Originally Posted by
fathergoat
OMG they have rules to make sure only eligible citizens vote! How disenfranchising! Now I'll have to go around ridiculous obstacles such as... 1. making sure I'm properly registered 2. provide a valid ID when going to vote
Fuck, I don't know if I can handle it.
The fact of the matter is it's easy as shit to cast a valid ballot. If you're not retarded and dependant on someone else to do everything for you it's not hard. This is just a standard smear tactic of liberals to convince minorities "the man" is just holding them down.
I really don't want to take a side, I registered to vote this year and had no problem at all. However, your last paragraph implies that because a government worker made a very minor typo (like a misplaced hyphen) and as a result someone's vote won't count - that the person affected, who has proper ID and didn't themselves make any mistakes, is a retard.
No matter a person's stance on those two stories, it most likely won't matter in the end. The GOP may want as few new voters as possible to be at the polls this year (whether some within the GOP have done anything underhanded to assure that I don't know) but enough will have registered regardless.