With all the noise Democrats make about photo ID requirements causing voter suppression, you would expect elections in a place like Afghanistan to be a perfect example of this liberal complaint. Does the requirement to carry a photo ID to the polls stop voters there? Not at all. Afghan voters brave drive-by-shootings and suicide bombings to make their votes count! They know what actual voter suppression is.
As the Associated Press reports, The run-up to the election was troubling: the Islamic radicals of the Taliban, reviled by many but still popular in some areas, view the entire enterprise as the work of outsiders and infidels, and they vowed to disrupt it by targeting polling centers and election workers.To drive home the threat, insurgents in recent weeks stepped up shootings and bombings in the heart of Kabul to show they are capable of striking even in highly secured areas. A restaurant popular with foreigners and one of the capital’s main hotels were hit, killing many. Suicide bombers struck relentlessly.
On Friday, veteran Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed and AP reporter Kathy Gannon was wounded when a local policeman opened fire as they sat in their car on the outskirts of Khost, in eastern Afghanistan. The two were at a security forces base, waiting to move in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots — apparent victims of an “insider attack” in which the very people tasked with protection turn out to be insurgents.
Allen B. West makes an excellent point: American liberals whine about “voter suppression,” but they don’t even realize what that is. What they’re really complaining about is “fraudulent voter suppression”. They love to play the race card when talking about voter photo ID because that fits their agenda, but in fact, photo ID requirements only prevent fraudulent voting.
Source: Allen B. West
Photo: Canada in Afghanistan
must be one of those new eye recognition things
there like here it don`t matter who you vote for.
The DEMS do not want voter ID because if there was one they wouldn,t win the elections.I don,t know what the fuss is because you have to have a photo I.D. far just about every thing else in our lives.I guess the people against it never had to cash a check or enroll at a hospital drive a car ,get INS. of any kind so how do they get along in life.I have to have a photo I.D. just to get a fishing license.So where is the problem.
Anyone opposed to legitimate voter registration must be a Communist!
if they pass voter i.d. then the dumbocrates would lose just because those $#%&!@*ing muslim hide behind the rags they wear on their heads and around their face so no one can tell who the $#%&!@* they are
Dave, the ones doing that in America ARE!
So what does that have to do with us requiring ID’s to vote.
ID’s force an honest vote..our ttreasoners in office,dont want to hear the people,they want to remain a dictatorship illegally in a free country..time to clean house america
then their fingers turn purple and fall off!
yep in for full support to that