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[bobemm]

In Missouri, election officials ask Sec. of State for photo ID even after law was struck down

The GOP in Missouri passed a punitive law requiring photo ID from voters. The law was designed to suppress the vote of elderly and lower income voters. Fortunately, the law was struck down. But that hasn't stopped the Republicans. Last week, the Missouri Secretary of State, Robin Carnahan, who led the opposition to the law, was asked for photo ID anyway when she went to vote. Big mistake:

Missouri's chief elections official said Monday she was asked for photo identification at the voting booth despite a court ruling striking down the requirement.

"I'm guessing this may be happening in other parts of the state," warned Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat who had opposed Republican efforts to mandate a photo ID in Missouri.

She said that a worker at the St. Louis Election Board asked her three times to show photo ID when she went to cast an absentee ballot Friday.

Carnahan said that she tried to explain a photo ID was not necessary, but that the election worker replied that she was instructed to ask for one anyway. Carnahan said she eventually was allowed to vote without displaying a photo identification.

"To have that experience personally was very troubling," she said.

It's going to be very troubling when GOP poll workers pull the same stunt on people who don't know the law. But, they really screwed up trying to pull one over on Robin Carnahan. Big mistake.

The Republicans can't win on issues. They have to lie and cheat and steal.

How much you wanna bet her ballot ended up in the trash?

I'm very grateful that my friend Christine, who just passed the MI bar exam, will be overseeing what goes on at a Detroit polling location (please note that Detroit is 86% black, perhaps the most successfully segregated city in the nation, so it's a huge target for GOP harrassment). Not because she's a partisan, but because she believes in democracy and won't tolerate any anti-democratic bullshit. The GOP is concentrating its "vote challengers" in minority districts, grasping at their last straws trying to invalidate the votes of valid minority voters.

This is a democracy. The bullshit has to fail, preferably with much fanfare.

If you send me a *hug*, I'll give Steenie a call while she's at the polls and pass it on...

Comments

[dakus.livejournal.com]

how else are we going to stop the terrorist from voting for democrats????

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

lulz...

[cowboymarine.livejournal.com]

I predict the Republicans will win all congressional races buy 100's of votes, oh, I meant by 100's of votes

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

you just wait. Give it til tonight. We'll see either who wins or who cheats.

[doombeast.livejournal.com]

Only the Republicans could do something as vile as demand photo identification. Vile, vile, vile Republicans.

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

It's not the act as much as it's the intent. People who don't have photo ID are more likely to be poor, transient, etc., which are demographics that are more likely to vote Democrat.

[doombeast.livejournal.com]

Interesting. So the Republicans are evil for expecting ID, but that counts as suppression because the demographics lacking ID are "most likely" to vote Democrats. Yes, I can see how that somehow makes sense. Im sure all the little old ladies named Gladys and Mildred who volunteer at polling stations are secretly covert Republican agents who hate poor and non-caucasian people. They'd have to be to do something as crass as ask for ID.

Oh and

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Interesting. So the Republicans are evil for expecting ID, but that counts as suppression because the demographics lacking ID are "most likely" to vote Democrats. Yes, I can see how that <em>somehow</em> makes sense. Im sure all the little old ladies named Gladys and Mildred who volunteer at polling stations are secretly covert Republican agents who hate poor and non-caucasian people. They'd have to be to do something as crass as ask for ID.

Oh and <em<by definition</em> of the word, Im not sure I'd really expect much voter turnout among transients n-e-wayz hur

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

You may continue to argue with things I didn't say, I won't butt in :-D

Kinda reminds me of what Bush has been doing all the time lately, "...and let me ask myself a follow-up question..."

[doombeast.livejournal.com]

How odd. It's almost as if when the Republicans do it, it's voter suppression. But if the Democrats do it, it's upholding electoral integrity.

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Do Democrats do it?

[gearjock.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I am going to vote in ST Charles MO this morning, the Republican "gaggle" in this state, I'll check if the slimy bastartds try it with me...

[shouldvesmiled.livejournal.com]

That's how Missouri is, though, Bob. :-P I live about 25 miles from the border and the western horizon is constantly a pulsing blood red that is punctuated by vivid yellow lightning bolts and cracks of thunder, because Missouri's evil radiates all the way into the stratosphere.