Phase One: less democracy
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By Jason Haas
The two years I was living in the state of Georgia taught me a great deal about what it meant to be a Wisconsinite. For one thing, we trust people. It's an intrinsic Midwestern quality to take people at their word and believe their actions are made in good faith. Second, we value the involvement of fellow Wisconsinites in our communities and our government. I did not see this in Savannah. Because I was there between elections, I never had the opportunity to vote.
Read entire essay here.
By Jason Haas
The two years I was living in the state of Georgia taught me a great deal about what it meant to be a Wisconsinite. For one thing, we trust people. It's an intrinsic Midwestern quality to take people at their word and believe their actions are made in good faith. Second, we value the involvement of fellow Wisconsinites in our communities and our government. I did not see this in Savannah. Because I was there between elections, I never had the opportunity to vote.
Read entire essay here.
2 Comments:
Shouldn't voter fraud in the Milwaukee area be adressed? If not with the mandate of a photo ID then with what? Personally, I don't find the requirement of a photo ID (which you need to rent a video) to be all that imposing. Every resident of the state should have at least a state identification card. Sounds like common sense to me.
Except that if you go with the photo ID as written, you will disqualify all college students.
The address on their ID is not the dorm they live in. They would have to drive home to vote or not at all.
Also, what about the elderly who do not drive? No licence, no vote for them.
Also, what about the homeless or the transient, they do not have a steady address to put on an ID.
Hmmm... Let's see here, who will college students, the elderly and the poor most likely vote for?
I wonder why the republican's would push this solution over all.
Plus, don't you consider voting a little more important than renting a video.
Now, normally, we do not make people prove that they are not breaking the law - we arrest people that HAVE broken the law.
If a felon voted that should not have, they should be prosecuted. But to ask for ID for evey voter merely suppresses the vote, and goes against everything we are supposed to stand for.
It is the same as setting up a checkpoint at the grocery store, to check to see it you just might have a warrant out against you.
Do you want to live in a police state?
What we need to do, is enforce the law as written. If someone votes that is not qualified, arrest/fine/punish them. But do not assume every citizen is breaking the law.
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