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Re: Montgomery Advertiser – Bill would require voters to show identification at polls
If Representative Allen’s Photo ID bill, HB227, isn’t passed by our legislature to help prevent some of the voter fraud that takes place in Alabama we can’t hope for honest elections, and without honest elections we can’t hope for honest government. If legislators vote against his bill, those legislatures should be removed from the legislature later this year by their constituents. Voter fraud disenfranchises qualified voters including democrats and blacks. If you don’t believe that, just ask some of the black voters over in and around Hale County.
Not everybody has photo id. And requiring such id discriminates against these people. If even one voter were to lose the right to vote because of this, then the bill is unconstitutional. And, obviously, there are voters who do not have photo id (such as some elderly people who are no longer able to drive).
How can this work in Atlanta, but not in Alabama?
Anononymous, FYI:
From page 6 of HB227:
13 Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the
14 Department of Public Safety shall not charge a fee for the
15 issuance of an original, renewal, or a duplicate of a
16 nondriver identification card for an individual without a
17 valid driver’s license or valid photo identification under
18 this section, who is at least 18 years of age at the next
19 primary, general, municipal, or special election.
20 “(h) The Department of Public Safety shall
21 promulgate rules for the implementation of this act.”
The entire bill can be read @ http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACTIONViewFrame.asp?TYPE=Instrument&INST=HB227&DOCPATH=searchableinstruments/2010RS/Printfiles/&PHYDOCPATH=//alisondb/acas/searchableinstruments/2010RS/PrintFiles/&DOCNAMES=HB227-int.pdf