Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.tal.de!news.wtal.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: voting booths in republican areas Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 05:56:24 +1000 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <1441f$55abc986$43da7656$24535@nntpswitch.blueworldhosting.com> <21o <448fcd2fbde463f54a667ea9a3b0f02b@dizum.com> <55D3AA4A.DCD2DD80@B.Maus.De> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mDkILxEu/9qGHqOJwCeJ8g4vRYJJlZ0CI/h1CjE9qj21MJPRQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:uqkTGJcVfWvyzPLsQhwkBZRWCMY= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:77032 comp.mobile.android:22111 "TJ" wrote in message news:mr1v3b$f0k$1@dont-email.me... > On 08/19/2015 05:14 AM, Gordon Levi wrote: >> "Rod Speed" wrote: >> >>> Axel Berger wrote >>>> TJ wrote >>> >>>>> Comparing your signature to the one in the book is the way we check >>>>> your >>>>> ID. >>> >>>> So carrying ID papers is a police state >>> >>> He wasn't the one who made the comment about a police state. >>> >>>> while all and sundry keeping and accessing samples of my signature >>> >>> No one but the bank ever had any samples of my >>> signature and none of my banks does anymore. >> >> You have had a fortunate life. No insurance claims, no medical claims >> and never been a guest at a Leagues Club. > > Here in New York State, the state-issued photo ID, either driver's license > or non-driver ID, also shows a copy of the signature used to apply for it. Ours does too. > What bothers me even more about New York's voter registration process than > the ID business is that application does not require any proof of > citizenship, other than checking a box on the form. The photo ID doesn't > prove it, unless it's the more expensive "enhanced" version - which didn't > exist until a few years ago. The Board of Elections just takes your word > for it. There is no viable alternative because it isn't trivial at all for some to prove that they are a citizen. Even full passport doesn’t necessarily require much proof that you actually are a citizen. > I see no need to prove your citizenship at the voting booth every time you > vote, but registration is another matter. Unless, of course, they change > the law so that US citizenship is no longer required.