On Thurs., Mar. 11, Black Republican Representative Burgess Owens of Utah addressed those who were critical of his assertion that the rules governing American elections need to be tightened so as to restore public confidence in the process. His specific concern was how it had come to pass that asking for I.D. was now considered “Voter Suppression.” Citing what I have referred to as the “bigotry of low expectations,” he suggests those White “progressives” supporting ludicrously lax Voters Rights Bills which exonerate mail-in voters in various States of the need to properly identify themselves, are actually racists assuming those most likely to vote Democrat [i.e., Blacks and Hispanics] simply don’t have the intellectual capacity to acquire valid I.D. His contention is clearly that any legitimate citizen worthy of casting a vote ought to be able to fulfill this fundamental legal obligation. But the Law, as we have already noted, is only respected by many on the Left when it does not impede their agenda. Those Democratic States which ignored the appropriate constitutional protocols in grossly expanding voters’ “rights,” indeed which were being legally challenged just days before the last election for their attempts to do so, showed their contempt for the Law both in the nature of their tactics and the utter lack of accountability which they were clearly sanctioning.
The Georgia House, dominated by Republicans, recently approved Bill 531 which would require both a legitimate reason for requesting an absentee ballot as well as valid I.D. in order to receive such. The sponsor of the Bill, Republican House member Barry Fleming, was also the attorney for Hancock County whose Board of Commissioners demanded his resignation on Mar. 10 due to the overwhelmingly negative response to his bill. Advocacy groups said it would have devastating effects on the voters of the county over 70% of whom are Black. Democratic State Representative Jasmine Clarke referred to it succinctly as “Textbook voter suppression.”
As I have pointed out in previous blogs, absentee voting has long been acknowledged as an open invitation to fraud. Democrat Jimmy Carter, you may recall, headed a commission in 2005 which concluded as much. How does one engage with those so consumed by bias, by a sense of entitlement, a sense that the rules have been designed merely to oppress them, that they are utterly impervious to Reason? It is in response to such that almost half a million have seen fit to leave the Democratic Party and join Brandon Straka in his Walk Away movement. It is the reality that has led even those of a Leftist bent such as Bill Mahr to deride the juvenile nature of the Woke “progressive” mob with its Cancel Culture. It is the level of dementia which induced a supposedly intelligent, mature woman such as Jasmine Clarke to condemn asking a citizen for some valid form of I.D. as “textbook voter suppression.”