MSNBC's Sharpton: People Favoring Voter IDs Want to 'Revoke the Voting Rights Act'
MSNBC's Al Sharpton lead a jobs rally in Washington, D.C., Saturday, and not surprisingly, he used the event to once again divide the nation along racial lines.
As he has disgracefully done on his PoliticsNation program on numerous occasions in recent weeks, Sharpton accused those favoring proper identification at the polls as wanting to "revoke the Voting Rights Act" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
AL SHARPTON: We come today because this country has ignored the plight of unemployed and people that are chronically unemployed. On Monday, in this, the capital, they had the audacity to turn down a jobs bill. So if you won’t get the jobs bill done in the suite, then we will get the jobs bill done in the street.
We cannot sit here with 14 million people unemployed while you get ready for an election. We cannot sit here with one percent of this country controlling 30 to 40 percent of the wealth and you tell us our problem is each other. Our problem is not with each other. You played the game of blacks against Latinos, Latinos against working class whites. It’s time for us to occupy Wall Street, occupy Washington, occupy Alabama. We come to take our country back to the people.
Martin Luther King is not a dead monument. Martin Luther King is a live testimony. They shot down the dreamer, but they didn’t shoot down the dream. Before he died, he had children, and his children is in Washington today. He taught us to stand up, and we come to stand up in his name.
To those that have tried to act like we had gone asleep and there’s no reason that we could not understand the confusion. When you look at the fact that people are talking about states’ rights again, they want to take away our vote in 34 states. Talking about voter ID. Talking about ending early registration, ending early voting. They want to honor Dr. King and revoke the Voting Rights Act at the same time. You can’t kill the Voting Rights Act and honor Dr. King. You can’t unemploy people and honor Dr. King. We will not let you make a mockery of what Dr. King stood for. Dr. King did not stand for the high and mighty. He stood for those of us that were cast out and cast back, and we are coming up front today to tell you just like Dr. King we can put the wind behind President Kennedy and President Johnson to get a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act. We come to put the wind behind the back of President Obama to get a jobs act for the people of this country.
Reporter said to me, "Reverend Al, is this about the election?" No, this is about our survival. When you talking about you gotta cut Medicare and cut Medicaid. When you talking about in order to balance a budget you created the deficit by giving tax cuts to the rich. You created the deficit by giving loopholes to the wealthy. You created the deficit by letting people outsource jobs. Now you want us to pay for the jobs that you sent abroad. You want us to pay for your loopholes. You want to go into our parents' Social Security. When you mess with our Social Security, this is not about Obama. This is about my Mama.
MSNBC must be so proud that one of its prime time hosts spent his Saturday stoking racial division this way.
What Sharpton failed to inform attendees was the desire for voters to present identification at the polls is nothing new. As the Washington Post reported in September 2005, it stemmed from the Florida recall debacle in 2000:
Warning that public confidence in the nation's election system is flagging, a commission headed by former president Jimmy Carter and former secretary of state James A. Baker III today will call for significant changes in how Americans vote, including photo IDs for all voters, verifiable paper trails for electronic voting machines and impartial administration of elections.
The report concludes that, despite changes required under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, far more must be done to restore integrity to an election system that suffers from sloppy management, treats voters differently not only from state to state but also within states, and that too often frustrates rather than encourages voters' efforts to participate in what is considered a basic American right.
The 2002 federal legislation grew out of the disputed election of 2000 and is not yet fully implemented. But the Carter-Baker commission said that even with some important changes in place, the 2004 election was marred by many of the same errors as the 2000 election. "Had the margin of victory for the [2004] presidential contest been narrower, the lengthy dispute that followed the 2000 election could have been repeated," the report states.
Disputes over the counting of provisional ballots, the accuracy of registration lists, long lines at some polling places, timely administration of absentee ballots and questions about the security of some electronic voting machines tarnished the 2004 elections.
This bears repeating: the 2005 Report of the Commision on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, recommended voter IDs six years ago.
Now that numerous states are trying to implement such a requirement, folks like Sharpton and others on his network continually claim there are racial motivations.
Reverend Sharpton - is Carter a racist, too?
For those that are hearing about this for the first time, the position of folks like Sharpton and his ilk is that since poor people don't have cars, such a requirement will disproportionately affect them and minorities.
Proponents rightly counter that in America today, you can't have a bank account, use a credit card, or cash a check without valid ID. People all over the country that don't have driver's licenses still have state issued pieces of identification to be able transact simple commerce such as buying food.
