Rave this: If you think we should have a National Voter ID Program in place.

There aren't enough illegals or illegal votes to swing an election.

It isn't just illegals, it is busloads of activists voting in multiple districts, under multiple names.

Can you prove that? That sounds a little far fetched to me.

Then why did Obama break the record for most deportations? Stop drinking the kool-aid.

We all need to prove who we are on a daily basis so it should be in place. The county which i vote in you have always had to show ID with your voter ID card so nothing new to me.

What does the GOP do about the Amish?

So they should be denied the right to vote?

Violate your religion or Don't vote isn't much of a choice.

it is actually not against their religion

Having their picture taken is.
But Republicans have led the charge across the U.S. to enact voter ID laws in an effort to disenfranchise groups of voters like groups, such as college students, low-income voters, and minorities. PennDOT reports that it has issued about 4,000 nonphoto IDs to Amish people, but there are about 61,000 Amish who live in the state. And it is doubtful more Amish will want to go through the arduous process to get a nonphoto ID simply to vote.
Ironically, this new hurdle to Amish voters was erected while many Republicans also insist that the Obama Administration is attacking religious freedom through new federal regulations that require employer-provided health insurance plans to cover contraception. It’s difficult to square the GOP’s claims about religious liberty with the impact of voter ID on specific faiths. Pennsylvania’s voter ID law requires certain people of faith to take additional steps simply to exercise their constitutional right to vote.

Not true...the purpose is fraud prevention
Further...not against amish religion...just frowned upon. Voting is a priveledge and well worth getting id.

The percentage of voter fraud is negligible. Voting is the right of every American.

Wrong. Voting is a priviledge for non-felon American citizens over 18

Are you aware of the voting rights act signed by President Johnson?

Are you aware that felons cant vote

Re "A small price to pay" (Monitor letter, May 23):

I find it hard to equate driving a car, boarding a plane or buying alcohol with voting. Voting is a right, not a privilege. People are dying in the Middle East right now for the right to vote, and here in the "Live Free or Die" state that right is being restricted by the people in charge who have so little faith in what they are doing that they are afraid they won't be elected again

Not restricted....protected from fraud.

And not having to buy votes by playing black robin hood

Do you know the percentage of voter fraud committed?

Well...somewhere around 47, or about the static percentage of democrat voters

And you got your information where?

FYI
Despite many instances of electoral fraud internationally, in the U.S. a major study by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2007[2] showed of the 300 million votes cast in that period, federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud – and of those few cases, most involved persons who were simply unaware of their ineligibility. This rarity of electoral fraud in the U.S. follows from its inherent illegality.

Come on...no one really votes for jokers like reid pelosi and obama...gotta be fraud.

Please get a clue.

Clue you

SInce March 2011 Amish gun owners are required to have a photo ID. Use that ;-)

It is a choice that the Amish will make...just like a muzzie woman getting a drivers license - she's got to take off the hood, so too an Amish would have to get a photo taken (which is actually not against their religion).

Where do you get your information, because you are misinformed.

No...i am correct.

Sorry but you are very misinformed.
… "Many Amish believe that photographs in which they can be recognized violate the Biblical commandment, ‘Thou shalt not make unto thyself a graven image.’ Please follow our lead in taking no photographs in which faces are recognizable."

Lets approach a diferent way then. You choose to exclude yourself such as refusing id...maybe a fingerprint or retinal scan would be better. The biometric readers are pretty cjeap now

I personally don't have a problem with an id for voting, if it was free and available in every state to every citizen. We should not be making voting harder. There needs to be a lot more polling places election day, and or mail in ballots everywhere. Why not voting over a weekend.

Why not expect people to be responsible for themselves?

If you are demanding requirements then make them fair and just.

The problem is that to a larger and larger percentage, people are voting for whomever promises them the most free stuff. Gwb tax rates are responsible for 50% of people not paying income taxes therefore not having a dog in the hunt.

Perhaps, but there are still a lot of responsible Americans and they are voting for the betterment of a country for all, not just a rich powerful few. Thanks for the rave.

Won't Happen as Erick Holder will stop it as he can't bribe people to vote as he wants >> Just like selling GUN to the drug cartel as the goverment must not pay well ??? Vote wise in 2012

I think the voter ID is a great idea.. We should have had it in place in 2008.