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columbiaaccidentinvestigation
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On Aug 11, 8:35*pm, wrote:""snip
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.g...1da8fad0457cc8
Mandating that a voter show a picture id (driverıs license being the
most common) reveals, name, date of birth, address, driverıs license #
(if card is used), at a place where the voters name and address are
found on a printed list. You are creating a focal point for personal
information, a potential situation for a person/group of people to
steal information, based on a mandate that all walk in voters share
personal information. That focal point is a place where close to 70%
of the total voting population will be revealing their personal
information in a 1-day window. The total popular vote for president
in 2008 was just under 130 million, the state of Missouriıs poll
worker instruction manual boasts about its 20,000 poll workers.
Thatıs quite an opportunity you are creating for lots of money to be
stolen (unintended consequences), based on the ideal of creating a
100% clean election. Absentee ballots are subject to tampering, so to
increase mail in ballots would not assure a clean election, which
means your so called solution is nothing more than a dodge, in an
effort to make walk in voting 100% clean, you just skipped over the
other option, which is not 100% clean. You did this by using with the
statement "Everything is subject to tampering and that is an entirely
separate issue.² which is an illogical fallacy, based on the fact you
are trying to clean up the election process. Such poor logic on your
part begs the question as to why you think the poll volunteer vetting
process is not subject to flaws/mistakes/misses/tampering. In fact
when pushed your only assurance that identity theft will not occur at
the polling place is that "anal little old ladies" are on duty, which
is pure idiocy on your part. Identity theft protection includes
shredding waste that contains important information so people who go
through a households *TRASH*, have a harder time stealing your
identity. The typical household waste contains food/dog/cat/toiletries
along with the personal information we are told to shred, this sits
and stews a week before it goes to the curb. With todayıs cell phone
cameras, one only needs a press of a button to capture an image of the
voter roll (address and voters name), and a good memory for numbers
when inspecting the photo id, to gather such crucial personal
information. So if people are willing to go through a personıs week
old curbside trash just to get *one* persons personal information,
stealing numbers from a polling place to get a lot of peoples personal
information is not too far out of the realm.
If you are so paranoid that poll workers will steal your ID, then why go
there at all?
If, as you claim, they are crooks, what is to stop them from
substituting your ballot for one that is already marked? How do you know
that YOUR ballot didn't just go into the shredder?
My advice to those opposed to voter ID is: DON'T VOTE!