Regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation, knowing that you are who you say you are requires some type of identification for almost everything. Whether it’s a D.L., birth certificate, social security card, or proof of residency, you are required to show proof.
Is confirmation of your identification to vote really unreasonable? Try and board a flight without a valid ID. Try and check into a hotel (other than a by hour hotel) without an ID. Try and pick up tickets to a concert or sporting event without an ID. Try buying tobacco or alcohol without and ID. Yet somehow it’s racist and viewed by the left as voter suppression. Think for a minute, you’re part of the democratic
process in electing a man or woman to the highest office in the land. Is it unreasonable that you need proof that you’re a U.S. citizen and you are who you say you are, and you live in the state and county you say you live in? I don’t think so.
I relocated to Texas last year and had to get a TX D.L. I had to show my birth certificate, proof of address, I’m married, so I had to show my marriage certificate. And guess what? I saw Asians, Hispanics, and African-Americans doing the same as me. Where’s the discrimination? Did those of other races feel they were being disenfranchised? That they were being suppressed from being able to drive in Texas? Did any feel that they were being discriminated against? I don’t think so. Why than would requiring proof of ID to vote be any different?
As a statement against the newly passed Georgia voting law, MLB made the unprecedented decision to move the 2021 MLB All Star game to Denver Colorado. Some 60 companies supported the move.
Interestingly enough, Georgia has a 31.5% African American population to Colorado’s 4.6%. Moreover, the voting laws, by contrast, aren’t that much different.
So let’s try and postulate the reason why the left is crying “foul” in requiring IDs and some reasonable limits or early voting and absentee voting, and mail in ballots.
I find it interesting that many of these same people that are calling for little or no voter ID, are fully supportive of vaccine passport s, and required vaccine IDs for universities, airlines, libraries, cruise ships, and sporting events.
Call me cynical, but I firmly believe that those who oppose voter ID have a far more nefarious motive. That want to gain and retain power. It is not about voter suppression of minorities.