Dem Rep. John Lewis Claims Having To Show ID Before Voting Is A “Poll Tax”…
The dumbest of the dumb.
A Poll Tax by Another Name — John Lewis, NYT op-ed
Despite decades of progress, this year’s Republican-backed wave of voting restrictions has demonstrated that the fundamental right to vote is still subject to partisan manipulation. The most common new requirement, that citizens obtain and display unexpired government-issued photo identification before entering the voting booth, was advanced in 35 states and passed by Republican legislatures in Alabama, Minnesota, Missouri and nine other states — despite the fact that as many as 25 percent of African-Americans lack acceptable identification.
Having fought for voting rights as a student, I am especially troubled that these laws disproportionately affect young voters. Students at state universities in Wisconsin cannot vote using their current IDs (because the new law requires the cards to have signatures, which those do not). South Carolina prohibits the use of student IDs altogether. Texas also rejects student IDs, but allows voting by those who have a license to carry a concealed handgun. These schemes are clearly crafted to affect not just how we vote, but who votes.
Conservative proponents have argued for photo ID mandates by claiming that widespread voter impersonation exists in America, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. While defending its photo ID law before the Supreme Court, Indiana was unable to cite a single instance of actual voter impersonation at any point in its history. Likewise, in Kansas, there were far more reports of U.F.O. sightings than allegations of voter fraud in the past decade. These theories of systematic fraud are really unfounded fears being exploited to threaten the franchise. . . .
These restrictions purportedly apply to all citizens equally. In reality, we know that they will disproportionately burden African Americans and other racial minorities, yet again. They are poll taxes by another name.
The Weekly Standard has this to say on Lewis’ bizarre claims voter fraud is an “unfounded fear” and as uncommon as “U.F.O. sightings.”
As for Lewis’ insistence that voter impersonation is not a concern, let me help him out here. Earlier this year, ACORN plead guilty to voter registration fraud in Nevada. Here’s an exhaustive list of ACORN employees who’ve run afoul of voter registration laws since 1998, resulting in dozens of arrests and convictions. Here’s an SEIU-affiliated voter registration group that submitted a huge amount of invalid voter registrations in one Texas county. To say concern over voter registration fraud amounts to “unfounded fears” is abject nonsense.
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“They are poll taxes by another name.”
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If it is, is Lewis suggesting that everyone does NOT have to pay “their fair share”?
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“will disproportionately burden African Americans and other racial minorities”
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that citizens obtain and display unexpired government-issued photo identification before entering the voting booth
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or driving a car…
or seeking welfare benefits….
or opening a bank account….
is this the guy that thought that Guam could flip over if more military set foot onshore – or is this the guy who claimed to have been sit upon during the healthcare debate, but could never provide a shred of evidence to support his allegation despite a $100K reward by Breitbart?
Just curious…
opps – I meant “SPIT upon” above
“In reality, we know…”
a.k.a in lib-speak
“There’s not an ounce of evidence to support us, but since everyone who’s not with us must be a racist…”
Just like a Weather Channel weatherman who last night said in response to the thought that the hurricane would be downgraded to a tropical storm when it hit New York,
“Forget the categorizations in this case! This is one of the largest and deadliest storms to ever hit the Northeast in recorded history.”
aka in lib-speak
“Since this storm must be caused by climate change, it HAS to be the worst ever, despite the wind measurements or several prior examples of similar or worse hurricanes hitting the Northeast over the past 25 years.”
Will disproportionally prevent liars, criminals, voter frauds, and miscreants from voting. GOOD!
“25 percent of African-Americans lack acceptable identification.”
Why ? They get a free ID when they get released from prison !
It’s not like poll workers are asking to know who you father is .
@texasmuse
No. It was another idiot CBC member who thought that Guam would tip over from all the extra weight of a military installation. Bwahahahahahaha
But, I think Lewis was one of the ones who claimed that the Tea Party people were spitting on them. Not sure. Maybe it was Conyers.
I’d want to see his ID too. I’ve never seen a real talking asshole in all my life.
I wonder if these people realise that they are destroying any respect people had for them for their work during the 60′s for fighting for equal rights.
This race baiting, this using of the race card, they have no clue that people are losing more and all respect for them everytime they do this race baiting nonsense.
What a former dem said. Spot On.
So having to check IDs is racist now?
It’s evident that the DNC is counting on voter fraud to stay in power. Tyrants, pigs, and treasonous vermin.
