Did anyone else have to show ID at their polling place?
No. You can show your voter registration card (mine is so beat up) or just give your name and address.
Doesn't matter that we took him off that boat, Shepherd, it's the place he's going to live from now on.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Nov 04, 2008 4:11:44 pm PST #8809 of 10001
JenP - Nov 04, 2008 4:12:10 pm PST #8810 of 10001
Definitely the first time I was asked for ID to vote.
javachik - Nov 04, 2008 4:12:18 pm PST #8811 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Nope, not in San Bruno, CA.
Kat - Nov 04, 2008 4:12:39 pm PST #8812 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh. I wasn't bothered. I even took my Official Voter Reg Card because I'd moved. They were on the verge of giving me a hard time and I pointed out I had both forms of ID. Then they did the same thing to K later in the day.
dcp - Nov 04, 2008 4:13:04 pm PST #8813 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I have voted in CO, AR, and now MO, and have always had to show photo ID.
Strega, I can't decide between #5 and #8
Kat - Nov 04, 2008 4:14:01 pm PST #8814 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Also, I was getting all bummed because CNN made it look like CO was going to McCain, but the fact that you can go to the county level report, you then notice it's only one county! [link]
Dana - Nov 04, 2008 4:14:19 pm PST #8815 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
With half of the Florida precincts in, Obama is up 52-48.
askye - Nov 04, 2008 4:14:44 pm PST #8816 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I absentee voted but I heard that some college students were turned away in one precient for having their student id, which is valid. The news was telling them to go back and vote if they were turned away.
sarameg - Nov 04, 2008 4:17:10 pm PST #8817 of 10001
Interesting contrast to my brother's demo, I was the only pasty person in line until when I left. Then an old hippy white dude had appeared at the end of the line. Which is on par with my 'hood.
Liese S. - Nov 04, 2008 4:17:17 pm PST #8818 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
We had to show ID, because of a 2004 AZ law. It meant there was an old lady who couldn't stand very well who was disenfranchised because she didn't have a drivers' license and her utility bills were not in her own name. Fucking ID law.
I was worried about ours because our licenses show our po boxes and not our physical addresses, but it was just fine.
They rang a bell whenever a first-time voter checked in and everybody applauded. It was cute and kinda moving, although if I'd been a first-time voter I would totally have tried not to admit it.
I got a sticker, but I was deeply disappointed by the lack of mutton stew and frybread and the actual candidates asking for my vote. I suppose they don't do that in wealthy suburban neighborhoods like they do on the rez. Harumph.