Comments on: Memphis Finest Hour: Attacking Voter ID

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:23:57 +0000

AC, Heed the words of Solomon.

By: Solomon Cruz

Solomon Cruz — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:31:33 +0000

Thank you Smart City for calling out Mayor Wharton’s leadership on this issue. I am proud that he has chosen to stand on principal.
But AC MUST act on disbanding the current leadership of the airport authority if he is to earn my respect for standing up for local citizens.
We are about to give away a million bucks to an airline for doing something they were already going to do – start new service.
It’s not hard to stand up to the republicans in Nashville but the republicans in Shelby seem like a harder target for AC to tackle. As he starts to seek another term he will need to answer for his defense of the Airport Authority.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:51:07 +0000

Jason, what was the intent, pushed by right wing groups? Clearly, it was an intent to lower the number of voters who were LIKELY to vote Democratic. MIght it also catch some voters who would vote Republican? Yes, of course it would. But these well-funded right wing groups know exactly what they are doing, they KNOW, through very thorough research that this legislation will impact Democratic leaning voters at a MUCH higher percentage than republican leaning voters. They also know, through demographic trends, that angry white men are, frankly, becoming a smaller and smaller proportion of the general population and that the trend is very, very negative long-term for the Republican Party if they cannot appeal to more minorities. Since they have basically taken the strategy in this election that they AREN’T going to even ATTEMPT to go after black people, non-Cuban hispanics, unmarried women, etc., etc., then they HAVE to counter these demographic trends by suppressing/discouraging voting in some way. Voila! Require voter photo ID to counter non-existent ‘problem’ of voter fraud. Meanwhile, don’t even TALK about hackable Diebold (GOP backer) voting machines with no verifiable paper trail. Gotta hand it to these Koch Brothers, et al, they have a shitload of money and no shame whatsoever. You’re welcome for the education, pal.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:39:28 +0000

Well, duh. It’s discriminatory because it is aimed at suppressing the vote from specific segments of voters. It’s superfluous and unnecessary. It’s modern day Jim Crow.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:11:55 +0000

How is a requirement for an ID discriminatory? You just can’t go around repeating lies like. Show me one instance where a person was denied an ID because of race.