Voter Integrity, Not Voter Suppression
Sometimes, I’ll order office supplies on line through Staples, and then I’ll go to the store in Waterloo to pick up the order and see what other items might be there of interest.
When I go there, I have to not only show them a printout of the email with the order, but I have to show them a valid ID, like a driver’s license, to prove who I am so I can pick up the order. Sometimes it’s less than $20 worth of material, but I still have to show an ID. Those are their rules, and that’s fine…I even thought so the day I left my wallet in the car and had to go back to the parking lot to get it because they required me to show an ID.
The Waterloo Public Library is only two blocks away from our radio studios, and I often talk a walk up there to browse the new book selection. If I want to check something out, I have to show them a library card, which I was only able to get by demonstrating who I really was with a valid ID card; again, in my case, a driver’s license.
I mention this because yet again, those on the left are crying out about voter suppression, just because those who care about election integrity want an ID number put on absentee ballots. Those are the same folks who complained that Iowa was going to require voters to show a valid ID at the polls.
To say that voters of certain groups aren’t smart enough to fill out a ballot correctly, or to have an ID for voting when they already need it for all other things is frankly embarrassing for those making the argument.
Election integrity is the number one issue in 2022 and beyond…not the economy, not the COVID virus, not the budget deficit. If we don’t have fair elections, we have nothing in a self-governing society. Anything simple like this we can do to make it just as easy to vote, but harder to cheat, is something everyone should support. Question the real motives of those who do not.