This is the idiot who claimed that the sharks still swim the slave trade routes between Africa and North America seeking thrown over slave bodies. Apparently those mooossslin slave traders were not very good at keeping their cargoes alive. That seems to be a very poor business model.
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you. This might be funny if it weren’t so true. Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
Taxes to pass
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid…
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
‘Taxes drove me
to my doom…’
When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the heck happened? Can you spell ‘politicians?’
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times! YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/charlie-reese-545-vs-300000000-people
Look at the knuckle dragging fool…would you really expect anything sane to come out of his mouth..??….
These restrictions purportedly apply to all citizens equally. In reality, we know that they will disproportionately burden African Americans and other racial minorities, yet again. They are poll taxes by another name.
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Then just show us your friggin’ food stamps and welfare checks.
God! I am so sick of this shit!
Lewis is hoping Obama’s newly cheerful illegal alien base will vote for his guy after the administrative amnesty for millions.
The illegals will additionally take jobs from black Americans, but Obama counts on their loyalty no matter how bad he shafts them.
545 vs. 300,000,000 People
– By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it’s because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy”,”inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess.
Did this guy make it through grade school?
It’s simply him whining about losing the CRIMINAL vote and packaging it as racism.
“25 percent of African-Americans lack acceptable identification” and he named three states in particular:
http://dmvanswers.com/questions/419/How-much-do-state-ID-cards-cost
Alabama: $23
Minnesota: $16, $11 for those 65 and up
Missouri: $11
OK, if he’s implying that 25% of blacks are too poor to afford the $11-23 it costs to get and ID then they would have set up a program years ago to help people pay for them–and they probably have such programs. Hell, taxpayer money going towards getting legal residents free ID cards is the least of my worries.
No, he knows the populations most affected by this law would be minority criminals (who don’t want to register with the government for any reason and would prefer to stay “off the grid” with their fake IDs) or illegals.
The Democrats can get criminals and illegals to be bused in to vote without issue, but make them need an ID, and few will go.
This Commie piece of shit has been lying his ass off for years about fucking EVERYTHING, and in particular the supposed spiting incident that took place when the CBC was provocatively marched through the demonstrators the day of the health care vote…I know because I WAS STANDING IN THE FUCKING THRESHOLD OF THE CANNON BUILDING!!!! Armed with that, I sincerely doubt his stupid account of how he was supposedly almost beaten to death by white supremacists THAT HE CONSTANTLY STILL HARPS ON.
This maggot couldn’t be more full of shit if h were an outhouse at a chili cook-off.
Fuck you commie!
It really is an embarrasment having these fools in a position of authority, some people REALLY should’nt be allowed to vote.
Asking that people identify themselves before engaging in an official state actions is nothing new. The concept in embodied in the 6th Amendment to the US Constitution in the form of the ‘Confrontation Clause’.
Like many American legal practices, the practice can be traced back to English Common Law to “protect the right of cross-examination”. In the same way that every person has the right to face his accuser, every American has the right to confront political ideas with his vote.
When government fails to keep corruption out of the ballot box, it is committing an act of gross negligence against a legitimate voter. Elections have been manipulated before.
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“It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man up to die before the accused has met his accusers face-to-face, and has been given a chance to defend himself against the charges.”
- Porcius Festus, 59 A.D.
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Paging Dr. Cornelius…Dr. Cornelius please report to the human pen…
@Rob
And soon to be joining the list if the Goracle and the Left has its way:
The Carbon Tax
Show your I.D John. No one said you needed to have a have a high I.Q to vote. Good thang for ya all.
No, sir, let’s review what a TAX is: it’s something you guys can’t live without, because without it, YOUR job becomes meaningless. The requirement of showing a valid ID is no where NEAR a “tax” because it is simply good common sense, something which you apparently lack. And requiring it for the purpose of validating legal residents in a given voting precinct is the RESPONSIBLE thing to do, therefore NOT doing it is irresponsible, reckless, and “almost treasonous” since the result of not doing it harms the very thing your and my ancestors fought and died to protect– THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
Just an observation, but if any person who felt disenfranchised by being asked for ID, and filed charges against the state governments, THEY WOULD HAVE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES TO THE COURT. A person accused of a crime can still be prosecuted when they refuse to identity themselves, but an accuser who refuses to identity himself has no Constitutional grounds to file charges.
