Editorial: Voter ID the wrong course

[sybylla]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/apr05/319973.asp
From the Journal Sentinel
Posted: April 20, 2005

The Legislature is wrong on mandating photo IDs to vote, and Gov. Jim Doyle is right to oppose the rule.

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Repetition is not proof. Backers of a photo ID requirement have asserted again and again that it would have prevented many of the problems that came to light in Milwaukee and around Wisconsin after the 2004 presidential election. Yet, they have put forth not a single case where such a requirement would have actually helped.

Republicans suggest, for instance, that a photo ID rule would have stopped felons from voting last November. Yet the felons the Journal Sentinel documented as having voted gave their correct names and addresses. How, pray tell, does requiring them to show photo IDs with their correct names and addresses keep them from voting?

A photo ID rule won't halt the clerical errors, the system failures and the bureaucratic blunders that marred the November election.<emphasis added>

<SNIP>

:woohoo: Thank you, jeebus! :woohoo:

I've been saying this all along and it's lucky that I'm sitting down because I never would have expected the highly conservative Milwaukee Journal Sentinal to support that opinion. Every Gannett paper in the state has had an editorial supporting voter ID.

Did they put something in the water in Milwaukee?

[SheilaT]

1. And would producing a photo ID

somehow shortened the long lines that kept many from voting? Would a photo ID have kept machines from changing a Kerry vote to a Bush vote?

Yeah, right.

People double voting and people voting who aren't entitled to are not the problem. Unless it was double voting and illegal voters who were most of the supposed three million votes that W got that "won" him the election. Now there's a thought.

[ewagner]

2. I don't believe it!

A reasonable editorial from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal....

It is a great argument and one i will use over and over and over.....

[gizmo1979]

3. How did I miss that?

That is the 1st editorial I saw against the ID law.

[ClassWarrior]

4. Wow, something from the Milwaukee Urinal that doesn't stink.

Wonder of wonders.

NGU.

[rodeodance]

5. i used to subscribe to the MJS--but stopped long time ago.