A post on Show Me Progress earlier today really sums up the partisan ritual Missouri legislators have taken part in over the past 3 years when it comes to the expensive and unnecessary push for Photo ID. The Post follows:
Spring Ritual
It's spring! Robins are bursting with song, the Bartlett Pear trees look like huge bouquets, and another voter i.d. bill is sitting in a House committee. Guess which two of those spring rituals are good news.
In 2006, the Missouri Supreme Court struck down the voter i.d. law Republicans had passed as unconstitutional, but last year SCOTUS upheld an even stricter voter i.d. law in Indiana, so Missouri's right wingers have decided it's time to try again. They will, more than likely, get the bill out of committee on a party line vote, and if they do, House Republicans will flip the Democratic party the bird without a second thought.
Their "yea" votes will be saying in effect: You know all those tight elections, those squeakers you managed to pull off? Kiss those victories goodbye in the future, because we're about to rob you of 240,000 of your voters. If this bill had been law last November, Brad Lager would be the State Treasurer instead of Clint Zweifel and Mike Gibbons would have defeated Chris Koster.
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