What eludes people like Sharpton is that you can't get cash without going to a bank or a check cashing facility, both of which require ID. Most states also require proper identification to get food stamps.
As such, tying this to the Voting Rights Act is just another way for the Left to bring race into the debate.
You know, it's one thing for Sharpton to make such claims when on his television program that virtually nobody watches.
But for him to stand at the National Mall and further divide our country is deplorable, and should totally disqualify him as a television host on any so-called news network.
I guess this is just more evidence that despite calling itself such, MSNBC is anything but.
Related material: Sharpton Doesn't Know Higher Percentage of Republicans Than Democrats Voted for Civil Rights Act.
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Comments
Stupid is as stupid does.
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 8:57pm.
Stupid is as stupid does. Perhaps he wants to revoke ID's required top drive or buy beer or cigarettes.
Or to get his government
Submitted by ThisnThat on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 7:11am.
Or to get his government cheese.
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
And lest we not forget..
Submitted by Dbak61 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:35am.
In the words of the whimsical Ron White: "You can't fix stupid."
But he wants us to require
Submitted by Zepppo on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:49am.
But he wants us to require IDs to purchase decongestants. Shows what he considers important.
But he wants us to require
Submitted by Zepppo on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:49am.
But he wants us to require IDs to purchase decongestants. Shows what he considers important.
Sharpton doesn't do his race or party a lot of good...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:03pm.
... acting like such a goddamn moron. There is no logical reason for opposing rules to make sure votes are cast by legal Americans. And one vote per customer. What an absolute clown Al Sharpton is.
are you
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:28am.
sure it's an act?
As usual Al........
Submitted by gailannr on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:07pm.
What are you and others hiding? Why does it appear that you are being deceitful about this?
The majority of voters don't have a problem with this at all. If I have to show I.D. to open a bank account, apply for credit, get a driver's license, buy a beer, cash a check, check into a hospital, apply for a job, open an IRA, apply for welfare, register a car........the list goes on forever, I have to show my I. D., why shouldn't you have to show it to vote? The only reason I can think of is you are being dishonest! Aren't you supposedly a Christian? A Reverend at that!
In Florida...
Submitted by adamsmith on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:11am.
we've been showing a photo ID for years. What's the problem, other than not being allowed to perpetrate voter fraud? I say we ought to go back to the days of having to be a property owner. If you don't have a stake in America why should you be able to vote? If it was good enough for the Founders, it works for me.....
Property ownership would
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 5:06am.
Property ownership would really be tricky these days. I imagine it was used to prove you indeed were a resident of the locale you were voting in. I would accept payment of income taxes say 1 out of 5 years or could show proof of doing something like going to school or some such.
Property ownership was a
Submitted by MikeB on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:19pm.
Property ownership was a requirement, because at the founding of our country, there was no income tax, and property owners were the only ones who were taxed. That way, only taxpayers voted for the government officials who had the power to tax. They had skin in the game.
I have no problem with a Constitutional amendment that would prohibit those who pay no taxes to be ineligible to vote for Congress, even though that would prohibit me from voting most years. Allowing non-taxpayers to vote for those who impose taxes on others is a conflict of interest. Of course you would vote for someone who would extort money from someone else to benefit you, unless you had a strong sense of ethics and morality. Our schools, churches and culture, instead of instilling ethics and morality, instill an entitlement mentality that sees nothing wrong with hiring the government to steal for you.
He's a charlatan
Submitted by pepperoniprince on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:51am.
no Christianity required for that. He's a "let's get the dead out and vote" kind of prince, isn't he?
Sharpton remains the race-baiting fool that he's always been . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:18pm.
. . . and the media, including Bill O'Reilly, legitimized him, and still do.
Notice that when Sharpton refers to the assassination of MLK, Jr, he says "They killed him," even though James Earl Ray was the only once tried and convicted for the murder. Though there has never been any strong evidence suggesting a possible conspiracy, Jackson and Sharpton have always believed it to be so, and continue to foster the idea. Jackson actually believes the US government was behind Ray.
Al and friends will never get it.
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 10:33pm.
Slavery was allowed by laws of the US Government.
Segregation was allowed by laws of the US Government.
US citizens, during WWII, were sent to encampments inside the USA, by the US Government.
Sharpton believes the US Government killed MLK.
There are many many other very significant and very oppressive things that could be named, done throughout history, by the US Government.........................yet Al and friends continually push for a more powerful, more overreaching US Government.
