Voter ID Law, why is this a no-brainer.

We all know that we live in a crazy mixed up world. Some take it seriously and live by every word that is spoken. Some don’t care at all, and the opinion of others, is not something to live by. Others use a common sense approach, based on facts, as well as the opinions of others as long as they are backed by facts that can be proven. Others seek spiritual knowledge of enlightenment of one following or another. Well this blog-er, does seek spiritual knowledge from God. I acknowledge Him as my Lord and Creator. I believed He loved this world so much and His creation that He knew before Adam and Eve were created that He was going to have to have a plan of salvation. But this is not all about Christ and what He has done for me lately. But I also consider myself a conservative. I believe in capitalism, in sarcasm, and having a good laugh.

So as this is the first blog entry of this blog, I feel the need to talk about this: silly season. Yes, silly season is upon us again. Now, before any of you start asking what silly season is, let me define what I am calling silly season. Silly Season is termed by NASCAR in which basically drivers who are in the last year of their contract start talking to other organizations or the organization they currently drive for in getting a new contract or contract extension. Normally this starts in the second half of the season, but not uncommon after the first few races into the current season. Silly season also deals with sponsorship changing too. But I am not referring to NASCAR. I am going to refer to something else: POLITICS.

I know it is a nasty word, and one that we can’t seem to do anything about. Silly season is me referring to this year 2014 being an election year more on the state level, with a few federal races going on. See, silly season in politics starts, I don’t know, let us say a year and a half before the election. See here in Wisconsin, the race for governor is in full swing, with just less than a month away from the actual election. But I am not going to sway you the reader into who you should vote. But I am going to bring up something that I think should be happening, which I believe is more common sense than anything else: proving who you are who you say you are, otherwise known as the now defunct Voter ID Law, in which on Monday October, 6, 2014 the federal appellate circuit court of appeals stated that Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law is constitutional and can be enforced, only in the fastest turn around I have ever seen in the judicial process, be overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States. This was turned down by a vote of 6-3. The bench is 5-4 Republican to Democrat. What this tells me is that two Republicans have decided that they needed to be moderate.

But why was this turned down? What is the problem with identifying yourself when you go and vote? I was involved earlier today with some friends from my early childhood days. Some of the things that were brought up were that you need an ID for is: alcohol purchase, tobacco purchase, car purchase, gun purchase, and in the military you are given an ID to help identify you when you are in civilian clothes on any military base. You even need to identify yourself when you enter into another country and back into our great nation. So why not voting? One of my friends stated that he pulled a fast one on a person at the poll by giving his neighbor’s name instead of his own. The person was just about to cross off that name when he stopped them. Here is just one instance in which an ID requirement would have been useful. I myself, the last few times I have gone to the polls, have presented my ID to make sure it is me that is voting in my place and I am not voting in somebody else’s place or somebody else in mine. In the information technology world, there are ways of identifying yourself when you log on to your home computer, in the case of having multiple users, or at work when logging on to the company’s network. These can become more stringent in the use of biometric enhancements (retina scanning, facial recognition, finger scan, thumb scan, or hand scan). But yet we are told that in Wisconsin, you don’t need an ID to vote, but you need one to get human services help, like food stamps. Heck you need to be able to prove who you are when you get hired for work by a company. Why is voting have to be different? This law isn’t about protecting Republicans, but Democrats as well. It is a way of keeping balance without risking security.

Texas was included in last night’s decision and their law was turned down too. Texas plans on upholding their law despite the decision of the Supreme Court. This is according to conservativetribune.com in a post on Facebook just on October 10, 2014. Now, I don’t know if Wisconsin could be able to do this, but in Texas you go big or you just don’t go. Why? Because according to Texas, everything is bigger in Texas. And that must mean kahunas as well.

So what is going to happen? Well we will go on living day to day, until the cases in up in the hundreds where people haven’t been able to vote only because somebody else has voted in their place, or a serious amount of dead people have suddenly risen from the grave to appear at the polls, to cast their votes only to go back to sleep for two more years. So what is the cost of an ID, very little to free, a trip to the DMV and maybe an hour of your time spent there. But we won’t talk about the DMV. We will save that for another time.

Things happen in our great nation on a day to day basis, some make you go “Thank God, I live in the United States of America” and other times, you are scratching your head and saying “Huh?” But as long as we use common sense then we shouldn’t need a sign to remind us that coffee is hot.