(#6362) The threat to democracy is from the republican party!

      It is the republican party that is trying to disenfranchise those who are poor or married through costly identification documents. Not normal documents that we use everyday in our lives but ones like passports and original birth certificates which are expensive to attain. It isn't just getting the passport or birth certificate, it is getting the documentation needed to get either. Who does this effect? Well obviously the poor who would never need a passport in their circumstances. But the real group of people are the women who get married and change their last names to their husbands. Since their married names are on their drivers licenses, social security cards, current voter registrations, current US passports, Deed titles, Bank and other financial accounts, along with employment records. Married women face much harder and more difficult obstacles to having enough proof to change their current voting name to their original birth name.
     So it isn't just an extra cost, which is akin to a poll tax, that women have to bear. The federal minimum wage is still at $7.25 an hour so it would take a person on minimum wage nearly a weeks worth of work to have enough just to get the opportunity, not counting the extra cost of getting the documents necessary for proof, for the passport. The idea that republicans are addressing some major flaw in our voting is a lie since there is practically like 36 cases of voter fraud in the last 20 years with well more than a billion ballots cast. The numbers don't lie but obviously republicans do lie. Why would they lie you may ask? Well the reason is that a majority of these folks who would need enhanced proof of who they are vote for democrats.
     So in the final analysis it is voter suppression by republicans because they do not want to be judged by their value and worth. They want political power and are willing to deny your democratic rights to keep or attain it. It is that simple. We democrats on the other hand are not in favor of making voting harder for Americans. In fact we are working to make it more convenient for our citizens to cast a ballot. By extending mail in ballot periods previous to the election. Adding drop boxes in more locations for ease of use. In all facets of voting it is we democrats who encourage our citizens to vote. We would like to see 100% turnout for every election. Because democracy works best when all are readily able to participate!