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ACLU Condemns Voter Integrity Act

Via The ACLU Website:

The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed its disappointment with the House passage of a bill placing undue and unnecessary burdens on Americans’ fundamental right to vote. H.R. 4844, the “Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006,” requires voters to present a government-issued photo ID in order to vote in federal elections. In addition, beginning in 2010 voters would be required to present a photo ID that was issued based on proof of citizenship in order to vote. The measure passed by a vote of 228-196.

The following can be attributed to Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office:

“Less than two months after the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, the House of Representatives has chosen to pass legislation disenfranchising the very citizens the VRA was designed to protect. No eligible citizen should have to pay to vote. There are voters who simply don’t have photo ID and requiring them to purchase one in order to vote would be tantamount to a poll tax. This measure will disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minority voters, senior citizens, voters with disabilities, and others who do not have photo identification nor the financial means to acquire it.”

What a load of crap! This ridiculous “poll tax” meme is quickly making its rounds. Nancy Pelosi has taken the ball with this one and ran with it headlining with the alarmist title, “Voter ID Bill Is an Attempt to Suppress the Votes of Millions of American Citizens!”

Give me a break! You have got to be kidding! Perhaps they are worried this act will supress “millions” of illegals and dead people from voting! An I.D. is required in many of the most basic things in America such as driving a car or even cashing a check. Please, tell me how all of these poor people that can not afford to get an I.D. cash their welfare checks?

Rep. Henry Hyde makes the same point.

But Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), who sponsored the Federal Election Integrity Act, says requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls “presents no greater hardship than people face performing everyday activities.”

For example, Hyde noted that government-issued photo IDs are required for driving vehicles, applying for Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, food stamps, boarding airplanes, entering government buildings, registering at school, getting student loans, renting movies, and cashing checks.

Given all the cases in which U.S. citizens are asked to produce photo IDs, it should not be difficult to produce IDs to guard against fraud in the electoral system, Hyde said.

It really isn’t surprising that the ACLU would be against making our democratic process have more integrity. After all, they know which side butters their bread. They even keep a scorecard on Congress.
The ACLU are involved across the country fighting voter I.D. laws. In Missouri at least 16 St. Louis area Democrats have been found guilty of election crimes in the last year and a half! When Republican Gov. Matt Blunt signed a law requiring voters to provide I.D. the ACLU had to come up with a different argument than the poll tax crap. Even though Missouri the Missouri law provided for free photo IDs that voters could obtain before election day the ACLU represented a group of Democrats to challenge the law by arguing for a loophole they found stating the law violated a state constitutional provision against imposing costs on local governments without providing state funding. So much for the poll tax argument or putting an undue burden on the poor.

As a matter of fact as Digger’s Realm points out:

Those against it are claiming it’s a poll tax on the poor, minorities and elderly and that they can’t afford to get a drivers license or passport. They fail to mention that the bill includes a portion to pay for free for the poor who can’t afford a photo ID.

People can see for themselves. The full text of the bill is here.
The ACLU were also involved in the recent case against a similar bill in Georgia that was struck down. It also provided free I.D.s. They also fought voter ID laws in New Mexico, Michigan, and Indiana. The ACLU has clearly shown its true colors in support of voter fraud. The only possible reason I can realistically see why someone would be against this bill is if they actually desire for voter fraud to continue. Once again the ACLU has shown just how transparent their lie of non-partisanship is. It is clear what the ACLU and democrats want. They want rights for illegal aliens, dead people, and felons to vote early and often.

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Posted by Jay on September 20, 2006 8:29 pm

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4 Responses to “ACLU Condemns Voter Integrity Act”

  1. Skul on September 20th, 2006 10:28 pm

    Why is it that every time I hear about the aclu starting to whine, piss and moan, I feel safer? Stuff it aclu. What a pack of socialist knot-heads.

  2. kerwin_brown on September 21st, 2006 5:53 am

    The cost of a photo ID is relatively minor and spread across several years. If you can not afford it then you are not only poor you are starving to death. I do not believe that is even a minor problem in the United States. The ACLU is just for open borders and globalism and wants illegal immigrants to vote. The Democratic party gets a boost from illegal voters.

  3. badbeans on September 21st, 2006 7:31 am

    Georgia just had a law requiring a photo ID, which would be provided to those who do not have one free-of-charge, shot down by a state court judge in Fulton County this week. Georgia does have a provision for a right to vote in her constitution. So until a constitutional amendment is passed in this state to require voter photo ID, which can be placed on a voter ballot, Georgia will have every law struck down with or without the ACLU backing.

    The ACLU has definitely has a reason for their fighting of any law requiring positive ID at the polls. First of all, it is no unknown fact that voter fraud is rampant in elections in which Democrats are elected. Secondly, it takes away the ability to challenge Republican wins on the basis of voter fraud.

    Democrat and ACLU modus operendi is to accuse their opponents of the very things of which they are actively guilty.

  4. apostle on September 21st, 2006 10:38 am

    Photo ID cost me 9 dollars. I agree with Kerwin. If you can’t afford an ID, then you are homeless and live beneath the earth somewhere. It is only common sense to make someone show ID when they vote, unless we don’t want only U.S. citizens to vote. (Wait, what am I saying…)

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