Retro in TN: Poll Taxes are Back !!!!

[Freeper]

marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Oct-26-11 05:16 PM
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Retro in TN: Poll Taxes are Back !!!!   Updated at 5:16 PM
   

86-Year-Old Vet in Tennessee Paid Unconstitutional Poll Tax for Voter ID


Pointing to a problem that doesn’t exist, Tennessee Republicans created a voter ID law this year which, they say, will ensure that only those eligible to vote can do so. As predicted, the law is disenfranchising the poor, elderly, and minority voters, including a 96-year-old African-American woman, a 91-year old woman, and now, a 86-year old veteran.

World War II veteran Darwin Spinks went to a testing center last month to get a photo ID for voting purposes. Under the law, any resident without a photo ID is supposed to get one free of charge. But when Spinks asked for an ID, he was told he had to pay an $8 fee:

Spinks said Tuesday he needed the photo because when his driver’s license with a photo expired the last time, the driver testing center issued him a new license without a photo on it. State law allows people over 60 to get a non-photo driver’s license.

The retired print shop worker who moved here 17 years ago said he told people at the driver center he wanted an ID for voting purposes. He was sent from one line to another to have a picture taken, then was charged.

“I said, ‘You mean I’ve got to pay again?’ She says, ‘Yes,’” explained Spinks, a resident of County Farm Road, who was stationed on the USS Goshen in World War II and was called to duty again for the Korean War.
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The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/685962/86-... /

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2190149

Come to think of it, when I went to vote last Nov, I had to use my own vehicle and my own gas to get to the polling station, damn those poll taxes. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

This is the part the DUmbasses choose to ignore:

Under the law, any resident without a photo ID is supposed to get one free of charge.

Under the law, any resident without a photo ID is supposed to get one free of charge.

Under the law, any resident without a photo ID is supposed to get one free of charge.

Under the law, any resident without a photo ID is supposed to get one free of charge.

Under the law, any resident without a photo ID is supposed to get one free of charge.

Under the law, any resident without a photo ID is supposed to get one free of charge.

[JohnnyReb]

I guess democrat voters will have to up the asking price for their votes to cover the new cost of voting.....it is said that Obama has over a billion dollars in his campaign fund so he needs to spread that wealth around a little.

[Aristotelian]

Come to think of it, when I went to vote last Nov, I had to use my own vehicle and my own gas to get to the polling station, damn those poll taxes. 

It would be so much easier if the polling staff completed the ballot for you, to save you the trouble...along with ballots for any deceased ancestors of yours who lived in the area. /DUmmy mode

[ChuckJ]

As predicted, the law is disenfranchising the dead, the nonexistent, the illegal aliens, and the people who illegally vote multiple times

Wouldn't the above be more correct?