By FITSNews || With S.C. lawmakers returning to the state capitol one last time on Tuesday to take up gubernatorial vetoes, GOP activists are pushing hard for the passage of a voter ID bill that has been blocked by Democrats Senators – four of whom happen to be wearing Republican labels.
In fact, after the SCGOP executive committee called out these four RINO/DICs by name on Saturday, it appears that party activists were emboldened to do the same.
Oh and look, they even added their phone numbers …
Senator Hugh Leatherman – (803) 212-6640
Senator Jake Knotts – (803) 212-6350
Senator Luke Rankin – (803) 212-6132
Senator Billy O’Dell – (803) 212-6040
Hmmmm … wonder if any of those guys Skype?
Rankin maybe?
Anyway, the “voter ID” bill would require citizens to bring a form of picture identification with them to the polls (the horror, we know). It would also establish a sixteen-day early voting period prior to primary and general elections. Republicans support the measure as a means of preventing voter fraud. Democrats oppose it because as David Chappelle once said (about something else), “it’s racial, man, racial.”
Or was that Chris Rock?
In case you’re confused about four Republicans siding with the Democrats, it’s worth noting that the number is usually much higher. Also, Leatherman, O’Dell and Rankin were all Democrats in name, too, prior to switching their party affiliations in 1996, 2001 and 2004, respectively.
Back in January of this year, Democrats filibustered the voter ID bill but agreed to back down temporarily when Republicans offered several key concessions. First, they agreed to delay the implementation of the legislation until 2012. More importantly, they agreed to shell out millions of tax dollars to mount a statewide effort that would determine which registered voters did not have photo IDs – and provide them with those IDs.
Apparently, the compromise didn’t hold …
So will the bill pass Tuesday?
“It’s difficult to say,” SCGOP executive director Joel Sawyer told FITS. “Our activists are ginned up about this and justifiably so. It’s particularly frustrating for them to see a substantial GOP majority – including four self-identified Republicans – who have not acted to end this Democratic filibuster.”
By yarrrr June 28, 2010 at 8:50 pm
I hope Voter ID doesn’t pass… we need a wedge issue to throw these bums out and to agitate the “Democrats for Useful Idiots for Sheheen” crowd…
By debka June 28, 2010 at 9:14 pm
The Democrats need all those illegals to vote now!
Who knows, maybe a few hundred La Raza members will show up election day swinging machetes.
After all, Obama Justice gleefully looked the other way when racist, military-garbed Black Panthers wielded billy clubs and hurled racial epithets at white voters at a Philly polling place.
By Sam June 28, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Voter’s are already required to bring either a sc driver’s license, state issued id or voter registration card. That’s good enough, unless you want to spend millions of tax payer money getting a few thousand people id cards – who probably wont vote anyway. Thank but no thanks. This is another stupid idea plane and simple.
By No Name June 28, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Damn Karen get in the fucking game and do something…..you know Lindsey is ill…..you know Mark is going to appoint Jenny in his place and the 2012 lineup is taking shape….get a Pro up in Greenville and put Haddon back out cutting peoples grass…cause that shit was not authorized.
By Wow June 28, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Sam: I hope you are kidding. The problem comes from people who use the voter registration card of another person to vote a second time. This is particularly common when a younger person uses the registration card of an older, home-bound voter.
By Old Bike Dude June 28, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Sam you are right. Voter fraud is insignificant unless you’re a paranoid asshole without a life who always needs to fear and hate something. Once you present your ID or voters reg card your name is highlighted on the reg voter list and verified by poll workers which consist of reps and dems. Voter ID is just another repub boogey man.
By yarrrr June 28, 2010 at 11:53 pm
“Voter ID is just another repub boogey man.”
Why are democrats scared of boogey men?
By Joe June 29, 2010 at 12:51 am
“Voter fraud is insignificant unless you’re a paranoid asshole without a life who always needs to fear and hate something.”
LOL…spoken like a true vote-stealing, club-wielding, epithet-hurling, chad-hanging, lawsuit-filing, grave-digging Democrat. Too funny….
By Mike at the beach June 29, 2010 at 4:25 am
Precisely; if Voter ID was a meaningless piece of feel-good fluff to pacify the hard right no one would care. Photo ID requirements would make it significantly tougher to use multiple voter registration cards to vote multiple times. You know the old joke- “He carried the Elmwood Precinct by a landslide…”
By EasleyJack June 29, 2010 at 8:14 am
I was asked for a drivers license when I voted recently. Both times.
