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January 26, 2011

Breaking: Texas Senate Passes Voter ID Bill
— Dave in Texas

19-11. This vote sends the bill on to the Texas House.

Last time it came up, in 2009 (we're smart in Texas, sorta. At least we only let our legislators meet once every two years), an almost evenly divided Texas House (76-74), Democrat Reps were able to kill it with parliamentary rules. But with a 100-50 seat majority, House Republicans will pass it, and Governor Goodhair will sign it.

So that's that.

Also, yeah, I swiped Governor Goodhair from Molly Ivins (RIP). Since I can't speak ill of the dead, I'll just thank her for the nick, cause despite her having been an annoying commie, it is kinda funny.

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Posted by: Dave in Texas at 07:25 PM | Comments (81)
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1 That's a requirement in Michigan as well. I always thank those at the polls for asking for my ID, which surprises and pleases them at the same time.

Posted by: shibumi at January 26, 2011 07:29 PM (OKZrE)

2 About damn time. Now they need to get on to passing the legislation allowing employees to store legally-owned firearms in their locked, private motor vehicles while parked at work again since it failed last time.

Posted by: cowboyup at January 26, 2011 07:30 PM (j0CED)

3 HELLLL YEAH! Go Texas, lead the muh fuckin way!

Posted by: Matt at January 26, 2011 07:35 PM (jABmk)

4 That's that until Obama's justice department rules it unconstitutional as they have done on everything passed that was remotely democratic.

Posted by: BarbaraS at January 26, 2011 07:35 PM (VnGvh)

5 North Carolina has this rule also but somehow,, someway, it was not required during early voting. Hopefully, Texas will make sure early voting is covered also.

Posted by: BarbaraS at January 26, 2011 07:38 PM (VnGvh)

6 HELL YEAH!! Come on Corbett!! Do it for PA while we got the majorities!!

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at January 26, 2011 07:43 PM (c5RQr)

7 So we need id to buy beer, buy cigarettes, use a credit card, get on an airplane, drive a car, buy a gun... But when it comes to choosing a government? Eh, I'll take your word for it. Kudos to Texas. I haven't voted here in Louisiana yet, but I think it's required.

Posted by: Secundus at January 26, 2011 07:44 PM (HPxm6)

8 The Vote -- you true it, we'll blue it.

Posted by: Californian at January 26, 2011 07:45 PM (R3j9a)

9 Governor Goodhair is apt however, I prefer Pecos Perry myself.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2011 07:48 PM (XBM1t)

10 Adios Mofo

Posted by: Gov Hair at January 26, 2011 07:51 PM (zyaZ1)

11 Since I can't speak ill of the dead You're a better man than I, Gunga Din.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 26, 2011 07:54 PM (9Lm5R)

12 uh oh, liberals are calling it a "poll tax"

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at January 26, 2011 08:03 PM (c5RQr)

13 Don't mess with Texas.

Posted by: texette at January 26, 2011 08:06 PM (zt3lR)

14 Since I can't speak ill of the dead, I'll just thank her for the nick, cause despite her having been an annoying commie, it is kinda funny.

Hey, funny is funny. Particularly when it's true.

Posted by: alexthechick at January 26, 2011 08:07 PM (bQ5xy)

15 Hard to imagine such a rule in CA. But a guy can dream.

Posted by: t-bird at January 26, 2011 08:20 PM (FcR7P)

All states should require voter ID, that might put Acorn, dead people and illegals from voting and voting often.

It will never happen in MA, where I live.

Posted by: Carol at January 26, 2011 08:25 PM (bdB1C)

17 Got a warning today via email:

there are indications that the Straus Leadership Team in the Texas House has plans to water down the photo voter ID bill when it comes out of the Senate.

So all Texans...email your State Rep and let him/her/it know that they need to pass the Senate version, no modifications

Full article, and link to how to find out who your state rep is ---

Don't let up on these guys. Let them know we are watching. Closely.

