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		<title>By: Jimmie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>VALID is an operative word here...I know of several cases, and have no reason to believe that these are not typical, that Mexican nationals working in the US have multiple ID’s. Drivers licenses and matching Soc. Sec.  These fake ID’s look as good as real ones. Complete with photos.   So most of the illegal voters have ID, more than one, they are now allowed to vote with each ID….5 ID’s 5 votes.  So while I think the showing of ID at the poles would slow down illegal voting, it is not going to stop it.  And if the American citizens  do not insist on keeping illegal voters out. The Democrats will keep them voting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>VALID is an operative word here&#8230;I know of several cases, and have no reason to believe that these are not typical, that Mexican nationals working in the US have multiple ID’s. Drivers licenses and matching Soc. Sec.  These fake ID’s look as good as real ones. Complete with photos.   So most of the illegal voters have ID, more than one, they are now allowed to vote with each ID….5 ID’s 5 votes.  So while I think the showing of ID at the poles would slow down illegal voting, it is not going to stop it.  And if the American citizens  do not insist on keeping illegal voters out. The Democrats will keep them voting.</p>
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		<title>By: Concerned Citizen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Concerned Citizen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When GA&#039;s law went into effect, the left was up in arms despite the fact that the gov&#039;t goes to the voter at their convenience to provide an ID free of charge. Their argument was that these are people who are distrustful of the gov&#039;t so they would be disenfranchised anyway. 

No matter how many solutions you come up with to their objections, they&#039;ll come up with more and more unreasonable objections because the voter fraud always falls in their favor. 

I had honestly believed that Rusty was going to come into the light on this one because he was making reasonable objections and accepting the answers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When GA&#8217;s law went into effect, the left was up in arms despite the fact that the gov&#8217;t goes to the voter at their convenience to provide an ID free of charge. Their argument was that these are people who are distrustful of the gov&#8217;t so they would be disenfranchised anyway. </p>
<p>No matter how many solutions you come up with to their objections, they&#8217;ll come up with more and more unreasonable objections because the voter fraud always falls in their favor. </p>
<p>I had honestly believed that Rusty was going to come into the light on this one because he was making reasonable objections and accepting the answers.</p>
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		<title>By: kerryb</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just want to share a couple of things:

I lived in Chicago for 5 years before moving (back) to Indiana.  After I moved back to IN, I received from the Chicago Board of Elections, a notice with my &lt;em&gt;current Indiana address&lt;/em&gt; reminding me to vote on election day.  Of course, this is Chicago, so I suppose I shouldn&#039;t be surprised.

On a different note, since IN has had Mitch Daniels, a &lt;em&gt;fantastic&lt;/em&gt; governor in office, plenty of things have changed - notably, the time one waits at the BMV.  I have had to go 2x in the last year (once for new license, once for plate renewal) and I was in and out in 8 minutes and less than 4 minutes, respectively.  Your wait time is listed on your receipt.  So the &quot;people don&#039;t have time to get an i.d&quot; argument doesn&#039;t really work here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just want to share a couple of things:</p>
<p>I lived in Chicago for 5 years before moving (back) to Indiana.  After I moved back to IN, I received from the Chicago Board of Elections, a notice with my <em>current Indiana address</em> reminding me to vote on election day.  Of course, this is Chicago, so I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised.</p>
<p>On a different note, since IN has had Mitch Daniels, a <em>fantastic</em> governor in office, plenty of things have changed &#8211; notably, the time one waits at the BMV.  I have had to go 2x in the last year (once for new license, once for plate renewal) and I was in and out in 8 minutes and less than 4 minutes, respectively.  Your wait time is listed on your receipt.  So the &#8220;people don&#8217;t have time to get an i.d&#8221; argument doesn&#8217;t really work here.</p>
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		<title>By: Plumb Bob Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Democrats Attack Vote Integrity &#8212; and Lose...&lt;/strong&gt;

The US Supreme Court decided yesterday that Indiana&#8217;s Voter Identification law requiring citizens to show a picture ID in order to vote does not violate the Constitution. The majority opinion, written by Justice John Paul Stephens, argues that re...</description>
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<p>The US Supreme Court decided yesterday that Indiana&#8217;s Voter Identification law requiring citizens to show a picture ID in order to vote does not violate the Constitution. The majority opinion, written by Justice John Paul Stephens, argues that re&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: cpodug</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>chapoutier, it&#039;s not shocking at all - it&#039;s just an exercise in common sense. But thank you for your support, anyhow. 

