James O'Keefe attacks Minnesota voter ID laws [VIDEO]

• What is wrong is someone lying about where this video was created.  It wasn't the Scott County Government center.  None of the employees shown work there and the video wasn't shot there.  So how can you believe anything O'Keefe says?  The screen shot of the Scott County Governement Center is right out of Google Images, note the green grass and leaves on the bushes.  Defnintely not Minnesota in February! O'Keefe makes an argument that something should be done to prevent voter fraud.  But how do you prevent a crime from happening?  Pre-emptive strikes?  How did that work our in Iraq?  There was no threat from Iraq, and there is no voter fraud in Minnesota, at least not with people pretending to be someone else just to vote.   A wise old Vietnam Veteran who works at the Scott County Government Center.

•  The answer to your question is the part of the proposed law that no one talks about: the address. You must not only have a State-issued (no passports) ID, but it must have your *current address* that matches the precinct you wish to vote in. A lot of people don't keep their address updated on their driver's license, because it's not easy to wait around at the DMV for something that has no impact on your right to drive. Also, in researching genealogy, I am amazed at how many court houses (or the annexes where records are stored) get burned down, flooded, suffer severe water damage from broken pipes, or have insect infestations where paper records are rendered illegible. Most of these cases are in rural areas. Those people no longer have birth records, unless they are young enough that the data was digitized. Particularly for elderly women, who never drove and whose husbands handled business affairs, there was never a need to have an ID. It's not nearly as simple as you make it out to be.

• The Indiana Secretary of State just plead guilty to voter fraud. He is a Republican. He has a photo ID. 

•  You hit the nail on the head. Submitting a form is not registering to vote. I can fill out an application to get an ID that says I'm Tim Tebow. That doesn't mean I'm going to get an ID.

• It's strange that some people believe anything this guy does, or his little buddy Andrew Breitbart.  But I guess that old saying still holds true today, there's a sucker born every minute.

•  Because it won't do anything to stop supposed voter fraud. Republicans have been trying to prove rampant voter fraud for years, but to no avail. It's a red herring. They are trying to disenfranchise a group of voters that typically lean left. It's quite easy to see.

• It's quite conservative to erect barriers for minorities and the elderly- and other groups known to be least likely to have an id- to vote.  By a near-impossible coincidence, these groups just happen to be more likely to vote Democratic.  All of this on top of the fact that there is no empirical, solid evidence of significant voter fraud, AND that these laws, if implemented, will cost quite a lot of money.

• But the right to vote already has limitations on age & felon status & residency. Why is having to prove your identity such an onerous restriction. Existing in this country is a (non-documented) right for citizens, but you usually have to identify yourself in order to get back in if you leave. 

• How is it conservative to put the government bureaucracy in the way of your voting right?  That's a lot of power your centralizing.  There could be "glitches" in the system that doesn't allow large blocs of people to vote right before an election.  It sets up a system rife for abuse.  Also, having a drivers licence doesn't make you a citizen nor does it make you an eligible voter, so I don't know why you think that makes the system better.

• You sound like a nice, liberal fella.  I'm sure when the Democrats lose a seat by one vote and it's discovered that this dude did vote for fake Tom Brady and Tim Tebow you'll be fine with it as long as they never vote again, right?

• None of the things you listed above (besides owning a gun) is a right.  

• I agree. I also think that it is unfair that people have to show I.D. when they cash a check, withdraw money out of their bank, buy a car, buy a house, buy a gun, get on an airplane, buy a pack of cigarettes, buy liquor, get pulled over by the police, etc. It is just WRONG WRONG WRONG!! It is an infringement on my rights!!!!!!!!

• How again did this video show that an illegal immigrant can vote?  I didn't see any of these voter applications being accepted.  Please describe your argument further so we can find a solution.  If no problem exists, then let's not waste government money on it.

• There was nothing wrong with what he did.  He can take forms to help homeless or disabled people register.  What he is implying is that he can register fake people to vote then vote absentee for them indefinitely.  That is wrong.  Show me the video where he was able to register these phony names, then we'll have a scandal.  

• What are they trying to prove?  That it is easy to get a voter registration form?  Do they think that the Minnesota government just accepts whatever registration is given to them?  Whatever is filled out is cross-check and approved or denied.  Of course I can take a stack of registration forms to a nursing home.  That's the beauty of the system.  Should they not be allowed to vote because they aren't mobile and haven't driven in years?   And the whole deal with the absentee voting is a non-issue.  If a citizen wants to exercise their right through absentee voting, who cares?  What the video is trying to suggest is that anyone can grab a stack of registration forms, fill out the absentee voting form, then vote for a hundred people for the rest of their lives.  That is incorrect.  They are missing that crucial fact that the registration has to be approved.  And if they get caught, they are never voting again.  It is a good and simple system for exercising our basic right.  Why put more big government bureaucracy in the way?  That's the opposite of conservatism.  

•  this assclown IS the peon committing the voter fraud all you reich wingnuts are always complaining about.

• Yeah, let's arrest the one person showing how illegal immigrants DO vote and can change the outcome of elections for a particular canidate but no the illegals OR their supporters?

• Why is he not in jail?

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