There is no such thing as a ‘general victim’. A person was either victimized, or they weren’t.
The left is stuck in this collective mind-set where they see rights as being based on identity factors. They can’t get it through their heads that all of their rights are INDIVIDUAL rights.
Racial discrimination is a violation of individual rights, not black rights.
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Its a shame that some Blacks who fought hard to get to be representatives in Congress have become nothing more than partisan politicians.
To misstate the purpose of a vote ID demonstrates Cummings reason for the objection. He doesn’t care about the integrity of the voting process, only whatever degree of inconvenience showing an ID would impose on a citizen.
As long as Cummings and others cling to the past….they will forever be consigned to living there, unhappy and indifferent to whatever advances
are made.
Sad for our country….and worse for the inner darkness they carry with them.
ajbruno14@gmail.com
In preparation for hurricane Irene, the city of Washington DC was distributing sand bags …for DC residents only.
Post-Irene, several counties in Virginia and Maryland set up distribution sites to provide bags of ice for people without electrical power.
Guess what all these distribution sites required?
An ID with an address. One such location was featured on the evening news…a big ice truck flanked by two police cars…no looting, no double dipping and don’t show up without the requisite ID to prove your residency.
He’s just mad because it’s one less way the libs, commies, dems, and marxists can implement their voter fraud techniques. It has nothing to do with race.
I just want to make a comment that Ace of Spades is A PIG! Him and Erick Erickson are big fat liars! Erick still needs to apologize to Jamie Radtke because he WAS CAUGHT LYING ABOUT HER. So if you live in Virginia vote for Jamie Radtke not the same ol liar Allen, oh that’s MACACA ALLEN, you know the guy who called a Mexican macaca to get his attention. Perry is a liberal, he has the record to prove it, AND ACE OF SPADES LOOKS LIKE AN IDIOT DEFENDING HIM. We all know it so why is he doing it? Who’s paying him to do it?
John Lewis is the face of incomplete evolution!
….and “jann” is the face of ignorance! ☝
There should be a basic IQ requirement to serve in congress
THOSE THAT HAVE NO I.D.: YOU HAVE 1 YR. TO GET ONE?….I SEE NOTHING WRONG IN SHOWING AN I.D…..AFTER ALL ”WE DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO VOTE OVER AND OVER NOW DO WE”
It affects minorities disproportionately? What a bunch of racist blabber. Minorities are too stupid to carry ID or what? I’m a “minority” and I am getting sick of these democratic/liberal/progressive a$$hats playing the race card for every freakin’ thing on this planet. The people you say you fight for are the same people you continue to treat like incompetent, ignorant fools that need to be taken care of… disgusting.
Other people who have no valid ID:
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Obama’s illegal uncle arrested; ‘Uncle Omar’ almost hits cop car, tries to call White House
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/28/picket-obamas-illegal-uncle-arrested-uncle-omar-hi/
GA district 5….downtown Atlanta.
The rest of the state despises this dickhead.
Lewis says “These schemes are clearly crafted to affect not just how we vote, but *who* votes.”
You’re Darn Right! These schemes ARE clearly crafted to keep anyone to whom the franchise has not been granted from voting – anyone who is in this country illegally, those who might try to vote in a state where they are not a resident, Chicago residents who vote early AND often, etc…
And if that includes people who are just too damn lazy to get valid identification, they obviously don’t care enough about the consequences of their voting choice, so I’d just rather they stayed home anyway.
Al Sharpton is in congress?????
Large numbers of foreign nationals are still being let into the country probably because of racial differences. Some politicians think they force their racial fantasies on everybody through democracy.
voting should come with high school diploma, drug test , and ID.!!!
When did the “black” race become such whining, crying, whimpering, sniveling, helpless little crybabies? What happened to black pride?
Jeez, take the diaper off and grow up already.
OK, 300 million people in the U.S. Thirteen per cent are black and 25% of that number is almost 10 million.
So, this guy claims he *knows* almost 10 million people? And they all do not have a current government ID? If you ask them for one to vote, it’s a “poll tax”?
This is an SNL episode, right? The entire premise is so stupid and ridiculous and that it comes from a member of Congress ….
John Lewis: Voter Fraud Apologists.
Recite along with me…
Voters ID “Poll Tax” Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad……..
