Register ID recipients to vote
I respond to the Nov. 1 Dispatch article “Bill may tackle food fraud but save nothing” regarding the Dickensian House Bill 50.
The bill would require the use of photo ID cards for food stamps, and has been estimated to cost up to $5 million and to save $0 in the foodstamp program.
A companion bill, House Bill 119, would require a cross-check of food-stamp and Medicaid recipients with state databases for lottery winners, Department of Taxation, immigration status, and real-estate holdings.
The state should add a cross-check with the Board of Elections and register these recipients to vote. If the address has changed (as happens frequently with the impoverished), update the address with the BOE four times per year as proposed, and let the recipients use this card as ID at the polls.
The citizenship check would ensure that registrants will be qualified voters.
Matthew Biggert Columbus citizens as the credo of uncaring monsters who are comfortable with sitting back and watching bodies pile up. Is there any better example of spewing hate than slandering all other-thinking people as cold-hearted ghouls who enjoy high body counts? This is disgusting and an insult to polite society.
Blundo doesn’t have a monopoly on caring, I and everyone else is sickened by the carnage in Las Vegas and Texas. If Blundo insists that all must adhere to his political theory to be a truly caring person then what does he propose? Does he want all 300 million guns? Or just the ones that can kill multiple people?
Does Blundo understand that most guns are capable of shooting 45 people in a church?
Let’s get all proposals on the table and start the discussion. I want to know how the caring class is going to stop mass murder and rid the world of evil without thoughts and prayers. Let’s hear it.
Timothy Schmelzer Lancaster Lewis Center