Race-baiting fool, indeed
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 7:25am.
And the operative word is "fool."
Every time I think Al couldn't possibly say anything dumber, he exceeds my expectations.
and including
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:31am.
Sean Hannity.
→ Al Sharpton
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:09pm.
God will judge Sharpton and Jackson.
They use the Name of the Lord, my God, in vain.
Tawanna Brawley.
Poor Rev. Not-so-Sharpton.
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:16pm.
The clueless Rev. Al apparently fails to appreciate that the current version of the federal Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush. I would also challenge the Rev. to point out the relevant section of the legislation that prohibits requiring proper ID at the polling location.
A Mighty Wind
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:22pm.
SHARPTON: ". . . and we are coming up front today to tell you just like Dr. King we can put the wind behind President Kennedy and President Johnson to get a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act."
That "wind" was, in fact, the GOP. Most of the Democrats in the Congress voted against it.
→ David Duke
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:30pm.
Followers of Al Sharpton are no better than followers of David Duke.
CA
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:26pm.
Actually they are worse. We really have to go way back to drag out an openly racist guy on the right that didn't get ejected by us. The Dems have them all over the place and the rest will stoop to any level to justify their behavior. I'm not sure very many non-political junky types even remember who Duke is.
And Al, it's not that we're racist, we just want to make it a bit more difficult for the dead, the felonious and the illegal aliens to vote in our elections.
47% of the American
Submitted by Captain Repus on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:35pm.
47% of the American population pay no income tax and aren't capable of making an informed determination as to the candidate best qualified to run our country. This 47% will blindly cast their votes for the democrat candidate in order to continue on the free ride.
In order to get the other needed 3.01 % of the vote the democrat candidate needs illegal voters. Having to prove your eligibility to vote makes this additional 3.01% difficult to get.
Simple.
That's right -- character assassination is all he's got
Submitted by lgeubank on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 10:33pm.
A requirement for voter ID's would make it harder for Democrats to steal elections. Sharpton knows that, and he also knows he can't say that out loud in support of his position.
Democrats have no coherent arguments for allowing just any warm, breathing body to vote, so they slander their opponents, invent motives to attribute to them, cast slurs. Character assassination is the only argument Democrats have on most issues.
the nail said "ouch"
Submitted by i was just thinking on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 10:36pm.
You've hit the nail on the head. The dead can't vote if they have to show a photo ID.
Not only that
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:58pm.
....there are states where they just let anyone register and vote. Say, for instance, college students. So for the student to use an out of state ID would perhaps prevent him/her from voting. Why should THAT student get to vote twice (presuming an absentee vote in the home state)?
Showing identification protects each of us, as individuals, guaranteeing that WE get OUR one vote each.
Sharpton's typical disenfranchisement argument holds no water. But what do I know, I'm just a mean old conservative racist?
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Well...Al is just pissed
Submitted by dydx on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 3:28am.
Pissed, that ACORN or (whatever they're currently called) now has to budget fake ID's for their fake voters. Laminating machines aren't cheap, ya know!
That, and the people they recruit to vote early and vote often now have to keep track of all the ID's and identities and make sure they jibe at the precincts. One's wallet can only hold so much plastic before it becomes a George Costanza wallet bomb.
Al Sharpton, Liar, Crimminal, Racist
Submitted by WestHoustonGeo on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:36pm.
Al's just a little race pimp. Has to play the race card because he has no smart cards, no morality cards and no truth cards in his hands.
Race is all he has left, having sold his soul - for silver and gold.
So I take it all those government checks being cashed are going
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:39pm.
...to people who do not have photo IDs.
There is only one reason goobers like Al Sharpton oppose voter ID laws, and that is because of their support for voter fraud.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
example
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 1:27am.
of voter fraud in MN. is Franken, Ventura and Keith ellison. I rest my case
We don' need no steekin' IDs
Submitted by SeniorD on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:47pm.
Voter fraud doesn't happen very much, if you believe statistics.
Voter fraud always seems to happen in big urban machine run cities. Where does Mr. Sharpton reside? The biggest machine run city in the world. Where does Jesse Jackson reside? The city that made machine politics profitable.
Who doesn't want Voter IDs?
Sharpton
Submitted by tdabbs on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 10:28pm.
He's using the "big lie" method that is so commonly used by those on the left.
hmmm
Submitted by i was just thinking on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 10:35pm.
That's an awfully nice watch he's wearing.
