Comments on: Indiana High Court Hears Arguments In Voter ID Suit

By: Carol Parks

Carol Parks — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:06:47 +0000

Indiana has cases of voter fraud only in instances of absentee voting, not in cases of voters at the polls. The law demands that voters show ID at the polls, but not for absentee voting. Is this a scam? You betcha!! As soon as “Our Man Mitch” became governor, the Repug Secretary of State, Todd Rokita, implemented this stringent voter ID law. IN won’t weed out illegal voters, but legal voters won’t be able to vote: for instance, if you were born at home and have no birth certificate, you can’t vote.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:03:25 +0000

Your Florida friends should be caught and prosecuted. However, I don’t understand how this supports your statement about “people who at some level believe that certain other citizens shouldn’t be allowed to vote at all.”
We need to work to stop voter fraud. Requiring ID to vote is only sensible. For those few who going out and getting a valid government ID is unreasonably cumbersome, the article points out that they can vote using an absentee ballot. That at least allows for some time for verifying voter eligibility before the ballot is sent out, where it is much more dificult to do so at the polling place on election day.
As for people voting in multiple states, that is a little harder to check since it requires that the states cooperate. However, if there is a credible accusation of someone doing so, it likely wouldn’t be difficult for the states to discover if they are willing to work together.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:24:10 +0000

Why try to be civil, polite or nice to a few people who at some level believe that certain other citizens shouldn’t be allowed to vote at all. I know from living in Florida that several of my GOP friends live part of the year in a Northern state and because they own property in the south, they can and do vote twice. Maybe not all of them are voting for the GOP, but all of them sound as if they do. I’m tired of being nice and civil to people who say racist and ugly things about other Americans. I tired of seeing hate letters and hate columns in the paper and turn the other cheek. I want the party in power to use it and when we are not in power to be the party of hate and the party of NO!