SubscribeAlso, don't call it a poll-tax, I've been here for years. 1 (youtube) (lyrics)Thanks for the laugh.
A U.S. Civil Rights Commission investigation concluded that, of nearly 180,000 votes discarded in Florida in the 2000 election as unreadable, a shocking 54 percent were cast by black voters, though they make up only a tenth of the electorate. In Florida, an African American is 900 percent more likely to have his or her vote invalidated than a white voter. In New Mexico, a Hispanic voter is 500 percent more likely than a white voter to have her or his ballot lost to spoilage.WIll these voter cards make this real problem go away, or will they make this problem worse.
The Georgia legislature cited the curbing of voter fraud as an underlying goal of the statute. We believe that the proposed statute, by preventing certain citizens from accessing the polls, will more likely reduce than enhance voting integrity.
Two of the 9/11 terrorists had valid Virginia driver's licenses in fake names. And even if we could guarantee that everyone who issued national ID cards couldn't be bribed, initial cardholder identity would be determined by other identity documents... all of which would be easier to forge.So the problem that these cards are aiming to stop probably wouldn't be addressed with a national ID card.
The Court agrees with the United States Court for the Southern District of Indiana's reasoning in rejecting a similar poll tax claim in a lawsuit concerning Indiana's Photo ID requirement for voting:p. 177-178. The 11th Circuit rejected the argument it is a poll tax.This argument represents a dramatic overstatement of what fairly constitutes a "poll tax." It is axiomatic that "(e)lection laws will invariably impose some burden upon individual voters," Burdick v. Takuski [sic], 504 U.S. 428, 433, 112 S. Ct. 2059, 119 L.Ed. 2d 245 (1992). Thus, the imposition of tangential burdens does not transform a regulation into a poll tax. Moreover, the cost of time and transportation cannot plausibly qualify as a prohibited poll tax because those same "costs" also result from voter registration and inperson voting requirements, which one would not reasonably construe as a poll tax. Plaintiffs provide no principled argument in support of this poll tax theory.Ind. Democratic Party v. Rokita, No. 1:05-CV-0634-SEB-VSS, 2006 WL 1005037, at *38 (S.D. Ind. Apr. 14, 2006). The Court therefore finds that Plaintiffs do not have a substantial likelihood of success on their poll tax claim... For those reasons, the Court
finds that Plaintiffs have no substantial likelihood of succeeding on their
poll tax claim..
"It is axiomatic that '(e)lection laws will invariably impose some burden upon individual voters,' Burdick v. Takuski [sic], 504 U.S. 428, 433, 112 S. Ct. 2059, 119 L.Ed. 2d 245 (1992).By analogy : given that election regulation impose some burden on voter , burden imposition don't trasform regulation in taxation.
delmoi writes "Yes, just like punch card readers. We have been using electronic voting machines in this country for decades, if not a centuryPeople have worshipped bovines as divine being for thousand of years, that doesn't make them any less gullible. Tradition doesn't prove the tradition itself is sane or good or bad or anything.
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