On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Matthew Small <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In all seriousness, why is it a problem for one particular segment of the >> population to show an ID just to prove identity? > > I think the idea is that the poor, the homeless, and others may be > generally unorganized or simply not need their ID and/or not have one. > > In other words, in our daily corporate lives everyone wears khakis, > polos, and pays with a credit card but there's another segment of the > population that lives check to check, doesn't have a car (no license), > etc but they are citizens. > > The idea is that these people are disenfranchised since they're > Americans, born here, living here, and simply do not have the > documents we all consider a routine part of life. They are too busy > just trying to survive every day and generally don't have time or > money to get to the government office 50 miles away to file the papers > and wait for documents to come to an address they might not have. >
Bullocks Living in the USA without an ID would be seriously hard to do. If you live in bumblefuck Egypt, you still need to get to town to vote, you can go ahead and get an ID next time your in town. also, no one said you can't continue mailing in your absentee ballets, which don't require showing ID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339055 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
