It Is About to Get Harder to Vote in Arizona

In Arizona, like most other states, those who wish to vote are required to register and bring their cards to the polling places. When the voter gets to the poll a clerk examines the card and makes a note in the logbook that the voter has visited the polling place. This is pretty standard stuff and a good idea in that it helps to prevent voter fraud. It is a good and fair system. Conservatives want to change that and make it harder for those less likely (lower income persons) to vote.

The conservative plan is to require a form of government issued ID (driver’s license, state ID card or federal passport) to vote. These things cost time and money to acquire. A single mom who cannot afford a car and rides the bus typically does not have such ID because she does not need it, cannot afford it and dose not have the time to get it. A single mom has more important things to attend to such as spending money on food, rent, medicine, school supplies and bus fees. It is ludicrous to expect such an individual to invest the time and money to pay for a bus ride to go to get an ID and then pay for the ID just so she can exercise her guaranteed constitutional right. The so called “Christian Right” (which is neither)/ GOP/ neo-con cabal are counting on single moms and other in similar plights to give into this evil plan, not get an ID and not vote.

Do not let this happen. Go to the Arizona Democratic HQ website and volunteer to help register voters. Then on Election Day offer rides to those you helped register.