Poll: Most Americans Like Voter IDs
73 percent think voter ID before voting is not discriminatory.
A poll released today shows most Americans favor showing an ID before voting, because they believe voter fraud is a substantial problem. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 64 percent of Likely U.S. Voters rate voter fraud at least a somewhat serious problem in the United States today, and just 24 percent disagree. This includes 35 percent who consider it a very serious problem and 7 percent who view it as not at all serious. Twelve percent are undecided, according to Rasmussen. The voter ID issue has been a hot-button topic in South Carolina, which has vowed to fight for a voter ID requirement after the U.S. Department of Justice struck down the state's law mandating IDs at the polls. Opponents say voter ID …
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stanley seigler
1:58 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Wounded Warrior: "Is popular vote wrong?? certainly not...voterID laws discourage the popular vote... re: lets get together and design a fingerprint voting system that can be verified nationally [mimi say] a similar idea 'REAL ID Act' (a GOP idea) was enacted 2005...As of October 2009, 25 states (including SC) have approved either resolutions or binding legislation not to participate in the … more ›