People who hate American-style democracy to their core, don’t care about your damn “facts”. If certain demographic groups tend not to vote the ‘right’ way, you need to make it harder for them to vote. The end justifies the means, period.

What? You still believe in the Easter Bunny too?

“Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”

Pennsylvania Republican House Leader Mike Turzai (R-PA)

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/06/25/505953/pennsylvania-republican-voter-id-laws-are-gonna-allow-governor-romney-to-win/

North Carolina’s Voter ID bill was co-sponsored by our own Tim Moffitt, BTW…

This has never been a problem anywhere, as study after study has shown.  The GOP have to go all out to prevent people from exercising their franchise, along with their attacks on women’s rights, unions, public servants, abortions and any other individual right they get in their cross-hairs.  They can’t win on their record, they have no new ideas, but they are passionate about limiting people’s rights.  And any false reason will do.

A very strong majority of the American people support voter ID laws.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/14/74-of-americans-support-voter-id-laws

The only valid opposition anybody could possibly have to them is that it would prevent voter ID fraud. Who does not have an ID? Every elderly person on SS and Medicare has an ID. Everybody who (legally) drives a vehicle has an ID. Everybody who wants to sit in a tavern and drink a beer has an ID. Tell me who these people are who do not have IDs and are being disenfranchised by such laws?

Additionally, the issue is not a matter of “impersonation”. It is instead the opportunity to defraud the electorate through same day registration requiring no valid ID or evidence of proper citizenship or residency. Voter ID removes those faults and does not disenfranchise a single legitimate voter.

“The only valid opposition anybody could possibly have to them is that it would prevent voter ID fraud.”

There’s a very good reason to oppose voter ID laws: millions of eligible American voters do not have valid photo IDs. But then you know that, as you acknowledge in your next statement:

“Tell me who these people are who do not have IDs and are being disenfranchised by such laws?”

“11 percent of voting-age American citizens—and an even greater percentage of African American, low-income, and older citizens—do not have current and valid government-issued photo IDs.”

http://www.brennancenter.org/content/section/category/voter_id/

Throw in the college student demographic, and you’ve hit the jackpot of the groups who tend to vote Democratic.

“They are kids voting liberal”

http://www.alan.com/2011/03/06/new-hampshire-house-speaker-wants-to-cut-voting-rights-for-students-because-theyre-voting-liberal/

Pennsylvania is turning into the national test case:

“The state’s most recent numbers show more than 750,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania lack the identification required to vote under the new law.”

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec12/pennsylvania_07-24.html

And yet, state officials admit there is no evidence of voter fraud to justify potentially dis-enfranchising 9 percent of eligible voters, or that the new law would even prevent any attempted fraud:

“The state signed a stipulation agreement with lawyers for the plaintiffs which acknowledges there “have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states.”

“Additionally, the agreement states Pennsylvania “will not offer any evidence in this action that in-person voter fraud has in fact occurred in Pennsylvania and elsewhere” or even argue “that in person voter fraud is likely to occur in November 2012 in the absense of the Photo ID law.””

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/24/1113252/-Pennsylvania-admits-there-has-been-no-voter-fraud

This is pure bull. Every college student has a college ID. Nearly all of them have drivers licenses. Every single one of them who does not have a valid state license can get one free of charge under these laws.
There are no elderly people (practically speaking) who do not have an ID. Both an ID and a SS card are required to receive retirement benefits. The same is true of minorities. Every minority who is driving a vehicle legally has an ID. Every minority receiving any federal benefit already has an ID. Every single minority can get an ID at no charge under these laws.

epic fail on your part.

“epic fail on your part”

So the Brennan Center, the Pennsylvania Dept. of State, and everyone else who attests that millions of eligible voters don’t have ID and will be dis-enfranchised are simply wrong or lying, and Trav is here to lay down the truth.

Thank the Gods.