Xanthro: Voting is a RIGHT, not something I, nor anyone needs to prove merit in order to excercise that right."

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"What an absurd statement. Using and possessing my own car is a right, yet I need documentation to prove it's mine, otherwise what about those other two guys who say it's their car?"

No, you don't have a Constitutional right to own a car, not that this has anything salience to the argument at hand, since you don't need any paperwork to prove you own a car. Registration is so you can drive on public property. You can do what you like with your pink slip once you own the car, but people probably won't buy it since it could be stolen.

"Likewise, voting is right, and likewise there is significant risk that some will claim the right that do not actually have it. That's why you have a registration process and other checks - it's not about suppression, it's common sense."

No, it is about suppression, and you're a fool to not understand that. There is no widespread voter fraud that needs to be combated, it simply doesn't exist, and never has in a manner that would be slowed by a national ID card.

Why don't we bring back Poll Taxes and Poll Tests, I'm sure you think too many Blacks are voting now. Afterall, if someone can't understand the Consitution, why should he or she vote, but that would exclude you.

Our nation has a sorry history of using voting barriers to disenfranchise minorities, and the Republican party is currently too happy to continue that sad state.

"While I agree that Republicans often practice unconscionable voter suppression, requiring some, ANY proof that you DO have the right to vote (e.g. are a citizen, registered, haven't voted yet, etc), while it may "suppress" some legal votes, it will also suppress illegal voting."

So you believe in locking up innocent people because it would lock up some guilty as well? That's your logic!!

Let's suppress some legal votes, so that we can possible suppress these none proven illegal votes. Guess who's vote get suppressed? It's not those who's skin is the color of this background.

"For certain requiring voter registration "suppresses" votes as well - people forget, are out of town, are too lazy - should we now no longer require registration?"

Registration should be allowed the day of the vote, and only to prevent duplicate voting. People should be able to cast provisional ballots, and if they haven't voted elsewhere, that vote should count.

Requiring registration months in advance is solely to reduce the number of people who vote.

What's the sense in requiring a Photo ID? Really, explain in what manner this is going to reduce voting fraud.

Do you have to show a voter ID when you vote via absentee Ballot? That's laughable. The wealthy vote by absentee more than the poor. So now it's poor people who have to show a photo ID, while those with money can vote from the comfort of their own homes, and their own vacation homes as well.

Sorry, I forgot, only the poor would commit voter fraud, the rich would never do that. Ann Coulture must have been poor in 1980, only explaination possible.

The Photo ID is nothing but a shrill to keep minorities from voting.

Never saw that in him.

Now, I will defend one point for him, and that is being hired on as any type of consultant or executive producer for a movie or TV show is meaningless.

Example, most Sci-Fi shows have a science a consultant, who is overruled at any time for the flow of the script.

Now, his defending the lies is unforgivable, but hardly unexpected.

Bush and Cheney lied to the 9/11 Commission, claiming that Bush spoke with Cheney and granted Cheney authority to order civilian airlines to be shot down. Quite simply this never occurred, and Kean is the one who refused to allow that conclusion in the report. Instead, they adopted the language saying such a call could not be proved, when in fact it was proved such a call did not take place.

Surely I'm not the only one who, at every voting opportunity wonders: "So, all I have to do is tell you who I am and sign the register and I can vote?" That has seemed odd to me since I first started voting thirty years ago.

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Again, how does a Photo ID requirement prevent people from commiting voter fraud via Absentee Ballot?

If you wonder at at "So, all I have to do is tell you who I am and sign the register and I can vote?" then what does, "I'll sit here from the comfort of my 'house' and register and vote without any person ever seeing me" do?

Someone can grab a box of voter registration forms, make up names at an address, mail them in, then request absentee ballots, mail those in and move, all without ever seeing anyone.

Almost all modern voter fraud is over absentee ballots, so explain how this national photo ID will solve this.

You cant' because it won't, because it's not designed to solve voter fraud, it's designed to keep people from voting.

It may have a veneer of respectibility to those who haven't worked elections and seen the types of actual fraud that goes on, and seen the workings of voter supression.

First, this adminsistration wants to listen on my calls without a warrant, now it seems they won't be satisified till they can ask for my papers.