You ignore the important issue, republicans are for making it hard for and disallowing legal voters IF and only if they might vote democrat. The stopping a citizen from voting is a much greater wrong and anti American. It is only with willful ignorance that you don't see this or at the very least acknowledge it.
I think Tsing understands this. He is making a fair argument, although the argument loses when it gets to the facts about the PA legislator who admitted that the reason for suppression was to elect Romney. I think it would be ok if everyone was given a SS number and an ATM card at birth. Use that to vote with. But, just to stop many from the other side from voting is just not right.
In North Carolina signatures are not checked at the polling place. You come in and they check your name in a big paper roll with many pages, then they give you a card to sign after taking a sticker with your info from the roll and attaching it to the card. You sign the card.... then go to a second table to get a ballot and then take the ballot & vote. Go to the ballot booth, connect the lines with the black pen.... bring the completed ballot to a electronic machine at the exit where it is fed in to be counted. At no point in the process is your signature checked against your original voting registration enrollment card. The poll workers do not have your original voting application. Obviously the comparison of your current signature with the original registration card would not work for early voting where you can go to one of twenty different locations in the county to vote.
gwb, clearly, North Carolina operates on the honor code and could stand an overhaul. What you have described is lax to put it mildly. Sounds like I could vote there and I haven't been in North Carolina since the spring of 1984 when I drove from college in NJ down to Ft Lauderdale. In CT, an absentee ballot is sent to your voting district and it is compared to the register.
This is how it is in Maryland. They don't check signatures, but do check ID. It is also why I maintain that getting a fake ID is much more in depth and difficult than simply signing a name that isn't yours. Any operation of significant magnitude to print up fake IDs would eventually be caught up with, especially since there is evidence of fraud being left behind. This is why I continue to disagree with L-Kabong. But he just doesn't want to budge on the issue and it's frankly not worth arguing with him any longer.
I'm not ignoring your presumed bigger issue. I just don't see that happening any more than you see voter fraud an issue. I posted a response to your articles, and with the exception of the one scumbag, nothing else in there lead me to believe Republicans are trying to restrict democrats from voting - no matter how shrill the editorials claimed it.
Pretty sure it's at least two scumbags. The guy in PA of course, and the former head of the RNC in Florida, as I recall.