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Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon  Sorry, missed this thread for awhile. I thought the whole point was as long as you have a fixed address and can prove it, you can vote. Look at Acorn giving phony utility bill statements to college kids so they can vote in the place they go to school and then go home and vote there, too.
I remember voting times in Thailand. Half of the people on Samui vanished to go home and vote. They all needed their ID cards to do so. Fine.
And face it, as noted above, most people don't even know who's in the race or what the issues are. Get Acorn or its ilk rounding up homeless, giving them free coffee and smokes and telling them to check Obama on the ballot is not democratic IMO. |
Thanks for the red Jet.
Anyway, what is so difficult in checking SS numbers against a central database to protect against this:
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Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon Look at Acorn giving phony utility bill statements to college kids so they can vote in the place they go to school and then go home and vote there, too. |
Why does this apply in a US election? I thought that the USA was a developed country and a proud democracy:
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Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon I remember voting times in Thailand. Half of the people on Samui vanished to go home and vote. They all needed their ID cards to do so. Fine. |
And why should this be a precursor to being able to vote:
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Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon as long as you have a fixed address and can prove it, you can vote. |