Posted by: Less at January 26, 2011 08:29 PM (PGXeZ)

18 The funny thing here in CA is that it's a misdemeanor to be without ID when asked for it by a police officer, but it's racist to require ID when voting.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at January 26, 2011 08:30 PM (fjoLg)

19 5 North Carolina has this rule also but somehow,, someway, it was not required during early voting. Hopefully, Texas will make sure early voting is covered also.

They do?!? I have NEVER been asked for a photo ID, whether I vote early or on election day. (In North Carolina, I might add.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 26, 2011 08:31 PM (081kp)

Yes! That will insure Texas stays in the "Red State" category for a long, long time. If California and New York had such laws even they might be potential "Red States" again.

Vote fraud should be considered treason and punished accordingly. Death wouldn't be too steep a price to charge for screwing with the vote. I'm sick and damned tired of seeing dead Republicans vote Democrat after they've passed on, as happens in far too many urban areas in this country. I'm even more angry about seeing illegals vote. I'd be in favor of putting them to work at hard labor for five years with no compensation, followed by repatriation to country of ethnic origin at their originating country's expense.

Mexico's presidential elections are cleaner than the ones in the U.S. due to Mexico's absolutel requirements for photo ID. That fact should have every honest, i.e., non-Democrat-voting, American mad as Hell!

Posted by: mac at January 26, 2011 08:38 PM (seAbh)

Oh, and I'll be happy to speak ill of Molly Ivins. She's the bitch who said that "bankruptcy is no disgrace." Thieving socialist witch, she was. It was a happy day when she swallowed her poison pen.

Posted by: mac at January 26, 2011 08:42 PM (seAbh)

22 waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many big words in this post for me to read at this hour

Posted by: pajama momma at January 26, 2011 08:45 PM (+6OZ7)

23 GOP bills for Voter ID/Election Reform has been stymied by the Dems in Wisconsin for some years now, but with the GOP taking full control of that state's government last November Obama can kiss that state goodbye.

Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2011 08:48 PM (9Pzy7)

24 Please God, please God, please God, make Meghan McCain go away.

http://tinyurl.com/4l2z6sy

"Michelle Bachmann is the poor man's Sarah Palin"

Posted by: pajama momma at January 26, 2011 08:49 PM (+6OZ7)

25 I need to wrap up my job and so I can get my move on. WhatÂ’s Wichita Falls like? Killeen?

Posted by: Jerry at January 26, 2011 08:58 PM (7Ahkq)

This seems like such a no-brainer!

Can someone explain to me how a leftist can argue against Voter ID?

Posted by: Cowboy at January 26, 2011 08:58 PM (dk36f)

27 I'm moving to Texas so I can be near Dave....in Texas.

Posted by: pajama momma at January 26, 2011 09:02 PM (+6OZ7)

Cool

AZ has had this for a few years, Texas is always ones step behind

Now maybe they can catch up with our concelaed carry, Illegal imigrant, prove you are an American to be president laws as well

AZ would be a fine new provice of the great country of TEXAZ

Posted by: Bob Hussein Dole at January 26, 2011 09:03 PM (iQe9X)

29 This is a racist lo.

Posted by: El Presidente Felipe Calderon, (D) Arizona at January 26, 2011 09:03 PM (MadRw)

"Michelle Bachmann is the poor man's Sarah Palin"

Great, now every time I see Michelle Bachmann, I'm going to think of an Opel GT.

Posted by: Cowboy at January 26, 2011 09:04 PM (dk36f)

31 Acorn, dead people and illegals

Or as we call it, our base.

Posted by: The Democratic Party at January 26, 2011 09:08 PM (2jQGY)

32 $700 fine for not buying health insurance: fair

$20 for a voting ID: ZOMG FASCISM!!1

Posted by: Blackford Oakes at January 26, 2011 09:09 PM (MadRw)

33 While senators rejected a string of amendments to allow additional forms of photo ID, they approved giving Texans the ability to use concealed-handgun licenses to vote. The amendment passed 30-0, adding handgun licenses to the list of acceptable items: driver's license, passport, and military ID.

No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet. So beautiful.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 26, 2011 09:20 PM (NmKUg)

"They like to take the laughable position that it imposes an unfair burden on the poor, the old and the stupid."

