Fun Fact: Wisconsin has its new voter ID law... and in Sauk City, the ID-issuing office is only open on the 5th Wednesday of every month. The FIFTH WEDNESDAY. That's 4 days a year. That's really going out of your way to make it hard. I expect they'll move it to the sixth Wednesday next year and just give up the pretense altogether.
There are many, many articles now detailing this fact also, aside from the link below: the fact that so-called "free" state-issued IDs carry pre-documentation costs that well exceed the infamous 'poll tax' outlawed during the Civil Rights era. The poll tax has returned with a vengeance, we just don't call it that anymore.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/study-finds-costs-associated-with-voter-ids/2012/07/17/gJQAlrcXsW_story.html
It would seem if the conservtives are so enamoured of a national ID card to separate real citizens from illegals, they would also be
ReplyDeletefor that card is a simple solution to 'voter fraud' that does not disenfranchise millions of
legitimate voters....
Is the office hardly being open a result of the voter ID law, or a result of public "servants" doing a lousy job of serving the public?
ReplyDeleteThe interplay between the two is what matters most. The passage of the voter ID law makes it easier for those in power to exploit targeted neglect at certain points in the system to disenfranchise certain groups of voters.
DeleteIn every age there has been a tendency to pine for the 'good old days' some idyllic bygone era when people were righteous, leaders were virtuous, etc.
ReplyDeletePeople have no idea what the 1800's were like. There was no elastic money supply. We had a stretch of decades called 'the great deflation' where the economy was locked in an endless cycle of booms and busts that wreaked regular havoc on the financial system.
Fortunately most of America was more rural, isolated and less connected to Wall Street so it didn't have as broad effects on the populace as it would today. But we don't want to go back to those days with our current layout.
Those tight laws in Arizona turn up some surprizing fraud ...
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