Hey, I'm not saying she's without her downsides…

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

http://www.asamanthinketh.info

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

Twitter? What's that?

Right on Karen Handel for trying to make sure only legal voters can vote. The howling from Democrats on this issue of voter ID really tells you something doesn't it? What possible reason could they have for opposing it? Hmmmm.

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

Not sure why this topic has been brought back to life but Oy the reason to object to it is that no one has ever demonstrated any meaningful voter fraud and requiring drivers licenses or a passport or an id issued by the GA DMV does in fact suppress voter turnout from those that are poor, have a disability, elderly or do not drive a car, a large majority of whom happen to tend to vote democrat. Getting one of these id's is not as simple as your buds would make it out be. For instance is there a DMV location within easy walking distance of a MARTA rail station? Does someone have to take the day off from work and stand in line all day just to be able to vote? Oh and at the same time they expanded the use of early voting by mail with little to no verification of id required - and those folks tend to vote Republican.

Please hope you are intellectually honest enough to recognize what is really going on here.

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

I do recognize what is going on here. Democrats are trying to preserve their ability to cheat. That's a very indelicate way to put it but that's what's going on. It has never been a huge part of elections but every single one, there are vans full of clueless people who wouldn't be there unless they were organized and marshaled into the precincts. There is walking around money to get professional voters in there. There are recent immigrants with flaky credentials. The numbers are small and it's never been much of an advantage for them, but with the loss of the left's monopoly on the news and other media, Democrats are desperate to preserve any tool they have. The elderly, poor, rural thing is just a red herring. Anyone who's qualified who wants to vote is able to do so. The scare stories about legal voters being disenfranchised is less believable and just as unprovable as the legions of illegal voters scare stories. If you don't understand why ID is needed, Google "Democrat" plus "walking around money."

As for early voting - it should not exist. Nor should mail-in ballots, online ballots, any of that crap. Absentee ballots for documented reasons only should be the only votes allowed outside of votes in the booth. And election day should be on Saturday with very long hours.

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

Oy, I don't know where you are speaking of, but I've worked several elections in "the field" on election day for south dekalb politicians in South DeKalb - one of the focal GOTV (get out the vote) areas for Dems. Yes they get vans, and yes there is a phone bank for people to call in and ask for rides. And some churches do that also as do some nursing/assisted living homes. The vans are also used to position field workers on various corners to wave signs.

The vans are not brought in to meet at a secret location to bring in people with forged utility bills.

And I've never once seen a list of dead people or other people on the voter roles that it was known would not be showing up to vote - I mean think about that, you are speaking of fraud that's pretty difficult to pull off and fairly easy to catch.

I'm not saying one couldn't get voter history and put together such a list on the hope that people would not show up and thus could be substituted for - but keep in mind if you don't show up you get scrubbed off after awhile. Though if such a list did exist it would be pretty easy to fraudulently enter the votes for said missing voters by mail. Though as stated the Republicans didn't have a problem with expanding that.

That the requirement turns away those who don't have Driver's licenses is not a red herring at all. I've seen it personally. A lot of people do not have Georgia Drivers licenses and getting them to go to DMV to get a state issued id is not an easy task. I know for those of us with cars and flexibility to take an afternoon off from work it may not seem like that big a deal to spend an afternoon at the DMV, but it is true, I've seen that with my own eyes.

Bottom line this notion of shipping people into precincts doesn't happen - and that is the real red herring. You do know that Republicans put precinct watchers at all these locations as do the Dems. And the actual poll workers are dedicated people who take what they do and the integrity of the voter lists seriously.

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

There's less of it here than in the big party machine cities and states. I'm looking at you, Chicago.

I'm sure you're doing good, honest work for your party. No problem.

But it does happen. And the Repubs are guilty, to a lesser extent, of shenanigans, but the phony voter ploy, along with the classic dead voter, is a Dem affair.

And, in this day and age, to just allow people to walk in and vote without proving they are the person on the roll, is ridiculous. Who are all these people who have no ID whatsoever? It's got to be a tiny number of folks. And all they have to do is pipe up and there is an army of motivated partisans, such as yourself, that will spring into action and make sure they get it taken care of. Provisional voting should be a part of the process, so snafus can be handled, because it is government, after all, and there will be snafus.

How do you feel about ending this early voting, mail in voting, internet voting and expanded absentee voting crap? This really galls me, this lazy man's democracy. There should be none of it. Nor do I really trust the computer system in the booths, though I love using it. The more primitive the system, the more trustworthy. The much maligned punch cards were great and judged by a post 2000 study to be the most reliable and accurate method of the pre-computerized voting methods. What about moving the elections to Saturday? This will increase turnout but Dems will never go along with it because busy productive Repubs may not have time on Tuesday but the core Dem demographic has plenty of spare time on a work day.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

Ok, I can go along with that, I understand there is a balance on what to require - I just believe there should be more leeway or an easier way to get an ID.

But I agree on the mail in stuff and if they hadn't done that it would have made the corresponding implementation of the DMV ID requirement more palatable.

Early Voting at official polls is ok, and I believe says some money by minimizing the short term staffing and equipment issues on election day. Internet voting is frightening.

Moving the voting to Saturday might impact a lot of Dems not because they have extra time on workdays vs. but because we are probably more hungover on Saturday ;-)

BTW I haven't done GOTV stuff for the last few cycles - I mean what's the point ... plus its grueling and doesn't pay the rent. Now if we got the Rent is to Damn High party down here I might have to come out of retirement.

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike