The Poll Worker in Jenison, Michigan said I didn't need my voter ID card.

[sarcasmo]

I said why not, you should need it, how do you know who I am. Well you don't need it she said. I asked for the supervisor who said your name is already on the list, so you don't need your ID card, it is only used to point out if you are in the wrong location. I then said how would you know if I were in the wrong location you didn't even look at my voter ID. I just shook my head and went to vote.
This is a sad state of affairs, I thought the little old poll worker was going to cry. Our election system is out of control. I will be voting Absentee in the 08 election, it will eliminate the poll worker headache and if you vote in a Diebold state I suggest Absentee in 08.

[gollygee]

1. I didn't have to show an ID

I've never had to show any kind of ID to vote. I know the republicans were trying to make it so people had to have a passport or something to vote but that isn't the case now.

[Left Is Write]

I didn't either. I was already registered and on the rolls.

I always sign my name on the rolls.

[sarcasmo]

4. Why do we need a voter ID card? What is the point?

I could have went in filled out the slip of my neighbor and voted for him. Changed clothes and gone back four or five hours later and voted as myself.

[MrCoffee]

9. the point is to tell you that you're registered and where your polling place is

[gollygee]

13. And you could have been charged with a federal crime

would it have been worth it?

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. And you really believe people will do that?

That sure is a lot of trouble to go through to vote one extra time.

[Window]

24. I don't have to show voter ID in NJ.

Never have. Before I could get in the door, the poll worker called out my name and address to another worker. We went to school together and she's been working on the polls for the past 30 years or so. LOL

[marmar]

2. Que?

I love the fact that our state does not employ Gestapo voting tactics.

[marylanddem]

7. Same here in Maryland - no voter i.d. required but

from their rolls (now on computer) they do confirm your name, address, birthdate etc...It's pretty thorough and I really appreciate that I don't have to produce i.d.

[seabeyond]

3. i am going to argue this. didnt you have to show dr lisc. i didnt have

reg card (always do) and i was able to use d.l. and i think that is a good thing. they had proof who i was, address, and made more convenient. we can use just about anything to prove we are the vote hence no impedement

[YOY]

5. I didn't have mine. They never sent it and I did not have the time

to play around in between two jobs. None-the-less, I am a registered voter.

I showed my ID (Driver's License).

My address was on the list of registered voters.

I voted.

I hope you don't have a problem with that?

[meganmonkey]

6. I have never been asked for my card in Michigan

It isn't an "ID card" - it is a reference card so you know where to vote...

:shrug:

[sarcasmo]

8. All I am saying is the system if flawed. I could have voted for my neighbor all I would have had to

Do is put his name and address in the info card and sign his name.

[renate]

10. the Republicans' reasons for wanting voter IDs amount to vote suppression, but

...if I went to vote and found that somebody claiming to be me had already voted, I would be heartbroken.

I'd be happy with somebody just having to present a cable bill or something, but not an official ID to avoid disenfranchising people who don't drive or have a passport, etc. Not all renters receive an electric bill if their utilities are paid, but most have cable bills or bank statements.

[sarcasmo]

12. I agree, that's all I am asking. How can bringing something, anything with your address on it

be suppression?

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. My mother didn't have anything like that

She lived in a nursing home.

[silverojo]

21. Not everyone can bring utility bills

There are three adults living in my house (all in the same family), but only one person's name is on the utility bills.

[liberalEd]

11. In Santa Clara County, CA - never needed any sort of card

Now the last several elections I've voted absentee - but back when I used to go and vote in person, all that was required was to sign the register near my name. In other words my name and address were already preprinted, I just had to sign in the spot next to it.

I guess if challenged, they would compare the signature with the signature on my original registration.

[European Socialist]

14. Big Rapids MI--never needed ID for the 8 years lived here--maybe they

think I'm a repuke.

[Pugee]

15. We had to show ID in Missouri, just not necessarily with a photo.

[Pathwalker]

16. I haven't needed ID in 35 years to vote in Michigan.

sorry you think it's so horrible, but I don't - I love this about my Blue Michigan, where we don't try to intimidate voters - sheesh! But then, I've lived in the same small town for 25+yrs., so they KNOW WHO I AM. And my family. So, asking me for my idea would have been VERY offensive.

[mesobob]

17. On the surface showing ID sounds good

But in reality, it becomes a tool that the republicans use to disenfranchines voters.

Alot of folks cannot afford id, and many elderly have long since given up their drivers licenses and do not have an official id.

The poor and elderly should be able to vote just as everyone else.

[dysfunctional press]

18. say what? i don't even know where my voter card is...

here in chicago, you don't need an i.d.- unless your signature doesn't match the one on file.

[Pithlet]

19. I've never needed a voter ID card.

I've voted in two different states. Today, all I needed was a form of ID with my signature on it. It didn't even have to be a photo ID, though I used my driver's license. I think that's fine.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. We don't need ID here

I go in to vote, give my name and they have me sign a sheet next to my name. Then I vote. Works very well.

Lots of people don't have ID. I posted here many times about my elderly mother, who died 3 weeks ago yesterday. She had no ID and no way to get one.

Voter ID laws discriminate against the elderly and the poor.

Be thankful you don't need ID to vote.