Study: Millions in Voter ID Nightmare
19th July 2012
Or so The Politico would have you believe. (Agenda? What agenda?) Sorry, guys; it’s only a nightmare for Democrat demagogues who need those votes in order to access the public trough.
In the states with significant voter ID laws, more than 10 million eligible citizens live 10 or more miles from an office issuing the proper photo IDs and about half a million of those voters don’t have access to a vehicle, according to a study out Wednesday.
So how do they get to the polls on election day? Both political parties have ‘get out the vote’ efforts; getting voters registered would seem a perfect application of that. But no; opening the system up to fraud is the only ‘fair’ solution.
In the report, the Brennan Center — which is regarded as a liberal think tank and is against the new voter ID laws — states free photo IDs are not easily accessible to the 11 percent of voters who do not currently have them.
So how do they cash a check, drive a car, fly on a plane, get into an R-rated movie, see the President, or attend a Union meeting, all of which require a photo ID? I guess voting is less important than any of those other things.
The government offices where voters can obtain the proper IDs have limited business hours, the Brennan Center stated, citing an example in Sauk City, Wisconsin where the ID office is open only on the fifth Wednesday of any month — but only four months in 2012 have that fifth Wednesday.
Oh, gee, the government’s operations are inconvenient. Who would ever have thought it? And Wisconsin is a blue state — surely it couldn’t be that Democrat bureaucrats are deliberately making getting a government ID difficult so as to support studies like these? Naw, that could never happen.
July 19th, 2012 at 05:31
I don’t understand this opposition to photo ID requirements; it seems a simple and non-onerous thing to me.
Is there something to it that I’m not seeing?
July 19th, 2012 at 06:15
On a related note: How soon before we institute a national ID card? My guess is 10 years. Anybody else want in on the pool?
July 19th, 2012 at 11:38
The feds have strict requirements for state IDs now that make them essentially state-issued federal IDs.
And, yes, this one belongs to the Bush Administration.
July 19th, 2012 at 12:45
*shrug* Well, everything he did couldn’t be a blunder, though he did gave it the old college try.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.