Exercise your right to vote!

I wish there were a way to assuage the fears of those who really believe voter fraud is a problem without making voting more difficult. (The scoundrels are those who raise this “concern” solely to suppress the vote.)

Eugene Robinson: Voter fraud is an issue that isn’t – The Washington Post

“But you need an ID to do a lot of things, like board a plane,” advocates say. Unlike commercial air travel, however, voting is a constitutionally protected right. To infringe or abridge that right — for no demonstrable reason — should be considered a crime against democracy. …

Minorities, poor people and seniors are less likely than other Americans to have government-issued identification such as a driver’s license — and more likely, for various reasons, to have difficulty obtaining an acceptable ID. They might live far from the nearest motor vehicles department office, for example, and lack transportation. In the case of some older African Americans born in the South under Jim Crow segregation, they might not even have a proper birth certificate of the kind needed to obtain a driver’s license or state ID card. …

The problem in this country isn’t too many people voting, it’s too few. We should be making it easier for people to vote, not harder, and we shouldn’t be imposing requirements that have the same effect as a poll tax.

Eugene Robinson: Voter fraud is an issue that isn’t – The Washington Post

In New Mexico, elderly Navajos are particularly unlikely to have IDs.