Letter: Voter ID amendment is ‘unfair and unneccessary’

To the editor,

Insanity is sometimes described as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result.

Denny McNamara states the voter ID amendment being put on November ballot is just “common sense.”

What we need now are elected officials with uncommon sense. I guess it is easier to pick your voters than it is to pick your politicians. The proposed voter ID Amendment is unfair and unnecessary. Voting is not a privilege, it is a right. I need a license to drive a car, not to drive some politician out of office.

The proposed Voter ID Amendment is voter suppression aimed at the poor and people of color. We had a taste of your "common sense" during the 2000 Presidential "Bush-whacking," and more than enough during the era of "Jim Crow." Your party lost the Minnesota Governor's race — get over it.

What we need now is uncommon sense from our elected leaders or we will continue getting the same tired old ideas from the same tired old politicians.

Benjamin Cherryhomes

Hastings

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