Compromise sends voter ID/early voting to passage
Funnily enough, men from two parties can talk to each other and work out a deal, even in South Carolina. The voter ID/early voting bill, H. 3418, was in such a mess of debate and amendments that it was set on Wednesday for third reading, but allowing for amendments, which is highly unusual. However, cooler heads prevailed.
Before Wednesday’s session, Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell and Senate Minority Leader John Land got together to work out a compromise on the legislation to minimize the pain the Senate would have to endure in knocking down amendments before the inevitability of voting the bill through. It’s a tribute to both men that they got it done.
Gubernatorial candidate and Sen. Vince Sheheen was not down with the plan, and still kept several amendments on the desk. Land showed his leadership by saying he empathized with Sheheen but had to object to his amendments. In the end, the bill passed.
McConnell, before the debate, said, “Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, I want to bring some clarity to the debate from yesterday, and the questions that were raised. I subsequently had the opportunity to talk to the senator from Clarendon about the dialogue that he and I had regarding, would amendments be allowed on the third. And, here is what was intended and he will confirm it: yes, we would allow amendments on third that are an exception to the rule. Something that we left out and intended to put in, something that misstated that we should have stated a different way, and clarifications.”
Yes, Virginia, progress can happen in the General Assembly.
So how many tens of thousands of elderly people, who can’t find a birth certificate and have no passport of other photo ID are going to have to be transported to the DMV of Voter Registration by their churches, AARP, the Democrats and everyone else?
There are going to be some terribly angry old people on election day when they’re turned away. Plenty of them will be Republicans. They’ll blame it all on the Democrats and Acorn.
I’ll bet the Justice Dpt. cans the whole thing.
will The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 —
“…outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States. Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibited states from imposing any “voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure … to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” …..(in 2006) Congress nonetheless voted to extend the Act for twenty-five years with its original enforcement provisions left intact. …” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act
interfere with H. 3418? is it legal to pass this bill?