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June 9, 2011

Rasmussen: 75% Support Showing Photo ID At The Polls

Topics: Political News and commentaries

A new Rasmussen national telephone survey finds that 75% of Likely U.S. Voters believe voters should be required to show photo identification such as a driver's license before being allowed to vote:

Eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans support a photo ID requirement at the polls, as do 77% of voters not affiliated with either major party and 63% of Democrats. But then support for such a law is high across virtually all demographic groups.

[...] By a 48% to 29% margin, voters think that letting ineligible people vote is a bigger problem than preventing legitimate voters from casting a ballot.

A plurality (46%) of Democrats thinks it's more common for eligible voters to be denied their right to vote. Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans and a plurality (44%) of voters not affiliated with either party, on the other hand, believe that illegal voting is more prevalent.

Only one percent (1%) say they have ever been illegally denied the right to vote.

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Any claim that requiring a photo ID is "voter suppression," as many Democrats claim, is absurd. It's just a simple means of very commonly used technology to ensure the integrity of the ballot, and only makes sense - absolutely anyone that is legal to vote can get a photo ID from their local DMV with just their birth certificate and proof of residence. You have to show your photo ID to rent a movie, buy alcohol, pickup a prescription, purchase a car, buy a house, take out a loan, return or exchange merchandise at most stores, . etc., and you have to have a photo ID in the form of a driver's license to drive a car. So why not have to show your ID to vote? It's a no-brainer.

Just think about it for a moment; if you can take the time and have the means to go register to vote, you can take a few minutes and use the same means to get your birth certificate (you can even get it online) and get to the DMV or other appropriate location to get a valid state-issued photo ID card. And if you are unwilling and/or are too inept to do this, you shouldn't be voting in the first place (i.e. you're either too irresponsible, too stupid, or both too irresponsible and too stupid to vote). And the minuscule percentage of US citizens who fail to do this, and end up unable to vote, are far outweighed by the multitude of unqualified individuals who will be stopped from voting.

And as Quinn Hillyer points out at CFIF, it's primarily the Democrat-Left that objects to photo ID being required for voting, and the reason is clear:

The simple fact is that, from ACORN illegalities nationwide to massive abuses in Noxubee County, Miss., from mysteriously “discovered” ballots in a Washington State governor’s race stretching all the way back to the manifest irregularities in Illinois and Texas that snatched the presidency for John F. Kennedy over Richard Nixon, illegal voting overwhelmingly tends to favor the political Left. If there is a partisan or ideological bent to conservative attempts to de-fang the Left’s fraud snakes, it is born not of racial animus but of a legitimate need for protection of honest ballots. If Republicans are, in Wasserman Schultz’s words, trying to “block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates,” then it is only because illegal voters are more likely to vote for Democrats.

Those are "voters" whose access darn well ought to be blocked. Illegal aliens, dogs, dead people and dead goldfish have no business deciding who our public officials are.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 13 states already require photo ID to vote, and 16 states require other ID as stipulated by the state. Of course none of this addresses what is likely the bigger problem of Absentee Voter Fraud which is probably much more common tnan voter fraud at the voting booth.

Posted by Richard at June 9, 2011 2:20 PM

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