My Civic Duty

     There has been a landmark change in Texas election laws since the last time I voted.  I was required to show a government approved ID before entering the voting both.  The current election was all about amendments for the largest segment of the population so I imagine most people did not bother with voting at all but I did my civic duty, casting a ballot.  

     The requirement to show an ID before voting didn't really affect me very much.  Simply flipping a Texas driver's license along with a voter registration card onto  the table did the trick getting me in and out of the polling location in less than five minutes.  Even though I zoomed through the voting process I strongly disagree with the ID requirement because it is a political motivated requirement and an unneeded restriction.  Imposed by the 2011 Republican controlled Texas Legislature, it was enacted to stop voter impersonation at the polls.  What impersonation are they talking about?  There have been almost zero voter impersonation at the poll over the years.  The real reason for the ID law is because 100% of African  Americans and 71% of Latinos   voted Democratic in 2012.  The only way Republicans can suppress the minority vote is to enact a law who's purpose to the keep minorities from voting at all.   The minority population which almost always votes Democratic has already over taken the white population in Texas and Republican are running scared because the writing is on the wall.  The GOP's day of controlling Texas are coming to a end sooner than most well healed Republicans want but they need to face facts, Texas will be a blue state in less than fifteen years.

     In Texas it is easier to buy an AR15 assault rifle that is is to vote.  Maybe that's why one of the ID's accepted at the polls is a concealed hand gun license.  Laws like voter ID  make me embarrassed to be a Texan.  Any way you look at the law it seems to have been created for no other reason other than to discriminate against the poor, the elderly and the disabled.  It is  a law that divides the population along social  economic borders.  It has never or never will have anything to do with preventing voter fraud