From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 02:07:13 MDT
On Monday 19 May 2003 09:59 pm, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Karen Rand Smigrodzki wrote,
>
> > Harvey wrote:
> > > What state is this, that you don't need ID to vote?
> >
> > Harvey, are you saying that you live in an area where they
> > check your ID to vote? You mean at the voting booth?
>
> Yes. In Florida, they won't let you into the voting place without
> showing TWO forms of ID first.
>
> In the 2000 Presidential elections, we even had police roadblocks
> in some counties where you couldn't even drive down the street
> toward the voting locations without showing ID and valid driver's
> license to the cops. They also ran background checks and checked
> for outstanding warrants before they let you through.
My God! If that isn't illegal it certainly should be. Any citizen
leery of the cops or not wanting the hassle forbidden to vote?
>
> Once you were inside the place, they then checked your ID again and
> verified your eligibility to vote online. If the computers go down
> or are too busy, you can't vote even with proper ID, because they
> can't get the interactive live permission from the government that
> says you are allowed to vote. The online system even checks to
> make sure you haven't voted in any other precinct before you are
> allowed in.
>
> It is extremely controlled. That is why I am so surprised to hear
> that some places let you vote without any ID at all.
Obviously the goal was to decrease and perhaps surreptiously filter
who the number who got to to exercise the franchise. Nasty.
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