Friday, 11 January 2008
Voter ID Laws In Indiana
« Time to Help Fred | Main | The Imperial Abramson and the Cowardly Republicans »Our neighbors to the north of us passed a state law back in 1995 that required voters to show a picture ID before they could pull the lever in an election. Of course the Democrats freaked out and filed a lawsuit to throw out the law. The judge in the case did the sensible thing and ruled that the law was constitutional.
The Democrats have appealed the ruling all the way to the Supreme Court which heard arguments in the case yesterday. Fortunately by the types of questions asked it looks like the Supreme Court will uphold the law.
But I am trying to figure out why the Dems are so panicked about this law in the first place.
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, thinks so.
"This case underscores the lengths to which Republicans will go to manufacture a problem based on fear, not facts," he said in a statement after the arguments. "Undemocratic voter ID laws are just another part of a broad Republican effort to undermine our fundamental right to vote."
Undemocratic voter id laws? What the hell is he talking about. They claim the law adversely effects indigent people and the poor. I am at a complete loss how that is. Let me get this straight. These "disenfranchised" voters went somewhere to register to vote. They know what day to vote, where there polling location is, and have means to travel to the polls. But they can't on any of the other 364 days of the year go to a local government agency and get a photo ID.
I am hard pressed to believe the requirement is a horrible burden to place on a citizen. Especially when we are talking about the sanctity of elections. The only reason I can think that the Democrats want to refuse identification requirements is so they can cheat. How else can you get illegal aliens and dead people to vote in elections? It is considerably more difficult to stuff the ballot box if you have to produce a photo ID for everyone that votes.
