ID rule protects integrity of vote

May 5, 2008

Unlike the writer of the editorial criticizing the Supreme Court for upholding Indiana's voter identification law ("A voting setback," April 30), I believe the court's decision was correct.

We need a photo ID for driving, traveling, banking, buying pharmaceuticals, etc.

I believe most people, even among the elderly and the poor, already have one to do one or more of these daily tasks.

Voting is a right and it should be taken seriously, with a little regulation to ensure the legitimacy of our votes.

D. B. Clendaniel

Bel Air The Sun's editors fail to recognize that a greater threat to our republic than difficulty getting access to the ballot box is that fraud will render our votes irrelevant.

Every vote cast fraudulently by noncitizens or by someone posing as a deceased voter nullifies a true vote cast by a citizen. And, in a society where ID is needed to use credit cards, cash checks, board an airplane or enter the Maryland State House, asking for proof of the validity of one's vote is not unreasonable.

It is laughable for The Sun to say that Maryland has come closer to the democratic ideal than Indiana does, when our elections can more easily be stolen by invalid votes.

Wayne Smith

Glen Burnie

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ID rule protects integrity of vote

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