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John Marion, Common Cause: costs of voter ID outweighs benefits
Voter fraud, when it occurs, happens during registration and through absentee ballots, not at the polls, points out John Marion of Common Cause. Money spent enforcing a worthless voter ID law cannot...
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LeeAnn Byrne, RI Coaliton for the Homeless: Obtaining ID for the homeless is...
At the RI Coalition for the Homeless, says LeeAnn Byrne, caseworkers spend a significant amount of time trying to secure photo ID for the homeless, because “they do recognize it’s important for...
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Kate Bowden, RI Disability Law Center: Some forms of voter ID don’t exist
Part of the problem seems to be that many of the legislators in the Rhode Island General assembly don’t really have any idea of what it is like to be poor, homeless, disabled or otherwise marginalized...
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Senator Frank Lombardi’s nightmare voter fraud scenario
Voter ID is a reaction to the imaginary, nonexistent problem of in-person voter fraud. When Senator Frank Lombardi imagines the law’s repeal, he recounts a weird nightmare scenario in which sleazy...
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What the master lever and voter ID have in common
Paper ballot with straight party option selected. All across America, Democrats – and quite frankly courts, too – are waking up to the oppressive reality voter ID laws represent for too many...
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ACLU: primary produced four voter ID law ‘problems’
Virginia Chafee, the governor’s mother, shows her id to a poll worker. A Providence woman was denied the right to vote, according to an ACLU press release which details four incidents in which Rhode...
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Hard times at the DMV getting a non-driving state ID
I live-tweeted the experience of getting a state ID sometimes under the hashtag #Paisleygate, a joke on the fact that I wore the same weird paisley shirt to get my last ID in Pennsylvania as I did when...
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ACLU president Susan Herman on civil liberties, South Carolina and Black...
Susan Herman. Photo courtesy of ACLU. Susan Herman, president of the American Civil Liberties Union who is in Rhode Island today to speak at a panel discussion on policing, said she is not surprised to...
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Disenfranchisement- a House debate in 5 minutes
On July 4, 1776, The United States of America declared their Independence from Great Britain, and the long road to Democracy was begun, a road we are still on. Back then, Royalists opposed democracy....
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House Judiciary Committee debates the limits of our conscience under Trump
Waiting to testify, hour three “The resolution before you tonight is not one that would be appropriate to introduce in normal times,” said Representative Aaron Regunberg, “but as many of you know, I,...
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