We cannot change public perception of 'overly strict' voter laws if you keep posting laws that are 180º different than our lies!

Stuffing ballot boxes..Let's see Lyndon Johnson and Jack Kennedy are masters of it..

for those whom like to play what if...what if Nixon contested the 60 election Ike told him in no uncertain terms, "get those two" and won

Would we have all the social legislation we have today? Would we have had vietnam, and the now far left from the 60's coming to the forefront now in the likes of Pelosi, Obama, and all the rest.

would there be Newsbusters or any need for it?

   Once again, we have a liberal looking down on a culture. Black people are too poor and stupid to get a free ID card. So they must be given special favors to help their downtrodden selves. Special favors and treatment that can only come from caring loving giving tearful liberals.

Hold on to your seat

Because this tactic is just getting started. This one is the hot one on AA just starting today. Expect it to show up on a major media channel near you. Expect new "scandals" we will have to hear about the rest of our lives.

I'm sorry Alter, which party invented black (and white,catholic republican) voter suppression? And exactly how did the vote in poor black neighborhood's become "good for democrats"? I'm curious. What's that? Which party? That's what I thought.

[W]ith the help of a 2008 Supreme Court decision, Crawford vs. Marion County Indiana Election Board, white Republicans in some areas will keep eligible blacks from voting by requiring driver's licenses. Not only is this new-fangled discrimination constitutional, it's spreading.

Hello? The law doesn't just require blacks to have licenses but whites also ie. all voters. And what does "white Republicans in some areas" mean? And one doesn't have to have a driver's license but a state-issued ID.

If the requirement to have a state-issued ID is repressive because blacks are less likely to have the time to get them (they are free, if I understand it correctly, so cost isn't an issue) then why isn't it discrimination that rural voters have further to travel and need to provide their own transportation to get to their voting locations when most blacks live in areas with multiple public transportation options?

Next thing you know democrats will want felons to vote.

are trying to prevent Blacks from flying on an airline.  Every time I do it, someone asks me for a danged ID.

Here we go--the election is finally on. When the democrats begin deploying their standard playbook, you know it's the final stretch--and make no mistake, Alter is a democract strategist as are many if not all of the MSM.  Next come these chestnuts: (1) the Republicans are trying to starve children, (2) kill older Americans, and (3) bring about a theocracy.

How dumb are democrats who have believed these groundless talking points for, at least, the last twenty-eight years despite reams of evidence to the contrary? How sad is it that the semi-intelligent dumb masses go running to the polls to vote democrat every four years in panic because of unsubstantiated assertions like those of Jonathan Alter and his ilk?

Every time I hear someone extoll the intelligence of the American people, I just have to laugh.

From time-to-time I have lunch in a small cafe' in a small Kentucky town with a retired "vote fixer." Surprise! He's a Democrat.

He's told me dozens of stories of how he and his cronies stuffed ballot boxes, distributed alcohol and "election day money" (they'd have bags full of five dollar bills), and how they connected with people willing to cast multiple votes (unions).

He told me he retired because of two things. First, poll workers started checking ID's more closely. Second, most county clerks went to an electronic, touch pad voting booth.

Kentucky is going back to a computer scan ballot and now people can just swear an oath that they are who they are without showing an ID.

My vote fixer friend told me that he's thinking about coming out of retirement. He's salivating over the changes.

only disenfranchises liers and cheats. Ohio has restrictions and sends out a reminder card 2 monthes ahead of the election to remind voters what to bring.

It would be wonderful if a FREE ID CARD were available for anyone without a drivers license because then the proper papers could be taken to the Election Board for confirmation of eligibility.

"Not only is this new-fangled discrimination constitutional, it's spreading...."

Please, not THIS argument again - the old James Byrd-black-churches-will-burn scare tactic.

Providing an ID to vote is now discrimination?  Support ID's to vote? You're a Jim Crow racist!

Should we be cynical and say blacks vote Democrat no matter who's on
the ticket? Does Barry Hussein have a lock on the black vote  simply
because he's black?  Why not put O.J. Simpson on the Democrat ballot?
Blacks will vote the party line anyway.

A vote is still an individual right as a responsible citizen - anyone who can't even manage to acquire a driver's license shouldn't be given the opportunity to alter the political course of our nation, even by one vote.

Here we go again, folks! Stupid coastal liberals moaning about how bigoted and myopic us fly-over folks are. (Btw, I just want to take a bow for Indiana pushing McCain ahead of Obama in the EC count today... for now, at least)

This has been a non-issue to everyone but the Democrats since this law was first proposed.

Normal person: "Uh, make people prove who they are before they vote? Yeah, that makes sense."

Dem pol: "Now hold on there! You're just trying to disenfranchise our little friends, our helpless little ones who don't have the means or the wherewithal to meet these heinous conditions! What's next, bring back the Poll Tax? Or an Intelligence Test? You are continuing to trample on the rights of these poor helpless, incompetent folks. They need a friend against all you picky racist reactionaries, but I'll be their friend. I will protect them. I will take this to the highest court in the land, and THAT will settle it!"

NP: "The Supreme Court upheld it."

Dem pol: "This ain't over!"

I just am flabbergasted that Dems can be so obviously condescending to blacks, even to the point of insulting their intelligence and ability, and still pull in about 90% of the black vote. What did Baba Wawa say the other day? "Us white folks will protect you???" No wonder they hate teaching true American history in schools. How many HS seniors, do you suppose, know that Lincoln was a Republican? How many know that the Party was founded on the anti-slavery principle? How many know that the KKK was a thoroughly Democrat organization? Sure, they know Jesse Helms was a "bigot," but how many know Robert Byrd was a "Grand Dragon," or whatever?

This has gotten so blatant, it's all going to come tumbling down around their ears. And it can't be soon enough for me.

"... smells like... victory." - Robert Duvall

MSNBC anti-republican correspondent Alter already laying the groundwork for ..."Them Republicans stole another election!"

and the day after the election we will hear about the long lines at the polls or people didn't know where to go to vote screwed the "good guys" again.

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

"Republicans aren't bigots like the Jim Crow segregationists."

No they are not but you ARE  --- you assume that most low-income blacks are too stupid to get a drivers liscense or state ID  -- I work in the polls on election day and actually the ONLY trouble I have had in 5 years concerning IDs were 2 young white guys and 1 drunken white woman -- there have, of course, been many other problems but not IDs

VOTE REPUBLICAN