Latest stupid conservative argument for voter ID: the DNC events require ID at the door! [View all]

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I just saw this IJReview.com story "DNC to require ID in order to attend festivities" posted by a friend on Facebook via the FB "Conservative" page. Yep. The article says: "Now, if the DNC just allowed anyone through the doors, that would be much more consistent with their thoughts on the subject. In which case, it wouldn’t really matter. However, they are requiring state-issued identification."



Is the author so clueless that private events like the DNC has every right to require an ID at the door? This is the latest stupid comparison now that the comparisons of voter ID with buying alcohol or opening a bank account are all worn out. Furthermore, voter ID is not based on evidence of widespread voter impersonation fraud (an overhyped myth) but rather a Republican strategy to exclude Democratic-leaning voters (poor people, the elderly, etc.) from the polls. Remember Paul Weyrich speaking at that 1980 evangelical conference: "I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people...As a result, our leverage in elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." Or John Pappageorge, a Republican state senator from Michigan, saying in 2004: "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election cycle." Or Mike Turzi, the House Majority Leader in Pennsylvania, saying that voter ID laws would help Romney win the election this year.

In the twisted modern conservative mind, voting is now equivalent with entering a private event.

Or I wonder if they're disappointed that right wingers couldn't crash the convention with fake Randall Terry delegates (really, the crazy anti choicer Terry of Operation Rescue fame really ran for the presidency this year as a Democrat).