As D.C. Democrats’ social spending agenda failed to progress in recent months, January has given rise to a new focus at the Capitol: voting rights.
A pair of proposed laws championed by the Biden administration and Senate Democrats would bring a slew of changes to our voting system, including restoring voting rights to felons, allowing federal oversight of state voting laws, invalidating state voter ID requirements, and various other measures that are all designed to loosen voting security.
And in typical liberal fashion, since Biden’s latest agenda is unlikely to move forward under the current laws of our country, he just wants to change them to get his way.
Let’s be clear— We The People believes in democracy, and we wholeheartedly support the right to vote for all law-abiding Americans. We have just one problem here: none of the proposed changes to voting laws would actually protect our democracy.
Despite the rhetoric being pushed by liberals and the media, voting regulations do not hinder the right to vote. Rather, regulations like voter ID and secure ballot drop boxes safeguard the right to vote for all American citizens by ensuring that votes are cast legally, authentically, and without opportunity to be tampered with— either by Republicans, Democrats, or even Russians.
Regardless of how you might feel about the prevalence of voter fraud, in an era where claims of election fraud come from both sides of the aisle, it seems to us that having some security measures in place would bring everyone peace of mind. When you need to present a valid state I.D. to board an airplane, get a job, and even enroll at a university, it stands to reason that you should need to prove your identity to help decide who will lead our nation (and no, we don’t think a utility bill suffices as an I.D.)
We’ve all heard the arguments that minorities are unable to acquire IDs. That assertion has been proven false time and again, and, frankly, it smacks of the paternal racism that marked the Democratic party from the civil war to the civil rights movement and beyond.
Unless, of course, the real goal is to extend the right to vote to non-citizens and others who don’t have the legal grounds to do so. But that would be crazy.
We The People argues that voting is the most highly valued right of any American. Among our most critical duties, voting gives power to the people and allows us to shape the future of our nation.
You might say it’s something to be taken seriously.
We need to protect the American right to vote, and relaxing voting security is not the way to do it. Help us tell our nation’s leaders that voter ID is not voter suppression.