thank you. there s something i don t understand about this that means there isn t an incredible double standard here on voting rules. let me make a technical point first. while we certainly do allow people to register to vote then vote in the caucus tomorrow, anybody who registers tomorrow will have to show a photo i.d. there s talk about people who are just going to be republicans for a day. people who are independents, democrats, who will register to put in a no preference, no choice, vote for a different candidate to change the outcome. this could be a democratic version of what rush limbaugh talked about doing in operation chaos in the obama/clinton p prima primary. sorry, just to be clear to register, but not to actually cast a vote? exactly. but to register to vote, you ll have to show a photo i.d. if you are worried about a reverse operation chaos, is there anything about showing an i.d. to register that would stop that? no, i don t think so.
excitement on our side. we ll see as we start the process. doug heye. veteran conservati strategist and a man who can get the anti-obama talking point into any totally unrelated discussion with admirable efficiency, doug. i always enjoy talking to you. rachel, that s the nicest thing anybody said to me. let me point out one thing very, very quickly. when i voted last year in washington, d.c., they asked me for my i.d. if you want to come down with me next time, we can make sure that great travesty is corrected, i ll be happy to stand with you. you and me will stand there and make sure the elderly people in tennessee who lost their licenses have to go through rigmarole. we ll have a road tour. we go to david yepsen who covered iowa politics for more than 30 years at the des moines register he s the director of the paul simon institute at southern illinois university.
course not everyone has. the party decided for its caucuses it would not require that. see, in the state of iowa in a general election, you re not banned from voting if you don t show a government issued photo i.d. in iowa you can show a non-driver i.d. card or student i.d. or something else that proves where you live like a bill or piece of mail. if you have none of those things, another registered voter can vouch for you, say you are who you are. that s how it works including in iowa for statewide elections. vote is your right as a citizen. there are not supposed to be arbitrary or prejudicial bureaucratic barriers to exercise that right. if you re elderly and no longer have a driver s license or don t have a photo i.d., that s no crime, that shouldn t interfere with your constitutional rights. if you re in the category, the decision by the iowa republican party about how you re running the caucus tomorrow, means you without a photo i.d. can still caucus for your candidate ifn iowa t
in the state legislature have been trying to change the rules. to ensure that when there are democratic candidates on the ballot and democratic voters turning out to vote for them, well, then they d like to get a little bit stricter about who s allowed to vote. that was the main issue of my campaign. you have to show an i.d. before you get on an airplane, open a checking account, even to buy a beer. why not when you vote? the right to buy a beer is not enshrined in the constitution. i haven t founded my own country yet. voting is enshrined in the constitution. coming up with a new rule about what you have to do to do allowed to vote is a big constitutional deal. the man you saw describing that there is iowa s republican secretary of state. in charge of elections in iowa. his name is matt shultz. when he ran for office in 2010, he made it his crusade to institute strict new voter i.d. laws in iowa. last year, republicans in the iowa house passed a bill that
excitement on our side. we ll see as we start the process. of winnowing down that field exactly what the number will be tomorrow but we re excited. doug heye, veteran conservative strategist and a man who can get the anti-obama talking point into any totally unrelated discussion with admirable efficiency, doug. i always enjoy talking to you. rachel? yeah? that s the nicest thing anybody said to me. let me point out one thing very, very quickly. when i voted last year in washington, d.c., they asked me for my i.d. if you want to come down with me next time, we can make sure that great travesty is corrected, i ll be happy to stand with you. you and me will stand there and make sure the elderly people in tennessee who lost their licenses have to go through rigmarole. we ll have a road tour. we go to david yepsen who covered iowa politics for more than 30 years at the des moines