The Supreme Court voted today to allow Illinois to require photo ID in order to vote. Seems like common sense to me. After all, everyone is required to show a form of photo ID in order to buy booze, cigarettes, drive, file their taxes, get a passport (TWO for that), buy, own or carry a gun, join the military, etc. Among many, many other things. Seems sensible to me that you should be required to show a photo ID in order to do the most important thing of all: cash in on your franchise as an American citizen.
Yet we have people who are convinced that requiring a photo ID in order to select our representatives, who make the laws, would be disenfranchised by this. Their reasoning is that some potential voters would be too poor to be able to afford the burden of a state-issued ID. Are there really that many people who are so poor that they cannot afford to get an ID card? So many that it would influence any election one way or the other? I have a hard time believing that.
To put it into perspective, the Illinois requirement for a state-issued photo ID is found here. The fee is $20 for a first-time five year ID card in Illinois. For those under 18 it is $10. For disabled or over 65 citizens it is totally free. Anyone who couldn’t come up with these documents is truly a sad sack. Or just the sort of voter the DNC has been looking for, apparently. Since they oppose any form of poll ID whatsoever.
Who knew the meth whores who blow gangbangers for the next score were a significant voting bloc? I didn’t know that. And I learned something new today.
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