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.
According to Salon, “Under the Republican proposal, all American voters will have to present valid government-issued photo identifications to vote in federal elections beginning in 2008. If voters do not have an I.D. handy on Election Day, they can cast a provisional ballot, but the ballot will be counted only if an actual photo I.D. is produced within 48 hours. The bill also provides federal money to provide free identification cards to any citizen who cannot afford the typical government processing fees.”
In other words, the Republicans are trying to make sure that at the 2008 elections, the Democrats don’t sneak millions of illegal aliens into the polls. Slimey as Karl Rove may be, it’s pretty hard to find an argument against that. I mean, who in this society who is legal and a citizen can NOT produce a driver’s license or a state photo ID? Legal people have to produce them all the time. When someone cannot produce a photo ID for something as important as voting, the election board officials at the polls certainly are entitled to ask why not?