Warning Blast
In a piece that's largely about Dorothy Fadiman's Stealing America: Vote By Vote (opening Friday at NYC's Quad Cinemas and spreading out in August), Politico's Jeffrey Ressner quotes Ion Sancho, a Florida-based election supervisor who was involved in the Florida recount situation during the 2000 presidential race, as saying that Pennsylvania and Indiana are expected to be "problem areas" (i.e., states with potential incidents of vote fraud) in the coming November election.
"Pennsylvania and Indiana are jurisdictions with partisan election administrations, and that's one of the things that the film tries to illustrate," Sancho tells Ressner. There is a particular concern about an Indiana law that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification. "Senior citizens, young people, low-income and minority voters often lack photo IDs and, as a result, they may potentially be disenfranchised," Sancho says.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 30, 2008 at 2:30 PM
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Mgmax says ...
But none in Wisconsin! No sir, nothing to see in Wisconsin!
Posted by Mgmax at July 30, 2008 2:58 PM
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Mgmax says ...
Hey, Jeff's the top item on Instapundit now, too.
Posted by Mgmax at July 30, 2008 3:02 PM
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Josh Massey says ...
"Problem areas" = "states McCain wins."
And sorry, if you can't figure out how to obtain photo ID, you don't need to be deciding how this country operates.
How exactly do "young people," by the way, fail in getting photo ID? By being 14?
Posted by Josh Massey at July 30, 2008 3:06 PM
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D.Z. says ...
Josh: "And sorry, if you can't figure out how to obtain photo ID, you don't need to be deciding how this country operates."
What if you're in a wheelchair or a nun?
Posted by D.Z. at July 30, 2008 5:03 PM
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Josh Massey says ...
And why couldn't wheelchair-bound people or nuns get an ID?
Posted by Josh Massey at July 30, 2008 5:12 PM
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D.Z. says ...
Josh: The real question is why would someone who's a nun or in a wheelchair bother committing voter fraud?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/index.php?s=nun+wheelchair
Posted by D.Z. at July 30, 2008 5:16 PM
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Mgmax says ...
That's HOW they commit voter fraud, by preying on the sympathy for their crippled nunness!
Posted by Mgmax at July 30, 2008 5:24 PM
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Walter Sobchak says ...
Uh huh. Suggest that tests be administered to weed out mall-rats and hayseeds from voting but then throw a hissy if people are required to prove that they are who they say they are before casting a ballot.
Makes sense.
Oh, and in honor of D.Z.: a random link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0VMnegcXw0&feature=related
Posted by Walter Sobchak at July 30, 2008 5:35 PM
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D.Z. says ...
Walter: "Suggest that tests be administered to weed out mall-rats and hayseeds from voting but then throw a hissy if people are required to prove that they are who they say they are before casting a ballot."
So basically, neither idea works.
Posted by D.Z. at July 30, 2008 6:15 PM
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frankbooth says ...
I don't think Rove looked evil enough. Couldn't Stone have re-imagined him as having a long, twirlable, pencil-thin moustache?
You know, artistic-license and all that?
Posted by frankbooth at July 30, 2008 7:03 PM
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SpinDozer says ...
'And sorry, if you can't figure out how to obtain photo ID, you don't need to be deciding how this country operates.'
It's more than "figuring out" how to get a photo id, there's expence & effort, etc. which isn't an issue for most of us, but it is an issue for some...
http://www.truthout.org/article/photo-id-hassle-puts-one-moms-vote-ice
Which would be an acceptable situation if there was any reliable evidence that voter fraud was a real problem and not one cooked up to suppress the vote.
Posted by SpinDozer at July 30, 2008 7:27 PM
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Walter Sobchak says ...
frankbooth wrote:
"I don't think Rove looked evil enough. Couldn't Stone have re-imagined him as having a long, twirlable, pencil-thin moustache?
You know, artistic-license and all that?"
I'd buy THAT for a dollar!
Posted by Walter Sobchak at July 30, 2008 7:52 PM
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Dave Polands Gut says ...
How dumb do you have to be to have a problem voting? This is usually Well' issue. That morons that cant read directions or pull a lever shouldn't be voting.
Now that all these boobs are or may vote Obama it's ok?
Posted by Dave Polands Gut at July 31, 2008 6:37 AM
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D.Z. says ...
Yeah, who cares if the pamphlets are put together in a confusing manner?
Posted by D.Z. at July 31, 2008 10:26 AM
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George Prager says ...
If you don't drive a car, what's the point of having a photo I.D.? It's a pain in the ass to get one and you need a shitload of proof to get it. Thank God I have a passport (which I only got because I brought my brother and my high school yearbook to the post office) or I'd be fucked.
Posted by George Prager at July 31, 2008 11:14 AM
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ab says ...
I live in Indiana and the ID thing is widely publicized- that is, there are ads everywhere reminding you you need ID at the polls. Still annoying that one can't use a University ID or something, though.
Indiana state IDs are acquired at the same places and with the same identity prereqs as a driver's license. Mine's expired because I only use it to vote (and it only has to be re-upped before a general election), but I plan to renew it soon. Why it matters if it's current is beyond me.
Posted by ab at July 31, 2008 2:49 PM
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