Letter: Requiring ID to vote is OK
Let me get this straight. If you are involved in a transaction involving a personal check, you have to present a valid driver's license, but there are people who do not wish to extend this basic protection to the right to vote ["Vote restrictions protest, News, Dec. 11].
We have removed so much protection from the privilege of participating in our representative form of government -- and it is a privilege -- that we no longer even demand literacy in any language. But that's not enough, apparently.
If there were no flood of illegal immigrants into the country, one might question the need for voter ID, even though it has been required in the past. My husband first voted in 1959 in New York City and was required to show his draft card. But it is the very presence of these illegal immigrants and their ability to influence public policy through the voting booth that makes a valid ID a necessity.
Valerie H. Protopapas, Huntington Station
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