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hi

American Idol was AWESOME!!!

Hey Michelle, I responded about your voting stuff

blog

on facebook, not on the blog itself

what deid you say

did

I explained the whole unaffiliated voting in primaries

situation

VEER O Beach -- do you hate me yet?

and something I found out via voting and emailing our county elections board

Voting registration gets checked with Drivers' license

When my wife and I got our drivers' license you can get registered to vote as well

mmmmmmmmmade it.

BUT I passed the stupid computer drivers test while my wife didn't. Because of that the voters registration went through for my wife but the drivers license check did not. So they asked for her DL at the polling place and now she won't have to check it

again for the general election or hopefully ever again

And I suggested that they know when you voted, verify your address verbally. If someone else comes in, uses your name AND address, they instantly know something's up and can deal with it. Voter ID laws = totally unnecessary

How do I get myself "unaffiliated"?

I guess somehow change your registration through your county board of elections

When I voted, they asked for my address and kept me from seeing it on the sheet.

I chose to vote for the Republican primary list instead of democrats. I want to have a say on that side especially.

They did NOT ask for ID.

If someone was going to steal my vote, they would have to know my address & voting location.

seems like a lot trouble for one (fraudulant) vote

Yeah, exactly, they have to have the location as well. There are quite a few locations for my mailing address town alone

Yeah, it would be hard to do on a large scale.

What the heck are they banging?!

There are theories that extra voting ID requirements are to prevent people from voting

exactly. you have to do it with dead people, and well, dead people are dead

I've read reports that a lot of seniors are being screwed out of their vote

VEER OH beach

by voter ID laws

to a Floridian!!!!????

that would be me!

States this year all of a sudden this year are requiring it and a lot of seniors don't have a drivers license, etc.

Can't "steal" votes en masse, but you can certainly hinder them, which has the same affect.

Add one, subtract one -- same result.

touche

It's so pronounced this year from the Republican conservative side, it seems like they are attacking the poor? I'm trying to stay out of that fight and just attacking the lack of common sense of it

Fox News Network likes to point out South Carolina's issue, saying 900 something votes were fraud, but the facts are they found amost all of them were clerical errors

It's rrrrRRROOOBBBBB ELLIS!

hi michelle

They have a list and check you off

If someone else votes in your name, your address, your polling location, they instantly know there's fraud. And it barely barely barely ever happens

The counter to that is that you can HINDER votes by adding more hurdles, which has the same affect.

Robb brings up another excellent point about the fees involved to obtain ID

Rob is such a fountain of information!

Just astounds me that the same party base that screams less government creates all these yeah but...s.

What is it Nikki is doing?

you can vote even if you live in a box under the bridge