No we don’t.
You might be choosing to flash ID at the polling booth instead of just telling them your name, but you are not expected or required to do so.
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i get a voter registration card but i typically just show my driver’s license because it’s already in my wallet. this is one more example of the privilege my class and skin color afford me which i could choose to ignore as if it didn’t exist but which i can’t in good conscience do.
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This is news to me. Source?
Not doubting, but I live here and if it’s an important story I want to know who’s doing good reporting so I can share it around.
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Important video, shame MTV can’t seem to get audio right even with the audio maxed on my PC I can just hear the video.
Here’s one I found when I googled earlier to satisfy my own curiosity.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/answers-indianas-voter-registration-probe-42657351
Seems to present the various sides pretty comprehensively, but no idea if there’s more to it that is missed.
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Sometimes Election Day is also Guy Fawkes Day. Not this year, so we’ll have to burn Trump in effigy a bit later.
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The Indiana case is worse than that. Police confiscated the ~45,000 voter registration forms, filled out but not yet submitted, and are extremely unlikely to give them back by this coming Monday, which is the registration deadline. The group that they raided was going door to door and out on the street and such, getting mainly poor and minority people to register, so it’s likely that it’s over 90% Democrats who thought they were registering, but will discover when they get to the polls that they’re not.
My brother’s done election / voter ID law challenges in Indiana for years, and says provisional ballots don’t get counted except in rare cases. (And he’s had his own problems getting ID - his wallet got stolen, Indiana won’t replace your driver’s license without an Official Stamped Birth Certificate, and the state where he was born had post-PATRIOT-ACT rules saying you couldn’t get one of those without showing up in person with a valid photo ID. Which, without his driver’s license, meant he couldn’t fly or legally drive there to get it. Don’t know if he took the bus or what, but eventually he brought my mom into the birth certificate office with her ID and argued that should be good enough.)
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I like Hemingways for my Christmas breakfast. Though they’re kind of a greeny-turquoise colour done right, I guess.
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You’re also required to vote in Australia, are you not? Though Harper shows that that’s maybe a double edged sword 
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Required to attend a polling place rather than required to vote (you can abstain) and the limit of the compulsion is a trivially evaded $50 fine.
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Ah, right. I thought it was more onerous than that, but I suppose being so would be detrimental to the process of democracy as well. Cheers for the clarification.
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In order to have the kind of voter fraud where people try to vote multiple times as different people, more of the registered voter population would actually have to care about voting the one time that they are legally allowed.
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Can Pro-Trump Poll Watchers Disrupt Voting In Pennsylvania? http://n.pr/2dAfedm
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