Monday, August 22, 2005
SWOP homepageBlockbuster Style Voting
From Rod Adair's website, quoting the Journal...
Minorities "...stand in line at the video shop, the grocery store, the airport or anywhere minorities produce identification just like anybody else who wants to buy something or go somewhere...it's just not a problem in the commercial arena."
[Republicans] would say, "You go from Blockbuster Video to the polling place and suddenly you can't pull out a driver's license?"
The Journal says the City Council may bring up Sally Mayer's voter ID bill at tonight's' council meeting for debate. Undoubtedly you will hear this Blockbuster argument in favor of the bill.
It's an interesting analogy. Ultimately, it should be as easy to vote as it is to rent a video or pull money from an ATM, or any of things we all do on a daily basis. If I go to the polling place, and have an ID, I should be able to vote and have my vote counted right then and there. I don't have to wait to get my video, I shouldn't have to wait to get my vote counted.
I should get a receipt saying when, where and for whom I voted, and that my vote was counted. Just like at Blockbuster.
Mayer and those who really don't want every day, working folks to vote, want to make it hard for eligible voters to cast a ballot come election day. They use this Blockbuster argument disingenuously and diabolically to pass a Voter ID Bill that does nothing to bring about "Blockbuster style" voting. Rather, it will bring down already abysmal voter participation rates.
Any Voter ID legislation without same day voter registration and voting, is at best seriously flawed and at worst intended to deny eligible voters the right to vote.
Minorities "...stand in line at the video shop, the grocery store, the airport or anywhere minorities produce identification just like anybody else who wants to buy something or go somewhere...it's just not a problem in the commercial arena."
[Republicans] would say, "You go from Blockbuster Video to the polling place and suddenly you can't pull out a driver's license?"
The Journal says the City Council may bring up Sally Mayer's voter ID bill at tonight's' council meeting for debate. Undoubtedly you will hear this Blockbuster argument in favor of the bill.
It's an interesting analogy. Ultimately, it should be as easy to vote as it is to rent a video or pull money from an ATM, or any of things we all do on a daily basis. If I go to the polling place, and have an ID, I should be able to vote and have my vote counted right then and there. I don't have to wait to get my video, I shouldn't have to wait to get my vote counted.
I should get a receipt saying when, where and for whom I voted, and that my vote was counted. Just like at Blockbuster.
Mayer and those who really don't want every day, working folks to vote, want to make it hard for eligible voters to cast a ballot come election day. They use this Blockbuster argument disingenuously and diabolically to pass a Voter ID Bill that does nothing to bring about "Blockbuster style" voting. Rather, it will bring down already abysmal voter participation rates.
Any Voter ID legislation without same day voter registration and voting, is at best seriously flawed and at worst intended to deny eligible voters the right to vote.
