Photo ID - Deja Vu all over again, Senator Gibbons?

Well, here we are, two years later...this time in a presidential election year.   Despite a Missouri Supreme Court ruling that overturned the costly 2006 photo ID law because it would effectively disenfranchise as many as 240,000 registered voters while doing nothing to prevent non-existent voter fraud, the House and Senate Republican leadership suddenly seem positioned to again push through another regressive measure to make it harder for registered, law abiding Missourians to vote.

The last time, GOP Senate Pro Tem Mike Gibbons allowed a rarely-used procedural move in the middle of the night to shut off debate about the highly-controversial photo ID measure so it would pass and “punish” democrats.  So much for the democratic process.  

With only days left in the legislative session which ends on May 16, it will be interesting to see if history will repeat itself.   Let’s hope that cooler heads prevail this time, that the  legislative leadership doesn’t bow to national GOP pressure, and the constitutional right to vote isn’t taken in the name of politics.