20 million americans don't have photo IDs, but evidence shows voter fraud very low in comparison
gop elites want to suppress votes to protect their power, so they plan to force an enormous number of folk to jump thru hoops before they can vote.
sure, it's easy if you've already got a photo driver license, but if you don't you have to get other proof first, like certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, &c, and take them to an agency that takes your picture and makes your card, which costs you money, effort, and time, possibly including time lost at work, not always just minor inconvenience.
it can be a real burden for folk living from paycheck to paycheck, as the majority of american workers do now.
the proposed measure would cost more than a poll tax and affect more of us than literacy tests, if either of those unconstitutional vote-suppression methods suddenly got legalized.
and it's all foisted on us thru fear: fear of terrorists, fear of immigrant "invaders," and even fear of unscrupulous politicians like themselves.
no wonder we call them "cons."
Fear not.
ReplyDeleteWith the aging of America Democrats lose power with every passing day.
The days of the "party of the youth" are over.
ah! hope springs eternal, even among RWNJs, apparently. not only did dems win the congressional majority a bit more than a month after chuck posted his comment, but young voters were a major portion of obama's total 2 years later. unfortunately many of them were among the dems who sat out the 2010 midterm vote, handing victory to the tealiban. this year perhaps we'll find out how many of them stay discouraged and how many get fired up.
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