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Originally posted by: billryan
We agree. Any voter fraud is unacceptable and should be investigated and punished. Where we disagree is that you seem to be willing to disenfranchise thousands in order to prevent the possibility. Isn't that the opposite of the very bedrock of our democracy? Everyone is innocent until found guilty? Isn't it better that a dozen guilty men go free than one innocent is punished? Maybe those are just words to some, they are a guiding principle to me.
As I said, I don't think there are as many disenfranchised as some claim there to be. Anyone who cared that much about voting would (should) have obtained something by now. I do think the sancity of voting is an extremely important issue for this country, and I don't think acquiring an ID isn't nearly as prohibitive as people like forky make it sound. Too many bus rides and such? Hogwash, how do they get around now? I'd bet anything if anyone was actually having that much trouble getting an ID a call the local party HQ and theyw ould assist in anyway they could, they already do huge registration drives not to mention rent vans for people like forky. Why not help them forever?
The whole "guilty dozen men.." analogy doesn't jibe at all either, not talking about a crfime here ,so yes, I think the sanctity of legal voting supercedes the few too lazy or whatever to go by the rules. I would rather see one lazy/apathetic voter not being able to vote than a dozen illegal votes, wouldn't you agree? There is ABSOLUTELY no reason whatsoever that every person shouldn't own some sort of identification to show who they are, NONE.