I lived and worked in 5 different countries over a 10-year period. I had to carry a photo ID at all times as a visiting guest teacher/worker. I wasn't allowed to vote in their elections. I didn't feel bad. I see no problem with requiring a photo ID to be permitted to cast a vote.
What amazes me is that he can publicly lie like that, and no one in the media will call him out or challenge the veracity of his statements.
Democrats don't want free and
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 10:42pm.
Democrats don't want free and honest elections, they want to be able to tip the scale with illegals, cartoon characters and dead people.
Democrats are frauds, gangsters, and filthy swine. Piss on them.
Don't forget their motto....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 1:11pm.
...."Vote Early, Vote Often!"
Can anybody anywhere
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:24pm.
Has anyone, anywhere at any time in the last 25 years been able to identify one person who was denied their legal right to vote?
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Maybe just a few people that
Submitted by ant on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:29pm.
Maybe just a few people that were intimidated to leave by the club-wielding Black Panthers in Philadelpia. No big deal though, when you've got guns and grenades to sell to Mexican drug gangs.
Ooh, ooh let me, let me.
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:00am.
Yes Kingfish, the Dallas Cowboys offensive line was denied the right to vote in Cleveland, Ohio, several towns just outside Cleveland, Seattle and San Francisco, back in 2010.
There must be a joke in here somewhere....
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:40am.
....but I don't get it.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
King-re: denied right to vote
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:50am.
I don't know about "directly" denied the right to vote, but there was that Black Panther voter intimidation case trying to deny people their rights to vote.
Of course, we already know the end result of that one.
-Jon
Good Point
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:39am.
I understand everyone's point about the new black panther voter intimidation event. Did any individual actually file some sort of complaint that they were denied their right to vote? Just wondering.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Not sure of exact details
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:08am.
But the accusation of voter intimidation was a matter of record. Holder's refusal to prosecute of course was the end result, but I thought it was several people filing complaints, not to mention the infamous video which should be as damning as any kind of evidence would be.
-Jon
Doesn't surprise me much that Sharpton lies,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:26pm.
as that is just his normal procedure. Has been all along.
Doesn't surprise me, either, that he is a race baiting pimp; that has always been his modus operandi.
Reverend?
That is just an empty title when attached to this hateful, racist bastard.
What is both amazing AND sad, is that the race of people most prevalent in this country, demographically speaking, have become so browbeaten by fear of being labeled racist themselves, that now only loud mouthed, brazen, braying racist asses like famed men of the cloth Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Jeremiah Wright, or "celebrities like Belafonte, Freeman, and Glover can hold sway with either a microphone to hand or a spotlight on their bigoted heads.
Rather than anyone like O'Reilly, or any other talking head, taking these people to task by calling them out for racist rants, if they are not pointedly ignoring the crap being spread, the media nimrods are busy kissing the arses of the ranters.
Not exactly sure how to categorize a fool like Sean Penn when he goes off on a racial diatribe against the GOP; I think the phrase "The lights are on, but no one's home" would about cover it, though.
MD
Why didn't Al borrow Jesse's shirt stained with King's blood?
Submitted by ant on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:26pm.
This smells of desperation, desperation of losing the ability to commit voter fraud. We know already illegal aliens vote, which creates two problems right off the bat, foreign Nationals (besides already trespassing) are not allowed to vote, illegal foreign Nationals have not been here long enough to understand the true positions and agendas of the Parties, illegal foreign Nationals most likely have a pretty weak grasp of the freedoms that are considered inherent in the Constitution and whether those freedoms are being trampled.
Many of us are aware we have enough anti-American foreign influence in the upper echelons, Soros' desire to have the 'Global population' vote for America's Congress and Canadian activists groups calling for investigations of American conservative groups' non-profit status, for example. The last thing we need is "vote early, vote often, vote for others' money, vote Sharia, vote if your not Americans ( or just came to rape the system)....".
Al gets $2.50 in royalties
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:27pm.
Al gets $2.50 in royalties every time an illegal aliens votes. Al forgets hispanics don't not blacks, they will use this fool and then dump him. He is the sterotypical black.
A valid I-D is the very most
Submitted by TerryWest on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:10am.
A valid I-D is the very most basic necessity to exist and function in our society and it's cost minimal if not in some cases optained free of charge.
Don't you find it strange there is a push to enable navigating through life without one by the very people who claim they care about people having a fair advantage?
Most lower income do indeed have some sort of valid I-D, your correct that it is needed to optain many services.
