STOP OH POLL TAX! Email from Homeless Advocate:

[mod mom]

One of the many affronts of the OH HB 3, is the required ID. This is nothing more than the modern day equivalent of a poll tax!. Here is a touching email I received from an advocate for low income and homeless people. (YES, REPUKES, THEY ARE CITIZENS TOO AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO CAST A VOTE!):

Thanks Dorri. I work with homeless and low income people at Trinity
Church on Capital Square. My main mission is to help people get ID's. On
Dec. 1 I had almost $400 to assist with ID's at $8.50 a crack. By the
next morning my funds were gone and I have turned away untold #s of
people since then who are in need of an ID to get services. When I heard
about the voting ID debacle I knew it was to eliminate the vote of poor
people. One more way to disenfranchise them. Makes me sick.
Diane

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEEDS TO RAISE HOLY HELL OVER THIS!

[AuntPatsy]

1. Yes indeed they do, their mailboxes obviously need to be filled up

with this outrage, this is the first I heard of it..so typical

[sabbat hunter]

2. if you are homeless

how can you vote? you are supposed to vote in a certain congressional, electoral, assembly districts. but if you are homeless which polling place do you go to?

there must be a solution to this, but what is it (other than of course making sure all have housing)

[Bill Bored]

3. The bill says a social security card is acceptable voter ID.

Sure it's a hassle to show ID to vote. Some states only require a signature, except for first-time voters who've registered by mail (that's a HAVA requirement). But compared to the stuff they tried to pull in GA, this particular Ohio requirement is a walk in the park!

Here's the text of the bill:

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText126/126_HB_3_RS_N.html

If you have a couple of HOURS, read it.

Then give 'em hell! But doing so without having the facts doesn't help the cause, does it?