Ahead of its 2012 GOP presidential primary, South Carolina is under fire for having enacted a voter identification law that would require citizens to show poll workers a photo ID before voting. (You know-sort of like having to pay a poll tax and prove your ancestors came over on the Mayflower.) The law is intended to curb voter fraud, which is more prevalent in South Carolina and other southern states and states with relatively small populations. Some states' historically corrupt local governments and proximity to the Mexican border have yielded a disproportionate incidence of voter-impersonation fraud, including non-citizens voting, ex-felons voting, and dead people voting. Small populations increase the influence that a handful of invalid votes can have on a precinct's outcome. Seven states besides South Carolina require a government-issued photo ID to vote: Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Kansas. Seven additional states require a simple photo ID: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan, South Dakota, Idaho, and Hawaii. Three states passed photo ID laws in 2011 but were blocked by their governors' vetoes. Sixteen other states require non-photo identification.
So South Carolina isn't exactly doing something new and different. Meanwhile, the Obama camp has been riling up its base by accusing Republicans of trying to disenfranchise minorities. Last month the Obama Justice Department blocked South Carolina's attempts to implement its law, claiming that the statute violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965-the first time the Department has interfered with a state's voter ID requirements since 1994. The Department is also taking its sweet time approving Texas's recently passed voter ID law. On Monday, Attorney General and chief racial instigator Eric Holder ginned up the controversy again at a Martin Luther King rally in Columbia, South Carolina.
Democrats use this tired old tactic time and again: Take a perfectly neutral, fair-minded policy whose originators don't consider or mention race in the slightest, then twist it to make it look as though people who support it are bigots. College admissions committees should be color-blind? Racist. Black firefighters should pass the same test as white and Hispanic firefighters? Racist. Voters should produce photo IDs before they vote? Racist. Opponents of the law argue that, since getting a photo ID costs money, the voter ID requirement constitutes an illegal poll tax. Never mind that it's free to get a state-issued ID in South Carolina, and that Governor Nikki Haley has supplied taxpayer-funded, free carpools to take people to pick up their free IDs at the DMV.
There is a lot of circumstantial and in some cases, very questionable evidence that Iran may have or be developing a nuclear weapon, the real and provable facts are very thin and do not back up the claims made by the Western world about the supposed nuclear stance of this Persian powerhouse. Iran has stated that it's Supreme Leader has issued a Fatwa, religious decree, against the country developing or using Nuclear Weapons, and as the entire country tends to follow these decrees, there is no real reason to think that Iran would be secretly developing a nuclear weapon program when it's Religious leaders have said 'No'. Based on historical documents, Israel has tended to be the aggressor in most of the middle east conflicts it has been involved in against other nation-states. Launching preemptive strikes and invading before the other nation has a chance to really do anything, Israeli troops have managed to dominate their corner of the Arabian peninsula for the past 50 years.
Different groups sprung from the Niger-delta states all agitating for more funds to be spent developing their region especially after the devastation caused by oil exploration companies. A few of the groups became militant adopting tactics ranging from kidnapping of oil company workers to blowing up of oil installations.
In response to these ridiculous criticisms, state legislatures have bent over backwards to make it easy for voters to get IDs. In addition to Nikki Haley's Chauffer Service, the Indiana law allows voters without IDs at the voting booth to cast provisional ballots, so long as they bring their ID cards back or get new ones in the next 10 days, or else signed a statement saying they can't afford one. Are Democrats insinuating that African Americans can't fill out the required forms?
The country had experienced numerous military coups between independence and her 40th anniversary with the army generals from the northern part of the country being the major beneficiaries. It was the worst kept secret that leadership was an opportunity to enrich self and channel the bulk of state funds to developmental projects in one's part of the country. When politicians came to power, a quota system of governance was written into most political party's constitution but with the growing number of ethnic groups from the south seeking to be part of the power sharing arrangement, the northern neighbours who had become accustomed to power had to wait longer to take control of the country's wealth. This new arrangement was not welcomed by some northern elite.
So South Carolina isn't exactly doing something new and different. Meanwhile, the Obama camp has been riling up its base by accusing Republicans of trying to disenfranchise minorities. Last month the Obama Justice Department blocked South Carolina's attempts to implement its law, claiming that the statute violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965-the first time the Department has interfered with a state's voter ID requirements since 1994. The Department is also taking its sweet time approving Texas's recently passed voter ID law. On Monday, Attorney General and chief racial instigator Eric Holder ginned up the controversy again at a Martin Luther King rally in Columbia, South Carolina.
Democrats use this tired old tactic time and again: Take a perfectly neutral, fair-minded policy whose originators don't consider or mention race in the slightest, then twist it to make it look as though people who support it are bigots. College admissions committees should be color-blind? Racist. Black firefighters should pass the same test as white and Hispanic firefighters? Racist. Voters should produce photo IDs before they vote? Racist. Opponents of the law argue that, since getting a photo ID costs money, the voter ID requirement constitutes an illegal poll tax. Never mind that it's free to get a state-issued ID in South Carolina, and that Governor Nikki Haley has supplied taxpayer-funded, free carpools to take people to pick up their free IDs at the DMV.
There is a lot of circumstantial and in some cases, very questionable evidence that Iran may have or be developing a nuclear weapon, the real and provable facts are very thin and do not back up the claims made by the Western world about the supposed nuclear stance of this Persian powerhouse. Iran has stated that it's Supreme Leader has issued a Fatwa, religious decree, against the country developing or using Nuclear Weapons, and as the entire country tends to follow these decrees, there is no real reason to think that Iran would be secretly developing a nuclear weapon program when it's Religious leaders have said 'No'. Based on historical documents, Israel has tended to be the aggressor in most of the middle east conflicts it has been involved in against other nation-states. Launching preemptive strikes and invading before the other nation has a chance to really do anything, Israeli troops have managed to dominate their corner of the Arabian peninsula for the past 50 years.
Different groups sprung from the Niger-delta states all agitating for more funds to be spent developing their region especially after the devastation caused by oil exploration companies. A few of the groups became militant adopting tactics ranging from kidnapping of oil company workers to blowing up of oil installations.
In response to these ridiculous criticisms, state legislatures have bent over backwards to make it easy for voters to get IDs. In addition to Nikki Haley's Chauffer Service, the Indiana law allows voters without IDs at the voting booth to cast provisional ballots, so long as they bring their ID cards back or get new ones in the next 10 days, or else signed a statement saying they can't afford one. Are Democrats insinuating that African Americans can't fill out the required forms?
The country had experienced numerous military coups between independence and her 40th anniversary with the army generals from the northern part of the country being the major beneficiaries. It was the worst kept secret that leadership was an opportunity to enrich self and channel the bulk of state funds to developmental projects in one's part of the country. When politicians came to power, a quota system of governance was written into most political party's constitution but with the growing number of ethnic groups from the south seeking to be part of the power sharing arrangement, the northern neighbours who had become accustomed to power had to wait longer to take control of the country's wealth. This new arrangement was not welcomed by some northern elite.
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