This isn’t
anything new for me to talk about. Maybe I should leave it alone but for some
reason I cannot. I really don’t like to continue to complain about the
Republican Party because the Democratic Party does stupid things too but I
guess when you mess with people’s rights it bothers me more than most other
things. As you know Republicans are trying to make it harder for lots of
American citizens to cast their votes this November. They say it is because of
the possibility of voter fraud. Since the year 2000 there have been 2068
alleged cases of voter fraud. During that time there have been more than 600
million votes cast in presidential election not to mention state and local
elections then we would get into the billions. This (2068) is a very small
amount and from that only 10 were in-person voter fraud. So how can Republican
push through these Voter I.D. Laws to combat this non-existent problem? You
know the answer. They want to suppress the vote. They want to decrease the
number of people voting for President Obama and it is working.
If you are among
the people that feel it is okay to require people to show I.D. to combat the
problem of In-Person Voter Fraud then I wonder why? I say that because voting
is a right, just like speech and bearing arms. Should we really make it harder
to vote because of the actions of 10 people since the year 2000? Over 9,000
people are killed every year with guns but we are not making it harder to buy
guns. Over 70,000 people are injured with guns each year and some would say we
have made it easier to get guns. You can do the math. Does this make sense to
you? When it comes to guns the Republicans say even though lots of people are
killed we have the ‘right’ to keep and bear arms and that right should not be
infringed upon. Why do they not use the same logic when it comes to voting?
Maybe because this effort affects mostly the poor, the elderly and students and as a party
those are three groups that the Republican Party doesn’t care about.
I know all
Republicans don’t feel this way. I will say that all of my Republican friends
that I have talked to about Voter I.D. think it is a good idea. I even know
some that say they are Democrats and they are okay with Voter I.D... I don’t know
ANY Republicans that want stricter gun laws.
To bring
this to a close, it is Rights vs. Rights and only one of them can quickly cost
you your life. One of them has a big
money lobbying firm behind it and the other is being used to try to get Mitt Romney
into the White House.
