re: My question to liberals on this voter registration issue

I don't care if you have to show an id to vote...it makes absolutely no difference to me. I even applaud the effort to facilitate the mathematically challenged among us who sincerely believe, because their handlers have told them it was so, that it is remotely possible that enough people are voting illegally in ways that presenting a picture id at the polls would prevent. We should do everything we can to make life easier on the handicapped even if their handicap is one of choice such as believing there are a mathematically significant number of people voting illegally in ways that requiring an id would slow or stop.


What is truly amazing is the number of those people handicapped in the way described above who also can't understand why it is slightly more difficult to do EVERYTHING in life if you are poor or work in a job where you aren't free to run little errands during the work day like most people in low to moderate income jobs are. These same handicapped people also can't understand why it is just a little more difficult to get to a government office building that is 15 miles one way from your home when you don't own a car and must walk, and take public transportation.

I am not suggesting that these difficulties should eliminate the need to present an id when registering and when voting. I am only suggesting that it is amazing that handicapped people can sincerely believe that people are voting in person in large numbers illegally BUT it is as easy for a person working 16 hours a day to take care of mundane tasks like getting a haircut as it is for someone on salary who can come and go from their job more or less as they see fit. This is why I think we should pass voter ID laws because it will ease the fears of the snowflake who believes (they certainly aren't thinking) that voter ID laws are about the sanctity of the ballot box and not about making it a little more likely that poor people won't go to the trouble of voting.