http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/14/god-help-the-working-man-guns-and-fetuses-session Comments On: God help the working man, Guns and Fetuses Session by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Hombre]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:54:16 -0600 Arkansas Times
In the past dozen years or so there have only been a handful of federally prosecuted cases nationwide of such voter impersonation fraud. On a national level!

I think the penalty if you are caught is up to 5 years in jail and up to a $10,000 fine. And if you manage to get away with the crime, you have added one vote in an election whose outcome may or may not hinge on that one vote. Or you could hope to get multiple people to engage in voter impersonation fraud and hope none of them get caught and none of them have too much to drink some night and brag as drunks are known to do.

No, voter impersonation is a lousy way to try to steal an election, even a local one. Far too much risk for far too little reward. Better to wirelessly change votes in an electronic voting machine as computer scientists have proven can be easily done. We have far more to fear from electronic voting machines that don't leave an auditable trail- and don't get audited randomly following elections where we could catch such massive fraud. That's where the Herr Karl Roves of the world steal elections.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:51:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
Jake, while I see your comment that there has been no real show of voter ID fraud, is it not reasonable to believe it does happen at times and that both parties are guilty? Isn't that why the first Iraqi election required voters to dip their fingers in blue ink to prevent fraud? Most of my professional life has been spent designing fraud-detection software so perhaps I'm biased towards a more secure system.

SP, FYI, I'm not a fulltime landlord, I'm still employed in the government medical field. I work about 60 hours a week between the two, so I understand what you mean about "free time."
Posted by Slingerland]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:22:26 -0600 Arkansas Times
And they have wasted 1 of the two months they have to meet. We need them to take one of those 37 proposed Constitutional amendments and have it read to meet for 10 days every 2 years and any effort beyond that will not be compensated for and in addition, no per diem and no milage. Maybe some of these "citizens" will actually go and get a real job instead of being a professional socialist teat sucker. And they worry about someone on the pitiful low amount this state pays in welfare!!!
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:36:08 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:51:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:30:58 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:47:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
Poll Tax was the Southern Democrats caging technique in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the Supreme Court overturned its previous ruling in 1966. Now the new South's ex-Dixiecrats dominance has devised a new caging technique of photo id to defeat that most terrible of voter fraud, aka beating Republicans.
Posted by dottholliday]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:37:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
Loser income folks, many of whom don't own cars because we pay them a miserably low wage, would have to be able to get somewhere by taxi, bus, borrowed vehicle, family member, etc. And this so-called "free voter ID" may itself be free, but what if you have to pay to get a copy of your birth certificate or other required document before you could go stand in yet another line someplace else to get that "free voter ID"? And what if you work for a living and can't just take off whenever you have personal errands to run, like say a landlord? I assume you don't consider your time as valuable. You realize most Arkansans don't have the luxury of time you and I have, don't you?
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:26:49 -0600 Arkansas Times
What I'm asking is something like this: so far as I can research, any government benefit... whether Social Security, SNAP, WICS, TANF, Medicare... requires an ID. As far as I can tell. So I'm wondering where all the "poor people without IDs" are.

It's a legitimate question.
Posted by Slingerland]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:25:44 -0600 Arkansas Times
Social Security is the return to us of our withheld income during our entire working lives.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:15:11 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_…

"I suspect Rep. Rapert's vettery of legal scholars was chaired by the renowned Professor Otto Yerass of Doug's Law School And Live Bait Barn in Russellville.
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:10:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:39:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
Where did these people go to school-NoLiberty University?
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:58:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's a Republican specialty. Provide more government interference into the rights and privileges of US citizens -- not for the sake of the country, but for the sake of their party.

Republicans: born paranoid, living paranoid, dying paranoid.
Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:51:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
Of course they haven't produced any because there is none, but as we have seen this session Republicans don't actually need evidence or science for any BS law they want to pass.
Hell even when you point out that they are wrong or that their legislation will do more harm (like making abortions harder to get means in the end middle class and upper class Baptist/Catholic women can still get their abortions. OR the harder you make it for a Doctors who perform abortions there are less OBGYNs trained in abortions (D&Es) which means that as we move along there will be less and less OBGYNs who will be experianced in performing D&Es whoich are necessary after a good amount of miscarriages. This means women will die, but whats a few women as long as THE BABIES are OK.) then good they don't care because JESUS and THOSE OTHER PEOPLE and THE BABIES.


Seriously I just don't understand how "prolife" folks can not see what there are doing to women's health care in this country.
Posted by the real any*mouse but login hates me]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:13:11 -0600 Arkansas Times
They could shorten the title to - "The Fred Smith Act".
Posted by radical centrist]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:09:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by PVNasby]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:48:07 -0600 Arkansas Times
My mother had to produce a birth certificate and DL to get her Social Security. Social Security is rarely paid by check, but by direct deposit... and to get a bank account she had to produce a SS card and driver's license.

So I mean this as an honest question because I don't know... how does a poor person get government benefits without providing an ID? Or are we talking about people who have no benefits?

Sign me confused...
Posted by Slingerland]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:22:37 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by springdale_liberal]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:09:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
Grow a set you wussy! Your constituents probably wish a grownup was representing them, or that the guy representing them acted grownup.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:58:27 -0600 Arkansas Times