Letters: Voting rights & voter ID

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I would like for someone to explain why having to show some form of ID in order to vote keeps one from voting. We have to show ID for almost every other process that keeps people from falsely participating.  

Discrimination is a terrible attitude and should not be tolerated, but showing ID does not equal discrimination in my view.    

Ron Laughlin 

Tupelo, Miss.

How does voting ID exclude?

Regarding the subjective article about Progressive Baptists calling for a restoration of voting rights, can you please tell me how requiring an ID of some sort demeans, assaults and excludes the poor? 

Don’t all adults have to have some form of state-issued ID? They are $16, I believe, and a reasonable requirement for a citizen of the United States is to have identification proving it. 

This is right up there with the essentials of life, and surely a relative, friend or nearby church could and would help with that cost. Anyone who doesn’t have any form of ID shouldn’t be driving, can’t do business very easily, etc.

I didn’t see the answer to these questions in the article, and I believe the law was put in place to keep illegal residents from voting.


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Kamara Heussner

Sugar Land


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