Baby steps for Tea Partyistas and Occupiers

3) In Maine yesterday the voters overturned the new Republican Governor's law that prohibited voter registration on voting day. Guess which party benefits the most from that practice?

People have all year to register, allowing a practice like this just allows people to fraudently vote by appearing at polling places all day

"2) As for early voting....Early Voting was a Republican idea a few years ago"

Where did you find this?

To add further information. As mentioned in my reference, 8 States require or will require Strict Photo ID guidelines to vote. In addition to Georgia and Indiana which have already been covered the remaining 6 are Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. In most cases the new laws have not gone into effect yet. However in ALL 8 states the law specifically mandates FREE voter picture ID cards.

But once again that requires folks to get the facts before making statements something the Sink is not especially known for on all sides.

I stand corrected, Marc. I based my argument on rhetoric from colleagues instead of homework - somthing I accuse people of doing on here often and have now done myself. Thank you for the correction. I withdraw my statement regarding Indiana.

Marc, I thought you were committed to quit posting in the Sink? Or is that a 2012 resolution? Lol

How does one fraudulently vote by appearing at polling places all day? And how is this practice increased by allowing same day registration?

And for my part bit snarkier then usual today and for that I apologize.

"How does one fraudulently vote by appearing at polling places all day? And how is this practice increased by allowing same day registration?"

Because of my son's frequent moves he is registered to vote in 3 places in Manhattan alone as well as my district. Obviously he can vote all day because in NY you don't have to present ID nor is there any process to pick up duplicate votes.

Same day registration - somebody can walk into a polling place and say they just moved into the neighborhood and want to register. Walk to the next polling place repeat the process. Here in the big city polling districts are a few blocks apart; not that difficult

Trivial Reminder Du Jour: The Voting Rights Act of '65 had greater support in the House and Senate from Rs than Ds.

You know, not much about voting in the Constitution, aside from all the amendments that were needed to correct that little flaw that it was a document that was written to the benefit of white men often of better means, and of course the irascible South.

That's not true at all.

266 Dems voted yea (217 in House, 49 in Senate)
141 Reps voted yea (111 in House, 30 in Senate)

Yes, what opposition there was came largely from Southern Dems, but they were overwhelmingly outvoted by their more sensible party mates.

Over 65% of the legislators who voted for the Act were Democrats. Put another way, less than 35% of the Act's support came from Republicans.

Had all the Republicans voted no, it still would have passed in both houses.

If you were in Congress and voted yes on the Act, the odds are about 2-1 that you were a Dem then.

That Republican party's support was very welcome and helped the bill pass. What opposition remains to the Act comes from the today's GOP.