Voter ID For GovCo Employees
Should a voter have to identify himself before being allowed to vote? It seems a simple enough idea; an idea whose purpose is to verify that the person voting is the same as the person who is registered. What is there to oppose about this?
Those supporting the idea, typically more conservative in political leanings, not always Republican as there are Democrats who support the idea, but whose common thought is: “Why haven’t they asked me to show an ID?” The protesters against this act as if someone might not be able to vote and that if one person should not be able to vote due to lack of identification, then the law is morally wrong. Now there’s a stretch. But Democrats, I generalize of course, are not known for their ability to think rationally, just their ability to rationalize, so what would one expect.
But this is not to rehash that argument; it is to go a few steps further.
Our NC Constitution requires that voters be able to read and write any part of the NC Constitution in English before they can register. It also allows the General Assembly the authority to make rules about registration that are fairly simple. Beyond that, most anyone can vote. So people on welfare can vote. Now I don’t have a particular problem with helping the poor, or with using government to do that, although I think we go way overboard in that direction.
What I have a problem with is allowing them to vote for the representatives who will be deciding what their benefits are. That wouldn’t be so bad, except representatives have been known to sell their souls in order to get elected. So it is difficult to expect them to represent the taxpayers fairly when they can use the taxpayer’s money to pay for the income of someone on welfare. More egregious than that are all the others who get their money from the government by way of the elected representatives.
So I propose a change in our laws, an amendment to the Constitution no less: ‘No one whose majority of income comes from the branch of government that is being voted for can vote in any election for someone whose office is of that branch of government.’
So county employees couldn’t vote in county elections, but could vote in city elections. City employees couldn’t vote in city elections but could vote in county. State employees couldn’t vote in state elections but could vote in local, etc.
It seems an obvious thing to do to protect the taxpayers and, more to the point, to keep the legislators from using taxes to buy votes. It shouldn’t be a problem to those who get their checks from the government. If they want a check, they don’t get to vote for or against those who decide how large their check will be. What could be more fair to the taxpayers and their representatives?
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