by: Gary DeMar
A recent
Washington Post poll
showed that “74 percent of Americans favor government-issued photo ID
mandates at polling places.” This meant little to CNN because the
network, whose ratings are in the proverbial toilet, ignored those
numbers “in six separate segments on voter ID laws.”
A majority of Americans believe that showing identification is simply
common sense when identification is necessary to identify someone. When
it comes to voting, liberals are incensed that anyone would have to
prove who they are. If we were all saints, and a person’s word could be
trusted, then showing an ID would be unnecessary. But that would be true
for all types of calls for identification.
Elections are about money and power. Elected officials have control
over our lives and property with laws they pass. Millions of people vote
to empower people to take money from some people and give it to them.
This makes them accomplices to theft. It’s little different from hiring
someone to break into a neighbors house to steal money.
If a person is willing to vote for people to take money from other
people, why do we think they will be honest about who they are? Who’s to
say that they won’t vote more than once or scheme to use the names of
dead people and pets to increase the vote for a candidate? Am I making
this up? Voter registration forms were “mailed to hundreds of dead
Virginians, children, non-citizens, pets, and others ineligible to
vote.”
A judge in Pennsylvania had enough good sense to see through liberal
outrage and upheld a law requiring that voters show identification.
Judge Robert Simpson wrote, “Thus the photo ID requirement of
Act 18
is a reasonable, nondiscriminatory, nonsevere burden when viewed in the
broader context of the widespread use of photo ID in daily life.”
Are there political motives on each side of the issue? Of course there
are. But that doesn’t change reality. Some people are liars and thieves
in both parties.
The Justice Department’s civil rights division shot down a new photo
ID requirement for voters in Texas because many Hispanic voters lack
state-issued identification. A similar edict from the Justice Department
was leveled against South Carolina.
When I saw the doctor to be treated for a sinus infection, I had to
show my driver’s license and insurance card. On my way to work a few
weeks ago, the police set up a road block to check insurance cards and
driver’s licenses. I wonder if the Hispanics didn’t have to show any ID.
(Of course, I’m not in favor of random ID checks. I only mention this
to make a point.)
Every time I fly, I have to show my ID two times before I can board
the plane. When I checked into the hotel, I was asked for my ID and a
valid credit card. While in Las Vegas, I set up two business bank
accounts. They wanted a whole lot of IDs. Last week I went to a
different bank branch to cash a check, and the teller asked for my ID
and wrote my license number on the check.
Here’s a convenient list of where you will need an ID:
DMV
Airports
Hospital
Pharmacy
Donating Blood
Banks
Gun Shop
Cashing a Check
Adoption Agency
Social Security Office
Pawn Shops
Jail
Using a Credit Card
Court
Union Elections
Here’s where liberals say you shouldn’t need an ID: In the voting booth
where people choose candidates to make laws for all of us. Is it too
much to ask that we want to know if they are who they say they are and
haven’t voted in the place of someone else or have voted six times? I
don’t think so.
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