There might be hope for you yet ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>chapoutier, it&#8217;s not shocking at all &#8211; it&#8217;s just an exercise in common sense. But thank you for your support, anyhow. </p>
<p>There might be hope for you yet <img src='http://s.michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/themes/mm/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: englishqueen01</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Shockingly, I think I find myself on the side of EQ et al. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

**blink**

I know I&#039;m due for an eye exam, but I didn&#039;t think my vision was that bad, because I can&#039;t believe what I&#039;m reading. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Shockingly, I think I find myself on the side of EQ et al. </p></blockquote>
<p>**blink**</p>
<p>I know I&#8217;m due for an eye exam, but I didn&#8217;t think my vision was that bad, because I can&#8217;t believe what I&#8217;m reading. <img src='http://s.michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/themes/mm/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: chapoutier</title>
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		<dc:creator>chapoutier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Little late to this party, but anyway...

Shockingly, I think I find myself on the side of EQ et al.  

That is all, please continue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Little late to this party, but anyway&#8230;</p>
<p>Shockingly, I think I find myself on the side of EQ et al.  </p>
<p>That is all, please continue.</p>
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		<title>By: cpodug</title>
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		<dc:creator>cpodug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>EQ - we&#039;ve given away our rights as citizens by allowing all these libtards to have their own way and not standing up to them. We&#039;ve all sort of giggled nervously whenever they encroached on our individual liberties.

The Declaration of Independence says: &quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ...&quot; I don&#039;t see anything in there that says one of the unalienable rights is the right to vote.

All our other liberties have been granted to us by our government, starting with those enshrined in the Constitution. It&#039;s THOSE rights that we&#039;ve given away by our inaction.

It&#039;s getting time to take them back. Freedom isn&#039;t cheap. The price is blood. I&#039;ve paid my dues, and NOBODY has the right to take that freedom away from me. Something Rusty and some of our other resident trolls don&#039;t seem to understand.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EQ &#8211; we&#8217;ve given away our rights as citizens by allowing all these libtards to have their own way and not standing up to them. We&#8217;ve all sort of giggled nervously whenever they encroached on our individual liberties.</p>
<p>The Declaration of Independence says: &#8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness &#8230;&#8221; I don&#8217;t see anything in there that says one of the unalienable rights is the right to vote.</p>
<p>All our other liberties have been granted to us by our government, starting with those enshrined in the Constitution. It&#8217;s THOSE rights that we&#8217;ve given away by our inaction.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s getting time to take them back. Freedom isn&#8217;t cheap. The price is blood. I&#8217;ve paid my dues, and NOBODY has the right to take that freedom away from me. Something Rusty and some of our other resident trolls don&#8217;t seem to understand.</p>
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		<title>By: englishqueen01</title>
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		<dc:creator>englishqueen01</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;EQ, they do what you suggest already with a signature.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yes, because nothing is stopping me from signing someone else&#039;s name, right?

&lt;blockquote&gt;Furthermore, I doubt that these ID laws would have had little effect on Milwaukee voting.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Nope.  Our governor loathes voter ID.  So each and every time I vote, it doesn&#039;t count.

Guess my rights really don&#039;t count, do they?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>EQ, they do what you suggest already with a signature.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, because nothing is stopping me from signing someone else&#8217;s name, right?</p>
<blockquote><p>Furthermore, I doubt that these ID laws would have had little effect on Milwaukee voting.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nope.  Our governor loathes voter ID.  So each and every time I vote, it doesn&#8217;t count.</p>
<p>Guess my rights really don&#8217;t count, do they?</p>
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		<title>By: englishqueen01</title>
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		<dc:creator>englishqueen01</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>GSP:

Thanks. :)

I&#039;ll admit (with a little shame) that I know &lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt; the Wave, but do not follow them.  They lost 14-13 in Game 2 of the Semifinals to Baltimore.  Howes won MVP and Tozer was awarded Coach of the Year. (From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=743825&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel&lt;/a&gt;)

Speaking of the Journal-Sentinel, they issued their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=744528&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;editorial on the Voter ID ruling&lt;/a&gt;.  Given what I posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/28/no-its-not-racist-xenophobic-or-unconstitutional-to-ask-voters-for-valid-id/#comment-304343&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;above&lt;/a&gt;, this comes as no surprise:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Such a law would be antithetical to Wisconsin&#039;s long tradition of high voter turnout, spurred by having as few obstacles as possible to citizens exercising their right to the ballot.

