Voter ID

But,the person that votes does not have to be the same one that registered to vote..

My point in Post # 37 about the need for narrowly drawn legislation came well before you ever raised it....or knew about it. But thanks for regurgitating it as your own in LATER posts.Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.  Are you going to deny that ? Answer the question. Because you know you did exactly that.

US justice department is the main challenger of voting ID laws that discriminate against voters and violate the constitution.  Federal courts have blocked ID laws in Kansas, North Carolina, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Texas.  More cases are pending in Alabama, Ohio, Virginia and other States.

Courts don't buy the argument that ID laws are necessary to prevent fraud.  They realize that the harms of ID laws far outweigh any tiny benefit.  According to Center for American progress, bad laws keep getting struck down by the courts.  .

Despite having multiple ID, eligible voters still cannot vote.  Problem is that not every eligible voter has government photo ID required and easy access to documentation.  According to New York university, 11% of eligible voters lack such ID.  In Texas, over 600,000 voters don't qualify.  In Wisconsin, almost 300,000 voters. 

I didn't google it; I teach it. But you are a capable student.

Wrong. Damn you're always wrong. What a stupid argument. The Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to vote. Nothing. Americans possess no affirmative right to vote. NONE! Period!

How different America would be if,,we stuck to the Constitution and allowed voting to be restricted to property-holding white men.

I'm always happy to see that elementary schools are teaching civics and laws. Education is really the only way to defeat right wing extremism.

Relax_Dude!

You mean outside of the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments, which all guarantee the right to vote? And there are more Amendments addressing the right to vote than any other right. Surely the teacher above will agree.

Beclowned.

You are wrong, as usual.

The amendments you cite do NOT "guarantee the right to vote."
Those amendments simply say you can't be denied voting rights because of race, gender, age, or non-payment of a poll tax.

Do you understand the difference ?

If you were really a teacher who understood the Constitution, you would realize that it is a 'negative rights' document meaning all of the amendments create 'fundamental rights' that cannot be interfered with by Congress but for strict scrutiny of such laws.

For example, the first amendment starts with "Congress shall make no law..."

The Second ends with "shall not be infringed" and so on.

Don't worry though, I'm sure your elementary students are in awe of your intellect.

I respect teachers, regardless of the educational level they find their vocation. Your repeated elitist comments attempting to belittle me by suggesting I teach "elementary" school say a lot more about you than they do about me.

You can have the last word.

15th is about discrimination
19th is about sex discrimination
24th is about poll taxes
26th is about age discrimination

Still waiting for you to provide "the right to vote amendment."

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

19th:

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.

24:

The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.

What right to vote are they talking about?

26th:

The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.

Not that hard to figure out really.

No, son. Those are conditions for the voting process. There are 27 amendments. Where is the right to vote amendment? The words right to vote are used indirectly. Which one directly states that voting is a right? Read this very slowly ok.

No, son. Those are conditions for the voting process. There are 27 amendments. Where is the right to vote amendment? The words right to vote are used indirectly. Which one directly states that voting is a right? Read this very slowly ok.

You're delusional. There is no right to vote amendment. There are amendments with the words right to vote but no actual amendment that establishes voting as a constitutional right. That's a fact little boy. Prove me wrong kid. Tell me which amendment that directly establishes voting as a constitutional right. The right to vote amendment is what number? Is there a 28th amendment is liberal land?

You’re like a child. No, there is a right to free speech. That’s the first amendment. It clearly states that the first amendment prohibits any law that abridges freedom of speech. The right to bear arms is the second amendment. It clearly states that the second amendment gives the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Look son, throwing a hissy fit and using a bunch of opinionated babble doesn’t change the fact that there is no amendment classified as the right to vote amendment. Either there is a right to vote amendment or there isn’t. You fail to grasp that.

I live in the real world. You live in liberal imagination land. In your liberal bubble world the discrimination amendments equate to a right to vote. I believe that YOU believe there is such an amendment. I can’t win this debate because it’s hard to win an argument that’s based entirely on your opinion and your imagination.

I know you’re going to come back without providing an actual right to vote amendment and your post is going to be witty and filled with sarcasm. Debating a liberal is like playing chess with a penguin. In the end the penguin is going to knock all the pieces over and crap all over the board and claim victory.

Using words like liberal and penguin doesn't change the fact that the first amendment begins with "The government shall not" the second ends with "shall not be infringed" and all the voting amendments do the same.

I copied and pasted this from another topic.

I salute Mike Turzai for admitting the unvarnished truth about the GOP's anti-democratic vote-suppression tactics.