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to give you a sense of the political nature of how precisely these laws seem to target certain voters, governor perry in texas just signed a law saying that you can no longer use your university of texas i.d. to vote, but you can use your gun license. that s the kind of political gamesmanship that, unfortunately, is pervading this thing. nobody wants fraud. only eligible people should be able to vote, but my goodness, we ought to be able to come up a way to require i.d. that people actually have. let me ask you about another one because i know that efforts for community organizations to engage in voter registration are also contemplated to be curtailed. now, you raise this issue and you hear people say that s justified because what about a.c.o.r.n. in the last cycle. your response? folks may not know this but a.c.o.r.n. is out of business and there are safeguards that prevent, even when there s a problem with the name of a person being registered, they actually can t vote. mickey m
know, having had this conversation with my radio audience, many people say, well wait a minute, i show a photo i.d. for every aspect of my life. why shouldn t i show some level of identification to go vote? well, and, of course, voting is a right and we want to treat that extra special. it s different than going and renting a video, but the fact is i actually don t have a problem with voter i.d. i have a problem with requiring forms of i.d. that people don t v.there are all kinds of ways of people showing who they are, but to give you a sense of the political nature of how precisely these laws seem to target certain voters, governor perry in texas just signed a law saying that you can no longer use your university of texas i.d. to vote, but you can use your gun license. that s the kind of political gamesmanship that, unfortunately, is pervading this thing. nobody wants fraud. only eligible people should be able to vote, but my goodness, we ought to be able to come up a way to require