Tanner explained that “primarily elderly persons” are the ones affected by such laws, but “minorities don’t become elderly the way white people do: They die first.” So anything that “disproportionately impacts the elderly, has the opposite impact on minorities,” he added. “Just the math is such as that.” Video of Tanner’s remarks were posted yesterday by The Brad Blog. We’ve supplied a transcript below.
According to former Department employees, Tanner’s comments were not only wrong, but way off, and typical of the type of decision making in the section. “In trying to defend his decision in the Georgia case, he’s saying things that are frankly ludicrous,” Joe Rich, a forty-year veteran of the Department and Tanner’s predecessor in the voting rights section, told me."

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

So you're whining about Ga making voters actually prove they're citizens...Typical

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

How do you prevent voter fraud?

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5-210 THE ELECTION LAW

8. Upon its receipt by the county board of elections, each application form shall be reviewed and examined by such board.

If the application shall contain substantially all the required information indicating that the applicant is legally qualified to register and/or enroll as stated in his or her application, the county board of elections shall transfer all information on such application to the appropriate registration records.

If requested by any member of the board, the application form of any voter, or group of voters, must be reviewed and examined by two such board members or two employees of the board representing different political parties.

Such members or employees shall place their initials or other identifying information on the registration poll record of such voter or on a computer generated list of such registrations.

Such lists shall be preserved in the same manner, and for the same time, as such registration poll records. If the application indicates that the voter does not have a driver’s license or department of motor vehicles nondriver photo ID number or a social security number, the state board of elections shall, upon the transmission of voter information to the statewide voter registration list as required by section 5-614 of this article, assign such voter a unique identifier.

9. The county board of elections shall, promptly and in any event, not later than twenty-one days after receipt by it of the application, verify the identity of the applicant.

In order to do so, the county board of elections shall utilize the information provided in the application and shall attempt to verify such information with the information provided by the department of motor vehicles, social security administration and any other lawful available information source.

If the county board of elections is unable to verify the identity of the applicant within twenty-one days of the receipt of the
application, it shall immediately take steps to confirm that the information provided by the applicant was accurately utilized by such county board of elections, was accurately verified with other information sources and that no data entry error, or other similar type of error, occurred.

Following completion of the preceding steps, the county board of elections shall mail (a) a notice of its approval, (b) a notice of its approval which includes an indication that such board has not yet been able to verify the identity of the applicant and a request for more information so that such verification may be completed, or (c) a notice of its rejection of the application to the applicant in a form approved by the state board of elections.

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§ 5-702. Voters’ check cards; investigation.

1. The board of elections shall cause a bipartisan team of regular or special employees of such board to conduct an investigation of the qualifications to register and vote, or cause a voter’s check card to be prepared for each voter who was registered after being challenged or who was challenged after registration and, if requested by any member of the board, for any other voter.

The board shall forthwith deliver each such voter’s check card to the head of the police department in the city, town or village in which the voter resides, or, if there be no such police department, to the sheriff or head of the police department of the county.

The board shall make and retain an inventory list of all cards so delivered.

2. The head of the police department or sheriff, forthwith shall cause an investigation to be made to determine, in each instance, whether the registrant resides, and how long he has resided, at the address at which he claims a residence, and to check the facts relating to why the voter was challenged.

Such investigation shall be completed within five days after receipt of such check cards.

Each check card shall be signed with the title or rank, badge number, if any, and signature of the police officer, sheriff or deputy making the investigation, who shall note above such signature whether he personally interviewed the registrant and, if not, the full name of at least one other person whom he personally interviewed at the registrant’s claimed...

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

Well many of the elderly are home bound so they allow mail in registration in many states. You can even select that you do not have an ID or SSAN, and the state will assign a unique number to you.

Next answer.

Orion

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8. Upon its receipt by the county board of elections, each application form shall be reviewed and examined by such board.

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9. The county board of elections shall, promptly and in any event, not later than twenty-one days after receipt by it of the application, verify the identity of the applicant.

In order to do so, the county board of elections shall utilize the information provided in the application and shall attempt to verify such information with the information provided by the department of motor vehicles, social security administration and any other lawful available information source.

If the county board of elections is unable to verify the identity of the applicant within twenty-one days of the receipt of the
application, it shall immediately take steps to confirm that the information provided by the applicant was accurately utilized by such county board of elections, was accurately verified with other information sources and that no data entry error, or other similar type of error, occurred.

Following completion of the preceding steps, the county board of elections shall mail (a) a notice of its approval, (b) a notice of its approval which includes an indication that such board has not yet been able to verify the identity of the applicant and a request for more information so that such verification may be completed, or (c) a notice of its rejection of the application to the applicant in a form approved by the state board of elections.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

So you're whining about Ga making voters actually prove they're citizens...Typical

No need to play dumb,unless it`s sincere.

We all know this is a technique  to suppress poor voters,who vote democratic in overwhelming numbers.That`s why the our corrupt DOJ approved it.


I think the whining cry babies here, are those republicans(and KKK mambers),who got caught cheating(again),trying to suppress voters with a poll tax.Which is what this is,literally.

The poll-tax has been illegal for decades.If you want to sign on to illegal tactics and dirty tricks like that,be my guest.You`ll get a job at the DOJ,no problem.


The point of posting the story,was to show how republicans cheat,lie and steal.

And ,how occasionally ,they get caught.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/27/AR2005102702171.html

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

Yeah kind of like our borders being protected. There is what is on paper and then there is reality.

So how does every state actually do it?

So does anyone have a realistic answer?

Orion

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Atlanta has no Drivers License issueing facilities at all hasn't had them for quite some time.