to register to vote when they -- oftentimes fresh from the boat -- trying to get their first driver's license. That doesn't mean that they will vote, it just means that their names are on a list. Should that happen? No. Should be disenfranchise literally hundreds of thousands of Americans who are eligible to vote because of it? No.

I was for the voter ID thingi until I got a bit more exposure to people who don't have the required ID. Some of them are vets, really old folks, some of them are in a wheelchair and thus don't need a driver's license. Many of them are really poor. What the U.S. government can do to help is introduce a national ID like it's common in pretty much every industrialized nation. The US passport card would work. Make it free of charge for every citizen, and that would solve the problem once and for all.

[Dan J 277]

If Voter ID laws were really about in person voting fraud, the laws would also address absentee voting fraud, vote selling, and voting machine tampering (including full disclosure of all the source code powering electronic voting machines). But instead they just expense and hassle to a mostly non-existent problem.

Also ironic is that voter ID laws will cost states and counties in providing IDs and training election judges to verify them. Which means bigger government from the party which claims to want smaller government.