Message #2858

[clistensprechen]

Okay. I call it a night.

See u tomorrow, sweetcheeks.

I guess the fact that one cannot board a commercial aircraft without presenting state-issued picture ID weakens your argument so much that it makes you unwilling to acknowledge or concede the point.  That's useful.

You mean I don't get to catch my usual 40 winks at a time I'm accustomed to just cuz you guys make demands?  Guess again. I go to bed at MY bedtime, not when you say so.

But guess what--none of you guys' insults were persuasive, and you tend to post questionable links.  What was persuasive this very late night, as of today, was CSPAN BookTV which showed a discussion about a book called "Who's Counting?", with some subtitle I don't recall, written by John Fund and Hans Von Sparkovski.

Basically I've opined that the basic idea of a voter ID is acceptable.  These two guys got up on Book TV and gave coherent reasons for why a student ID can't be used.  It's the "who's counting" part that makes the fact that only Republican states are calling for it, and I'm sure Republicans are going to point out a time-honored "Chicago politics" deal associated with the late Mayor Daly machine in that dead people vote and vote often.

Legit voter ID certainly would prevent BOTH parties from rigging an election, and they cited the Florida vote in 2000 as to why it's necessary, pretty much negating the claim that voter fraud isn't a problem.  If it happened in Florida in 2000, it can happen again even if it hasn't happened since.

I'm on board with this idea, but do I trust a Republican run state to NOT rig other aspects of voter law to tilt in its favor? Not only no but HELL NO.  Do I trust a Democrat run state to be dragged kicking and screaming into a Republican prescript that would apply to Democrat states?  Not only no, but HELL NO.  My objections of this nature remain.