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Voting Rights At Peril in Georgia, Indiana, other States

New ID Proposals Would Deprive Many Minority, Poor and Seniors of Voting Rights

Modern Day Jim Crow and Poll Taxes on the March in GOP Georgia and Indiana

Blogged by JC

04.01.05 @ 11:18 PM

I was shocked and chagrinned to read in today's New York Times, that the Georgia Legislature had approved a new voter ID law, described as "the strictest measure in the country." The entire article is worth reading, but I would draw to your attention the following highlights (or should I say "lowlights"):

-- Georgia would be the first state not to permit an alternative to a photo ID, such as a signed affidavit.

-- another provision of the bill, supposedly designed to prevent voter fraud, would totally eliminate the requirement that a voter seeking an absentee ballot state a reason for wanting it, even though there is far greater concern about the use of absentee ballots for fraudulent purposes. If measures like this pass, it becomes all the more imperative to enact voting reform legislation that I and others have introduced to protect voting rights.

-- "Neither Geogia's secretary of state nor the secretary of state of Indiana, where a voter identification measure has been under consideration, could point to an allegation of voter identification fraud."

-- The AARP has observed that more than a third of Georgians over 75 lack a valid driver's license.

-- The bill would have a disproportionate impact on rural voters, given that Georgia's 159 counties have only 53 driver's license offices, and ten of them are in metropolitan Atlanta.

Sadly, this is not an April Fool's Day joke.

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[Frances]

1. It's the same kind of disenfranchisement

that happened in reaction to African Americans getting the vote after the Civil War.

[Kip Humphrey]

2. Voter fraud = 1 vote at a time; Election fraud = 1.000.000 votes at a time

Well done, Georgia! Glad to see you solved that problem!!!

All I can say is it might be a good thing with fewer Georgians voting!

[Melissa G]

3. HUH? More votes almost always favor Dem's' cause there are more

of us than Republicans. When we count ALL the Votes. Dems Win! Probably even in Georgia which was Dem before the Election Fraud of '02.

[Helga Scow Stern]

4. The new California Secretary of State is big on these ID's too.

[rigel99]

5. Georgia Democrats Walked out of both House and Senate in PROTEST

so what you haven't heard is that the Georgia Democrats made a valiant attempt, including one woman, Alisha Thomas Morgan, after being told her time was up and the Speaker Glenn Richards R-Hiram, bangs his gavel, starting singing this song.."Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around."

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/news_humbug.html

also, what democrats in Georgia have not quite understood is that all these laws being passed are from UNELECTED OFFICIALS, due to election fraud from VOTE RIGGING ON DIEBOLD MACHINES BROUGHT TO GA BY AN EVIL ZELL MILLER DEMOCRAT... our lovely Secretary of State, Cathy Cox....

the only activity any democrat in Georgia should focus on is election fraud, proving election fraud.

anything else including campaigns and canvassing is a pure waste of time. Walking out of both chambers while a noble gesture, does not do one damn thing to stem this very sick tide towards further disenfranchisement.

but even with this voter ID bill, I still contend that Election Fraud affects EVERY VOTER and is therefore a bigger problem to attack.......
as for the voter ID thing, it's just another GOP tactic, if they get kicked out of office we can reverse all their bills... that's what we have to do, get them out of office, thru fair, honest elections.. which can only happen if you go back to counting paper ballots...

www.countpaperballots.com