The Rosenmeier Center-sponsored debate on voter photo IDs, featuring State Representatives Mary Kiffmeyer and Steve Simon left unanswered questions and prompts one to research this topic.
Does a 10-minute video tell the real facts about Voter Photo IDs? No. The League of Women Voters Minnesota presents a different view aimed at protecting the constitutional right to vote for all citizens.
Requiring a photo ID would disenfranchise the elderly, disabled, minorities, low income voters and young voters who do not have valid photo IDs showing their current addresses. Is it necessary for your 85-year-old grandfather to obtain a photo ID when he has voted in the same precinct for 50 years?
Minnesota has a record of clean elections with no evidence of voter impersonation, which is the only thing a photo ID card can prevent. This is not common sense legislation, but senseless, adding hardship and dollars to a process that is not broken.
In this year of an extreme budget deficit and cuts to the the very core of Minnesota, adding an expensive photo ID program and provisional balloting requirements should not be on the table. These photo IDs are “free” to the voter but will cost millions to the state and local governments.
Government should be on the side of the voter and should not impose unnecessary obstacles to voting.
Sandra Reuther
Breezy Point
President
League of Women Voters of the Brainerd Lakes Area
Comments (3)
Add commentThere was a time when the
There was a time when the League of Women Voters was a respected non-partisan organization. It is unpleasant to watch them degenerate into shills for the DFL.
lwv = partisan hack
league of women voters has lost all of its integrity and respect. the fact that you're sticking up for them and spouting off party rhetoric, saying your 85 year old grandmother will be disenfranchised...um...my 85 year old grandmother was a US citizen, and had a legal id. She also voted, but she was not a member of the league of women voters. she was an average woman who took care of her family and worked hard. she had no idea that what would happen was the dfl party would adopt the socialist party agenda and bribe all illegals to vote for them, and then bemoan their opposing political party's opposition to the voucher system, where dozens of people would vote dozens of times a day in dozens of different precincts, for one dfl liberal candidate.
league of women voters, what a shame they've lost all their self respect.
aj, your post just shows how
aj, your post just shows how little you know about the lwv.