Guest Blogged by Steve Heller of VelvetRevolution.us
The Mississippi State Senate has made an unusual move; they’ve pulled legislation that they passed on January 15 requiring that voters show a photo ID before being allowed to vote, stripped all amendments out of it, and passed the new legislation.
The previous version had an amendment that allowed voters age 65 and older to vote without showing a photo ID. Mississippi’s Republican Governor Haley Barbour had pressed for the removal of that exemption. He got his wish…
The new version, sans exemption for voters 65 and older, passed in the Senate, but the state’s House version, while making ID mandatory for voting, still has the exemption for people age 65 and older, and allows non-photo versions of identification, such as utility bills, bank statements, and paychecks.
The fate of the law is now unclear.
Velvet Revolution would like to see the House version become law in Mississippi. Requiring voters to have some form of identification is acceptable if non-photo ID is included, and the House version does that.
However, Governor Haley Barbour (R) may well refuse to sign the bill if it contains any exemption from the photo ID requirement. Said Barbour in his 2009 State of the State address, “As to Voter ID, it is past time we catch up with our sister states and with business, medical, financial and the rest of the government world by requiring a picture ID to vote.”
Delbert Hosemann, the Republican secretary of state, is also a strong proponent of photo ID requirements for voters. He would most likely urge Barbour to veto any bill that did not require all voters to show photo ID.
As always, the Republicans claim that photo ID requirements are necessary to prevent voter fraud. Yet, as reported by the Jackson Free Press…
Mr. Johnson is correct. Velvet Revolution continues to insist that photo ID requirements for voting are sinister methods of disenfranchising the elderly, minority, and low-income voters, people who very often vote for Democratic candidates. We believe it’s no surprise that those who are in favor of photo ID requirements are almost invariably Republicans.
Cross-posted at VelvetRevolution.us…
[Disclosure: The BRAD BLOG is a co-founder of VelvetRevolution.us]
I am confused by the headline
Where do they git these names
Dilbert Hose-man and Hairy Baboon from Yazoo, the big tobacco king.
Dilbert has a cute Forrest Gump campaign ad tho filled with bull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2nG36gyxNM
with some counties having hundreds more vote cast then registered voters living there, why is it taking this long?
What counties are those, Chris?
Please supply URL for your claim, otherwise, we’ll assume it’s bullshit, and in violation of our commenting rules here (which means you’ll be losing the privilege of posting here before long, so take care of that, okay?)
Thanks!
Chris –
Provide evidence to support your claim or else I assume that it is bogus. We’ve heard this sort of thing before and it has never been shown to be true. Republicans seem to enjoy fabricating stories like ACORN committing voter fraud that when actually investigated, turn out to be total bullshit.
Peddle your misinformation somewhere where the rubes are buying. We don’t buy propaganda here.