The ruling class war against voter ID

The ruling class war against voter ID

By: John Hayward | August 19th, 2013

 It’s funny how majority support is supposed to be decisive for some issues, but completely irrelevant for others. Voter ID laws are enormously popular with the general public, routinely scoring 70 to 80 percent approval. That stacks up pretty well against the most popular gun-control measures you could name. But the political class and its media allies will never portray voter ID as an urgent national crusade. No matter how strong support for it grows, voter ID laws are always treated as sinister schemes, advocated by fringe extremists.

There is nothing mysterious about the popularity of voter ID laws. The vast majority of the American public is entirely comfortable with the notion of displaying valid identification for all sorts of everyday tasks. Last week, Twitchy assembled a memorable Twitter rant listing all of the activities requiring photo ID – from writing a check, boarding an airplane, or renting a car, to buying alcohol or cigarettes. Are we supposed to believe that all the people who supposedly can’t procure a voter ID card abstain from consuming tobacco and alcohol?

Also, American voters strongly disapprove of ballot fraud. Even the people who rarely bother to vote understand that elections should not be stolen or tampered with. They’re puzzled by the notion that identification procedures faced by airline passengers every day of the week are too much to ask of voters in major national elections. Much of the public support for voter ID laws could be characterized as mild astonishment that such laws are not already in place, coast to coast…..To Read More…..