Walk in to your local clinic, and you will have to show a photo I.D. before receiving medical care. Need to cash a check? Make sure you have your driver's license with you. Want to use your credit card in some stores? Cautious merchants ask for photo I.D. Your kid wants to play in a regional soccer tournament--you guessed it: a birth certificate is necessary to establish that the player kicking that ball is exactly who he says he is. After the game, if the player wants to bring a girl from another school to his high school's dance--she, of course, will have to show I.D.
BUT--want to register and vote? No I.D. is necessary in Minnesota! This video clip--totally undoctored--shows how it is possible even to register multiple third parties to vote, all without any I.D. or even signing before a notary! These officials were ready to allow a registration for Tom Brady to vote: voting scam . Even worse, it is just as easy to obtain and execute an absentee ballot.
Back when Anglicat was doing charitable work in Mexico, she was asked, at times, to produce her voter I.D. card. I was stuck explaining in detail that the United States does not issue voter I.D. cards. Officials there were incredulous that a country as sophisticated as the United States would allow its elections to go unprotected from unscrupulous phony voters.
Voting is a sacred privilege for citizens of the United States. It is not too much to require citizens to prove that they are who they say they are, by producing a simple I.D. card, just like they have to do for countless other activities, both mundane and important. With Voter I.D. legislation passed, we could rest assured that election results were not padded with votes cast by deceased, incompetent, or fictitious "voters."
[In case the link, above, does not work for you, here is the citation for you to cut and paste:
http://www.wewantvoterid.com/2012/02/james-okeefes-project-veritas-examines-minnesotas-voter-registration-and-absentee-ballot-systems/ .]
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