Peggy’s story: The cruel cynicism of the voter ID crusade
Hans von Spakovsky, a former Fulton County Republican party official and now a star of the right’s nationwide effort to suppress voting through strict voter ID protocols, continues to pretend that in-person voting fraud constitutes a major threat to American democracy.
Yet when challenged to present evidence of such a threat, as he was in a recent article in The New Yorker, he continues to fail.
For example, in responding to the New Yorker article, von Spakovsky listed a series of recent alleged voting fraud cases that to his mind justified the expense, bureaucracy and obstacles to voting created by voter ID laws. They were:
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– the Democratic nominee for Maryland’s first congressional district removed from the ballot after it was discovered that she had registered and voted in both Maryland and Florida in the 2006 and 2008 elections;
– an Arkansas legislator resigning after pleading guilty (with three other defendants) to committing voter fraud;
– a Canadian couple and a Mexican citizen arrested for illegally registering and voting in Iowa;
– a New Jersey resident convicted on multiple counts of voter fraud;
– three Indiana residents (including a former Democratic mayoral candidate) indicted for voter fraud;
– three Ohioans indicted for double voting;
– a Mexican drug dealer’s guilty plea for voting illegally in the 2008 presidential election;
– Florida’s discovery of nearly 200 non-citizens illegally registered to vote, and
– a city-council race in Vernon, Calif., overturned owing to voter fraud.
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That’s the best he could do?
Once again, none of the examples could have been prevented through voter ID. Requiring a drivers license to vote, for example, does nothing to prevent non-citizens from voting because citizenship is not noted on the license.
Also note that none of the examples cited by von Spakovsky involved an organized effort to alter an election through fraudulent in-person voting. Several involved absentee balloting, the easiest and most popular way to abuse the electoral process. However, it is noteworthy that the Republican Party has in general tried to expand absentee voting without tightening oversight because that’s the means that many of its own voters tend to prefer.
Peggy Cobb
Which brings us to the story of 97-year-old Peggy Cobb of Sandy Springs, as related in an email from her son Bill:
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“I now have a crystal clear, visceral understanding of why some politicians think voter ID laws are so important. The suppressive power of this law to deter people from voting is far greater than I realized. Meet my mother.
She is 97, in good health and with virtually all her marbles (bad hearing loss, though), living an active, independent life in Sandy Springs. She moved here four years ago or so. Had one knee replaced a couple years ago.
Peggy has voted in every presidential election since she was eligible, and most if not all others, too. She pays attention to this stuff more than a lot of people I know. She insists, often with me chafing, on hearing the other side.
She has a Fulton County voter registration card and has voted in every election when she’s been here. Her expired Indiana driver’s license used to be enough ID at the polling booth. No more.
But all she had to do was go to a driver’s services office, show the necessary documents, and get her Georgia Voter ID. Some waiting. No fees. Great deal.
So Peggy gathered up her voter registration card, some utility bills, bank statements, rent receipts and tax returns and went to Driver Services. They said “Great, you have everything you need. Except a birth certificate.”
She went back home and eventually figured out how to order a birth certificate from Minnesota, where she was born and married. Six weeks later, it arrived. Peggy returned to Drivers Services very enthusiastic, since the election was only a couple weeks off. They said “Great, you have everything you need, except the last name on your birth certificate isn’t the same as on all these other documents.”
Well of course not, she got married in 1943. What else could that middle initial “V” stand for except her maiden name, Vanstrom?
No Georgia voter ID card for Peggy without a marriage certificate.
I rarely ever see my mother near tears, but I did then. Some combination of rage and foreboding maybe. Luckily, the Minnesota county that has her marriage certificate is very user friendly. They even do same day turn-around and overnight delivery, if you pay for it. Time was short. $53. But UPS screwed up and misdelivered it, so Minnesota sent another one (no charge) to my house. My wife and I made sure one of us was home all day to sign for it.
Yesterday, back to Drivers Services. A friend drove her. They said, “Great, you have everything you need, except your Social Security number doesn’t match our system. Sorry, no exceptions.”
