Home/News | Register | Chat | Facebook Page | Gator Sports Calendar  | Contact Us | Search

| Back | Previous on VS HOF | Next on VS HOF |
Wayne Doubletree Resident (138.26.199.131) on 11/12/2018 - 11:19 a.m. says: ( 293 views , 8 likes )

"I'll bet you 1 trillion dollars . . . "

Edited by Author at 11/12/2018 - 12:43 p.m.
Message Replied To ==========

I always use my D/L in Florida. For non-drivers...

..there needs to be an easily accessible mechanism for a state-issued ID for non-drivers. 

Many Republicans do not seem to have an interest in this for "some reason."*

I have no patience for trying to game the system. And when it comes to voter suppression, that seems to be an exclusively Republican game. If a party's ideas and candidates aren't good enough to win elections, then maybe it's time to get some new ideas and candidates.


*The spoken reason is largely if not completely imaginary "voter fraud". The unspoken reason is that the "wrong kind of voters might vote and we can't have that!"

==============================

If those ballots that are being rejected were from largely republican counties . . . the cry to "count the ballots" from the left would be significantly less.  Oh there would be some "reason" given.

The cry of "count the ballots" now is simply because the expectation is that the "ballots" will favor Democrats.

So you get to climb on the moral high ground and shout down . . . for now.

I do find it ironic your go to fix is "biometrics".  Is that any less problematic for the poor and minorities than a voter ID?   

ps.  There is a van in Alabama that goes around printing such IDs for people.  It routinely shows up at all kinds of events.  Yet, you've probably never heard about it. 

*** objection noted. 

--
Starred by: Thunder    VOLMAN    UFNY    LAGator    the phenomenon    aubie in bham    brgator    MichiGator   
--
"The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to — for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well — is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."



Copyright © Mudlizard.com - All Rights Reserved.
This site is independently owned and operated and is not affiliated in any official capacity with the University of Florida.
VS Page 1 | VS Lounge | Recruiting | Ticket Exchange
DHTML JavaScript Menu By Milonic