Voter Id Laws

Rough Draft

Voting  is  important  for  citizens  of  the  United  States  because   individuals  get  to  choose  rights  for  the  state. Voter  ID  Laws  are  strict  and  make  people  disenfranchised. Other  people  think  is  not  enough  to  protect  photo  id’s. Voter  Id Laws  are  racist  against  minorities  because  it  requires  photo  id  that  elderly  cant  get. Modern  Voter  Id  Laws  are  unfair  and  racist.

Voter  id  laws  are  unfair  for  the  elderly. According  to  Sari  Horwitz, “ Many  of  the  residents  struggling  to  obtain  a  valid  photo  id  are  elderly  and  poor  and  were  born  in  homes  rather  than  hospitals.” (Horwitz).  This  shows  that  an  entire  segment  of  the  population  is  losing  their  right  to  vote  simply  because  they  don’t  have  the  means  to  obtain  the  correct  id.  Nationality  should care  because  they  wont  be  able  to  get  all those  votes  they need  in  order  to accomplish  their  goal.

Voter  Id  laws  are  racist .  In the article “ Why  is  it  so  hard  to  vote  if  you’re  black,  poor  or  elderly  in  America”,  Mirren  Gidda  states  “ Prior  to  the  1965  voting  rights  act , many  southern  states  made  it  deliberately  difficult  for  black  people  to  vote. Louisiana, for example, asked African Americans  to  take  a  literacy  test  before  casting  ballot.” This  shows  that  African  americans   must  take  a  literacy  test  in  order  to  obtain  the  rights  to  vote. Citizens  should  care  because  other  races  do  not  have  to  access  the  inquiry.

        A  counter  argument  will  be  to  protect  their  identities. Hans A.Von Spakousky  reports  that “ Voter  Id  can  significantly  defeat  and  deter  impersonation  fraud  at  the  polls, under  fictitious  names  or  in  the  names  of  dead  voters, double  voting  by  individuals  registered  in  more  than  one  state, and voting  by  individuals  who  are  in  the  united  states illegally.”  This  shows  that  citizens  steal  other  citizens  status  by  using their  identification . In  order  to  prevent  this,  people   should  provide  a  copy  of  their  id. We  the  people  should  worry  about  this  situation  because  some  presidents  get  extra  votes  from  unidentified  or  dead  people.