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bobemmIn 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...
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...
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Date: 2006-11-07 10:25 am (UTC)