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Too Incompetent or Lazy to Get ID? You Don’t Deserve to Vote.

By marfdrat on May 11, 2012

I’m totally in agreement with John Hawkins here. Voting isn’t a right specifically guaranteed by the constitution (that’s just one example; there are plenty of others that explain this). It’s a privilege. Felons have it taken from them. People who are too lazy to get an ID shouldn’t have the privilege, either.

Liberals have dug up some 93-year-old codger in Pennsylvania who’s too lazy or incompetent to get ID so she can vote and they’re demanding we leave the election in that state wide open to fraud in order to cater to her.

The first time Viviette Applewhite went to the polls, she cast her vote for John F. Kennedy. But this year, a strict new voter identification law will likely prevent the now-93-year old woman and many others in Pennsylvania from participating in their country’s democratic process. And Applewhite won’t stand for it.

She will be the plaintiff in the voter identification lawsuit being filed by the ACLU and the NAACP in the state, which claims that “the state’s voter photo ID law violates the Pennsylvania Constitution by depriving citizens of their most fundamental constitutional right — the right to vote.”

Applewhite no longer has a copy of her birth certificate, and she does not have a drivers’ license. Without either of these things, the new Pennsylvania restrictions say that she is ineligible to vote.

If you don’t have a birth certificate, guess what? You can order another one. If you don’t have a driver’s license, that’s fine. You can also use, “non-license photo IDs, a U.S. passport, a U.S. military ID (or) a photo ID from an accredited Pennsylvania public or private college.” If Viviette Applewhite or anyone else says it’s impossible for her to get the identification she needs to vote, they’re simply not telling the truth. Moreover, if you’re not willing to go through the trouble it takes to get ID, then voting apparently isn’t very important to you in the first place. So why should the rest of us get up in arms when you don’t care all that much yourself?

Do we have to open up our entire voting system to fraud because Viviette Applewhite doesn’t feel like taking even the most minimal steps to prove that she’s actually eligible to vote?

Why don’t those folks who are all bent out of shape about this use their resources to help Viviette get an ID? They don’t want to do that – the real purpose for all this wailing is to keep elections open to fraud.

via If You’re Too Incompetent or Lazy to Get ID, We’re Better Off If You Don’t Vote | Right Wing News.

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  • Segpm08060

    My mother lives in PA.  She is also 93.  She was born in Richland County, South Carolina in 1918.  She was born at home. There is no birth certificate.  I have used a copy of the 1920 census report to prove her birth, but since 9/11, it is no longer accepted by anyone.  She is not lazy or incompetent.  She was born at a time when women did not have the right to vote.  She lived during the time of Jim Crow laws that suppressed her right to vote and now in 2012, after 93 years in this country she can not vote. I think some people are too lazy and ignorant of the facts and issues that are facing some American citizens in getting IDs.  They rather demonize the victim and hide behind the baseless fear of voter fraud.