The following is a response to a email from a professional group I belong to.
Dear Fred
I looked at the video you suggested and outside of accusations, symbolic or verbal, didn’t see anything that would explain what it was about.
I then went to UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 16-1468 http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/161468.P.pdf to find out what it was all about.
1. Photo ID’s are at the center of this discussion,
2. Same day registration and early voting are additional areas of disagreement.
What impressed me is that we have technology to solve both of them. We have inexpensive cameras, and printers and the software to compare faces. Why not use this to allow to anyone to vote anywhere once. Each time you vote your picture is taken and the software compares it to all other voters within a 500(?) mile radius. If you voted more than once, the time stamp, the GPS stamp and the picture prove it and stiff jail sentences are involved. The picture and your registration can be checked against the facts against you as further corroboration.
This might be a bit expensive, but is clearly doable and would save the incredibly expensive lawyers, court time, and fact gathering going on today. Don’t understand why Democrats and Republicans alike can’t agree or envision with such a solution.
The merits of the case itself are murky, people who vote weeks before the election clearly have the time to get photo id’s that are readily available. Same day registration by people too lazy or uncaring to do it earlier seem to be the population that may be adversely affected.
This looks like another way to divide our nation by making everyone suspect the motives of everyone else.
Leon
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 07:48:27 -0400
> From: FRED
> Subject: Video concerning voting rights in NC
>
> This was produced a couple of weeks ago the Moral Monday movement
> documentarian Eric Preston of Fusion Films. In light of yesterday's Supreme
> Court decision to deny the Governor's request to reinstate the voting
> restrictions that the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to be deliberate
> discrimination against minority voters in North Carolina, it is worth taking
> a look at this today.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4pHgCNXU3g
1. Photo ID’s are at the center of this discussion,
2. Same day registration and early voting are additional areas of disagreement.
What impressed me is that we have technology to solve both of them. We have inexpensive cameras, and printers and the software to compare faces. Why not use this to allow to anyone to vote anywhere once. Each time you vote your picture is taken and the software compares it to all other voters within a 500(?) mile radius. If you voted more than once, the time stamp, the GPS stamp and the picture prove it and stiff jail sentences are involved. The picture and your registration can be checked against the facts against you as further corroboration.
This might be a bit expensive, but is clearly doable and would save the incredibly expensive lawyers, court time, and fact gathering going on today. Don’t understand why Democrats and Republicans alike can’t agree or envision with such a solution.
The merits of the case itself are murky, people who vote weeks before the election clearly have the time to get photo id’s that are readily available. Same day registration by people too lazy or uncaring to do it earlier seem to be the population that may be adversely affected.
This looks like another way to divide our nation by making everyone suspect the motives of everyone else.
Leon
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 07:48:27 -0400
> From: FRED
> Subject: Video concerning voting rights in NC
>
> This was produced a couple of weeks ago the Moral Monday movement
> documentarian Eric Preston of Fusion Films. In light of yesterday's Supreme
> Court decision to deny the Governor's request to reinstate the voting
> restrictions that the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to be deliberate
> discrimination against minority voters in North Carolina, it is worth taking
> a look at this today.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4pHgCNXU3g
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