The court majority downplayed both the obstacles that a photo ID requirement will impose and the obvious partisan motivation for wanting such a requirement.

The dissenting justices got it right. Without a valid state photo ID or passport, it is no small feat to get one - if, for instance, you don&#039;t have a birth certificate or other official documentation handy to prove identity, don&#039;t know how to go about getting them and have uneven access to the money and transportation to make all this happen.

&quot;No big deal,&quot; many are saying, with their driver&#039;s licenses sitting in their wallets, their birth certificates and passports in a safe place at home and a car or two in their garage. That isn&#039;t the real world for many people.

The court said the Indiana law is non-discriminatory. However, to get there the justices had to ignore who are most likely not to have photo IDs. That would be the elderly, the poor and minority groups, folks who tend to vote Democratic.

The court dispensed with the partisan underpinnings of voter ID laws much too easily. Arguments for the law &quot;should not be disregarded simply because partisan interests may have provided one motivation for the votes of individual legislators,&quot; Justice John Paul Stevens wrote.

In other words, even though widespread voter fraud doesn&#039;t exist in Indiana, Wisconsin or in the rest of the nation, we still should ignore that hurdles have just been placed, mostly by GOP legislators, before traditionally disadvantaged groups that - wink, wink - just happen to vote for the other party.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Such a poor excuse for an editorial, an argument as weak as the paper it&#039;s printed on...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GSP:</p>
<p>Thanks. <img src='http://s.michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/themes/mm/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll admit (with a little shame) that I know <em>of</em> the Wave, but do not follow them.  They lost 14-13 in Game 2 of the Semifinals to Baltimore.  Howes won MVP and Tozer was awarded Coach of the Year. (From the <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=743825" rel="nofollow">Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</a>)</p>
<p>Speaking of the Journal-Sentinel, they issued their <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=744528" rel="nofollow">editorial on the Voter ID ruling</a>.  Given what I posted <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/28/no-its-not-racist-xenophobic-or-unconstitutional-to-ask-voters-for-valid-id/#comment-304343" rel="nofollow">above</a>, this comes as no surprise:</p>
<blockquote><p>Such a law would be antithetical to Wisconsin&#8217;s long tradition of high voter turnout, spurred by having as few obstacles as possible to citizens exercising their right to the ballot.</p>
<p>The court majority downplayed both the obstacles that a photo ID requirement will impose and the obvious partisan motivation for wanting such a requirement.</p>
<p>The dissenting justices got it right. Without a valid state photo ID or passport, it is no small feat to get one &#8211; if, for instance, you don&#8217;t have a birth certificate or other official documentation handy to prove identity, don&#8217;t know how to go about getting them and have uneven access to the money and transportation to make all this happen.</p>
<p>&#8220;No big deal,&#8221; many are saying, with their driver&#8217;s licenses sitting in their wallets, their birth certificates and passports in a safe place at home and a car or two in their garage. That isn&#8217;t the real world for many people.</p>
<p>The court said the Indiana law is non-discriminatory. However, to get there the justices had to ignore who are most likely not to have photo IDs. That would be the elderly, the poor and minority groups, folks who tend to vote Democratic.</p>
<p>The court dispensed with the partisan underpinnings of voter ID laws much too easily. Arguments for the law &#8220;should not be disregarded simply because partisan interests may have provided one motivation for the votes of individual legislators,&#8221; Justice John Paul Stevens wrote.</p>
<p>In other words, even though widespread voter fraud doesn&#8217;t exist in Indiana, Wisconsin or in the rest of the nation, we still should ignore that hurdles have just been placed, mostly by GOP legislators, before traditionally disadvantaged groups that &#8211; wink, wink &#8211; just happen to vote for the other party.</p></blockquote>
<p>Such a poor excuse for an editorial, an argument as weak as the paper it&#8217;s printed on&#8230;</p>
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