Are IDs Necessary?
IDs come in all different shapes and sizes. There are some things that people might not even think are considered a reliable source of identification. There are two groups of IDs; primary and secondary. A primary ID for a US citizen are; driver’s license, state Id, military Id and US passports. The reasons these are primary Ids are because they have your picture, your current address, your date of birth, your signature and an expiration date. The reason these IDs are more widely accepted are because of the picture on them. There are a number of Secondary IDs. The most common are social security cards, birth certificates, employee IDs, a credit or debit card, and a car registration (Acceptable forms of identification …show more content…
Up until 2016, all North Carolina citizens had to do was go to the polls and say their name and address. They then signed next to their name, they were handed a ballot and then they proceeded with the voting process. This “signing in” process is way too easy! People can vote for their family members and even neighbors as long as they know the person’s name and address. The change in the NC voter ID law was enacted in 2013 but later amended in 2015 and will go in effect in 2016. Now North Carolina has a photo Id requirement, but they offer an alternative for people with a “reasonable impediment” (Underhill, …show more content…
If ids are not required then fraud can take place very easily. An example is like the Dallas Cowboys fraud case. “Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team” (Griffin & Johnston, 2008). Another example of voter fraud happened in Maryland and Virginia in 2014. Virginia Voter Alliance which is an election integrity group reported, that there was 14,646 duplicate registrations between Fairfax County, Virginia and Maryland. These numbers are evidence, according to President Reagan George of Virginia Voter Alliance, that voter fraud is still an active and important concern. “There are procedures in place, including a hearing before the Fairfax Board, for the registrar’s office to expeditiously remove these duplicate registrations from the online database system,” he added, in response to the timeline concerns Fairfax General Registrar Cameron Quinn cited moving forward” (Bennett, 2014). These are just a few of the many cases that fraudulent activity was
IDs come in all different shapes and sizes. There are some things that people might not even think are considered a reliable source of identification. There are two groups of IDs; primary and secondary. A primary ID for a US citizen are; driver’s license, state Id, military Id and US passports. The reasons these are primary Ids are because they have your picture, your current address, your date of birth, your signature and an expiration date. The reason these IDs are more widely accepted are because of the picture on them. There are a number of Secondary IDs. The most common are social security cards, birth certificates, employee IDs, a credit or debit card, and a car registration (Acceptable forms of identification …show more content…
Up until 2016, all North Carolina citizens had to do was go to the polls and say their name and address. They then signed next to their name, they were handed a ballot and then they proceeded with the voting process. This “signing in” process is way too easy! People can vote for their family members and even neighbors as long as they know the person’s name and address. The change in the NC voter ID law was enacted in 2013 but later amended in 2015 and will go in effect in 2016. Now North Carolina has a photo Id requirement, but they offer an alternative for people with a “reasonable impediment” (Underhill, …show more content…
If ids are not required then fraud can take place very easily. An example is like the Dallas Cowboys fraud case. “Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team” (Griffin & Johnston, 2008). Another example of voter fraud happened in Maryland and Virginia in 2014. Virginia Voter Alliance which is an election integrity group reported, that there was 14,646 duplicate registrations between Fairfax County, Virginia and Maryland. These numbers are evidence, according to President Reagan George of Virginia Voter Alliance, that voter fraud is still an active and important concern. “There are procedures in place, including a hearing before the Fairfax Board, for the registrar’s office to expeditiously remove these duplicate registrations from the online database system,” he added, in response to the timeline concerns Fairfax General Registrar Cameron Quinn cited moving forward” (Bennett, 2014). These are just a few of the many cases that fraudulent activity was