The friend, who had only bargained for lunch really, drove Peggy home to search for more papers with her Social Security number on it, then drove her to a Social Security office in Marietta. The agent could find nothing amiss, and gave her some papers.
Drivers Services finally relented and gave Peggy a Georgia voter ID yesterday, 5 days before the election. What would she have done without that determined friend?
You probably can’t truly appreciate the physical and emotion toll this ordeal has taken on Peggy. She definitely can’t believe it.
“Why is Georgia doing this to me! Do they want me not to be here? I thought government was supposed to make voting as simple as possible. I don’t understand it!”
I explained the reason for Georgia’s anti-fraud requirements with a joke I heard a long time ago. It begins with a guy standing around constantly snapping his fingers.
“Why are you doing that?” someone asked.
“I’m keeping the elephants away.”
“What? There’s never been an elephant within a thousand miles of here!”
“See, it’s working.”
The reality, of course, is much more mean-spirited and pernicious. Peggy got the joke right away. But she’s still not happy. It’s not funny. At all.
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No, Peggy’s not happy. In a later message, she herself spoke of her frustration with what she calls “Beautiful Georgia, my adopted state as I finish life’s journey.” Voting absentee, she says, “seemed sensible.” But on the other hand, she wanted to once again feel the excitement of voting in person, on Election Day.
“This year 2012 held new significance … my last year ever to vote in a presidential election. I wanted to feel part of this great privilege, wanted to again walk out of my precinct tapping my Georgia Peach voter sticker. Even if the day were dark, gloomy and cold, the sun would be shining.”
But “government intrusion stripped me of my established legal right to vote in 2012 unless I complied with new restriction laws…. I will vote in person on Nov. 6 but my spirit is broken. Trust in the government of my adopted state is shattered, a cruel joke.”
– Jay Bookman
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DownInAlbany
November 3rd, 2012
7:57 pm
Report: NAACP Takes Over Polling Station in Houston
Report: Voting Machines in Battleground States Switching Romney Votes for Obama
But, not at peep about these…
moonbat betty
November 3rd, 2012
7:57 pm
getalife, if you are out there:
Geaux Tigers.
GATA.
They are human.
josef
November 3rd, 2012
7:58 pm
ALBANY
Citation, please…
Skip
November 3rd, 2012
8:00 pm
Cons are doing a bang up job of beating down an old lady, real warriors one and all.
Skip
November 3rd, 2012
8:02 pm
Good one Down, go big when you make crap up.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
8:02 pm
REPORT: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for O…
drudgey spam
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:02 pm
Unmentionable has a question, Can you be an old, angry, rural white Southern male and still not have to join the GOP? He’s doing a background document check on one of his employees…
getalife
November 3rd, 2012
8:04 pm
I am very concerned about LSU winning this game.
Jeff
November 3rd, 2012
8:04 pm
you can not make a good case why you should not have to show photo id to vote, any argument to this is a lie! The left wants to cheat and that is all there is to it!!
Orange12
November 3rd, 2012
8:06 pm
Bro,
Win or lose, LSU is going to help UGA get to #5. I’m sure it is going to be the former.
moonbat betty
November 3rd, 2012
8:06 pm
That’s how you want it, get.
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:06 pm
““well, it’s worked in Georgia, so why not in Palestine?””
hehehe….Unmentionable sounds like a fun one!! He does kinda have a point though…
I think old angry, rural white southern males can’t help but join the GOP. It must have something to do with prostate enlargement, which seems to be a problem for a LOT of them, but that’s just my guess. That and reverse mortgages. Complete change of subject, but who in their right mind would get one of those things?
Orange12
November 3rd, 2012
8:07 pm
Check that. The later.
Orange12
November 3rd, 2012
8:08 pm
“I am very concerned about LSU winning this game”
Significant understatement
getalife
November 3rd, 2012
8:08 pm
moonbat,
Revenge.
