Monday, November 10, 2008

ALERT! FRAUD!

Based on an article I read from a colleague’s blog “Photo Fraud,” agrues that it should be mandatory that we present our photo identification when it comes to voting. The author also uses a political cartoon to illustrate and strengthen his/her argument. We’ve tried pushing this bill through the states’ legislative but it has failed. Republicans say that it is needed to be presented from qualify citizens to vote. On the other hand the author mentions that Democrats insist that it is a discrimination approach and voting fraudulent is not a serious issue to be resolved. I agree with this author because we do present our photo identification just about every where else and so why would it be wrong to show it at the voting booth.

Voting probably carries a lesser risk of responsibilities comparing it to the times like buying alcohol, over the counter prescriptions, renting movies that we have to show our identification. I definitely think that we ought to do something about this. Voting responsibility is as important to anything else in society that requires photo identification. We should all carry some sort of state identification to function in this society any way so it shouldn’t be a question of discrimination to the minorities unless the minorities that we are referring to are illegal residents.


Every legal citizen have earned to the right to vote one way or other. We don’t want to give gap to the illegal residents that are in the United States to possess the right to vote or encourage any photo fraud activities.Especially with the numerous cases of fraud floating in United States we should take caution when it comes to casting votes for political measures. As a united nation we need to resolve this and projecting ridiculous reasons to not enforce this!

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