Our dear friends in Madison have been very vocal about their opposition to voter id, because they claim it disenfranchises the poor and elderly who don't have a driver's license. They claim that to require someone to show a photo id in order to vote is a huge burden to a large segment of the population, despite the fact that free photo ids are provided in the voter id bill passed and signed into law.
So isn't ironic that these same liberals who can't stand the thought of showing an id to vote have no problem requiring that you show a photo id to use a bus pass. Talk about hypocrites!! So the exact population that they say would be disenfranchised by requiring an id to vote, now need to get a photo id just to use a bus pass. But in the case of Madison, they don't offer to pay for the photo id if you don't have one. You can't make this stuff up.
So why do they want to require a photo id for using a bus pass? To stem the fraudulent use of bus passes. Wow, what a concept, actually validate you say who you are before you use the bus pass. Kinda like asking you to validate who you actually are before your vote. If the photo id is such a great way to ensure the bus pass is only used by the rightful owner, than why the fuss over showing a photo id to vote?
You can answer that question yourselves. By their own actions, the liberals in Madison have shown that the photo id is an effective deterrent to fraudulent bus pass use and therefore, would be an equally effective deterrent to voter fraud. And since they are requiring people who ride the bus, who presumably don't have licenses, to show an id, it is no more of a burden for these people to show that same id they use for their bus pass when they vote.
No comments:
Post a Comment