DownInAlbany
November 3rd, 2012
8:09 pm
drudgey spam = anything that goes against the liberal agenda
josef: google it, man. Do I have to do everything for you? Typical entitlement mentality.
Ya’ll wouldn’t believe it anyway. I knew it before I posted it. It wouldn’t matter if you personally witnessed it, you would ignore it. Of course, you never believe anything referenced from a “right-wing” source.
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:11 pm
“josef: google it, man. Do I have to do everything for you?”
Translation: if I post the source, you’ll point out the OBVIOUS idiotic nature of it…
Go ahead and post it since you brought it up.
indigo
November 3rd, 2012
8:12 pm
Some illegals from Mexico are masters of phony ID’s. A driver’s license is nothing to them. I imagine most illegals know who to go to for a SS card, driver’s license, etc.
Am I the only one here who knows this?
Jm
November 3rd, 2012
8:13 pm
LSU is about to crush bama
Just kidding bro
Brosephus™
November 3rd, 2012
8:13 pm
josef
I am quite predictable.
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:14 pm
RF
Yeah, he says all these years and it turns out that he’s been sharing beads and blankets with a closet GOPer! But, I just had my exam, and my prostate passed inspection, so I guess I’ll have to wait before joining the Party of Diocletian of the Potomac..
I don’t really understand the reverse mortgage, but Unmentionable says it stinks of a beads and blankets treaty to him..
.
Brosephus™
November 3rd, 2012
8:15 pm
Orange 12
Nice correction mid stream
Catch y’all at the half.
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:15 pm
Albany: okay, curiosity got the best of me…
It’s breitbart.com…..Now you know that isn’t going to be taken seriously, dontcha?
Roger
November 3rd, 2012
8:15 pm
Hard to imagine that anyone can see this election cycles efforts as anything other than what is really is by republicans. We are sacrificing our sons and daughters in Afghanistan in the name of democracy, the right for that country’s citizens to vote. How ironic that here in this country efforts are being made to roll back the clock to a time when men, women, and children, were murdered in an effort to prevent a segment of our population from exercising the right to vote. What is more un-American or socialist than denying a group of people in any country the opportunity to vote because you believe they will not vote for you? That’s what happens in Russia and China. The effort speaks volumes about a party that attempts such acts and the nominee of that party who says nothing. Nothing validates his 47% comment more than his silence.
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:17 pm
“Some illegals from Mexico are masters of phony ID’s. A driver’s license is nothing to them. I imagine most illegals know who to go to for a SS card, driver’s license, etc”
Not being one, I can only speculate, and to my reckoning it would probably cost a bit of cash that most illegals probably wouldn’t have
Unless you know since you are one???
Nyquila
November 3rd, 2012
8:18 pm
Jay, regarding the Peggy Cobb voter ID experience you described: no doubt it was inconvenient for the lady but the government (the government the left worships, don’t forget) was merely doing the job it gets paid to do. The whole point of the exercise is to stop vote fraud.
And yes, vote fraud is real – don’t believe it, read the article on page 1B (Metro section) of today’s newspaper (the same paper that signs your pay check).
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:20 pm
“I don’t really understand the reverse mortgage, but Unmentionable says it stinks of a beads and blankets treaty to him..”
Smart one, that man of yours. Basically they mortgage your house and parcel it out to you in monthly payments that your heirs have to either buy back or sell the house and lose that money. Tends to complicate the estate a wee bit from what I’ve heard.
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
8:21 pm
DownInAlbany: “Of course, you never believe anything referenced from a “right-wing” source.”
What do you think might be the reason for this? Could it possibly be because of all the right-wing nonsense that has been posted and disproved over the years? And yet, the right has no shame, just keeps making stuff up.
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:21 pm
indigo
“Some illegals from Mexico are masters of phony ID’s”
Aside from the inherent racism involved in that statement, the second part
“I imagine most illegals know who to go to for a SS card, driver’s license, etc.”
has a modicum of truth to it…and, no, you’re not the only one who knows it…what documents do you need, how much are you willing to pay, when do you need them? What type of potential inspection will they have to pass?
paulo977
November 3rd, 2012
8:21 pm
JohnnyReb….”With us taking the Senate, Obama would have little chance of putting anything in place that he does not dictate.”