Islamic Jizya ACTUAL Poll Tax Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood………
One would think that any group having fought for the right to vote, whether it be women or blacks…., that they would be honored to show their identification in order to vote. Why aren’t they proud? Shouldn’t every one be concerned that their vote might be taken and abused?
@Aeroman
What exactly do they have to be proud OF?
Highest drop out rates from High Schools nation wide.
Highest incarceration rates on average, nation wide.
Tallest Chinese statue in America, Martin Luther Ming.
John Lewis. THE icon. Dragged out on Lib channels period-
ically, on cue, for his views about “civil-rights”…for 30(?)
years. I, for one, am tired of hearing his story. America
should be tired seeing them prop him up at a microphone
to chastise the Right…he’s aging, losing his faculties a bit,
but I’m tired of hearing about his sainthood status for
50(?) years from getting a baton-bump on the noggin
from a DEMOCRAT, white sheriff on a bridge in Alabama
an eon ago!
Jesse must be ready to “cut his nuts off”…..everytime they
go to Lewis on mike, Jesse is dissed!
Anything anyone in AMERICA asks or demands from the
“Afro-American” community is a NO-GO from the get-go!
They have special status…and their race-baiting industry
requires that, as a group, they DON’T EVER capitulate
with WHITEY. If they ever did, their guilt-based special
status would evaporate….and Jackson, Sharpton, Waters,
Conyers, Cleaver, Watt, Jackson-Lee, …ad infinitum…
would be joining the jobless rolls.
How many times ya watched ‘Cops” with a brother pulled over, no license, no registration, no insurance, with warrants? If there was an ID law, Lewis and the Dems know damn well very few blacks are gonna go to the trouble of getting a voter ID. They might have to give their real name instead of Lil’ Redd, or c-ray or Puff Diddly.
This doofis, pompous, leftist, blowhard fails to realize that not showing ID could also be used as a means to eliminate minority candidates. In the county where I live many whites vote for minority candidates in both parties. This is not the 50′s or the 60′s some of these old politicians are trapped in the past and are unwilling to change, it blows their minds when someone of their own race will think for them selves instead of marching in locked step, and toeing the party line.
Why don’t we allow the race card as an acceptable form of I.D.? It’s free and they use it for everything else.
The John Lewis heir to the throne of “Untouchable on account
of Civil-Rights history” is near-look-alike Elijah “Muhammed”
Cummings from Md. This Heckle & Jeckle tag-team have been
at it for YEARS! Barf-bag alert for me whenever I see their
mugs on TV….usually MSNBC. (I admit to watching this train
wreck on occasion…Schadenfreude)
…With Maxine Waters and Sheila J-Lee in sequined cheer-
leader outfits, the CBC can be a BLAST!
I just looked at John Lewis’ photo at the top. This guy will
CERTAINLY be on an Obamacare death panel in the
near future.
Lewis doesn’t care who on planet earth votes in American elections as long as they pull the lever marked ‘D’. He’d be happy to see the gray aliens in the voting booths if they voted Democrat.
I can appreciate the hard times Lewis probably went through, but the country is not Alabama in 1960. These guys are stuck in a time warp plus it gives them political power.
He’s wrong , the voter id law discriminates against lazy idiots of all races. Lewis is just claiming most of them in the name of blacks.
I had a picture ID since I was 10 growing up in the Air Force, then at 15 I had two Id’s when I started driving
This guy is as ugly and as stupid as Maxine Waters as to be related to her. Maybe it’s just his socialist membership and hers are related.
Socialists in Congress
http://tinyurl.com/3wzgrxt
Democratic Socialists of America
http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
http://www.gibsoncountypatriots.org/Democrat_Socialist_of_America.pdf
Ha,ha.. We have to show ID to vote in my new State.. I love it.. Coming from California it’s nice.
Maybe they can’t afford the 30 dollars for a birth certificate .. I know obama can’t.
since the people that are elected control how much taxes we pay then only tax payers should be aloud to vote. with 50% of the people not paying taxes what do think they will vote for,more taxes to be paid by the tax payers to support the non payers.
Dems hate picture ID required for voting because it limits theur vote fraud opportunities, plain and simple. In his senility, Lewis has become nothing more than a “pull the string and I’ll accuse someone of racism” doll.
You have to show a picture ID to get sand bags for flooding from the city/state, but you don’t have to show one to vote?
No ID No Vote
Your argument doesn’t hold up buddy. Let’s face it, you won’t win doing it legitimately. Get an ID with a signature or don’t vote.