| Read the April 2009 edition of TX Monthly. Paul Burka's column "Manic Supprssion". It's a great article. Below are some quotes from Burka's article.
Also, Deece Eckstein and David Kobierowski will have a one hour interview with Paul Burka on 91.7FM KOOP Radio or www.koop.org today, Fri., March 13th, 2:00pm-3:00pm.
Some quotes from Burka's "Manic Suppression" article:
Voter ID is a terrible idea: Bad for Democracy and mean-spirited to boot. Let's hope it doesn't become law in TX.
Voter ID is now a matter of Republican survival.
What started out as a fear that hordes of illegal immigrants would descend on the polls - a ridiculous scenario, since illegal immigrants want nothing to do with official government activities - has now become voter suppression, pure and simple.
There are two things wrong with laws that require voters to produce a picuture ID in order to be able to cast a vote: no credible evidence that voter fraud is widespread and plenty of credible evidence that such a law will reduce minority turnout by about 3%.
The reason why so little evidence of fraud can be found is simple: There's no incentive for voter impersonation.
This is a great article (3 pages printed out, and worth the read). I hope y'all read it. What's really scary is that the only area the voter issue do exist, such as with absentee voting or registering to vote, this law doesn't even deal with.
Why is the TX Legislature wasting valuable time and taxpayer's money on this issue?? This is very unfortunate. We have real issues to deal with...our economy, our health care crisis, our education crisis. And they're going after a problem that does not exist. Very unfortunate.
Again, we'll have Paul Burka, author of this article, TX Monthly, on our radio show "TX Politics Today" on today (Friday, March 13th), for a one hour interview, 2:00pm-3:00pm, 91.7FM KOOP Radio or streaming live at www.koop.org to dig into Voter Suppression. We'll dig into the issue in detail, including the politics of this.
Best,
David Kobierowski |
