Re: OT: Opinion please

We have already voted, as we have early voting here in Florida (special
voting places are open 2 weeks ahead of election day--no crowds, great
idea). We have to show our voter registration card and one other form of ID
with either a picture or a signature. They will accept a signed credit card
for ID. I was going to try my Dive Instructor card (which has picture but
no signature) but decided not to rock the boat.

I see nothing wrong with requiring ID. We have always lived in very small
towns where everybody knew us before we moved to Florida, and nobody asked
for ID, but we did have to sign in in a big register, with our signature. I
don't know what the laws might have been, but the officials knew us and
never asked! We had paper ballots and then graduated to the punch cards. I
trusted those more than the fancy electronic machines--easy to use, but how
do you prove they are accurate! In Florida that's a real question!

Barb C.
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On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:53:52 -0500, Marsha <mas@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Do you think some sort of ID should be required when
you vote? The reason I'm asking is because, Democrats
challenged this law in Ohio and won, ironically just
before this election. I don't understand why it's so
difficult for a registered voter to provide some sort
of ID, be it a driver's license, picture ID card, a
recent bill in your name, all of which would have been
acceptable, whatever. It's not a "hardship", as the
Democratic party wants to claim, to provide ID. IMO,
it prevents voter fraud, which is not uncommon, again IMO.

Marsha/Ohio

I fail to see the big deal that this issue has become myownself,
Marsha. An ID or bill in one's name just isn't that hard to produce.
The word I keep seeing in print is "intimidating", but I fail to see
that asking for ID is an intimidating gesture. An underaged kid trying
to buy alcohol might feel intimidated by a request for ID, but that's
different, IMhO.

Anne/OH


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