Stopping Illegal Aliens from Voting
by Jeff Davis
Give a monkey a typewriter and sooner or later, he’ll get a word right. Give crooked politicians control of our government and sooner or later, they’ll pass a good bill. The GOP is sponsoring a bill in Congress that would mandate a very simple, very logical requirement on election day at the polls–that before someone is allowed to vote, they must actually present some form of identification to show that they are who they say they are, and that they are legally entitled to vote. Naturally the Democrats (many of whom count on illegal votes) are going ballistic.
According to an article in Salon magazine, “Most major civil rights organizations, from the NAACP to the National Council of La Raza, have said that the proposal will disproportionately prevent poor and minority citizens from voting. AARP, a nonpartisan lobby for the elderly, has cautioned that many persons who are qualified to vote but do not have ready access to documents — such as birth certificates, driver’s licenses and passports — that never have been deemed necessary in the past may lose the fundamental right to vote.Democrats have charged that Republicans are just trying to keep liberal voters from the polls.” Yeah, well, nothing wrong with that, in principle. Our political process would be much better off if we could eliminate liberals from voting. (more…)