“Vote Early, and Vote Often”

Ohio is the next state to consider requiring photo ID for voting. Democrats call this “Rolling back voting rights.”

Democrats contend that many people, particularly their constituents do not have photo ID, and they even objected to states offering, for free, to send people to their homes to take photos and give ID cards.

It is certainly a very few people in the US who do not have a photo ID. You can’t cash a check, or use a credit card, or drive a car, or fly in a plane…and I suspect there are a few, very poor people who do none of these things.

But you also then can’t apply for welfare, or food stamps without such identification, so even if you are poor you are likely to starve if you have no identification, so the number of people without an ID is desperately small.

There must be some reason the Democrats don’t want photo ID for voting, some reason they have made this such an important  issue that they are willing to die on this hill.

I’ll admit that shouting that Republicans are such Meannies that they want to stop people from voting, and it makes sense to everyone that voting should be easy, but there are various levels of easy – and I have to show my ID about five times a day so I think showing an ID is pretty damn easy.

I actually doubt that there are many people who, in the vernacular of the old Chicago Pols, actually “Vote early, and vote often”  — but the Democrats are in such miserable shape for the next election that they will fight for every vote.