Thread: TX - Impassioned testimony over voter ID

Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, conjured up the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, saying the proposals for tighter ID measures are the modern equivalent of the Jim Crow laws that were used to suppress minority turnout for decades.

"This is a racial issue, make no mistake about it," said Veasey, who is black. "Can you really sleep with yourself at night knowing that if this bill is passed, that most of the people that would be denied the right to vote are going to be black, brown and poor?"

I assume this guy is also trying to make banks stop requiring ID from people who want to cash a check?
I assume he is actively trying to make video stores stop demanding ID from people who want to rent a video?
Who doesn't have (or really can't get) a driver's license or state ID? You need ID to get a job, and if you don't have a job, you need ID to cash a welfare check, or a social security check, and if ID is needed for that, people find a way to get it, so why shouldn't they have ID to vote?

Originally Posted by jean

Statewide testimony given on ID bill



Democrats complain that the GOP wants to suppress Democratic turnout by erecting hurdles that disproportionately affects their base vote.

So they admit that dead people and illegals are their base here in Texas?

Did you hear all the Democrats claim that voter fraud and voter impersonation doesn't occur?

Wisconsin Man Admits He Cast Ballot for Obama for Dead Wife
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-879535.html#879535

It happens, it's just unreported and you can't prosecute a phantom with no proof, no ID and no name.

Dixie