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Tuesday we had the first election, a bond issue for the City of Phoenix since Prop 200, Voter ID came into effect. You had to present a DL that matched your current address or two non-photo IDs (utility bill, auto registration, etc.) to vote. Voter IDs or Voter Notifications were but one form of non-photo ID. The fly in the ointment was that DMV requires a change of address to be reported in 10 days but, a big but they do not issue a corrected DL (DLs are good till age 65 with 5 year renewals afterward [my 93 year old mother's dead four years and her DL's still good]) unless and until you stand hours in line, pay $5 and request it. The upshot is that many carried, as most do in Phx a DL with an old and therefore illegal address. You could have a valid DL, Voter Notification, be listed in the poll list list and not be allowed to vote! Paperwork is required for their rightful appeal. Military IDs did not qualify!

In a presidential election for example we've all kinds of homeless (the DNC busses in the shelters and half-way houses), German tourists, the clueless, drunk Navajos from New Mexico and allsorts showing up and they're given the dispossible 'Provisional Ballot' to feel good and go away; never an illegal. Instead we spent most of the day filing paperwork on legitimate voters the election board if not the legislature knew were coming and this was only a bond election not a congressional or presidential vote when the the wierdos flock.

What's funny: my precinct votes in a community center, read wellfare dispensary. The parking lot is filled with Chihauhaun and Sonoran plates of people collecting bennies without voting and making no attempt to.
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[dusty]

Sounds like Prop. 200 wasn't too well thought out eh?
But there has to be a way to accomplish this. We have to cut down on voter fraud some kind of way.

Dusty
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