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Any society requiring photo ID to buy cigarettes and a six-pack but resisting the same screen for the voting booth is past due for a dose of cultural introspection. Affirming one’s right to vote through legitimate identification is important for the same reason a paper trail to validate electronic voting is important.
Efforts by the left to frame this issue as voter intimidation offer embarrassing testimony to a dedication to decoy politics. Anytime personal accountability is advocated in twenty-first century America, liberal anti-truth missiles are launched with fierce abandon. Christian psychiatrist Scott Peck, of The Road Less Traveled fame, pegged such shenanigans with perfection in a later publication, People of the Lie.
Those believing procurement of photo ID in today’s America is an unreasonable hurdle might have seen too many reruns of Tobacco Road. With opportunity comes responsibility. Though most voters are blind about who they are voting for, that does not mean officials should be equally blind about who is doing the voting.
Accountability distracters are correct that patterned voter fraud is rare. The mission is to insure it remains so.
The growing number of illegal aliens, felons, entitlement addicts, and others operating from a model of self-service have dramatically increased the potentials for voting misbehaviors. With so many politicians addicted to a “rob Peter to pay Paul” model of public service, there are lots of “Pauls” with an interest in corrupting our political system to personal advantage.
The Bush-Gore election demonstrates the importance of a ballot process as fair, seamless, and upright as we can make it. In this case it was the left who screamed “fraud” over chads, recounts, and voter eligibility. Subsequently, in Minnesota, liberal comedian Al Franken lost his Senate run by several hundred votes. A recount that included hundreds of votes by ineligible felons reversed the outcome and left permanent scars on the right’s sense of electoral justice.
Voter-ID resistance is really pro-fraud advocacy. The appeals are to emotion over reason – a trademark sign of mischief if there ever was one.
In a more mature America, the people who run our country would be seated on the basis of something more compelling than name recognition and convenience. Photo ID to access the power of the voting booth is not asking too much skin for such an important game.
We work hard to affirm the authenticity of the ballot process – why not the person voting?
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