Voter ID not too much to ask

RECENT DECISIONS designed to increase voter participation have created the potential for confusion, overwhelmed precincts (and) election fraud. The changes clearly were designed to benefit liberal candidates. By lowering the voter age from 21 to 18, not requiring voter identification, and by allowing provisional ballots, a large group — growing each year — of unverified votes accumulates each election. The opportunity for confusion and fraud ices the Democrats’ cake.

A voter who is given a provisional ballot may show as not registered, may have no proof of local address, or could be someone who picked a false identity wanting to game the system. These ballots are to be verified or discarded by the election officials after the certified votes are counted. Absentee ballots are also in a group to be later verified and can be submitted by anyone who is mailed for a ballot. Enter election officials and poll workers to do this subjective job. If these folks have a bias, the votes they need are there in the pile of the unverified just waiting to be counted.

Oversight must be at the beginning of the process, not just at the end. It is not too much to ask that voters be prepared to present identification at the polling place. That Democrats vigorously oppose voter identification laws proves all this is true. CHARLES BURK Albuquerque