Things That Just Piss Me Off

This is ridiculous. There is nothing wrong with having to show ID in order to vote. It’s a safguard to make sure that the person voting is not voting more than once, which has happened, and it’s a safeguard to make sure that the person voting is a US citizen.

I don’t want people voting more than once, nor do I want non US citizens to be allowed to vote. That doesn’t seem like asking for too much.

Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules
By LINDA GREENHOUSE of the NYTimes

There are many ways to lose a Supreme Court case, and by the end of an argument that was before the court on Wednesday, the Democrats who were challenging Indiana’s voter-identification law appeared poised to lose theirs in a potentially sweeping way, with implications for many future election cases.

The justices’ questioning indicated that a majority did not accept the challengers’ basic argument — that voter-impersonation fraud is not a problem, so requiring voters to produce government-issued photo identification at the polls is an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.

Nowhere in the constitution does it guarantee the right to vote more than once nor does it say you don’t have to be a legal US citizen in order to vote. This is not a burden. If you are unwilling to get a state issued ID in order to be able to vote, you likely don’t take the trouble to study the issues either and you don’t need to vote.