Damn, that's thin rationale, isn't it iktl? An unfair burden to get a driver's license or some other form of identification?

Wow, that's tough.

Posted by: Cowboy at January 26, 2011 09:20 PM (dk36f)

35 "They like to take the laughable position that it imposes an unfair burden on the poor, the old and the stupid."

Most Voter ID bills include extra special considerations for the poor, old, and stupid. But to the Dems it's never good enough.

Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2011 09:26 PM (9Pzy7)

36 They like to take the laughable position that it imposes an unfair burden on the poor, the old and the stupid.

I think there's a "chilling effect" in there somewhere as well. Or at least it does here in CA, since the poor, the old and the stupid must by law carry ID anyway.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at January 26, 2011 09:33 PM (fjoLg)

37 I'm glad to see this. We've been following these rules in my part of TX-2 for some time, so I'm glad to see it go statewide.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at January 26, 2011 09:40 PM (sZ+lP)

They like to take the laughable position that it imposes an unfair burden on the poor, the old and the stupid.

Don't forget the unfair burden on the poll workers. Some election volunteers in the Democratic stronghold I live in can't read, let alone match a photo to a person standing in front of them.

Posted by: Unruly at January 26, 2011 09:44 PM (LL4jH)

39
Perry 2012.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2011 09:44 PM (aWrFJ)

40 You Texans should be prepared. Voter ID laws are like Kryptonite to Democrats. Eric Holder will file suit before Perry's signature is dry. Obama won the Iowa and Texas caucuses by bussing in shitloads of people from out of state and hauling in every illegal alien to vote. He got Obamacare passed because Al Franken stole an election in Minnesota. IN 2004 there were lots of reports of buses of people from New York showing up at inner city polls in Philadelphia (several precincts reported more than 100% turnout.) If Pennsylvania is close again in 2012, which it will be, I expect them to do it again. They cant win PA without a ridiculous turnout in Philly.

Posted by: rockmom at January 26, 2011 09:46 PM (gTIcS)

41 I was shocked after moving away from Louisiana and Colorado that other states- particularly Texas- didn't require photo ID at the ballot box. I've lived and voted in LA, CO, TX, TN, and KS, and none of the last three require ID at the precinct. Drives me crazy.

Posted by: tmi3rd at January 26, 2011 10:01 PM (WRtsc)

42 Cracking down on election fraud is an issue ripe for the taking by the GOP.

Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2011 10:49 PM (9Pzy7)

43 No voter ID required in MS either; I tested it for the last election.

Molly Ivins, RIP (Rot In Pieces)....ok, no I don't miss her poison pen. One shouldn't climb up onto the stage without expecting some critics.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 26, 2011 11:57 PM (h0RtZ)

44 Isn't there some law that dates back to Reconstruction that prohibits former Confederate states from imposing any kind of conditions for voting without consent of Congress? I thought I saw that somewhere.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at January 27, 2011 12:30 AM (KhGTO)

45 19 The funny thing here in CA is that it's a misdemeanor to be without ID when asked for it by a police officer, but it's racist to require ID when voting.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at January 27, 2011 12:30 AM (fjoLg)

It's an infraction to not have it with you, a misdemeanor to drive without having one at all.

Just FYI.

PS I show my ID when voting *over* *their* *objections*. I'm not gonna cooperate with the ripoff of our Republic.

Posted by: Merovign, Bond Villain at January 27, 2011 12:47 AM (bxiXv)

46 I've never met an elderly person who didn't have ID. They are big on that sort of thing.

Posted by: moi at January 27, 2011 12:55 AM (Ez4Ql)

47 We have ad one of these voter ID bills stuck in committee for several years now. It is going to finally make it out soon now. The commies are fighting it tooth and nail, but like TX's bill, I fully expect the DOJ to hold it up as long as possible.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2011 01:01 AM (M9Ie6)

48 Some southern states have federal monitors at the polls to make sure the Voting Rights Act is being obeyed. It's stupid. No one is being denied the right to vote but the whole thing has become a political football. Anyone who says its time to let the states do the monitoring the race-baiters start crying bloody hell. They will never let the issue go. Everyone else has but that doesn't mean anything. The Black Panthers can intimidate voters but,you know, that's different.

