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[brynndragon]

From the you-can-never-have-too-much-good-news department:

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, Rummy

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[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Certain types of identification requirements are effectively poll taxes.

Last year, Georgia was blocked in U.S. District Court from attempting to enforce it's voter identification program. Among other provisions, it would have required people that did not have a government issued identification (such as a driver's license or a passport) to spend $20 for a five-year special identity card, only available at Department of Motor Vehicles offices. (Georgians can use one of several other methods of identification when challenged at a polling station.) There were a limited number of DMV offices (not even one for every county and none in Atlanta) and the special identification cards required a birth certificate, which many poor and minority citizens don't have. (Hurm. I just realized that I don't know where mine is. That will probably require a few phone calls since the hospital where I was born is currently rubble.) At the time it was being argued, officials in charge of Georgia elections admitted that there hadn't been a proven case of voter fraud in over a decade.