Daily Topics - Monday October 27th, 2014

Join Thom in our chatroom during the program!
Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON & LAST HOURS
- both narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Hour One: The Caucus Room Conspiracy is Silencing the Left...
Hour Two: The 'myth' of conservative racism...? Derryck Green, Project 21
Hour Three: Channeling Richard Nixon - Harry Shearer, Nixon's The One
Comments

IDs.
I'm an election worker (Judge) in Texas. I did not have to show any ID to attend training or get my writ. I doubt that I will have to show it at anytime (I don't remember them doing it before).
For other things, I rarely use my photo-id. My debit card does not require it. My online-banking doesn't require it. I think it has been 5-10 years since I have been asked for an ID to get a beer (I'm 54). I think I had to use it to get some pseudophed (stupid state law), but I don't remember using it for prescreptions. I do show it at the blood center.



I still think someone could make a case for invoking section 2 of the 14th Amendment, which says that a states representation in Congress (and also therefore its electoral votes) will be proportionately reduced if they keep some people from voting. Even in the big days of Jim Crow, I don't think it was ever used, but I believe it's time.
A reduction in a small state's representation may not really be possible, but Texas is a ripe for picking; if it's keeping even 1/36 of it's males over 21 from voting, then it could lose a representative.