Posted by: Case at January 27, 2011 01:48 AM (0K+Kw)

49 Some southern states have federal monitors at the polls to make sure the Voting Rights Act is being obeyed.

I don't think they have actual poll monitors, other than the normal ones each Party sends out. There are simply too many polls they would have to watch. The problem is the unconstitutional Section V that requires DOJ approval before you change ANYTHING in your voting law.

So a change in voter ID law in most Southern States, and a few Northern States like AK, require approval before they can take effect. (Except when the State changes the law by fiat to help liberals like AK did).

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2011 01:52 AM (M9Ie6)

50 I need to wrap up my job and so I can get my move on. WhatÂ’s Wichita Falls like? Killeen?

Wichita Falls----Its OK. People friendly enough, except me. Nothing to do, but close enough to DFW area to have a good weekend away if you want.

Posted by: Farmer at January 27, 2011 02:28 AM (u9eOW)

51 Fair waring speaker Joe Strauss, you stuff your rino nature where the sun don't shine.

You jam this up and you'll face a recall. No way am I going to wait for the next vote.

You hear me now Joe?

Posted by: Blacksmith8 at January 27, 2011 02:31 AM (Q1qy3)

52 I carry my ID in case I forget who I am, being a senior citizen and all.

Posted by: Farmer at January 27, 2011 02:36 AM (u9eOW)

53 We have to show ID here in Indiana.

Posted by: Timbo at January 27, 2011 03:04 AM (ph9vn)

54 Wake up you lazy fuck!!

Posted by: Ashen at January 27, 2011 03:09 AM (25cPL)

Ahah, the SC bill has advanced now.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2011 03:35 AM (M9Ie6)

56 They do?!? I have NEVER been asked for a photo ID, whether I vote early or on election day. (In North Carolina, I might add.) Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 27, 2011 12:31 AM ______ I vote in NC as well and I offer my ID every time and they DECLINE it. Fuckers.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik at January 27, 2011 03:51 AM (F+Y9Z)

57 All the usual wastes of space will call this discrimination, but you go to a country such as Mexico, their voter ID regulations are FAR more stringent. To vote you have to have a ID with several anti-fraud features and update our information every few years.

Posted by: Gary B at January 27, 2011 03:58 AM (1gWfF)

58 Kansas is working on a bill too. Kris Kobach is writing it, the guy who wrote some of the Arizona law. The commies at the local paper are about to have a cow.

Posted by: kansas at January 27, 2011 04:42 AM (4FGpb)

59 SC also is working on voter photo IDs http://bit.ly/eOI5cG

Posted by: MacRadDoc at January 27, 2011 04:48 AM (Kh1zW)

60 With new GOP majorities in statehouses across the country just in time for redistricting, this could be a great time for a lot of states who need this to pass it.

Posted by: nickless at January 27, 2011 04:49 AM (MMC8r)

61 I've got to see about getting a bill like this (and like the Presidential proof of natural born citizenship bills that are cropping up in places like Arizona) proposed here in NH. We've got a Republican super majority like whoa, so it might actually GET somewhere.

Posted by: MWR at January 27, 2011 04:52 AM (4df7R)

62 Elections have consequences. We should take advantage of our overwhelming statehouse numbers to take care ob some long-overdue bidness.

Posted by: Straight Up at January 27, 2011 04:54 AM (yARWD)

63 Showing and ID and proving who you are before you bvote. That's crazy! That's unfair! that doens't allow cheat-to-win by us holy democrats.

Posted by: Al Frnaken/jared Polis Secretary of State project$$$ at January 27, 2011 04:56 AM (0fzsA)

64 So now the left is going to need find lookalikes for the dead. Good!

Posted by: Rich C at January 27, 2011 04:57 AM (Vqcn4)

65 68 So now the left is going to need find lookalikes for the dead. Good!

