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By: joe-taylor in FFFT | Recommend this post (7)
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This is the silliest argument we've ever seen on this board! Most every convention of any kind that we've ever attended either required an ID or a ticket of some sort to attend the festivities. There are 75,000 people going to see the presidents acceptance speech thursday night at an outdoor stadium and all of the tickets for that have already been given out. In addition to that most everyone is from out of town and had to buy or be furnished a hotel room and some meal tickets in advance which required some sort of registration. Every atrtendee at any convention that we've ever been to got a packet in advance with I D's and other information such as the schedule included. These must be made up in advance. In addition to that you have the president of the United States and other officials there who require security clearances to be anywhere close to them.

Riana, my opinion of you slips lower and lower with each passing day. You are either an agitator or just not very experienced in the ways of much of the world!
It is sad to note that a poster who had been on this board for many years was banned because of you!!!!!!!!!!


Joe


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Re: DNC to require ID in order to attend festivities
By: Riana
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Wed, 05 Sep 12 9:48 PM
Msg. 45744 of 65535

Perhaps.

Although voting is a right, not a privilege, the DNC still requires that the "delegate selection process shall be open to all voters who wish to participate as Democrats." (reference: wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/8787/images/DNC 2012 Delegate Selection Rules.pdf )

So how is showing ID to participate at the convention much different than showing ID to participate in the election?

Virginia requires non-photo ID to vote, and there is a fair number of things that qualify as ID:

- Virginia voter registration card (we get a new one every year, I believe)
- Social Security card
- Valid Virginia driver's license
- Any other identification card issued by a government agency of the Commonwealth, one of its political subdivisions, or the United States
- Employee identification card containing a photograph
- Any valid student ID card issued by any institution of higher education located in Virginia
- Copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck that shows the name and address of the voter
- Concealed handgun permit

If you don't have one of these, you can still get a provisional ballot (thought I understand these have their own bunch of issues).

I would guess that a large number of folks here register to vote when applying for their driver's license or state ID card, so they would most likely have one of these methods of identification.


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