Concerns about not doing enough to reach out to rural voters in days before the election. In our first 45 minutes. We want to hear from those of you who consider yourselves in a rural community. You tell us what your message to washington might be in light of this last election. Heres how you can give us a call you can tell us where you are and post on our twitter page. You can do the same on our facebook page. To begin, how do you find rural . A couple of definitions saying that are 15. Rural areas are anyplace with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants not located adjacent to an urban area. Anyplace outside of the urban cluster with more than 2500 residents. Those are working definitions. You can use them as a guide. If you live in those communities outside of urban areas, you are in a rural area, and you want to tell us a message to washington you can post on our twitter page and our facebook page. Npr took a poll of some of those voters and how they voted in this past election. They showed
Well i didnt vote because i didnt have an idea but i also wasnt registered. So is that a person who isnt voting because they were not registered or voting because they didnt have an id . But even even if you give them the menu, like tuna, the weather was bad, they didnt like the candidates, only about, i dont know, 7 of nonvoters say a lack of i. T. At least in indiana, this was the case in 2008 only about 7 of the voters say that was one of the many possible issues that they have, so i suspect that there are not that many folks who are out there. There was so much as currencies and so much coverage on both sides repeating charges of bipartisan toadeater voter fraud or Voter Suppression that you have to think it entered the public consciousness and perhaps had ann impact on the turnout for the life of me i do not know what direction that was petraeus and attwell, for West Virginia and i know that we had a total identification fogle i. T. Bill introduced in march, and that did have rami
Asked to talk about what va. West wets what West Virginia does. West virginia does have identification laws and many of them follow what many other states to as far as when it comes to the health of america voted act. I will give you a brief of what it takes. Since we had our discussions today, this is a very bad thing from what i am understanding. I am trying to get rid of this in West Virginia. This is your mail in Voter Registration application. This costs about 6 and i would like to be able to have online registration. The help america vote act if you register by mail and not provide some kind of photo identification, you have to provide that by mailing it in or the first time ago but, you need to show that identification of who you are or if you go in person to the clerks office, you show identification for showing a copy of the utility bill or other government document that shows your name and current residence address. We require that in West Virginia and when you go to go in We
Let me start maybe with secretary husted. Photo i. D. To register but only a signator sigget to vote. Is there a signature to vote. Is there a problem with that . There are a dozen of ways, as long as its accepted within your state. If you can get political peace within your state and people can generally agree what the rules are. Thats why i love the title, balance. Its a balance. Every time that you add something that makes it easier to vote, then you have to balance that with something that also makes it secure. That is in the and the more secure you make it you need to make sure youre not denying access. I think its a formula that is that needs to be accepted state to state. There are any number of ways you can do this. I made a proposal on when photo i. D. Was being discussed in ohio and it had the value of being ignored by both Political Parties because its they wanted what they wanted. They didnt want what was a balance, and so there are any number of ways you could do this. Its
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