Anyone know when the Voter ID requirement decision is supposed to come down the pike?
It can’t happen soon enough for me
Washington starts up online voter registration
Would-be voters in the state now can seek to enter their names on the voter rolls over the Internet, with Washington last week joining Arizona as the only states to offer online voter registration.
“This is a dramatic step forward,” Secretary of State Sam Reed said.
Reed, the state’s chief elections officer, pushed the Legislature to approve a bill allowing online registration, and the measure was approved in the 2007 session.
“People do so much business now online that this is kind of a normal way many people want to transact their business, including with government and voter registration — and this is particularly true with young people,” Reed said.
Now, this isn’t actual registration, it is an application process that potential voters will submit and then “county officials” can approve or deny them.
Anyone remember the shenanigans that King County “officials” pulled in 2004? Color me unimpressed with the checks and balances in this system.
Just what is so hard of going to a post office or the DMV so that the person collecting the apps can actually see live human being?
Say it ain’t so, Phil. You haven’t actually accepted “motor-voter” registration as a political fact of life, have you?
Motor-voter, in all it’s permutations (online registration is one of them), must be continually fought against, with the objective of going back to the county registrars as the only people (and the only places) where voter registration can be done. Since voting is THE basic building block of our democracy, and improper registrations tear down the wall of democracy, letting in various (mostly leftist) invaders to the purity of the process, voter registration must be returned to primarily property owners, with other, more transient people being required to properly identify themselves to be admitted to the voter rolls.
I don’t buy the leftist argument that requiring identification of voters dis-enfranchises only poor people, and is therefore discriminatory.
That’s the same false front put out by those who cry the jails are too full of minorities and too empty of whites.
The facts are that the minorities have allowed themselves to be victimized by those who would steal elections, and it rarely happens to whites. The same with crime. Minorities prey on each other a lot more than whites do, so the percentage of them committing crime is higher. These are un-arguable facts, not racism.
Motor-voter was designed from it’s conception to permit cheating within the rules of voter registration, and THAT is a fact. Whites don’t need motor-voter to be registered to vote; as better-educated people, they understand and can apply the process of getting registered to vote.
I agree with having education programs to get the under-educated folk to the voting booths, because our system is designed to give EVERYONE some input at the voter level, and it DOES malfunction when the lower classes are restricted (usually ONLY by their own ignorance) from voting. Education is as far as it should go, though. When you have groups like ACORN out there getting paid to enroll voters, the tendency is to enroll people who don’t qualify as voters, just so the recruiters can make more money (or get more political power).
Motor-voter is from the same persuasion as ACORN, which says that it is better to have a few illegitimate voters than to have potential voters who are unregistered.
Somehow, it became considered racist to disagree with that fallacious theory, so we have ACORN still operating, despite having been indicted for voter fraud almost everywhere they have operated.
It isn’t racism to want the voting process to be a pure as it can be, and since motor-voter deliberately introduces impurity to that process, it has to go.
Having done it (to change my mailing address from Lacey to Carlisle, PA), I will say that it isn’t totally online. If you do not have a WA drivers license or WA state ID, you at least have to submit a paper registration form.
Since I didn’t go that route, I don’t know it it requires any actual proof of who you are, whether you’re a citizen, etc.
No, RD, I haven’t “accepted” motor voter as a fact of life.
I only use it as an example of what the left said would make registering and voting “so much easier” the last time they wanted to make registering and voting “so much easier”.
Apparently, they lied because they’re now say that motor voter didn’t make things “so much easier” enough, and now they have to make it so that a living, breathing citizen doesn’t even have to talk face to face with a government employee.
Usually, I’d be all for this. But with the hi-jinks that the Dems are known to pull (anyone remember ACORN?), this is one area where I want eyes and ears on the citizen, if in fact they are a citizen.