Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Save Act

Just a Reminder. The ID required in the Save Act is NOT what you show to buy beer... And even those fancy Really IDs are not good enough by themselves... 😮

https://www.nonprofitvote.org/reject-save-act/ 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The rationale for Voter ID changes over time. It used to be the case that we were worried about identification. I guess that means we were concerned that people were voting under other people's names, using other people's identity. I never found that convincing, because I never had a sense that it was happening. If it had been a problem, I think we would have all heard about it. There would have been stories, lots of them about people trying to vote only to find someone else had voted for them earlier in the day. Lately, the concern has changed to the possibility that unqualified people are voting. Well, ok, but then how does voter ID address that issue. Unqualified people have identities, and they have ID's. Having a driver's license says nothing about whether you are qualified to vote. I think what is real is what is constant. Imposing requirements to vote creates barriers to voting. The intent always is to lower the turnout of voters who we don't think will vote our way.==Hiram

John said...

As I read somewhere... "a solution without a problem"

Anonymous said...

The problem is one which for a number of reasons we don't want to acknowledge. The fundamental problem with all elections and this has been true throughout history is that too many people who disagree with me also vote.The solution to this most vexing problems is to find ways to reduce the turnout of voters who vote for candidates other than my own. We can do this directly. The reason why slaves weren't allowed to vote before the Civil War was the sense that if they did they would elect candidates who would end slavery.That motivation, fully if implicitly understood, was discredited by the Civil War and it's outcome. So what happens is that what can no longer be done directly is done indirectly through the creation of rationales which have the same effect but with the same negative inferences, We create deniability. We see waters, and we find ways to muddy them.==Hiram