Political Quotes

“If the Senator understood me to say a State could mandate this as the only method of identification, that is not correct. If I said that, I certainly did not mean to say it. It is not correct. Let me again read the language because it is very important. If you do not have a Social Security number, they cannot force you to present a Social Security number as the means of identification. The language of the amendment that ``the Social Security account number issued to such individual by the Commissioner of Social Security. . . .'' If you do not have a Social Security number issued, there is nothing in the amendment that authorizes the State to require you to have one, and there is nothing in the amendment that authorizes the State to mandate as the only method of identification the presentation of a Social Security number. If I may reiterate what I thought the Senator from New York was asking--perhaps I misunderstood--it was, Can a State mandate that an individual must present a Social Security number for his registration validation? And the answer to that is, a State could pass a law that used the Social Security requirement for voter registration. But would that mean they could require somebody who does not have a Social Security card to present one? Not under the wording in the amendment. Does it say it is the only way you can validate your identification? Absolutely not; that is not what this says.”