Advocating for voter ID law in Maryland

Editor,

Fair and free voting is the most important activity the citizens of a free society can engage in.

Without this, we lose our republic. Everything that the government does can be changed or supported by means of citizens voting the associated law-maker in or out of power.

There is substantial evidence that the trend in early voting and election day voting are being reversed when the mail-in ballots are counted. This was found to be evident with 17 Maryland statewide contests. All Republican candidates were leading but were all reversed after the mail-in ballots were counted. Coincidence?? I think not! We need to adopt paper ballots, single-day voting, and eliminate mail-in ballots, drop boxes and voting machines.

What I want to take issue with here is the fact that we do not have mandatory ID requirements when we vote. Our Worcester County Board of elections are in favor of this but were stymied by the state claiming imposing such a requirement on our citizens is discriminatory. Oh really, then let me show you what other activities in our society are discriminatory.

A valid ID is required for: driving, boarding an airplane, purchasing a car, getting a car registration, renting anything, buying insurance and plane tickets, obtaining a passport, picking up mail from Fed X, UPS and the post office, visiting a doctor’s office or hospital, getting outpatient testing, donating blood, getting a prescription, buying certain over-the-counter products, applying for a job or a school, applying for a professional license, getting married, checking out a library book, joining the military, adopting a child, transacting with a bank, sending a wire transfer, applying for online banking, applying for store credit, establishing a utilities account, getting a credit card, opening a retirement account, applying for a mortgage, buying a house, applying for apartment rentals, renting a hotel room, buying a cell phone, going to court, entering federal buildings, getting a business license, getting a state ID, cashing a large lottery ticket win, obtaining Medicare and Medicaid, applying for food stamps and welfare, applying for unemployment, using social security services, applying for section 8 housing, applying for a H-18 Visa or Green card, holding a rally or protest, buying a firearm, applying for a hunting or fishing license, joining a gym, using a pawn shop, entering a night club, volunteering at nonprofit organizations, voting in a union election, buying cigarettes or liquor, visiting a casino, buying an M-rated video game, going to jail, participating in outdoor dangerous activities, buying annual tickets to an amusement park, adopting a pet and the most contradictory requirement demanding ID is the participation in a political event but NOT IN THE POLITICAL EVENT OF VOTING!!!!

So if we are to believe that demanding an ID is discriminatory does that excuse fit all these? Isn’t applying for food stamps and welfare needing an ID discriminatory? You cannot adopt an animal but you can vote without an ID.

Those that are against voter ID are only against it because they want to cheat. This is the ONLY reason; not because they think it is discriminatory which makes no sense.

Right now conservative votes are not being counted or are being drowned in illegal votes by dead people and people that do not exist. We are campaigning against, not other voters but against paper ballots, a printing press in reality. This has been proven!

We must “true the vote” and demand that every voter show a picture ID (like a driver’s license) is the beginning of this. If we don’t, we will lose our republic as Benjamin Franklin forewarned. Remember the expression: “you don’t know what you have until you lose it!”

Dennis  Evans
Berlin