By Step to the Right June 29, 2010 at 8:41 am
A house divided cannot stand. The real problem is that “we the people” have let the enemy into our schools, our political parties, our media, our faith, and our souls. Wake up people.
All the hate is taking our eyes off the prize of limited government, individual freedoms and the basic concepts of free markets and freedom of speech and religion. Read the Constitution. Read the Bill of Rights. Read some history and ‘learn baby learn!’ The Fourth of July is coming!
By vicupstate June 29, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Can Wow or anyone else provide evidnce of voters using someone’s else’s registration card to vote multiple times in SC?
By Whippersnapper June 29, 2010 at 12:54 pm
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By Wow on June 28th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Sam: I hope you are kidding. The problem comes from people who use the voter registration card of another person to vote a second time. This is particularly common when a younger person uses the registration card of an older, home-bound voter.
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I’m glad this practice is not uncommon. I felt bad when we all came in to SC by bus and then were chaffeured around to different precincts and given a different name to vote under at each precinct. I was surprised when they still allowed me to vote even in the minority of times when I was asked to provide my driver’s license and refused. Toward the end of a very long day I got very tired of voting for Alvin Greene. But the cash “walkin’ around money helped ease my guilty conscious.
By John Schroy June 29, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Well the voter ID is interesting enough, but the big story is the voter fraud provision hidden in Title XII of the Dodd-Frank Act under the pretense of financial reform.
This provision will allow Geithner (or any future Treasury Secretary) to dole out ‘grants’ (taxpayer money that doesn’t have to be paid back) to ACORN-like organizations to make small ‘loans’ to poor people. It also provides funding for them not having to pay back these loans. So here’s how it works. ACORN gets one of these grant programs, gives small loans (wink, wink) to Democratic voters. The Dodd-Frank Act even provides for grants to ACORN-like organization for ‘education’.
For details, see: http://www.capital-flow-watch.net/eespk
By Whippersnapper June 29, 2010 at 2:49 pm
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By vicupstate on June 29th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Can Wow or anyone else provide evidnce of voters using someone’s else’s registration card to vote multiple times in SC?
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Of course not and that’s the beauty of not requiring voter ID. As things are now you don’t need the voter registration card (or other ID) of the person in whose stead you’re voting. You just need to know the name, DOB and address that are on the voter registration list. It also helps to have someone ID names of those folks who rarely vote. Piece of cake! These damn Republicans just want to spoil the fun and limit us to “one man, one vote”!
By Lot to do about nothing June 29, 2010 at 6:30 pm
BISHOPVILLE, SC (WIS) – If you voted for Lee County Council District 4 in Precinct 1, you’ll have to vote all over again. The state Democratic Party Executive Committee threw out the election results in precinct 1 after the precinct ended up with more than 100 percent turnout.
Four-term Lee County Councilman Gordon Eckley conceded the race after the June 8 primary results came in. Eckley lost his reelection bid to matt Bramlett by 73 votes.
“About two in the morning, I couldn’t sleep and I got up and started thinking about it,” said Eckley.
Eckley found out voter turnout at precinct 1 was 107 percent. Of the 242 votes cast at the Bishopville Fire Station, 131 of those were illegal.
“When I saw those numbers, I knew something had to be done,” he said.
Eckley appealed the results to the state Democratic Party’s Executive Committee Saturday. The party looked at the evidence and ordered a new election.
We tried to ask Lee County Election Commission Chair Sidney Broadway what went wrong, with no response. Matt Bramlett also declined to talk with us about the election re-do on-camera Monday. “I’m disappointed, but they made the decision, we’ll have to live with it,” he said in a statement.
“Win or lose, I think it was the right thing to do,” said Eckley. “It’s brought attention that errors were made and for Lee County they need to be corrected as we go forward so that everybody’s vote is heard.”
The state Democratic Party has not set a date for the do-over.
By C20H26N2O June 30, 2010 at 11:32 pm
How can it possible that so many people do not have a picture ID??? Do they really live in this century? How do they get their checks cashed?? And you cannot tell me that they do not get a check. If I was interested in protecting voter fraud, I would make sure the ID bill did not pass. I know exactly what has occured before. I know someone who voted for someone else while they were on vacation – and it wasn’t an absentee ballot.