______________________________________________________
And the “repugnant” philosophy ..TO HELL WITH THE .NEEDS OF THE COUNTRY ..!!!!!!
Here it is folks …for all to see!!!!!!.
DownInAlbany
November 3rd, 2012
8:22 pm
Now you know that isn’t going to be taken seriously, dontcha?
Yep…especially to the HUFFington Post bunch!
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:24 pm
“And yes, vote fraud is real – don’t believe it, read the article on page 1B”
DUH, but how much of it has been proven or can be proven? Allegations are easy, but the burden of proof is on the prosecution. Realize you’d need more than 50,000 to change a presidential race in Georgia one point either way. It would take at least a half-million to take Georgia away from Romney don’t ya think?
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:25 pm
BROSEPHUS
:…am quite predictable…”
And I keep telling ya, Mec, that’ll be your undoing!
RF
So, the heirs have to pay it off? Sounds like a good idea to me, greedy l’il bastids!
Doggone/GA
November 3rd, 2012
8:25 pm
“Basically they mortgage your house and parcel it out to you in monthly payments that your heirs have to either buy back or sell the house and lose that money. Tends to complicate the estate a wee bit from what I’ve heard.”
It does…if you have any heirs. But if you don’t? It can be an option, but you have to be careful who you go with.
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:27 pm
“Yep…especially to the HUFFington Post bunch!”
Not a source I regularly consult, but I’d wager they’re of better caliber than the folks breitbart.com hires. You can choose to believe any source you like (on either side), but I tend to double-check the far leaning ones either way.
Jm
November 3rd, 2012
8:27 pm
I’m not a fan of the reverse mortgage
But it is a tool that can be helpful to those that lack other income, have paid off their mortgage etc
Jm
November 3rd, 2012
8:28 pm
I’m not a fan of pot smoking either
But I think it should be legal
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:28 pm
ALBANY
I pay attention to both the right and left wing sources…strip away the partisanship and you might get an idea of what’s at work in whatever the issue at hand…I don’t “trust” either one…
Whats-that-you-say?
November 3rd, 2012
8:28 pm
Jay, how come you don’t criticize this secure id fiasco which started back in June?
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
8:32 pm
RF: “You can choose to believe any source you like (on either side), but I tend to double-check the far leaning ones either way.”
I do too. Would never think to post something unless I have checked it out from other sides of the media. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with many of our right-wing friends on this blog.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 3rd, 2012
8:32 pm
osef
November 3rd, 2012
8:02 pm
Yep, I got inoculated with an anti GOP serum. Ha.
Mr_B
November 3rd, 2012
8:34 pm
“I think old angry, rural white southern males can’t help but join the GOP.”
Must have been the “angry” part that I left out, ’cause I’m an old rural white southern Socialist.
Gmare
November 3rd, 2012
8:34 pm
TaxPayer @5:44, YES, I voted the same on my absentee ballot!
Question for several of you here: Why are you bothering to respond to orange 12????
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:36 pm
CORBIN
Janney
Yep. But the same can be said for the left, of which I am one…
K’CHAK
Okay, okay…still a man hears what he wants to hear, eh?
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:38 pm
@Janney: I tend to be suspicious of anything from the extremes on either side. I may be liberal, but I’m no fool. I’ve learned it’s far too easy to take a rumor and run with it. People who are looking for justification for their frustrations will believe anything- and I could point out a few far-left folks I know in that category.That group tends to be small and treated for the extremists they are. The GOP let their extremists take over the controls and it’s about to ruin them.
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
8:41 pm
Josef: true, just doesn’t seem to be as often or as egregious as the right-wingers, at least on this blog!
Voted Tuesday at 5:00 at Noonday Baptist Church. Stood in line about 50 minutes; not bad.
