For some time both parties have been engaged in the voter ID mess about who can vote and who can’t. So much is made of the difficulty of obtaining proper ID (most of it nonsense). In the Aug. 16 article, “Non-voters prefer President Obama,” it was stated that 80 million (yes, 80 million) voters will sit out this year’s election because “they are paying attention to other things and don’t have faith in the process.”
Voting is a privilege, and with the multitude of options available to obtain ID, why all the uproar on both sides? It seem to me that if voting is important to a person, they would do whatever it takes to secure ID. You have to show picture ID for many common transactions. Isn’t voting at least as important? Further reading in the article, the survey also found that of those of those polled, 61 percent could not identify the vice president. On second thought, maybe those people shouldn’t be voting anyway.
Roby Ellingson
Marysville
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