If you go to a grocery store and you want to write out a check, use a credit card, or debit card to pay for your purchases you’ll be asked to provide a photo ID. If you could vote for public office there they wouldn’t bother to ask to see it.
The Citizens United Opinion of the US Supreme Court suggests that giving money to a political campaign is an extension of your political free speech and association rights guaranteed in the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.
Looking at your purchases at the grocery store one might ask why you bought the store brand for one item and not one of the national brands. You “voted” for the item you thought was best for you and you put money out for it.
We vote all the time what is the best product and loosely become part of a group that will stand on ones convictions of the quality and usefulness of a product. An example of this is the new Sig Sauer Legion Series that was to set up as a group or an association of owners of the Legion Series Pistol Line.
We might in fact “lobby” others to buy an item. If you BOGO (Buy One Get One) the extra one you might share with another person. To show them the value of the item.
Yet usually you need to show a Photo ID to verify who you say you are when you “vote” at the grocery store. Why isn’t it the same in the elections?
Betty McCollum and other Do Nothing Democrats in the House of Representatives and Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton think that it violates the civil rights of their constituents. They aren’t talking about the voting constituency but rather their special groups that support them. These claims are unfounded scare tactics.
With this analogy, in effect when it comes to “voting” at a grocery store Betty McCollum is in favor of Identity theft or shoplifting. Bearing false witness to the people who run the store in order to “vote” for an item. She seems to think you shouldn’t have to show who your credit card says you are. Try that at Cub Foods and most likely the off duty policeman who is serving as a security guard might want to ask you some questions in the back of his or her squad car outside.
REAL ID = National Photo ID Card
What’s really insane with the logic of being anti-photo ID is that there are only 8 states that have opposed REAL ID, Minnesota is one of them. Betty McCollum disagreed with Senator Hillary Clinton and voted against the Real ID Act of 2005. They used scare tactics on state legislatures saying that no one without a REAL ID compliant drivers license can board an airline. This is not true.
Hillary Clinton is in fact FOR a National ID Card. She mentions in the News Max article from February 11, 2003. She said she was against Illegal Immigration and that to track who is illegal and who is not that perhaps citizens would need a national ID card.
Thank God that REAL ID failed in the Minnesota Conference Committee between MN House & Senate in May 2016. The sticking point was giving picture REAL ID drivers licenses to Illegal aliens. Real ID would allow the Federal Government to violate States rights guaranteed in the 10th Amendment and violate your privacy rights. If your personal data is on a government website most likely it is vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves like MNSure and Obamacare is.
The government can actively track you through REAL ID cards. We found out that the NSA really can’t listen to you without a warrant nor track you in real time but rather look at your meta data after the fact. The big fight with Apple Computer about allowing a backdoor for law enforcement to hack individual iPhone users showed us that the Snowden claims that NSA can track you without a warrant in real time is false.
With REAL ID they can and they will.
Join us and Vote Betty Out in November.