Orange12
November 3rd, 2012
8:41 pm
“Question for several of you here: Why are you bothering to respond to orange 12????”
Gmare,
Grumpy again?
TaxPayer
November 3rd, 2012
8:42 pm
So. It looks like Mitt just needs to win North Carolina and Florida and Virginia and Colorado in order to get close. That should keep him busy.
Meanwhile the rest of you cons need to get on the phone to the Koch crooks and that gambling magnate, that I believe chose to settle out of court with the justice department, et al, and tell them that one billion dollars just doesn’t buy what it used to. They’re going to need to fork over some real money if they want this election bad enough.
Mr_B
November 3rd, 2012
8:42 pm
Good evening GMare. Surgery this week?
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:43 pm
Gmare
Why Orange? Well, he does have a pretty good sense of humor and is not beyond some self-irony. He’s usually as full of sh*t as a Christmas turkey, but then so am I, so we do have our point of commonality!
Mr. B
I had a professor back in college who was having trouble dealing with some of my, well, conflicting opinions. He asked me, basically, what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told him, “the Ambassador to Poland from the People’s Democratic Republic of the South…or a bricklayer…” My favorite Yankee professor reported back that when said prof was accusing me of being a smarta33, “so, I told him that I would advise you that failing the Southern people’s revolution, you could always be a bricklayer in Poland! Sounds to me that you’ve got your bases covered.”
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
8:43 pm
I agree, RF. Extremism can be found on each end of the spectrum. One must always question, and try to keep emotion out of a situation.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
8:45 pm
drudgey spam = anything that goes against the liberal agenda
Not my fault that you’re embarrassed by drudgey.
Jm
November 3rd, 2012
8:45 pm
Hillary’s former staff person says vote for romney
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/11/former-hillary-aide-backs-romney-148251.html
barking frog
November 3rd, 2012
8:46 pm
Voter ID will cost Obama all of
Georgia’s electoral votes.
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:48 pm
Janney…
You’re right about our crew here on Big Daddy’s verandah at the Liberal Plantation…but there are some conservatives who can sometimes surprise you with how open-minded they can be on certain issues, and some liberals who can surprise you with how close-minded they can be. That’s why I like hanging out here…a pretty good cross section of who we are as a people…
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:49 pm
Janney
“…and try to keep emotion out of a situation…”
Yeah, but that would take all the fun out of it…
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:51 pm
GMARE
So, m’dear, what’s your favorite Chardonnay?
Gmare
November 3rd, 2012
8:52 pm
Josef, re your post to me last night, you can call me the Gay Divorcee. Am looking forward to our date, and thanks for the song – have it saved. Also loved poutragay (can’t do the accent mark over the e on the iPad, but I guess it’s sorta like Targay & Jacque Pennay).
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
8:53 pm
Josef,
Agreed. In my experience, however, I have found liberals in general to be more open to new information than conservatives. I have conservative friends that don’t fit that stereotype, but still believe that in the main, libs are less conspiratorial than the cons. (I’m willing to listen to evidence to the contrary, however!!!!)
F. Sinkwich
November 3rd, 2012
8:53 pm
Someone had a bad experience dealing with government?
Say it ain’t so!
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:53 pm
@barking frog: that was a foregone conclusion years ago…Romney would win Georgia whether we had voter ID laws or not.
Jm
November 3rd, 2012
8:54 pm
Sink
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
8:56 pm
GMare:
Monday is your surgery? Am sending positive thoughts your way, and will anxiously wait for your post telling us all is well.
Mr_B
November 3rd, 2012
8:56 pm
josef: You ain’t nevah seen my bricklayin’. I couldn’t even have got by pre-Solidarity.
HP67
November 3rd, 2012
8:56 pm
@ Doggone/GA
“As Bro says: the Constitution doesn’t GIVE rights, it PROTECTS them…and that amendment is protecting the RIGHT TO VOTE”
You don’t have an inherent right to vote either. Voting is granted by the states. The Constitution just says how they may not deny it.