Posted by: Rich C at January 27, 2011 08:57 AM (Vqcn4)

Or really good phony photo ID makers. Easier to create a phony ID that uses a dead person's name and other info, but the live person's photo.

Posted by: MWR at January 27, 2011 05:00 AM (4df7R)

You can thank us here in Georgia for having traversed this little minefield for you. The key to smacking down the "poll tax" argument is to make a State ID card available for free. Of course, nobody ever bothers getting it since they have all their other photo IDs available, but it shuts the liberals up.

We had to run through this process twice before we got what the people wanted. Does the Texas bill have this sort of provision? If not, expect that lame argument shopped around to the most liberal court in the state.

Posted by: Warthog at January 27, 2011 05:03 AM (WDySP)

67 Governor Goodhair AKA mini-Blago

Posted by: Follower of Cthulhu at January 27, 2011 05:03 AM (F/4zf)

68 Missouri just intored an identical bill calling for long-form to be produced. Rs have veto proof in both chambers. It'll pass.

Posted by: Sukie Tawdry at January 27, 2011 05:13 AM (MPtFW)

69 "But with a 100-50 seat majority..."

Not to pick nits, Dave, but its a 101-49 majority. We won 99 seats in the election and two Democrats flipped immediately afterwords.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at January 27, 2011 05:28 AM (KxyHe)

70 Don't count your chickens, Dave. There's still the gantlet of the House floor to run, and amendments can be deadly.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at January 27, 2011 05:36 AM (ZRm0r)

71 I'm moving to Texas so I can be near Dave....in Texas.

Posted by: pajama momma at January 27, 2011 01:02 AM (+6OZ7)

*sniff* jealous

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at January 27, 2011 05:40 AM (ZRm0r)

I couldn't give blood the other day because I forgot my ID. Federal rule.

But I can vote with no ID as long as I give a name that matches the election judge's printout.

Exit question: Can dead people give blood?

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at January 27, 2011 05:42 AM (ZRm0r)

I prefer 'Governor Zoolander', myself

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 27, 2011 06:11 AM (cqv5O)

Won't speak ill of the dead?

Molly Ivins has never been more attractive than she is now...

Posted by: Log Cabin at January 27, 2011 06:15 AM (/EcIK)

75 I vote in NC as well and I offer my ID every time and they DECLINE it. Fuckers.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik at January 27, 2011 07:51 AM (F+Y9Z)

If its state law, dont they have to look at it?

Posted by: Ol' Painless at January 27, 2011 06:15 AM (FIDMq)

Molly Ivins, RIP (Rot In Pieces)....ok, no I don't miss her poison pen. One shouldn't climb up onto the stage without expecting some critics.

I hope the Bolshevik Bulldyke is down in hell getting gang-banged by illegal aliens.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 27, 2011 06:35 AM (ujg0T)

77 How about IQ tests for politicians to see if their more intellgent then a turkey or a ant

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 27, 2011 06:56 AM (vA9ld)

78 Thanks, Farmer. When/if I pass through this summer IÂ’ll try to stay off your lawn.

Posted by: Jerry at January 27, 2011 07:28 AM (QF8uk)

So I take it by the lack of a pic that the Texas senate does not have a cheerleader squad?

Posted by: Bosk at January 27, 2011 07:42 AM (pUO5u)

80 Can you imagine a requirement like this in Chicago? Hell just the other day the union thugs were protesting to late Fish head on the Mayoral ballot. One lady when asked if Rahm qualifies as a resident, stated hell yes my daughter moved out of state and still votes in Chicago, and so do I. Working the system. Sticking it to the man.

Posted by: Buffalobob at January 27, 2011 08:17 AM (GwH6h)

81 For Bob Hussein Dole. Clarification. Arizona "had" the law until a few months ago a "special" council of four 9th circuit judges including our very own Sandra Day, in a new decision voted three to one in favor of eliminating the necessity to show ID. In their decision they claimed that just stating, under the penalty of perjury, that you are a US citizen is enough. Sandra Day was in the group of three.

Posted by: rain at January 27, 2011 11:34 AM (LNjuE)

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