Oops! George W. Bush's name on list of Texas residents who would be ineligible to vote

How’s that Voter I.D. law workin’ out for ya, GOP? 1.5 million Texas citizens don’t meet the laws’ eligibility requirements, and GW Bush is one of them:

(Reuters) – Attorneys for Texas on Thursday cited the appearance of former President George W. Bush’s name on a list of Texas residents who would supposedly be ineligible to vote in the state under a law requiring voters to show photo identification as evidence a Harvard University study of the measure was deeply flawed.

In a federal trial over the law, which has been blocked by the Obama administration, the lawyers for Texas argued the fact that Bush was on the list even though he certainly has a federal ID, showed the study wildly overestimated the number of Texas voters who would be unable to vote under the measure.

Texas lawyers told the court they also found the names of two members of the state legislature on the list.

Your tax dollars at work.

Again, new voter registration laws could hurt President Obama. And as I have said over and over again, in many, many posts, the people suffering the worst consequences of the Voter I.D. laws are most often low income voters, the elderly, the ill who can’t leave home, young voters, minorities, and of course, anyone without transportation (or to put it another way, lean Democratic). And to those who say, “Well, there are always absentee ballots,” some states are now requiring Voter I.D. to qualify for those, too.

Access (transportation) to Voter I.D. centers is one reason so many people are unable to get a new picture I.D. Another is that it costs money, including paying for a copy of a birth certificate or other documents one might need to acquire a new I.D. Hence, Attorney General Holder’s reference to a poll tax.

Remember: Voter fraud is rarer than getting struck by lightning. If Republicans are so concerned about it, despite evidence to the contrary, then take steps to provide identification at no expense, physical or monetary.

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http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/ GottaLaff

You’re mistaken. There have been exhaustive efforts to weed it out, starting with GW Bush’s presidency. That’s what the U.S. Attorney scandal was all about. They have looked and looked, they found nothing.

Let the govts. provide free access and transportation, let them provide a way to acquire ID without undue burden (the sick and elderly unable to get on a bus and stand in line, pay for ID or copies of birth certificate) and then we can talk.
Mhonesty

You overlooked the obvious: with a requirement to show an I.D. all he has to do is show up and present his I.D. and he can vote. Otherwise, any tourist from another country can cast their preference for OUR president.
Of course there is little
evidence of voter fraud because there is little effort to try and identify
voter fraud.THAT’S THE PROBLEM!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3XOIX6OAFEGK2A2WPH3AMSPPDQ RETUSAF

After all George W Bush is a convicted war criminal!

“In the first verdict of its kind since former President George W. Bush left office, he and several members of his administration have been successfully convicted in absentia of war crimes in Malaysia.
Yes, this is a BFD.
This past Friday, a five panel tribunal delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after a week long trial that, unsurprisingly, was not covered by American media. The witnesses included several ex-Guantanamo detainees that gave testimony on the conditions and human rights violations that were systematically carried out under orders of the Bush administration.
Former President Bush, Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo that crafted the legal ‘justification’ for torture that basically said, ‘we can if we want to even if it’s illegal’ were the defendants. None were present, of course, but international war crime trials do not require the presence of the accused. The trial was run according to the standards set by the Nuremberg Trials to convict war criminals after World War II.”

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/13/george-w-bush-dick-cheney-convicted-of-war-crimes/
http://lwdgrfx.com/ Lucian Dixon

Let’s try this again, Failblog.

What part of ‘voter suppression’ don’t you understand?

As AG Holder said, a voter ID law is nothing more than a poll tax by another name. (Poll taxes are illegal in case you didn’t realize that. So are ‘grandfather clauses’, by the way.)

Poll taxes are designed to discriminate against the poor and the elderly, not all of whom are Democrats by any means, incidentally. We’re already seeing this happen in states like Florida.

Did you click on any of the links? I ask because I don’t see anywhere in your comment which references what those pages say.

You might just read through them first. If there are any big words in them you don’t understand, I’ll be happy to explain them to you in simpler English.
Goldilocks

How were your scores on reading comprehension in school there bud? I’m guessing not so hot.
jojo

Personally, this seems like a reason to revise the policies to obtain identification, rather than voter laws. People should be able to identify themselves (even if voter fraud is rare), why do we make that difficult when it is supposed to be necessary for law enforcement, debit/credit cards (when people do their job), driving, etc.?
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/ GottaLaff

Failblog , if YOU read the article, you indeed saw the quote:

“(Reuters) – Attorneys
for Texas on Thursday cited the appearance of former President George
W. Bush’s name on a list of Texas residents who would supposedly be
ineligible…”

The idea was to show that the data is flawed regardless of whose side you’re on. Hence my sarcastic “your tax dollars at work”. If Bush’s name can get on a list mistakenly, so can others, but for the opposite reason.

There is virtually no voter fraud. The information that they’re gathering is a mess, outdated, full of errors. And if you read what I wrote, I stand by the premise that we’re wasting time and money on something that doesn’t exist, disenfranchising mostly Democratic voters.

The voter suppression effort is undemocratic. MY point that the Voter ID laws are wrong remains and is consistent with all of that. Not sure what YOUR point is.
failblog

While I don’t support voter ID laws, it’s clear you didn’t read the article. His name is *NOT* on a list of texas residents who would be ineligible to vote. His name was included in a Harvard Study that claimed he would be ineligible. This was actually used as PROOF by supporters of the law to show that the estimates of the number of people who would be ineligible are way overblown (since somebody like bush would obviously have proper ID).

You even bolded the parts that directly contradicted the argument you were making, which makes me wonder if you even read the article or if you just randomly bolded stuff that sounded like it might support support your argument.
RandoMotts

lol, now that jsut totally cracks me up man, too funny.
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jovan1984

Here is something that is actually more COMMON than getting hit by lightning: voter suppression. There are many cases of that happening – in the 2010s! I have counted at least 20,000,000 cases nationwide – counting ONLY states that are required by law to get permission to pre-clear voting laws – since 2008.
stormkite

And yet der Shrub got in… twice.

Something is Not Right here.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DW7LHDQQLRH5RQG2AGEXP35QGM Mr. B

If only he had been ineligible for the presidency, too . . .
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1520873501 Jack Boardman

“…Remember: Voter fraud is rarer than getting struck by lightning…” I can’t add much to this.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1520873501 Jack Boardman

“…Remember: Voter fraud is rarer than getting struck by lightning…” I can’t add much to this.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1520873501 Jack Boardman

“…Remember: Voter fraud is rarer than getting struck by lightning…” I can’t add much to this.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1520873501 Jack Boardman

“…Remember: Voter fraud is rarer than getting struck by lightning…” I can’t add much to this.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1520873501 Jack Boardman

“…Remember: Voter fraud is rarer than getting struck by lightning…” I can’t add much to this.

Oops! George W. Bush’s name on list of Texas residents who would be ineligible to vote