That Voter ID.

For John, BLUF:  The issue of if one should have to show an Identification to vote is a hot one and the rhetoric has been somewhat ugly here in the United States.  The term Jim Crow 2.0 qualifies as ugly in my book, thank you Mr President.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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America the Outlier:  Voter Photo IDs Are the Rule in Europe and Elsewhere

From Real Cldr Investigations, by Mr John R. Lott Jr., 1 June 2021.

Here is the lede plus two:

Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections – warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise.  Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story – of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned.

A database on voting rules worldwide compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, shows that election integrity measures are widely accepted globally, and have often been adopted by countries after they've experienced fraud under looser voting regimes.

Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe -- a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy -- all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote. The exception is the U.K., and even there voter IDs are mandatory in Northern Ireland for all elections and in parts of England for local elections.  Moreover, Boris Johnson’s government recently introduced legislation to have the rest of the country follow suit.

Either the Europeans are terrible, racist, classist, anti-democrats or we need our Democratic Party Brothers and Sisters to go into their views with a little more detail,

One wonders if our Democratic Party Brothers and Sisters are so blasé about this because they figure they already control the voting systems in key cities and it all works for them.

In the mean time, we could go with dipping our finger in ink.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff