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Supreme Court Upholds Indiana Voter ID Law - score one for common sense

By J. Wesley ⋅ April 29, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

The Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring a state or federally-issued ID be shown before voting. The tally was 6-3, with Justice Stephens defecting from the Dark Side for the vote.

It’s a sign of just how frivolous and self-destructively egalitarian our nation has become that the Indiana voter ID law was even an issue. The challenge to the law was stupid on its face. What, the process of choosing our government deserves LESS protection than cashing a check at the Stop N’ Shop? It’s not an undue burden to show ID to get a library card, but it is for choosing the leader of the Free World?

After the 2000 elections, I established a common-sense First Law of Voting:

If you are too old, blind, or mentally enfeebled to understand the ballot, you have no business voting.

The Liberal challenge to the Indiana Voter ID law has inspired my Second Law of Voting:

If your life is so consumately screwed up that you have no photo ID, then you have no business picking my leaders for me. Your time might be better spent putting down the hash pipe and getting a job.

Just thinkin’ out loud here.

PS- I anticipate someone saying piously, “But the vote is of such transcendent holiness and importance that we should go to any length to allow people to vote.” To which I explain, “Shut up.” If the vote is so terribly, terribly important to these individuals, then surely it is worth the effort involved in getting a photo ID. If it is too much trouble to drag themselves to the Department of Motor Vehicles for a FREE ID, then the vote must not have mattered that much to them.