Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Akin helps make the case against voter ID cards

Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan should send U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Somewhere in West St. Louis County, a thank you note.

The six-term representative just helped Ms. Carnahan make her case against the scourge of voter identification bills like the ones that the Missouri Legislature passed last month. The argument against such proposals is that too many eligible voters — Ms. Carnahan estimates more than 230,000 of them — do not have the requisite up-to-date drivers licenses to properly vote under such laws.

One of them, apparently, is Mr. Akin...see story

http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/article_67cc62a4-fff3-50e4-a26b-f5fb8e45f1d3.html?mode=story

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