It has been said that it is better that ten – some say a hundred - guilty men go free than to have a single innocent man be imprisoned, the grander sin clearly being the freedom unjustly denied an innocent man. This moral code is flipped on its head when it comes to voter ID laws, advocates of which - in their misguided zeal to address the nonexistent problem of “voter fraud” – have disenfranchised countless “innocent” citizens (wheelchair bound geriatrics in assisted living facilities with no living relatives, for example, unable to coordinate a ride to obtain such an ID). The far greater sin is to deny so many that which serves as the very foundation of a democracy – voting – than to “allow” the extremely remote possibility of a fraudulent vote being cast.
BILL
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