A discussion between Hillary Clinton’s campaign advisers about voter registration laws led to a remarkable quip made by John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman.
“On the picture ID, the one thing I have thought of in that space is that if you show up on Election Day with a driver’s license with a picture, attest that you are a citizen, you have a right to vote in federal elections,” said Podesta.
And in context, Podesta’s remark came perilously close to suggesting U.S. residents could vote with a driver’s license — no need to complicate things by using databases that could check U.S. citizenship.
Read the rest to see how Podesta's comments fit into the email chain and why it is of concern. Read at Polizette
Hey John:
You are in the United States of America not Cuba, Russia or N. Korea.
If you like socialism/communism so much go live there.
Lets see citizenship verification
Watch it John, you could wind up in jail pulling dishonest tricks like this.
And John, no dead people either.
Have the dignity of respecting those that have passed on.
Even if it takes a while to verify who is a citizen so be it!
You low life demorats don’t ever want to play fair.
Again, this is America and not some 3rd world hell hole country where they use every illegal trick in the book to get a candidate elected.
Not gonna happen John!
The disgusting democrats think a death certificate or deportation papers give them a right to vote. 🙁
Eagleseven: I do not think the elites of either party, want our nation to become “third world” but they believe that ONLY they know how to make us a nation of loving people that takes care of everyone in the world. And, in doing so, THEY, the Elites (and, yes, academics and pols, etc) will have total power and control over we, the People. And, in their proud, egotistical “thinking”, they are DEAD wrong.
That dinner last night was to honor a former Tammany Hall corrupt 4 time governor of NY and a 4 time Democrat presidential candidate….. His only honorable trait was that he opposed his buddy FDR’s alphabet soup New Deal. Trump was invited to be roasted……. Shrillery got nasty………
What does anyone expect from liberal idiots, who feel its ok that if you ‘attest’ that you are a guy when you are physically and genetically a gal, its what everyone has to treat you as..
And dumbocRATs are giving drivers licenses to illegals
And why do you think that is, if NOT to fraudulently STEAL elections by flooding them with millions of NON legal voters…
And what political party has absolutely no problem giving illegals (and just about anyone else for that matter) access to a driver’s license? In case you don’t know it’s the party whose symbol is a jackass. How apropos.
Yes, but don’t forget, the RINOs are in the same bag, too.
I wonder how many illegals from El Salvador can get a driver’s in Mexico? Hmmm…..
And that is why i keep saying ALL law abiding state needs to send eltters to the governors of ALL states which DO allow the giving of drivers licenses to illegal invaders saying
[“Cause you are willing to ignore the constitution and federal law in giving of photographic ID to illegal immigrants, which by the presence of such ‘state issued id’ means they can now enjoy benefits once restricted to LEGAL residents and citizens, OUR state will no longer follow the rule of law saying we have to give ‘full faith and credence’ to ids of ANY SORT from your state.”]
Trying to get states to issue drivers licenses to illegal aliens, illegal to begin with, then allowing them to self attest that they are eligible to vote, that will never pass the smell test. Crooked Hillary will do anything she can get away with to steal this election. Trump is never even suspected of this kind of illegal activity.
I concur. The driver’s license is supposed to be an indication that the person driving understands the laws and knows HOW to drive. Those licenses are NOT designed for personal citizenship ID.
Goldminer
But they are used for ID every where , that is why the Dem’s wanted the motor voter law! They intended to use it all along .
Which to me is why the ONLY Photo ID that should be valid for voting is a US PASSPORT.. Since all the rest, are eligible to be given to those just here on a legal visa, or green card etc.. Even those in the military don’t absolutely have to be US citizens, ergo a Mil ID card si not proof of citizenship…
Ituser, The cost of a US passport is $90.00 for the photo card and over $100.00 for the book passport. Plus you have to make an appointment to apply for one, and wait 6 weeks to receive it. everify is the only realistic option.
Yes they do cost, but they are also good for 10 years (unlike most drivers licenses which are usually good for 4), and as i said, the ONLY Sure fire way to prove you are a US citizen.
Yikes, that was my fear when I saw voter registration included on my CA drivers license renewal form. Not long ago illegal migrants were granted the drivers license here. The voter registration form included a warning that registering when not qualified is illegal. So what’s to stop illegal migrants from registering and not being caught? Not a lot, I fear, because of the man/woman hours required to check those applications against DHS databases and I’m not confident the CA DMV would do so. There’s a huge incentive for illegals to vote in candidates who support pro-immigrant policies that fund healthcare, education, immigration law, etc. Voter registration should NEVER have been linked to the drivers license- there’s just too big a chance for circumventing voter registration law. Someone on CNET blasted me yesterday for this opinion, stating that those voter registration applications are processed through the State Dept. so my opinion is incorrect. So my question to that rude man is how does he know those apps will ever get to the State Dept., huh? The two processes should be un-linked and soon to avoid the possibility of voter fraud.
Especially when we see time after time, CA not punishing those who DO commit fraud..
THE argument for voter-id right there!
Texas had an idea which would have possibly implemented it (albeit it wasn’t actually designed as voter-id) use different orientation (portrait for non-citizens, landscape for citizens) for DLs/IDs issued to citizens vs non-citizens (edit: this was in addition to since-2001 post-facto laws which fix expiry-date of DLs/IDs issued to temporary non-immigrant visa-holders to the expiry-date of the visa). IMO, this should have been pushed and the other 49 States also adopted it (FYI, the Old Dominion should have used this rather than indicating driver’s age through licence-orientation)!
I love that idea Sjini..
baitfish: I do not know if that is the cost or not. I always got a Passport through my employment and my wife’s I do not recall being $190. But, I could be wrong. For much of my career, our military ID card was all we needed to go virtually anywhere. That did change for the family in the 1980s but it was still easy to get the Passport.
OK, pop quiz. What does one need to register to vote in Federal Elections?
Answer: Two things
1)A drivers license.
2)To sign a Federal form that attests that yes, you are an American citizen.
Over ten states now issue drivers licenses to known illegal aliens. Oh yeah, the drivers licenses do not have any printing that identifies the license holder as being an illegal alien. That would be profiling, don’t you know?
Now comes election day and the illegal alien shows up to vote at the designated voting district. He or she marks the ballot for the Democrat candidate and puts the ballot into the voting machine reader.
No one is allowed to ask the illegal alien a question. The Illegal alien does not have to understand one word of English. All he or she needs to do is state his or her name to the person with the voter registration journal.
Interesting facts about the legality of such fraudulent voting behavior.
It is NOT against the law to fraudulently register to vote in the next election. It IS against the law to fraudulently vote in a Federal election but it is impossible to get evidence to charge the person committing the crime.
Remember, no one is allowed to ask any questions of the illegal alien at the polling place.
The American voting system is the laughingstock of the world!
If our pols would just enforce the laws!
I liked Trump’s idea about term limits and no lobbying! That is a GOOD start to get rid of the swamp in DC.
But, they’ll probably go back to their states and deepen the swamp there.