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Perdue vetoes voter ID bill, signs 22 other bills

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64 total cases of potential fraud in the last two elections out of how many hundreds of thousands of voters?

Getting an ID is a pain in the neck and if the only thing you need it for is to vote, that's just one more reason not to bother. But voter apathy affects minorities and the poor more than anyone else, so who cares?

myjudas
June 24, 2011 7:20 p.m.

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Plenty Coup, if you are looking for justification for spending your crazy. Show me the justification for spending 80,000 to rewire the governors mountain home?

liberalismisadisorder
June 24, 2011 7:03 p.m.

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geosol, the bill has in it the ability to obtain a voter id card FREE OF CHARGE. So to you I say FAIL.

liberalismisadisorder
June 24, 2011 7:02 p.m.

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So somehow this bill would create a burden on the poor? I think the article called it an obstacle, whatever. The poor in this State have no problem collecting their checks each month. They have no problem cashing them either. It is not an obstacle to get a proper ID to vote.

give me no quarter
June 24, 2011 6:53 p.m.

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> There is absolutely no valid reason for NOT requiring ID.

Right, except

it presumes guilt

it's a warrantless search of your papers

it strips you of a birthright without even charging you with a misdemeanor much less convicting you of a felony like the Constitution requires

it's not in the Constitution

the Constitution says new hurdles to voting must be put in the Constitution

Give the legislature the power to stip the rights of someone you disapprove of and they will turn and use it against you next.

renaissancemon
June 24, 2011 5:14 p.m.

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>> The Constitution itself says that ALL the requirements to be able to vote MUST be contained IN THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF.

> QUIT lying!

QUIT maligning me!

"Who may vote. EVERY person born in the United States and every person who has been naturalized, 18 years of age, and possessing the qualifications set out IN THIS ARTICLE, shall be ENTITLED TO VOTE at ANY ELECTION by the people of the State, except as HEREIN otherwise provided." -- The Constitution of the State of North Carolina, Article VI, Section 1.

renaissancemon
June 24, 2011 5:01 p.m.

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OK all you right wingers, here's a deal for you. Us normal people will agree to let you spend millions of tax dollars enforcing a voter ID card, but in return, you kids will have to support the Disclosure Act, which requires full disclosure of all donations to campaigns and PACs. How's that sound?

geosol
June 24, 2011 3:42 p.m.

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What do all of these people do with their ID after they register to vote????? Was it a hardship on them to get that ID??? Let's face it...the people the dems think it will be such a hardship on to get an ID probably have a different id for each day of the week.

GetItRite
June 24, 2011 2:56 p.m.

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"Trying to claim there is no VOTING FRAUD is pure nonsense."

I'm still waiting on the evidence to justify spending millions on this when the state has such a budget crisis. Please provide the evidence whatelseisnew. Voter fraud IS extremely rare.

Plenty Coups
June 24, 2011 2:50 p.m.

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We the People, citizens of the United States of America, Tax payers, Residence of North Carolina, Tax payers, Law Abiding -

IT IS TIME TO UNITE AND ASK BEV PERDUE TO RESIGN, SHE IS NO LONGER REPRESENTING THE FOLKS OF NC. IF GIVEN A CHANCE SHE WILL BURY THIS STATE, SHE HAS BECOME DANGEROUS

pappybigtuna1
June 24, 2011 2:00 p.m.

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