"Beyond Unfortunate"
It's beyond unfortunate that as one of their top priorities, the Republicans who control the Missouri Legislature set out this year to make it harder, not easier, for Missourians to vote.
The effort, referred to as voter ID, is part of a national GOP plan to raise barriers to large swaths of voters who generally lean Democratic in their political philosophy.
It seems reasonable enough to ask voters to produce a drivers license before they exercise their constitutional right. Most of us carry drivers licenses all of the time. We produce them to cash checks, buy airline tickets and conduct regular business. So what's the big deal?
Well, the big deal is that not everybody who has the right to vote has a drivers license. And the right to vote — particularly in the Missouri Constitution — is a very big deal indeed...
In short, it's a solution — and a bad one at that — in search of a problem.