Orange12
November 3rd, 2012
8:57 pm
Josef,
Going out with the gray mare? You dog you.
RF
November 3rd, 2012
8:58 pm
Gmare: I get a kick out of reading the sputtering posts after yet another neocon fable gets debunked. Kinda like when we were kids and we always picked on the one we knew would get the maddest and stomp off to tell his momma.
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
8:58 pm
josef
November 3rd, 2012
8:49 pm
Janney
“…and try to keep emotion out of a situation…”
Yeah, but that would take all the fun out of it…
You’re too funny, Josef!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
8:58 pm
Former aide to Hillary Clinton endorses — Romney!
drudgey spam
Doggone/GA
November 3rd, 2012
8:58 pm
“The Constitution just says how they may not deny it”
It also says it’s a right
Gmare
November 3rd, 2012
9:00 pm
Josef, Turning Leaf, a lovely dry, cheapy from CA, I think. Ah, this is so fun! The commeraderie & the “jocularity,”(remember FR. Mulcahey?) NOT the surgery.
Back later; daughter has just played a word (words with friends – truly addictive) & I need a refill.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
9:00 pm
Someone had a bad experience dealing with government?
Say it ain’t so!
The conservative Republican controlled State of Georgia government.
Too funny!
Jm
November 3rd, 2012
9:00 pm
Kam, there’s nothing wrong with drudge
But you may not have noticed, per the usual, that it was politico spam
Get a brain
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
9:01 pm
Agree, Kam, government is only as good as those that are running it!
Banderson
November 3rd, 2012
9:02 pm
Republican arrested for trying to vote twice in Nevada. Why didn’t she cheat using absentee ballots like other Republicans? Idiot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/03/roxanne-rubin-nevada-voting-twice_n_2068999.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
9:02 pm
Kam, there’s nothing wrong with drudge
And yet you’re embarrassed.
There’s your sign.
josef
November 3rd, 2012
9:04 pm
Janney
@ 8:53
I would tend to agree with you on that, but then I call myself a liberal (actually, I’m lunatic fringe left!), but just being EOI, I would parse that to the following: it isn’t that either “side” is more or less open to entertaining new information, they are just not very open to interpreting that new information outside their cherished, and comfortable, paradigms. Since the liberal paradigm does, imeoiauo, give at least lip service to that more open ideology, I do agree that they (we?) are open to a wider range of new ideas and information.
Both sides have their Imams of Sharia.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
9:04 pm
Janney
“The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then get elected and prove it.”
P.J. O’ROURKE
RF
November 3rd, 2012
9:08 pm
“they are just not very open to interpreting that new information outside their cherished, and comfortable, paradigms”
Ain’t that the truth? And those paradigms took a somewhat startling jump to the right in recent years.
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
9:10 pm
Josef…
Can’t argue with that @ 9:04! Several studies have been done agreeing with your assessment.
Jan,,,
Love that quote, and it’s from a conservative!
josef
November 3rd, 2012
9:10 pm
ORANGE
Sshhh…DADT…
The Old Gray Mare ain’t what she used to be…you will note she’s been somewhat reticent about the nature of that surgery… !
Okay, Gmare, how could I possibly resist!
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
November 3rd, 2012
9:10 pm
Republicans should bear the mark just to make sure there is no voter ID fraud.
Look for the three 6’s — that’s the sign……
=====================
Voting machines having votes for Romney changed to Obama — WOW! Got that one in an email this morning. i was wondering who on this blog would be, ummmmmmmmmm, mentally challenged enough to mention it. Guess you’ve won!