If there is some concern regarding the cost or means to obtain an I-D I suggest Mr Sharpton set up a grant program instead of advocating a struggling existence without one.
Irreverend Al
Submitted by cocodrie on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:59pm.
We want to revoke the rights of your followers to vote 64 times without an ID. Go talk to Obabble about the GE jobs going to China.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
With an extreme left community agitator occupying the
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 2:13am.
White House, this is going to be the dirtiest and most malicious race-baiting presidential campaign this nation has ever had. Obama will use his Leftist media, his loser protestors, his union thugs, and his other fellow travelers to incite bitter class and partisan warfare.
I just hope Republicans and others on the Right are up to the challenge and the forthcoming fight.
Smoke this!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 4:47am.
Well you don't need photo ID to buy crack or reefer, so why should you need it to vote?
Hey I am sold on that one.
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 5:08am.
Hey I am sold on that one. Great line.
Stop it, liberals.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 6:01am.
You're terrified that you won't be able to get anyone elected unless you can commit mass voter fraud as you do on a regular basis. It's one of your "open secrets". The only people who don't have a proper I.D. are criminals and illegal aliens. We need to go back to welfare checks and food stamps that have to be picked up in person by the recipient with a state issued I.D. All voting should be with I.D. and a voter registration card at your designated polling place.
Fraud
Submitted by Truestar on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 6:16am.
I suppose I'm not surprised that this fraud of a man is employed by MSNBC in primetime. I always tried to watch KO, he could be entertaining in a ridiculous sense, but Sharpton is utterly unwatchable. Sharpton always sounds as if he's half drunk, or should better be yelling through a bullhorn, which is apparently his only talent. So no one should be surprised by his latest brain fart.
That said, I REALLY don't get the O'Reilly connection. I like O'Reilly, but his "friendship" with Sharpton is inexplicable to me. Sharpton is a fraud "reverend", a fraud intellect, and nothing more than an activist for all things Obama, the Dem party, and anything else that would divide this nation along racial lines. Truly a disgusting, backward thinking human being, and O'Reilly only denigrates himself by maintaining a friendship with him.
resist we must....
Submitted by dmacleo on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 7:38am.
vote we must much....
No, Al...
Submitted by packman on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 7:43am.
People favoring voter ID's simply favor...voter's ID's...just because the majority of people you claim to represent may not possess sufficient initiative to actually obtain one....well, that's nor our problem then, is it?
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
What do you expect
Submitted by John21 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:04am.
What could you expect from a lying racist like Mr. Sharpton? His entire career has been based on racebaiting, he is unqualified for anything else (have you seen his TV show). He calls himself a reverand but more on the lines of Obama's pastor, racebaiting, anti American lying dog that has nothing to do with the bible. He is now and always have been a bottom feeder and scum, why does anyone pay any attention to this POS.
People like Al is why we have
Submitted by kinijane on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:09am.
People like Al is why we have racism in this country, he incites the blacks
to piss and moan instead of getting out to work and doing the right thing.
He and his followers want everything handed to them on a platter simply
because they are black. I say....get over it...nobody cares your black
except yourself.
Every Time
Submitted by JayVee on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:29am.
Every time I see anything about Al Sharpton, I only think of two words: Tawana Brawley.
I wonder if she has ID.
Since when
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:33am.
is having to show ID at the polls a particular inconvenience for blacks?
Is Al saying that many blacks don't have ID's?
Now having to have an ID is violation of civil rights?
Al's right. Everyone should be allowed to just waltz into a polling place and vote.
As many times as they want.
Al "Delusional Much" Sharpton
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:40am.
Al "Delusional Much" Sharpton is very afraid of this happening. One Person One Vote is not in the libturd vocabulary and he and all the other libturds are doing all they can to be able to let voter fraud proliferate in this country.
I am all for photo identification when casting your vote.
Makes me wonder how many elections Republicans would have won if not for voter fraud.
Hi. I'm Al Sharpton. My sweatshirt says so.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:48am.
What an idiot.
And those who demand photo
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:57am.
And those who demand photo ids to travel or to drive cars are seeking to revoke the constitutional right to travel. And those who demand photo ids for welfare want to revoke the Civil War Amendments. Not So Sharpton is a disgrace.
Photo ID to drink,
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:02am.
Drive or board a plane.
Sharpton is a perfect reason why we need photo id's at the polls, because he is perfectly corrupt!
Poll workers
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:27pm.
