<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div>A purple thumb works better than ID which can be faked. Voter registration is designed to suppress turnout, otherwise you could register on election day. Which the republicans are working to end everywhere it still exists. greg</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Jim Kelley <<a href="mailto:jim-kelley2@cox.net">jim-kelley2@cox.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sat, 6 Oct 2012 13:53:14 -0400<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> 'Bob Trudeau' <<a href="mailto:bobtrudeau@cox.net">bobtrudeau@cox.net</a>>, Summit Neighborhood <<a href="mailto:summit@sna.providence.ri.us">summit@sna.providence.ri.us</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Summit] voter ID law<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]>
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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I am not advocating a National ID [“where are
your papers”] by any stretch of the imagination; I am a libertarian. Please defend
this however relative to the value of Integrity, trust and reliance on election
results (particularly RI) with no cost to the entitled electorate: “</span></font>which
in my view are designed to suppress voting opportunities, not guarantee them.
The issue at hand is the specific RI Law. “<font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" tabindex="-1"></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Bob Trudeau[<a href="mailto:bobtrudeau@cox.net">mailto:bobtrudeau@cox.net</a>] <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 06, 2012
1:37 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Jim Kelley; Summit
Neighborhood<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Summit] voter ID law</span></font><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Neighbors: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">A picture ID at voting is not a bad thing -- but read on. My
personal experience with this (as an observer) was in Costa Rica where there is
a national voter registry (or was when I studied it some years ago), and where
everyone is issued a national ID card more or less at birth, and where everyone
is automatically registered as a voter the day they turn 18 (based on the
registering of the birth). In short, a goal of the national ID card was
to guarantee that everyone who is a citizen can vote. Each citizen isautomatically registered -- no need for a separate process. I favor anational picture ID system -- it surely can be done with computers: when you
get your social security card, you are entered in the computer to become
registered on your 18th birthday. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">So the question is not simply one of picture ID, but the intention, vis
a vis voting, of people supporting these current laws, which in my view aredesigned to suppress voting opportunities, not guarantee them. The
issue at hand is the specific RI Law -- which I urge you to help repeal. Sign
the petition circulating via Jim Barfoot's email.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Bob T<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">On Oct 6, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Jim Kelley wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><u1:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><u1:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><div link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt">Jim,<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt">You may call voter identification "suppression"; but, I call
it insurance of the integrity of a very important responsibility, as does the
General Assembly—ID is free and easily obtainable. Is ensuring a voting system
of integrity more important than insuring identification for other purposessuch as driver’s licenses, benefits, and a multitude of other situations? Isn't
it very important to ensure that those voters who determine elections (in our
small voting districts) truly are affected by the votes they cast? Would you
rather have purple figure tips (just kidding)?<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt">Per the PolitiFact "Truth-O-Meter (which has had errors and bias
issues):<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century">In the Rhode Island Senate, the
bill’s main sponsor was Sen. Harold Metts, D-Providence, an African-American.
The House version was co-sponsored by House Speaker Gordon Fox, the first black
lawmaker to lead the state lower chamber, among others.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"> Further, the bill got a
crucial boost when state Rep. Anastasia Williams, D-Providence, who is of
African -American and Panamanian descent, also supported it.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"> She testified about how she
suspected someone had voted in her name in 2006 (no complaint was filed) and how
she’d once seen a man vote twice at her local polling place.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"> Their support came despite
aggressive lobbying against the bill by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, the American Civil Liberties Union, Ocean State
Action and the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"> It passed the House 54 to 21
and the Senate 27 to 6, with five not voting.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Century"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Century"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Obtaining voter identification is free.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Also, how is this any different from the voter registration
and the voter identification vetting process on candidate nomination forms any
different?<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How do you feel about the increasing number of
absentee (early) ballots that seem to require reduced validation? Do you have
an opinion about the vote in <st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">East Providence</st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>
decided by one vote although the machines had four different counts?<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p></u1:p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:summit-bounces@sna.providence.ri.us">summit-bounces@sna.providence.ri.us</a>
[<a href="mailto:summit-bounces@sna.providence.ri.us">mailto:summit-bounces@sna.providence.ri.us</a>] On Behalf Of barfootjim<br>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:56 AM<br>
Cc: Summit Neighborhood e-mail<br>
Subject: Re: [Summit] voter ID law<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">RI now has in place the first phase of a voter ID law, requiring <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">voters to show identification at the polls. As of this coming <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">election, the ID does not have to be a picture ID, and in fact,
the <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">types of ID allowed is a fairly broad range of possible documents.
If <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">you have no such ID, you will have to cast a provisional ballot,
then <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">go to the Board of Canvassers office and provide suitable proof
of <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">who you are. Your vote can then be counted. How, given that it's
a <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">secret ballot, the Board of Canvassers will decide which
provisional <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">ballot is yours, and therefore to be counted, baffles me.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">However, the second phase, which is very restrictive, goes into <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">effect in 2014.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">If you believe, as I do, that voter ID laws are essentially a new
<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">form of voter suppression, being sold as a way to end
non-existent <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">voter fraud, you may want to register your opposition by means of
a <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">petition to repeal RI Voter ID Law. It currently has almost 2,000 <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">signatures on it. The petition, to The Rhode Island State House,
The <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">Rhode Island State Senate, and Governor Lincoln Chafee, says:<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">"The undersigned urge the RI State legislature and the Governor
to <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">vote to repeal the state's discriminatory Voter ID law."<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">The group that started the petition plans to deliver it to
Governor <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">Chafee this Wednesday, October 10th.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt">To sign this petition,<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"> Click here:<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt"><a href="http://signon.org/sign/reverse-the-ri-voter?source=c.em.mt&r_by=43840">http://signon.org/sign/reverse-the-ri-voter?source=c.em.mt&r_by=43840</a><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
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10.0pt">_______________________________________________<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Summit</span></font></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>
mailing list<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:
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