Blocking the Vote

 

                      The article  “Blocking the Vote” by Ashley Lopez is about the strained that is put on people who have low income, people who are disable, the elderly and women of African American and latina back ground to vote.  It all started with the story of an elderly 83 year old woman who is unable to vote in Wisconsin because she doesn’t have state photo identification. Now she joins 17 others in a lawsuit against Wisconsin’s new state rule of photo identification. The photo identification law is not new to other states but now they have prohibited the use of student ids, social security cards, utility bills and bank statements as identification, these laws can keep groups that are most likely to vote for their party away from the polls. Before this strict new policy Alabama, Kansas, Wisconsin, along with 4 other states had enacted the rule. Legislator’s secretaries and government support the law saying that the justification for it is rampant voter fraud. Republican state senator Joe Leibham also supports the law stating that people has lost confidence to the states election system due to voter fraud in the past but in reality Wisconsin only had 7 cases voter fraud out of 3 million votes cast. 

 

                  I believe that Frank is doing the right thing by pursuing a lawsuit for the state of Wisconsin because a lot of people don’t have state photo identification because they just can’t afford it. A driver’s license can cost up to forty five dollar and a passport a hundred and ten dollars. Many elderly African American voters, Not to mention that 7 percent of Americans  don’t have access to citizenship papers that leaves 15 million adults without the privileged to vote because  they can’t get a proper photo id. I believe that voting should be a privilege for anybody that’s of age and lives in the U.S. There shouldn’t be any restrictions because anybody who lives here deserved the chance.