NEW YORK (AP) - The NAACP is joining with minority and labor groups for a series of protests around the country meant to move discussion of voter-identification laws out of policy circles and onto street corners, the organization's president said Tuesday.[Mobocracy]

Benjamin Todd Jealous appeared on the steps of New York City Hall with the Rev. Al Sharpton, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel and community and labor leaders to announce plans for nationwide protests on Dec. 10 and across the South in the following weeks, decrying what they described as a nationwide voter-suppression effort.

[Yes! We want the number of illegal voters to be LESS during elections. And that's a 'bad' thing?]

The rallies are "intended to get this conversation out of the thought-leader class [elected public servants] and down to the street corners,[where OWS type eat, deficate and sleep.] so folks understand that their rights are being attacked," Jealous said, adding that the NAACP had already raised millions of dollars to support its campaign. He said his group has been urging the Department of Justice, which is considering the legality of proposed policies in Texas and South Carolina, to block the [legitimate ID Proof voter] laws.

"This is the greatest assault on voting rights, happening right now, that we have seen since the dawn of Jim Crow," he said.[A racist remark.]

Kansas, Tennessee and Wisconsin are among the states that passed voter-identification measures this year. Civil-rights advocates [idiots] have argued the laws target low-income and minority voters by requiring specific types of photo ID to cast ballots, by reducing the number of early voting days and by instituting tougher laws on collecting registrations. [If you do NOT have an easy to get ID then... voting must not be that important to you. Or... do you just wanna vote under a whole big fat mess of other names?? No wonder the libs support "NO ID Required" stance. Pigs.]

They say that blacks, Hispanics, senior citizens, people with disabilities and the poor are less likely to have the required photo IDs.
And they argue others could be disenfranchised, such as voters who don't bring ID with them, students whose school IDs are deemed unacceptable, and women whose drivers' licenses do not reflect their married names or new addresses. [Well *** Hats! You have a year to get all 'Ready'ied UP!]

Supporters of the laws say that they are necessary to eliminate voter fraud, no matter how rare it is. And some argue that without ID checks at the polls, there's no way to track exactly how many people may be casting illegal votes. [And this is what has Libs in a twist!!! Flip'en cons!]

"I'm not sure how much fraud they think is acceptable," said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. "The U.S. has a long history of voter fraud, and it could make the difference in a close election."

Tuesday's announcement came on a day that voters in Mississippi were deciding whether to require government-issued identification at the polls. Voters in Maine were considering whether to repeal a law that eliminated same-day voter registration. Last week, Democrats in the U.S. House asked secretaries of state in all 50 states to oppose voter-identification laws. [The only way they can win anything in the next election is by Voter Fraud/Crime. Watch and see.]

The United Federation of Teachers,
the health care workers' union 1199SEIU,
National Council of La Raza and
the Asian-American Legal Defense Fund
were among the groups represented at Tuesday's news conference. George Gresham, the president of 1199SEIU, said that his organization would bus 10,000 of its members from around the state and the mid-Atlantic region to participate in the Dec. 10 protests.

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The Democrat Party Motto: "Crimes 'R' Us!!'

I think its just as reasonable as mandatory health care, to be honest

those who dont wish to vote (and more dont vote than do) wont have to worry about ID

so long as we dont go to a police state where id is required to walk down the street,, I dont think its too much to see ID at the polls, although I would be curious to see how they would stop those same people who go through the trouble of voter fraud now to just get fake ids....

I dont think it will diminish fraud at all, I do think it will discourage millions of people who would otherwise find no need for a government ID and millions more who dont have schedules that will allow them to get to the polls (And stand in even longer lines) just one day out of the year

taking off early voting and sunday voting will be the most detrimental changes, and the most unwise,,,

but hey, whatever generates some more revenue,,,