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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

The motor-voter activities in a lot of places (I heard even here) are more 
aggressive than what you describe.  What you describe sounds fine.  If no one 
is pushing, and they are just offering, since you are there anyway, that is a 
very good way to do it, as long as the different state agencies can keep 
their paperwork right.  

I don't like the idea of showing ID to vote, but since we have to show it for 
practically everything , anyway, why shouldn't it be used for something as 
important as the vote.

I've heard lots of anecdotal comments about illegal immigrants voting here 
(and in California).  There is not really a way to prove, one way or the 
other.  I don't know how big a pproblem it is, and I don't think anyone else 
does.  

Everyone who has the right to vote, should be able to vote with as little 
inconvenience as possible .....bobford

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--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] voter fraud
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 5:19 PM
> In Pennsylvania, you can register when you get your
> driver's license. I 
> did when I moved to PA, and I think it's a good idea;
> you've presented 
> your birth certificate and other ID, so they know who you
> are. Every 
> time I renew my license (every 4 years), all the info is
> verified, and I 
> have the chance to change my party affiliation. They (or
> PA, anyway) 
> seems to have their act together with drivers licenses, so
> I like that 
> my voter registration is tied to it. Requiring verified
> photo IDs of 
> everyone is a slippery slope, but that's where this
> country is heading.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> 
> 
> bob ford wrote:
> > You are right again, Lynn, about identifying eligible
> voters.  And, about absentee ballots.  If I were to move , I
> would have to update my registration to receive the next
> ballot in the mail.  And, every 2 years, like this year, we
> have to sign and mail back in something to the sec. of
> state, I guess to verify that I still live here.
> > 
> > I don't, personally, see that it is a big deal for
> someone to have to go into a gov't office , once, to
> register to vote.  People do it for driver's license,
> fishing and hunting licenses, and they do it to receive
> monetary and other social benefits.  I think same - day
> registration can too easily lead to fraud.  I don't like
> the pushy motor-voter stuff, either.  
> > .........bobford
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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> > --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Lynn Wigglesworth  wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Lynn Wigglesworth 
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] voter fraud
> >> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 4:51 PM
> >> You have to be a registered voter to request an
> absentee
> >> ballot. It 
> >> comes down, again, to needed a better way to know
> who is
> >> eligible to 
> >> vote and who isn't.
> >>
> >> Lynn Wigglesworth
> >>
> >> DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:
> >>> Ahh,
> >>>     not when these are absentee ballots mailed
> to PO
> >> boxes,  like acorn did 
> >>> in 2004. There can be hundreds
> >>> of names sent to the same box, ballots
> collected ,
> >> filled out, and  submitted.
> >>>  
> >>> Drew
> >>>  
> >>>  
> >>> In a message dated 10/30/2008 12:14:18 P.M.
> Eastern
> >> Daylight Time,  
> >>> rayzentz AT aim.com writes:
> >>>
> >>> So what  happens when someone comes to the
> "place
> >> of voting" claiming to be 
> >>> Mickey  Mouse, or BiG T, or Lkjh Kjhg.?? There
> are no
> >> requirements for ID.?? 
> >>> There are  no grounds for dis-allowing the
> vote of
> >> which I am aware.?? Now, 
> >>> these are  obvious stupid names,?? However,
> there may
> >> be many that are not so pate
> >>> ntly  false.
> >>>
> >>> Ray
> >>>
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