On 11/7/2012 2:45 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> We require demonstrated competence for driving a motor vehicle and for
> many other things we do in our daily lives.  If providing proof of
> citizenship is such a high priority, certainly it seems that providing
> reasonable proof of competence also should be a high priority.
>
> Jim
>
Providing proof of citizenship *is* a goosestep priority. In many 
countries you are **required** to have an ID, and to have it up to date, 
and you don't necessarily have to pay for it either. In the US, there 
are like two dozen different ways you could prove you are legal to 
vote/a citizen, but the new voting laws they where trying to shove 
through nearly every place, where targeted at requiring:

1. Ones that cost money, since the government doesn't give them out free.
2. Ones that are hard to get.
3. Ones that take time, which many people don't have, to get.
4. Rules on when, and how, you got some of them, like student IDs, where 
you had to either a) be in the same state as you parent, b) have been 
there at least a year, etc. for the ID to count, even if you had one.

All of it was designed to target people that worked, didn't have the 
time to jump the hoops, didn't have the money to do so, or who *tended* 
to be liberal, like college students who didn't just attend the same 
place their parents did, but moved to other states, to get what they saw 
as a better education. It was all, 100%, directed at undermining certain 
voters. And that wasn't even the most blatant BS. Second to the top: 
Changing how votes where counted, or states where redistricted, often in 
completely opposite ways. For example, winner takes all in a state that 
tended to have a lot of liberal districts, but where the Republicans 
where all concentrated in a smaller number of areas, then setting it up 
as, "Each district vote counts towards its candidate", where there where 
lots of conservative areas, but the highest concentration of actual 
"people" was in liberal cities. Top of the list: The real voter fraud 
that took place, where one guy registering voters was actually caught 
throwing out applications for non-Republican voters, but turning in all 
the ones that where registering Republican.

Bets on the same people that came up with this shit having a complete 
epileptic fit, if someone told them, "You have to show you are competent 
for this job to take it, not just have a lot of support from people with 
similar mental health problems." (Yeah, I said it...)

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