In 2021, eight out of ten Americans, or 80% believed we needed to protect our voting system with identification. In 2024, that number is up to 84%, and yet the leaders that be, and those who hope to manipulate our voting system, continue to make the argument that it is an unfair expectation. Here’s a Ballotpedia article comparing the idea of voter identification to the Poll Taxes of the Jim Crow era. This article and this way of thinking tries to insinuate that voter ID is in some way a white, Anglo conspiracy to disenfranchise or keep other ethnicity, underprivileged, and simple minded individuals from having a right to vote. Bullshit! You need an ID to buy alcohol or tobacco; to cash a check, to check into a hotel, to buy a gun, to drive, to hunt or fish, to fly, to get into Disneyland … the list goes on. Nobody is making an argument that these required id usages are disenfranchising individuals from doing any of those things. In fact, here are twenty-two and twenty-four different things you need identification in order to do in this country, and here you will find seven things for which the US Federal Government requires identification.
The point is, that the American people are tired of the fight over whether our elections are secure or not, whether people who do not have the right to vote are influencing our elections, and 85% believe we need voter id. It is just common sense, to protect our voting system in such a way. Just as it is common sense that if we could count all the votes in our country just a few short years ago in one night, there is no reason that we should have states or areas of the country where it takes days, or weeks, or a month. Again, Bullshit! We need to quit tolerating the bullshit. After the Florida – Bush/Gore debacle, both parties and voters were insistent that we fix that issue. Florida did. Why can’t Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia?
I’ll tell you why we can’t address voter id and efficient voting issues. Because there is an element of our society that doesn’t want free, fair, and secure elections. It makes it harder to cheat.
