IDs Should Be Required To Vote! It Is A Requirement For Many Transactions Significantly Less Important Than Voting.

THE BIG LIE OF VOTER-ID HARDSHIP

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One of the biggest and most audacious lies the “progressive” left has been telling in recent years is this: Requiring identification to vote in American elections is not only a barrier to participation in free elections but a deliberate one designed to disenfranchise certain voters.

The only voters ID requirements are designed to disenfranchise are those voting illegally.

This is one of those issues that leave me nearly speechless in exasperation. How could anyone of good conscience actually believe that a requirement for simple identification represents an undue burden? First of all, you need to show identification to use a bank, hold even the most menial job, enroll in school, operate a car, fly in a plane, ride in a train, enroll in Obamacare, get a Social Security card, collect welfare, get unemployment, get a cell phone or an old-fashioned phone line and, of course, register to vote!

Yet, we keep hearing this propaganda from the so-called “progressive” left – and this includes nearly all Democratic Party officials and politicians – that requiring identification to vote at the polls represents not only a hassle that discourages citizens from voting but is actually designed to serve as a modern-day “poll tax” to deter certain kinds of legitimate voters from exercising their constitutional rights.

Let me give you an example of the depth of absurdity to which these activists will descend in making their case for open voting that actually is intended to diminish and undermine the effectiveness and power of those who are entitled to vote in U.S. elections.

I got a press release this week from the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, a national think tank at the UCLA School of Law, headlined “STRICT VOTER ID LAWS POSE UNIQUE BARRIERS AND POSSIBLE DISENFRANCHISEMENT FOR MORE THAN 24,000 TRANSGENDER VOTERS.”

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I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if you saw this “research” reported in one of your favorite news sources as if it were a serious matter.

The contention? Here’s what Ms. or Mr. Jody L. Herman, the author of the “study,” had to say: “Lawmakers should not overlook the consequences of enacting stricter voter ID laws on transgender voters. Election officials must consider the potential impact of these laws in the upcoming November elections. Voter ID laws create a unique barrier for transgender people who would otherwise be eligible to vote.”

Again, this is not a parody story. It’s not a script from a “Saturday Night Live” skit. It’s not a joke, nor is it funny. Your tax dollars are supporting this kind of insanity, this deliberate effort to disenfranchise you, the legal, valid citizen voter by neutralizing your right by opening up the election process to widespread – even organized – fraud.

I shouldn’t have to dissect the arguments of those pushing this criminal agenda, but, as you know, the vast majority of states have succumbed to agitprop pressure to effectively encourage deliberate, organized voter fraud on a massive scale capable of rendering the free and fair electoral process null and void.

Now, using the phony language of “inclusiveness,” “rights” and “discrimination,” these enemies of liberty, the rule of law, truth and common sense are bearing down on the 10 states left – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin – actually requiring photo IDs before entering the sacred voter booth.

“Some voters may not have the means or the ability to present the required voter identification for a variety of reasons, such as poverty, disability, or religious objection,” claims Herman. “Transgender people have unique barriers to obtaining accurate IDs needed to vote. As these 10 states begin planning for their fall elections, educating poll workers is crucial in order to ensure that transgender voters in their states have fair access to the ballot.”

Now think about that statement.

This constituency, if I have my LGBTQ definitions straight, consists of people who have undergone major surgery and expensive hormonal treatments to change their sex. As I understand this process, it is time-consuming, costly and almost assuredly requires photo ID before one can undergo the procedures.

Yet, we’re supposed to believe that it’s just too much trouble for a significant percentage of these folks to maintain what nearly every adult in America is going to need to survive in modern society – a legitimate ID.

Maybe if outfits like this publicly funded activist group spent their time and resources helping those few citizens who, for whatever reason, had trouble maintaining a valid identification so necessary to life in America, we wouldn’t have to subject our electoral system to the corruption that follows when ID is no longer a deterrent to fraud.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/the-big-lie-of-voter-id-hardship/#SMLf3juC5Y6XSjxF.99