The news came as a great surprise, just like the fact that the sun rose in the East. We still don't have the ability to keep the people who are not entitled to vote from voting.
The statewide voter registration system will not be ready for the February primary elections. It may not even be ready for the November elections. Yet the man whose responsibility this new system was has been promoted by our governor to be the legal counsel for the new Government Accountability Board. I feel all warm and fuzzy over that appointment.
The new system doesn't work even though more than $22 Million dollars have been spent to make it work.
My short response to all this is this stinks. If this were really important to the people running our state, do you believe for one minute that this wouldn't have been done last year or certainly by this year? Do you think felons should be voting? Do you think illegal aliens should be voting? Do you think votes should be cast on behalf of people lying in cemeteries?
There is one very simple answer to this problem of voter fraud. Photo IDs for all voters. Why has this not gotten the traction to have been made law long ago? Because supposedly it would curtail the voting of senior citizens? That is bunk and all right-thinking people know it's bunk. Because it would unfairly curtail the votes of minorities? That is also bunk.
Take a look at the 'turn out the vote' machines that are mobilized by the main political parties and unions, and then try to make me understand that voter IDs wouldn't also be made part of those campaigns.
There is only one reason that we still do not require voter IDs, and that, unfortunately, is because it gives one party an edge over the other party.
