Paul Carpenter in his columns in the Morning Call and Rep. Doyle Heffley in his columns in the Times News keep telling us that the ID requirement is not voter suppression. Anyone can get an ID. You need an ID to cash a check or board an airplane.
Tonight I talked to an in-home health care professional who received a frantic call from an 85-year-old woman in Whitehall. This woman is on oxygen. She can’t leave the house. She is mentally sharp. She has been voting all her life, but she doesn’t have a picture ID with an expiration date with her photo to send in with her request for an absentee ballot. She will lose her right to vote.
You tell me that this policy is about fraud. No, it isn’t. It is about keeping people from voting.
The reality is that these voter ID requirements are meant to keep republicans in office no matter what. This is really a poll tax on people. People need to rise up and flood these so called representatives with emails, letters and phone calls. Tell them what you think.
ReplyDeleteIt is also very sad that only 30% of the people bother to vote. Of those that do, I wonder how many take the time to gain knowledge of what the people running for office stand for.
If you don't vote, you will get the government that you deserve.