People need a photo id to get a job at the polling place!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Hey Sharpton...
Submitted by NVRAT on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:48am.
Voter ID should be required because most of the people in the US are tired of of "dead people, Mickey Mouse and pets" voting to elect racists like yourself, Jackson, the unions and all other Liberal Democrats that have made our voting system a laughing stock of the world. Its to bad that it has taken so long for the majority of the people to rise up and demand accountability of scum like yourself.
Suite?
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:13am.
what is this ignorant racist clown talking about?
The democrats know if ID is required at the polls, they will lose elections. Personally i think you should have three separate forms of ID in order to vote. One of them being a birth certificate. Dont have one? Get one.
How long do the dead get to vote? My Grandfather still votes.
Submitted by Avitar on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:01am.
My Grandfather voted in 2001. He was in a vegetative state at the time and died a few months later. I am sure he would have been happy to vote for his distant cousin Al Gore. He was a yellow dog Democrat who promised his Grandfather who remembered Lincoln that he would never vote for anyone from the party of Lincoln. I never got the story and don't know what the small town fight was about that Lincoln's neighbor's hated him out for four generations but the Federal government eventully took over maintaining Lincoln's mother's grave and nationalized the park's memorial.
Grandfather was still on the voter rolls in 2007 and may have voted for Obama in 2008 despite the family sending an official death certificate and to the town in 2001 and selling his house to a gentleman who tore it down and built a carwash on the spot.
Sharpton is wrong! Grandfather's vote should not be the Democrat Party's in perpetuity.
Al Not-So-Sharptoon =
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:02am.
Al Not-So-Sharptoon = racist
Al Not-So-Sharptoon = idiot
Al Not-So-Sharptoon = buffoon
Al Not-So-Sharptoon = part of the problem, NOT part of the solution
But we all knew that.
Listening to Sharpton is like
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:31am.
Listening to Sharpton is like listening to sand.
Sand is much more interesting.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:37am.
But makes about as much sense.
Voting is a privilege, not a right
Submitted by kevinm13 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:51am.
ID's should be enforced for anything like voting or driving a car or traveling by plane. Proof of citizenship and residency are both necessary to vote and they should be either required every single time a person votes in any election or primary. As much as I don't like to have to show ID to fly, I feel safer for doing so. Voting is more important and should be enforced as diligently as the TSA enforces airport security. Doesn't matter what color skin a person has, what party they might support or where they live, voting ID should be consistently enforced across the country.
Picture ID's
Submitted by AdrianVance on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 1:11pm.
I have to show a picture ID every time I cash a check in a bank where I have done business for ten years and know many of the clerks by name! Shouldn't the vote be held as secure if not sacred?
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In Florida
Submitted by TBAR on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 2:31pm.
When I vote, I thank the poll worker for checking my picture ID. Since 1972.
more from the satanist slut
Submitted by russedav on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 3:30pm.
more from the satanist slut. His denomination should be excommunicated for tolerating his vile antiChrist feces.
Don't want IDs to vote?
Submitted by Model850 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 3:56pm.
OK, Al, would you be happier with something like this? No ID required. Some may think it's a little messy and unsightly but it goes away in a few days. But it sure keeps the cheaters from voting more than once in any one election.
No imagined revoking of rights involved. And you can't complain that it places an "undue burden" or expense on anyone.
Racist, hate-mongering slime trying to keep the black man down,
Submitted by Phryj1 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 6:07pm.
but enough about Al Sharpton.
He's a race-baiting liar. He's also an anchor around MSNBC's neck, because no matter how poorly his show does, they can't fire him. If they do, he'll sue them and claim racism.
I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
liberalism = criminalism
Submitted by stage9 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:32pm.
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And people favoring no voter id
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:11pm.
also favor illegal aliens voting, dead people voting and disney characters voting. So what's your point fat al?
Always BLACK vs. WHITE with
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 1:41am.
Always BLACK vs. WHITE with Sharpton. What we are actually striving for is credible voting rules that ensure the peoples choice of candidate actually gets elected. Seriously, we have so many illegal aliens lurking around every corner of this country that all a person really needs to do is promise amnesty during their campaign and they will get elected. That's how the present system works.
When I can vote in Mexico then Mexican illegals should be able to vote in America. Oh, and yes, it IS mostly Mexican citizens that are screwing up our system. Why? Because Mexico has such harsh borders patrol rules at their southern border that all the other southern countries below Mexico can't GET HERE. Complete double standard.