A modest voting reform runs up against Democratic demagoguery ~ John Fund

Last year, Congress imposed some federal standards on the nation's antiquated election laws to help prevent another fiasco like the 2000 election in Florida. Along with providing money to upgrade voting systems and improve registration procedures, the new law will also require first-time voters who register by mail to show some proof of identity, either a photo ID or some other government document. This minimal requirement will make it easier to ensure that only citizens vote, that they only vote once, and that they don't cast votes in the name of dead people.

to impose identification requirements here run into furious objections that they would discriminate against poor and minority voters

In other words they couldn't bus in a bunch of bums promised cigarettes and booze, or non citizens here illegally to vote for the RATS.

Nothing surprising in that. Typical RAT behavior.

It usually surprises Americans that only 11 states require all voters to show ID. (They are Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.) Other countries--both developed and developing--do much more in the way of requiring identification in order to vote. Recent internationally supervised elections in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor and Guyana have all stipulated that voters had to present ID to cast a ballot.

But attempts to impose identification requirements here run into furious objections that they would discriminate against poor and minority voters. In New Mexico, state Rep. Max Coll, a Democrat, justified blocking a photo ID bill by calling it an effort "to suppress the vote of poorly educated people who don't understand exactly what they need to bring as ID or anything like that."

This is a nice way of saying we now live in a banana republic where it is common for elections to be stolen. We are getting closer to the transition from the ballot box to the ammo box.

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