It’s not difficult to get a photo ID
How incredibly insulting it is to minorities to be told that they are incapable of accomplishing the same things as other people. Minorities have been told that they are incapable of getting a photo ID. Wow!
Doesn’t it take the same amount of effort for any individual to get a photo ID regardless of skin color? I myself have accomplished this lofty goal while expending very little effort. But some people are trying to tell everyone that minorities are incapable of this accomplishment. Why? Are they racist? Do they think that if you are a minority you do not have the ability to do this? How insulting!
I have never seen anyone turned away at the DMV because they are a minority. In fact many of the employees at the DMV are minorities. Why then is this an issue? Could it possibly be that the problem is not that minorities can’t get photo IDs, but rather that if you need a photo ID to vote it makes voter fraud much more difficult? Of course that is the reason. I don’t care if you are a Democrat or a Republican, fraud is wrong, period. The only people a photo ID will prevent from voting are foreign nationals, dead people or fictitious people.
A law that requires a photo ID to vote is going to improve the integrity of our elections and preserve the value of everyone’s vote. If a photo ID is required to drive a car, board an airplane, cash a check, get into a bar, check out a book, even buy cold medicine, then I don’t think it is unreasonable to require one to elect our government representatives and the most powerful individual in the world.
Frank Annerino
Palatine