The overheated liberal rhetoric often is accompanied by statistics from the left-wing Brennan Center, which reported in 2006 that 11 percent of all American adults lack a photo ID and more recently claimed that as many as 25 percent of blacks and 16 percent of Hispanics lack a photo ID.
Think about that. It means that millions of adults don’t drive, cash checks, receive welfare, get married, buy beer or cigarettes, board an airliner or do any of the other innumerable activities that routinely require a photo ID.
If they can’t legally do any of those things, what are they doing at the polls? For one thing, they shouldn’t be voting in Topeka if they’re not in Kansas anymore.
Robert Knight is senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a columnist for The Washington Times.
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Robert Knight is senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a columnist for The Washington Times.
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