Voter ID law

So now we see the big kahunas at Major League Baseball, Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola are joining the so-called “woke” gang and condemning the new Georgia voter ID law, including MLB moving the All-Star Game to Colorado (April 4, “MLB All-Star Game Pulled from Ga. Due to Voting Law”).

These clowns claim the new law “suppresses the vote in Georgia” by requiring voter ID. Gee, try to get on a Delta plane without an ID and see how far you get. Or try to vote on any

of Coke’s board of directors proposals without proving you are a shareholder and see if the company accepts it, or try buying an MLB game ticket via the will-call window and see if you can pick up your ticket without ID.

Critics of the new law say requiring ID inordinately affects “people of color.” How do people of color get welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, phones or driver’s licenses without ID? Is there something more difficult in showing your ID when you vote versus getting any government benefit? In fact, claiming people of color are not able to identify themselves is actually a racist statement.

Those critics say the new law restricts mail-in ballots. It does no such thing. It eliminates “universal” mail-in ballots, which require no ID, no time deadline and not even a postmark or a signature. It does not eliminate the standard absentee ballot system, which requires ID and protects the integrity of the vote.

BOB JACOBS Greensburg