Dayton issued a “mock” veto of the Voter ID Amendment today:
Governor Dayton has ceremoniously vetoed a proposed constitutional amendment that would require people to present a photo ID to vote. Dayton’s veto won’t prevent the measure from going to the voters in November but he said he’s vetoing the bill because the Legislature sent it to him in bill form.
Well, that and to give the DFL a chanting point to put in front of the same gullible Elmers that put him in office in the first place. “Well, heck, Ethel, if da Govner vetoed it, I should vote against it, ya?”
“Ya”.
Dayton says the amendment could disenfranchise thousands of voters, including overseas military members and seniors who are unable to drive.
Although those numbers come from Mark Ritchie, who can’t even count real ballots; how good could he be at counting estimates?
Dayton says ending same-day registration and replacing it with a provisional balloting system could lower the state’s nation-leading voter participation.
And that’s the DFL’s most curious chanting point on elections; the idea that we cart more people to the polls than other states, absent any insurance that those votes have any integrity, is just bizarre. By that measure, the elections in North Korea are the best in the world, since 99+% of North Koreans make it to the polls.
If the ballots themselves have no integrity, the number that get cast is meaningless.
“This amendment is a proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing,” Dayton said. “It goes far beyond its purported intention to require photo identification. Instead it dismantled Minnesota’s best in the nation election system…
…which is sort of like the Minnesota Twins’ “Best In The Nation” first series in Baltimore. Or the Vikings’ “Best In The Nation” 2011 season. Or the Go-Go football team’s “Best In The Big Ten” record last year.
Marks Dayton and Ritchie are going to turn the phrase “Minnesota’s Best In The Nation…” into a synonym for overweening, malignant mediocrity.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/08/DC-Polling-Place-Holder-Ballot
yep no need for photo ID
I went to a relatives house in Wisconsin yesterday for Easter dinner. These relatives are all school teachers and were bitching about Governor Walker. They said its too bad I am not a resident of Wisconsin so I could vote in the recall (they assumed I shared their narrow minded ignorant viewpoint). I replied, “well, since the Democrats blocked Governor Walker’s voter ID law, I can vote in Wisconsin. Early in the morning, I will vote for Governor Walker in (town’s name) as (relative’s name), then go to”…….and listed the towns where they lived and name of each male relative.
Honestly, with all due respect for my relatives, these people are so clueless, I don’t think they understood point I was trying to make about voter ID.
First in the nation in manufactured voters is an indictment of the ignorance of the state. However, if ignorance achieves the desired DFL goals, this dubious indictment miraculously becomes a mandate, right?
We have to remember how things work in ‘Upside Down World – M. Dayton, proprietor.’
Sounds like Dayto is just teeing up another excuse for invalidating all of the absentee ballots of our military members overseas. This time, Bitchie will have cover when he does it!
Not surprising, a “mock” veto by a “mock” Governor.
The talking point that just wont die- ‘including overseas military members’
Every member of the US military on active duty is required to have and carry a photo ID. Every member of the military overseas is required to have said photo ID on them at all times.
Also, every US military member has in his or her unit an appointed Voting Assistance Officer, responsible for implementing the DOD directive that every member of the military will have the ability to vote. Voting assistance officers have the same legal authority as a notary public to sign off on a ballot to certify that the voter provided photo ID.
Anyone who uses the military as an excuse for voting against this amendment is either brainwashed or lacking a brain.
Well, if people are going to do things they don’t have authority to do, I’ll join in and impeach Governor Dayton from office!
My thought about voter ID is that without ID, I can’t get a job,write a check, use a credit card (in some circumstances), rent an apartment, get credit, or any number of other things. Now, do I really want people who can’t get a job or a place to live to….vote?
I tried to veto the congenital idiot, but the Democrats manufactured enough votes to cancel me out.