Voter ID requirements are good ones

Editor, the Record:

In regards to your editorial, "No doubt voter ID will disenfranchise," you state that surveys show half of adults are unaware of new voter ID requirements.

If I asked you why you would want people who are clueless to vote on our nation's future, you would probably say that "It's their right." But I would respond that with rights come responsibilities.

Why should the uninformed be encouraged to negate the votes of those who care about the issues?

What party is fighting tooth-and-nail against voter ID? I remember big-city ward bosses meeting the boats to register new "citizens" and provide "gifts" and jobs for votes. When Lyndon B. Johnson ran for president, some towns in Texas had more voters than population. This election, the American Civil Liberties Union is in federal court out west trying to eliminate the box saying you are a U.S. citizen. Will the candidates in the next election have to campaign in Mexico, too?

Big-city "community organizers" register voters and bus them to the pools and hand out government largesse. Why can't these benefactors get voter IDs?

Why is the party that is fighting "disenfranchisement" also fighting efforts to make it easier for military stationed overseas to vote? Could it be that members of the military tend to vote Republican?

I grew up during the Depression and have never missed a vote. I have served in public office and know how the game is played. Unfortunately, it's not a game. The future of our nation and, perhaps, the world, is at stake and shouldn't be left to those not willing to make a slight effort to exercise their "rights."

I lived in Jersey City when Frank Hague was mayor. I want to be buried there when I die so that I can remain "politically active."



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