Several states are requiring a photo ID to be presented at the polls. What is the problem with that? Is it because 50 years ago that was used as a tactic to prohibit people from voting? Those days are long past, it's time to move on.
Positive, photo-identification should be required in every state. The argument is weak, that college students would not be able to vote. If they can't figure out how to arrange for absentee voting, maybe they aren't smart enough to be in college in the first place. As for the racial implications, we've gotten way beyond the Jim Crow-days. Everyone, according to most local, state, and federal laws, is supposed to be able to positively identify themselves to any authorities when requested. What, I ask again, is the problem with that?
It's always the Democrats, screaming about disenfranchising people, and suspiciously quiet when it's reported that voter fraud is on the rise. Did we learn anything from the ACORN debacle? Hello? There are, literally thousands of registered voters who do not exist. If this, and this is only my theory, has been "business as usual" for voter registration over the years, there could be millions. What stops people from using them? Positive photo-identification.
Even then, it's a crap-shoot. People enter this country on fake ID's all of the time, it's just that TSA, and Homeland don't make a big deal out of it. My dad, a former correctional officer, said that most convicted felons had multiple ID's, mostly drivers licences. In California, we give State ID cards to illegal aliens, so they can get on State assistance programs. So, again, what's the problem with showing ID's? You get them to show to people, why not the nice folks at the polling station?
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