According to Paul Bedard of The Examiner in Washington, DC, Democratic officials launched a two-pronged attack Wednesday on states with new laws requiring identification before voting, and I simply don't understand their objection.
It seems that the group complained that some states want to limit the time allotted for early voting, bar ex-felons from voting and require government identification to vote. Beyond that, Congressional Representative, James Clyburn, D-S.C. compared the legislation to segregation era "Jim Crow" laws and said he's “very, very anxious” that the conservative Supreme Court “as it is presently constituted” will support the new anti-voter fraud laws.
What's more, a growing list of states, including Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Kansas and Wisconsin already have such requirements and polls show that most Americans back the laws.
So what we have here, I think, are politicians who want to stir things up for their own sake by making a mountain out of not even a mole hill, but more like completely flat ground. Because voter fraud is a huge problem which goes far beyond any particular demographic group. And I don't see it as an insult or demeaning to simply require that voters identify themselves as being who they claim they are.
In conclusion, there certainly lots of major problems in the nation at present that need tending to by legislators. However, proof of identity to vote isn't one of them. So, what this group's mission says to me is, that if they have the time to waste on drivel like this, things where they live must be pretty darn good over all.
That's it for today folks.
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