NV: RNC wants voting machines checked to avoid fraud
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
November 3rd, 2012
9:12 pm
josef – GMare decided to join me and get breast implants. She told me hers are gonna be bigger……….
nahila
November 3rd, 2012
9:14 pm
In today’s World where the availability to have any registered voter photographed and a voter ID card issued at the same time one registers to vote (a copy of that ID kept in the county where registration takes place)there should be no hardship for anyone to have an ID voter registration card, if a vote needs assistance to obtain transportation to a voter registration office, the County should provide it to eliminate any excuses for not having a photo ID card unless they are too ill to travel, in that case, the County should go to the residence of that person and perform the photo ID and registration. A lot of work and expense however it could reduce voter fraud but at the least it will eliminate e causes for not having one. Our right to vote for the candidates of our choosing should be guarded just as our borders to protect the accuracy and the authenticity of the vote with no excuses, I am tired of the whining, all readers should be also.
josef
November 3rd, 2012
9:15 pm
Hey, folks, we get an extra hour of blogging this weekend! Unmentionable was just taking a poke at me for “sluggin’ back the firewater” this p.m. then stopped, “oh, I forgot. You’ve got to make up for that lost hour.”
RF
November 3rd, 2012
9:15 pm
Deb: they only want them checked because they didn’t buy the ones Ohio has, evidently.
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
9:15 pm
Sorry, meant KAM, not JAN at 9:10
retiredds
November 3rd, 2012
9:15 pm
I have no doubt that the R’s have done and will do everything in their power to suppress voters. The R’s are a lame excuse for a political party. But there is a bright side. The R’s have been and will continue to be on the wrong side of history and little by little the will become more irrelevant, except to their far right and Tea Party base, and more and more a minority party.
And those of you who support the R’s, if you don’t like this post, you can shove it.
F. Sinkwich
November 3rd, 2012
9:16 pm
“The conservative Republican controlled State of Georgia government.”
Guvmint is guvmint, Kammie.
And I’m guessing those ID administrators are voting O’bozo. It’s in guvmint worker’s DNA. Well maybe “worker” is a stretch, but you know what I mean.
RF
November 3rd, 2012
9:17 pm
Deb: when my mom was getting ready for her mastectomy a few years ago, we were joking and trying to lighten the mood. I told her since the tires were pretty much flat anyway, the good news was she could choose any size spare she wanted.
Rateeka
November 3rd, 2012
9:17 pm
“…I am tired of the whining, all readers should be also”
Then you’re hangin out @ the wrong blog…this is whine central.
Gmare
November 3rd, 2012
9:18 pm
Oh, almost forgot; good luck with the root canal, Mary Elizabeth.
Orange12
November 3rd, 2012
9:19 pm
Josef,
Yes, she is quite temperamental.
F. Sinkwich
November 3rd, 2012
9:19 pm
“And those of you who support the R’s, if you don’t like this post, you can shove it.”
Sounds like a “revenge” voter.
Janney
November 3rd, 2012
9:19 pm
“Guvmint is guvmint, Kammie”
That is flat out wrong, Sinkwich.
josef
November 3rd, 2012
9:20 pm
NYQUILA
Now, THAT monniker? I don’t care who you are, thass funny!
DDR’s here…now the party can really get started…
Did you ever hear Dolly Parton’s thing on cosmetic surgery? “When you husband asks to see your t*ts and you have to raise your skirt, it’s probably time for a tuck.”
…and great minds…that 666 one DID cross my mind! But, remember, Obama is the Anti-Christ…Bush is the devil…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
9:20 pm
Guvmint is guvmint, Kammie.
Translation: IOKIYAR
RF
November 3rd, 2012
9:20 pm
“oh, I forgot. You’ve got to make up for that lost hour.”
I’m counting on that hour as I’ve had to resist imbibing this evenin’ on account of I have to pick up the oldest from his girliefriend’s house at 11:00. Folding laundry just isn’t as much fun without a little nip or two!
Orange12
November 3rd, 2012
9:21 pm
Deb,
“GMare decided to join me and get breast implants. She told me hers are gonna be bigger……….”
Good. You two can join a jug band.
Tundra Dude
November 3rd, 2012
9:24 pm
Josef:
“the Ambassador to Poland from the People’s Democratic Republic of the South…or a bricklayer…
LOL!!! Good Wun!
I needed that…rough day at the investment parlor (casino)