VOTING WITHOUT VERIFIED ID IS THE REAL SCAM

SOME PEOPLE ARE exercised by the Supreme Court's decision to review an Indiana law requiring verifiable Voter ID at the polls in exchange for the right to vote. They call the law un-American, liken it to a right-wing conspiracy, suggest that it is targeted at people of color, when it is in actuality race and color neutral, requiring ID of ALL those who want to vote.
Let's deal with the basic issue.
Voting is a privilege and a right of citizenship. Since that citizenship is a basically guaranteed right generated by our Constitution, conferring a responsibility for confirming citizenship seems eminently reasonable. As to it being unreasonable and an " inconvenience," let me have the temerity to suggest, "So what?"
Is it an inconvenience so intolerable as to justify the widespread voter fraud that occurs every election in the highly democratic wards of major cities, in which people vote two, three and ever more times without ID in different polling places, using bogus addresses, even empty lots, for the purpose? Where dead people vote not once, but also two, three or more times?
Republicans and Independents don't vote multiple times, even using absentee ballots. They don't think that way. They value their vote; it isn't a prize for sale to the highest political bidder.
It is not a "highly partisan" law as she claims, it is voter neutral, attempting only to place value on a Citizen's right to vote by having the affirm that right through identification. The Constitution says throughout that CITIZEN' S rights to vote shall note be abridged by race, religion, sex or other means. The emphasis is on Citizens, and that is as it should be.
Congress should pass a national counterfeit-proof ID law forthwith, requiring proof of citizenship to be obtained.
Our modern society is well past the point where citizenship can be so taken for granted so as to allow the fraudulent conveyance of one of the most sacred rights of a democratic society. The right to vote carries with it the attendant responsibility to vote: every time, in every election.
Those too lazy to participate in the process show how little they value their rights.
For rights to have meaning they must be exercised openly, not just when convenient; demonstrated often, not just in favorable weather; conveyed with vigor, assiduously, to representatives; and felt wholeheartedly.
"If the voice of the people is to have value, it must be heard."
It seems little trouble to require that the voice be a real, legitimate voice, not an illegal immigrant, or someone who is slightly inconvenienced by the registration process, and is required to present proof of the right to vote.
Plaintive calls notwithstanding, voting is the touchstone of our society; we should value it more, not less.
And establish value by requiring any necessary proof to exercise our right to vote.
Many Americans do value their voting rights, and I, for one, resist any attempts to dilute my vote's value.
I have voted continuously, openly and without fear for forty three years in every local, state and national election.
While I can't say I'm always pleased with the results, I do feel that by voting I have exercised my citizenship rights, responsibly.
And, let's take a minute do discuss the growing trend towards Early Voting, and Absentee Voting.
What was a real attempt to help those who, by fault of physical disability, military service, now travel added, now for any reason, folks in a growing number of states can get an absentee ballot. Not only does this offer great opportunity for scams, and fraud, it seems that using Absentee Ballots to avoid polling places, identification requirements, or for "slim to none'"reasons is just wrong. Voting should be a responsible and determined exercise of Citizenship. It should not be "easier;" it should be as difficult and transparent as necessary to make people "buy in to" their responsibilities, concurrent with their rights.
Organizations, liberally-oriented and sponsored, are even using government funding, approved through a liberal wing of congress, to use paid staff and volunteers, including felons, to go out and obtain registrations. Some (how many, I wonder?) are registering the same people at different addresses, multiple times, registering them in spite of being told that they are felons and can't vote, registering people from gravestones, using vacant lot addresses, non-existent addresses and more. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of phony registrations are in the works for November's Presidential election.
How can that be responsibile Citizenship?
I want everybody to vote and have their vote counted; I don't want those who are motivated by money, persuaded by a free lunch or a ride, to vote with less than a full committment to their attendant rights and responsibilities.
The Ameican system of government we all value will wither and die unless Citizenship returns to the value our Founders coveted and promoted; nothing is more important.
In "olden days," Citizens used to have to ride horses ten miles, 20 miles or more, to Vote. Voting was difficult, but so important that in most elections turnout of those eligible was close to one hundred percent; people valued the Vote that much.
Nowadays, we're lucky to get fifty percent plus turnout, even for Presidential elections.
Also, many states had property ownership as a requirement or the right o vote, today everyone is eligible who is a Citizen.
Our great country, well maybe not so great anymore, still has more value than any two other countries, any four or five, even. Value in the sense that America is the place people want to go to, not get away from. America is where the greatest opportunities are; for entrepreneurship, education, personal freedom.
Many, if not most, Americans wake up every day knowing that there are chances for them to get ahead, get an education, work for themselves, even if they choose not to participate, they believe that the opportunity is there.
There are no countries to which they could point and say "I could do better in Russia, or Afghanistan, or China, or ...or..."
We are the best, let's keep it that way!
Make sure that America continues to be the land of opportunity for it's Citizens.
Vote for American Values.