So do you think voting in this wonderful country of ours is a sacred right and responsibility? Something to be taken seriously rather than for granted? If so, then why should it require less personal documentation than any of the following:
Cashing a check
Originally Posted by lustylad
This isn't a government mandate. That's between you and the bank. My credit union has, in almost 40 years, asked me for ID twice. One of those times was to open the account. One was to walk out with a 250k cashier's check.
Buying a gun
Originally Posted by lustylad
So, your position is then that it is okay for the government to infringe on your rights the way it does buying a gun? Or, I'm going to assume that you are in favor of the government infringing your rights if you believe it's okay to do so to vote
or buy a gun.
I happen to believe it isn't okay in either case, because firearms and voting are enumerated rights which ought not be subject to "papers, please."
Applying for welfare
Originally Posted by lustylad
Can you point to the part of the Constitution (federal or PA) which gives you a right to welfare? I'll wait.
Obtaining a marriage license
Originally Posted by lustylad
Can you point to the part of the Constitution (federal or PA) which gives you a right to a marriage license? I'll wait.
Boarding an airplane
Originally Posted by lustylad
You can board an airplane without ID. I've done so post-9/11, principally to see if I could and make a stink about it if I couldn't.
Renting a hotel room
Originally Posted by lustylad
I've done this countless times and was doing so several times a month prior to the coronavirus outbreak.
Purchasing liquor
Originally Posted by lustylad
Can you point to the part of the Constitution (federal or PA) which gives you a right to purchase liquor? I'll wait.
I could go on but you get my drift. Anytime anyone tries to clean up our badly out-of-date voter registration rolls and/or keep the act of voting in this country from being debased to the point where anyone with a pulse (and even some without a pulse) can cast a ballot without providing the same simple level of id required for countless everyday tasks, the left-wing jackasses refexively jump up and down screaming "suppression"!
Originally Posted by lustylad
Well, your understanding of how the voter rolls work is, by inference, flawed. You have no proof that there is anything even approaching regular voter fraud in PA. You have a system of beliefs which apparently seems okay with violation of just "certain" rights which would require "papers, please" which is as close as one can get to a communist without actually being Bernie Sanders.
This is just one of many reasons Democrats and libtards are awful. You people have no problem with demeaning the act of voting to make it easier to stuff ballot boxes and gain power that you know you do not deserve.
Originally Posted by lustylad
I'm likely significantly to your right on everything which isn't Trumpian populist bullshit, so let me note: there is a certain irony of a supporter of a guy who lost the popular vote making noise about people being awful around power "you know you don't deserve."
As for mail-in voting, even Jimmy Carter has a problem with it:
https://eccie.net/showpost.php?p=1062024932&postcount=8
Originally Posted by lustylad
So, you just used "libtard" as an insult and then cited Jimmy Carter as proof. You may want to get a new short bus driver--because the one you have clearly isn't working out.