Suppress, Suppress, Let’s Suppress This Mess
Pennsylvanias new voter ID law is being litigated in court as we speak, but Pennsylvania never investigated whether voter fraud (the central rationale for ID laws) actually exists, so the state simply wont argue the point. Instead, the argument seems to be that the state can impair a constitutional right because
well, because they can. It doesnt really matter why, it just makes a kind of instinctual sense, like how vaccines cause autism or how evolution cant exist because Ive never seen a thing evolve in front of my eyes despite staring at it and chanting evolve for hours on end.
Fuck you, lamp.
This is bothersome, though, because the state still has to say something on the stand when its asked why they want to enforce the law, and its gotta be better than electing Mitt Romney.
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But the entire case for voter ID is based not on an actual problem that requires a solution, but instead on a series of insanely personal grievances against a faceless horde that receives special treatment that good, upstanding conservative white dudes dont get.
The case for voter ID is the same case against welfare, against unemployment benefits, against progressive taxation a particular brand of social and racial resentment that wants to be codified into law to justify its continued existence.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/27/suppress-suppress-lets-suppress-this-mess/