10 Oct 2014, 4:53 pm
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LoveNotHate wrote:
It makes sense to me that residency must be established, because they put local taxing/bond issues on these presidential/congressional ballots. If someone is voting on property taxes for a local community, then it should *only* be the people with residency in that community.
For example:
"Elected officials across California salivated at the prospect of putting their favorite tax measures on the Nov. 4 presidential election ballot
"The Los Angeles Community College District has prepared its own $3.5-billion property tax increase to repair and replace aging campuses"
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/12/local/me-tax12
If there is no ID and thus no residency check, then why not go in and vote to raise taxes on people in another community - who cares
Or do they resolve this somehow ? But how could they if no ID is required to show residency ?
For example:
"Elected officials across California salivated at the prospect of putting their favorite tax measures on the Nov. 4 presidential election ballot
"The Los Angeles Community College District has prepared its own $3.5-billion property tax increase to repair and replace aging campuses"
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/12/local/me-tax12
If there is no ID and thus no residency check, then why not go in and vote to raise taxes on people in another community - who cares
Or do they resolve this somehow ? But how could they if no ID is required to show residency ?In the UK, in order to be issued with your ballot paper, you must give your address and then confirm that you are one of the people registered there. No need to show any ID. If you're at the wrong station, you will (I believe) be sent away. The system works.
I imagine a similar system could be implemented in the US with no trouble at all.
When I worked as a pollworker back in 2002 in the USA, as an assistant precinct registrar, I remember that we had to deal with people whose addresses had changed and who had moved either into or out of the precinct. I think, for people moving into the precinct, I had to write their new addresses in the book that had voter registrations. I was under the impression that another election commission official would go through the book after the election and update the voter registration with the information I wrote in the book.
I remember worrying that my bad handwriting might have messed up someone's voter registration and tried to be as clear as I could with it.
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10 Oct 2014, 7:34 pm
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Mr. Ayak? Really dude? f**k off.
Also I don't know what the point of what you're highlighting there is. Considering you keep continuously insulting me I'm just going assume you're a bit dim with an inflated sense of self worth so you feel you have to get the last word in here for some reason. Do you have a good handle of the English language? Maybe there is something lost in translation.
Also I don't know what the point of what you're highlighting there is. Considering you keep continuously insulting me I'm just going assume you're a bit dim with an inflated sense of self worth so you feel you have to get the last word in here for some reason. Do you have a good handle of the English language? Maybe there is something lost in translation.
As your apperception of the interlocution escapes your acumen, perhaps it would be prudent for you to elucidate a somewhat more germane retort.
And please do not project your intellectual deficits unto others. That is rude.
*tips fedora*
I would like to hear you explain your highlight in the previous post, you seem quite convinced it means something.
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10 Oct 2014, 8:15 pm
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Again, I said I had no problem with transportation being provided, not that it be a requirement.
But when you want to make it a government provided service a requirement is implied. You can't just call any government entity and request a ride to the polls. The task would have to be assigned to an agency to provide or arrange and that would be driven by a requirement.
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As for voter suppression laws... er, I mean voter fraud laws not really being motivated by racism - considering that a great many of them are enacted within those states that have had long histories of racial discrimination, the charge is hardly far fetched, and is in fact very probable.
For the millionth time this is 2014, not 1964. Outside of a small part of one state you have demonstrated to have very little knowledge of the world beyond. Your sources of information on the outside world are obviously filtered.
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And no, I don't accuse all conservatives of racism, just those who have had a preexisting history of it.
But what you post illustrates something different. Not to worry, though, because accusations of racism, homophobia, trollery, thuggery, and general asshattery from the left only serve as indicators that we must be doing something right. 
Kraichgauer wrote:
Your obsession with my suggestion that it would be okay if transportation were provided for individuals in need is... interesting... but your turning it into a strawman.
Hardly a strawman or an obsession since that's what you did say you wanted. The only obsession is yours over "voter suppression".
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And sure, it's 2014, not 1964, but that doesn't mean racism isn't alive and well in some place still, and that career politicians aren't going to use existing racism to keep the opposition from voting.
And until they die off they will be doing what they do which is not as much as you'd like to believe. Quote:
And I don't need to be out of state to realize that that's the case.
If your sources of information are slanted then you don't really know what case is what.
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Joking or not, racism and homophobia aint anything to brag about.
As a gay black man, which you've bent over backwards to convince me that you are, I'm sure you have more of a vested interest than I.....
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Isn't it about time the two of you got a room, already?
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