Regardless of who you intend to vote for, this year's attempted suppression of the vote by Republicans and alleged registration of 1 million Dick Tracy's in each swing state by Democrats has to bother you.

We are (allegedly) a representitive Democracy, which means th power is supposed to land in our hands. Why don't we put that power to good use, and do something to curtail these possibilities in the future. I know there are more ways than this, but there are 3 simple things we could lobby our representitives in government for that would help in the next race;


Make it illegal for the parties or 527s or other politically allied bodies to fund registration drives, especially those that pay a "bounty" for registering people loyal to the party funding the registration campaign.
A complete elimination of non-governmental registration would be best.
Require that the person registering be given a receipt of their registration, complete with the name and address of the person registering and the company the registrar represents.
Require that a government issued photo ID be presented at both the time of registration and at the polling places. Surprizingly few states require this.
What do you think?

please stop spamming the lounge

I agree. I would also like to administer a very easy test. Like you have to know the nations capital, and some other easy **** just to weed out the complete dip****s.

well, according to data about base groups, that would affect the Repugnicans worse than the dems. What with the religious whackjob angle, barely hidden racism and rampant homophobia, they have a large base of po white trash.

uhhh stupid guy says... you look like white trash, why arent you for bush?

vb? hello? where are you?

Regardless of who you intend to vote for, this year's attempted suppression of the vote by Republicans and alleged registration of 1 million Dick Tracy's in each swing state by Democrats has to bother you.

We are (allegedly) a representitive Democracy, which means th power is supposed to land in our hands. Why don't we put that power to good use, and do something to curtail these possibilities in the future. I know there are more ways than this, but there are 3 simple things we could lobby our representitives in government for that would help in the next race;


Make it illegal for the parties or 527s or other politically allied bodies to fund registration drives, especially those that pay a "bounty" for registering people loyal to the party funding the registration campaign.
A complete elimination of non-governmental registration would be best.
Require that the person registering be given a receipt of their registration, complete with the name and address of the person registering and the company the registrar represents.
Require that a government issued photo ID be presented at both the time of registration and at the polling places. Surprizingly few states require this.
What do you think?

Not bad ideas, although I think the political parties should be able to sponsor voter registration drives. I definately agree with the showing ID's at the polls part. You dont have to show **** to vote in California, or at least where I live in San diego. This bothers me because of the amount of illegals around here and the potential for voter fraud.

dude, get over it.

when i went to the polls, the only thing that the workers did was ask me for my ID because i'm a first time voter. nobody tried to influence me in any way. I was in and out in about 10 minutes.