WTF…republican’ts, aren’t you worried about your right to privacy…at all…Bet Not

All good points. The first time I voted in Sidney, NE – back in the late 60′s – I had looked at the entire sample ballot before going to vote, but I was still a bit slow in the voting booth (wanting to be sure I was doing things right, and reading every word, and there were many county/local issues being addressed), and one of the poll workers actually opened the curtain and prompted me to “hurry up”!

I was somewhat of the timid type at that time so I did as told, but I also felt intimidated many times I voted thereafter! Most recently I annoyed the poll workers here in Marion, KS because I took at least 10 minutes reading (and rereading) the wording of a state constitutional amendment regarding the ability of ex-cons and the mentally ill to vote because it had earlier been worded improperly in all of the area newspapers.

Poll workers can see from the sign-in books how you are registered and I’ve long suspected, in both Nebraska and Kansas, that poll workers do discriminate based on their own political ideology!

Nice Wallace quotes, Walt. I often wonder what the country would be like if he’d remained as FDR’s VP rather than Truman. On my more upbeat days, we’re a European-style socialist utopia, but with our means of production fully intact. When I’m being a little more skeptical (realistic?), I begin the think that LBJ probably never would have happened and his Presidency would have accelerated the ascension of the far-right wing of the GOP. . . assuming that he wouldn’t have been impeached for not using the atomic bomb at the end of WWII, that is.

The scary question is:What if the mother wasn’t there. In my teens if you started going all through my bank history, asking me illegitimate questions regarding what I do with my account, and then to top it off attempt to charge me when you know it’s free I’d be all kinds of pissed off and inconsolable. Hell when my brother had an issue last year in TN with “The law changing last night”(I fully understand that this was a trick being played by a lazy state employee it happens, folks don’t feel like working and try every trick in the book to keep you from continuing forward and making them complete the forms), I was pissed but was able to at least make sure they gave us ALL the information the “new law” SUPPOSEDLY required that was no longer in the TN Drivers Handbook which just so happened to be in his possession at the time(actually our mother demanded he carry it with him and when we came back came with us so that SHE could have it explained to her as well, seems he got his learners permit that day).

If you are a respectful teen you would probably get turned away because:the powers that be(which in the DMV the first line of defense is that person at the counter) gave you a line that you of course believed. They first tried the embarrassment approach “oh you barely use this account”, then they attempted to “make you pay anyway” which means if you walk in with no money you walk out with no ID, and then to make matters worse you have to HOPE it arrives in the mail. No offense to the mail carriers out there but why can’t I just walk out with my ID? I’m there, the machine is there, the person who AGREED THAT THIS WAS VALID PROOF OF RESIDENCE is there. And you have to wait two weeks? So if in 2 weeks(or today after mom leaves and some bureaucrat decides “hmm no this isn’t enough activity”) nothing shows up in the mail you have to go through the whole process again. It’s all kinds of  creepy and unAmerican.

If you are a hot tempered teen, you’ll just be escorted off the premise because you had your privacy invaded and you rightly balked  at somebody who ISN’T putting a dime in your account asking you why you do or don’t have X amount of dollars in it. Even the most even tempered person has their breaking point, and a young person doubly so.  Simply because as a young person you are just beginning your fight for respect and inclusion into greater society. And when did we learn that Homeless Shelters needed to have SPECIFIC LETTERHEAD, were they informed of this when the law was passed? I think we have gone past creepy and underhanded and jumped straight to evil, I don’t blame those clerks they are just messengers of an ignorant policy. Hell a few of them even seemed to be embarrassed to have to be the one to explain to you just why they MIGHT have denied that young teen of his right to vote

Who didn’t see this coming?

This is the true road-map to right-wing rule by dictatorship! They’ll call it something else but that’s what it will effectively be!

And they’ll do it under the banner of “christianity” claiming to return us to the “roots” of our nations founding, when only wealthy “landowners” were afforded the vote!