Comments on: Bush Nominees Controversial? http://donklephant.com/2005/12/17/bush-nominees-controversial/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ford4x4 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/17/bush-nominees-controversial/comment-page-1/#comment-4651 ford4x4 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:56:58 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/17/bush-nominees-controversial/#comment-4651 How can it possibly be inconvenient. Election workers will come to your house. Maybe they should come to your house to pick up your votes, too! Voter fraud has been rampant in some areas of this country for years, and we're finally making a step in the right direction. How can it possibly be inconvenient. Election workers will come to your house. Maybe they should come to your house to pick up your votes, too! Voter fraud has been rampant in some areas of this country for years, and we’re finally making a step in the right direction.

]]> By: sleipner http://donklephant.com/2005/12/17/bush-nominees-controversial/comment-page-1/#comment-4646 sleipner Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:06:20 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/17/bush-nominees-controversial/#comment-4646 The entire purpose for laws like this (almost invariably pushed by Republicans) is to make it harder and more inconvenient for low income voters to vote, because they usually vote Democrat. What this suggests to me is that the Republicans are poising themselves to screw over the whole country in the same manner as they did in Georgia, and (if I recall correctly) have recently been attempting in Ohio. The entire purpose for laws like this (almost invariably pushed by Republicans) is to make it harder and more inconvenient for low income voters to vote, because they usually vote Democrat.

What this suggests to me is that the Republicans are poising themselves to screw over the whole country in the same manner as they did in Georgia, and (if I recall correctly) have recently been attempting in Ohio.

]]> By: ford4x4 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/17/bush-nominees-controversial/comment-page-1/#comment-4642 ford4x4 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:06:14 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/17/bush-nominees-controversial/#comment-4642 Wasn't the Georgia-Voter ID law passed on the premise that, if requested, someone would <b>come to your house</b> and take your picture for your photo ID. All of the disenfrachisement arguments just didn't make sense to me. I tried not to think that the real reason that someone was whining was because this would help eliminate voter fraud. Wasn’t the Georgia-Voter ID law passed on the premise that, if requested, someone would come to your house and take your picture for your photo ID. All of the disenfrachisement arguments just didn’t make sense to me. I tried not to think that the real reason that someone was whining was because this would help eliminate voter fraud.

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