A federal district court judge in Georgia has blocked the state from enforcing its newly revised law requiring voters to produce a photo ID.
As I pointed out here, that may not be surprising since, after all, voting in Georgia (and Virginia) is obviously not as important as the Graduate Record Examination, which, so far, no federal judge has barred from requiring a valid government-issued photo ID.
… Or showing photo ID to get on an airplane, drive a car , or cash a check, or use a credit card or …
The vehemence of the left in fighting this benign requirement really makes me believe they practice a lot of voter fraud and don’t want to be stopped.
actus just posted the following comment on my original No-Identity Politics post:
“there is a right to vote; there is no corresponding right to drive”
I have copied it here.
Yes, but there is a right not to be deprived of the ability to drive by a racially discriminatory state policy. The objection to requiring a photo ID for voting is that it amounts to racial discrimination. If that is so, why is the requirement not equally discriminatory in other venues?
There may be no right to drive per se, but there is a constitutionally recognized right to travel, including he right to travel between states. As a practical matter that right is becoming increasingly difficult to exercise without first showing someone somewhere a picure ID. The analogy holds.
The National Education Association recently passed a resolution stating that they are against requiring photo ID (just like the judge in the Georgia case) in order to vote. However, they require exactly that when voting for their own representatives!!
Do Mexican Indians complain that Mexico’s requirement of photo ID is discriminatory?
I have an idea.
I think the state office in charge of IDs, which for us would be the highway patrol, ought to outfit a van for producing picture IDs for voting purposes. They could hit every neighborhood in the city and produce free IDs for people who don’t have driver’s licenses. The radio stations and newspapers could advertise the locations and times, and the kinds of documentation people will need to have ready. I would be very willing to be taxed for this purpose.