God Bless Texas

Texas is attempting to pass a law that in order to vote, you must have a photo ID.   With the suggestion for the law, uproar and disagreement from certain members of Congress have led to controversy surrounding the voter photo ID law.

Just to use one of many examples -- You have to have a photo ID to see Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States.  Yet, there is constant controversy over law that requires a photo ID to vote.  Is the Attorney General really that much more important than a fair election?

Some obvious cases that you need to present your photo ID for are: To buy alcohol, to visit some prisons, to receive treatment at some medical offices, taking any admissions exam (LSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, MCAT, etc.), and the list continues on...

Before 2011, only TWO states had laws that require voters to show a photo ID before voting: Georgia and Indiana.  Since 2011, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin (and now, Texas) have attempted to create similar laws requiring presentation of photo ID to vote, especially with the crucial Presidential Election coming up in November.

This law would be extremely beneficial, not only in Texas, but in all fifty states.  Voter fraud is a serious issue, which I believe goes too frequently unnoticed and unpunished.  There has been a lot of voter fraud within the past few decades.

One more well-known cases was the 1960 Presidential Election voting in Chicago.  Fannin County had 4,895 registered voters, yet an alarming increase of 6,138 votes were cast in that county – one-quarter for Nixon & three-quarters for Kennedy.  A reporter from the New York Herald Tribune investigated voting in Chicago in this election year, and discovered sufficient evidence of voter fraud, proving that the state was actually stolen for Kennedy.

Nixon and Kennedy during their second Presidential Debate in the 1960 Election.

There are many more serious cases of voter fraud, which should absolutely not be tolerated in our country.  Yes, we live in a democratic society, but the idea of a fair & just democracy is completely destroyed once cheating and fraud occurs.

Those opposed to passing the law in Texas argue that the law is unfair to some minority groups, who do not have the means (i.e. money, transportation) to obtain a government-issued photo ID.

In response to the financial issue -- Congress members from Texas who support the law advise that if a person shows financial need, a photo ID can be issued to them at no cost, and transportation can be offered, if they have absolutely no other choice.

As far as the concern about minority groups voting -- Georgia is a state that has some of the strictest laws when it comes to voter photo ID laws.  When the photo ID requirement was passed in 2008, more minority groups voted that year than in Mississippi, who did not have the voter photo ID requirement law.  Therefore, this concern did not prove much of a problem or an “injustice” with the photo ID requirement.

Having a photo ID should not be seen as such a problem unless someone is attempting to commit voter fraud. There is nothing unconstitutional about this law.  In fact, it adds a step of integrity to the voting process, and will ensure a substantial decrease in voter fraud.

Texas was annexed on December 29, 1845, becoming the 28th state to join the union.  It is the second most-populus and biggest state in the United States of America.