{"id":22957,"date":"2014-06-07T06:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22957"},"modified":"2014-06-07T06:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T10:12:41","slug":"it-really-was-no-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22957","title":{"rendered":"It Really Was No Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Daily Signal<\/a> posted an article about this week’s election in Mississippi. The article wasn’t about the candidates or even about who won–it was about a part of the election that got very little publicity.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Mississippi\u2019s new voter ID law<\/a> got its first run in the June 3 primary, and the sky did not fall. Despite the tiresome and disproven claims by opponents that such laws<\/a> cause wholesale voter disenfranchisement<\/a> and are intended to suppress votes, Mississippi \u201csailed through\u201d its first test of the new ID requirements, according to The Clarion Ledger<\/a><\/i>,<\/i> the newspaper of Jackson<\/a>, Miss.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any government-issued photo identification<\/a> could be used in order to vote. The State of Mississippi<\/a> provided free identification to anyone who did not have identification.<\/p>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

Contrary to the claims of those who say large numbers of Americans<\/a> don\u2019t have an ID, Mississippi estimated that only 0.8 percent of Mississippians lacked an ID.\u00a0 In fact, even that may have been an overestimate since the state had to issue only about 1,000 voter ID cards<\/a>. All those who forgot their ID on Tuesday also could vote by an affidavit<\/a> as long as they returned and showed an ID within five days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

As Sid Salter<\/a> from the Clarion Ledger put it<\/a>, the voter ID law was a \u201cnon-event\u201d and \u201cvoters expressed little, if any, inconvenience at the polls due to the new law.\u201d So how is the new law being covered by the media? Instead of reporting that the voter ID law is \u201csailing through,\u201d the mainstream media has instead elected to remain silent. As Hosemann said, \u201cNo news is good news.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just for your entertainment, I found a list of things the federal government,\u00a0 some states and some businesses require identification to do at a website called usmessageboard.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. Boarding an airplane<\/strong>
\n 2. Writing a check<\/strong>
\n 3. Cashing a check<\/strong>
\n 4. Using a credit card<\/span><\/strong>
\n 5. Driving a motor vehicle<\/a><\/strong>
\n 6. Applying for a business license<\/strong>
\n 7. Applying for permission to hold a protest or rally<\/strong>
\n 8. Securing employment <\/strong>
\n 9. Purchasing a house or real estate<\/strong>
\n 10. Renting a domicile<\/strong>
\n 11. Renting a motor vehicle<\/strong>
\n 12. Purchasing a firearm (Includes BB guns<\/a>)<\/strong>
\n 13. Applying for a hunting license (waived for 16 and 17 year olds when their legal guardian provides a photo ID<\/a>)<\/strong>
\n 14. Applying for a fishing<\/span> license (waived for 16 and 17 year olds when their legal guardian provides a photo ID)<\/strong>
\n 15. Purchasing alcoholic beverages<\/strong>
\n 16. Purchasing tobacco or products that contain nicotine<\/strong>
\n 17. Purchasing a motor vehicle<\/strong>
\n 18. Initial registration of a motor vehicle <\/strong>
\n 19. Applying for a building permit<\/strong>
\n 20. Receiving prescription medicine<\/a><\/strong>
\n 21. Purchasing OTC medicine that contains pseudoephedrine <\/strong>
\n 22. Serving on jury duty<\/strong>
\n 23. Getting a bank account<\/strong>
\n 24. Cash transactions of $5000.00 or greater<\/strong>
\n 25. Sales tax exemption for people aged 80 and above<\/strong><\/p>\n

I suspect that most Americans have been involved in one or more or these transactions in their lifetime. Asking for a photo identification to vote is not any more intrusive than asking for a photo identification for any of the above activities.<\/p>\n

\"Enhanced<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Daily Signal posted an article about this week’s election in Mississippi. The article wasn’t about the candidates or even about who won–it was about a part of the election that got very little publicity. The article reports: Mississippi\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7657,7655,7656,904,7658,486,285,969],"class_list":["post-22957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clarion-ledger","tag-delbert-hosemann","tag-jackson-mississippi","tag-law","tag-mississippi","tag-photo-identification","tag-united-states","tag-voter-id-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22959,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957\/revisions\/22959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}