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Speaking for my state
Authored by: hardmath on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 12:29 PM EDT

Here (Tennessee) the state passed a photo ID law that went into effect last year. If you voted absentee, no ID required. If you voted early, your voter registration card is required (to determine the correct ballot/machine for you to use), though you can get a provisional ballot if you say you've lost the card and they look you up.

If you don't have a driver's license or other approved ID, you can get a free one (in advance of the election) at a state Driver Service Center.

One of the news items that went national from Tennessee was 96-year old Chattanooga woman, Dorothy Cooper, who had voted in every election but one for seven decades, but was initially denied the free ID because of a missing marriage certificate. She was later to locate it, and she got the free ID making a second trip to the center. She made sure to vote last year.

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Rosser's trick: "For every proof of me, there is a shorter proof of my negation".

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a bit of a rant about it
Authored by: YurtGuppy on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 12:35 PM EDT

Anyone who comes anywhere near computer systems administration who then looks at
no-ID voting
would have to conclude that individual votes have no value.

A bus load of people from the next county could arrive at my polling place and
claim to be whatever handy names they got from the public voter roles and
immediately own the precinct. And I wouldn't expect them to be caught because
there is no audit trail.

The blame for the situation rightly goes on the people who historically made
voting a joke by introducing stupid hurdles to keep legitimate voters out.

Individual votes at my voting place have near-zero value. And attempts to make
it otherwise are met with the certainty that I'm a racist. The only way I can
see it ever changing is if powerful African American politicians go to the poll
to discover that their vote has been stolen.

I have not yet worked up the necessary level of civil disobedience to prove that
opinion.



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a small fish in an even smaller pond

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No id is required in IL
Authored by: Kilz on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 04:42 PM EDT
You could be anyone walking into the polls and say you are
someone and vote. Unless you are challenged by a poll watcher
or have not voted in 8 elections and are listed as inactive..
That rarely happens.

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