Letter to the editor: No excuse for not requiring ID to vote

Remember the old joke about the buses lined up at the cemetery on Election Day? It may not be a joke. The watchdog group Judicial Watch told Allegheny County in December that its voter rolls contain far too many names of people ineligible to vote — people who are dead, have moved away or have been inactive too long. Without photo ID, votes could be cast in these people’s names.

Is this going on all across the country? There is no excuse for not requiring photo ID to vote. You need photo ID at hospitals and doctor’s offices; you need it to drive a car, cash a check at the bank and get on a plane.

I can’t believe there are a lot of people without photo IDs. Is it illegals voting? Voting should be monitored more, but it is not. Without watchdog groups, we would never know about these crimes being committed.

Some politicians claim it costs too much to police this problem. Yet we can pay hundreds of dollars for toilet seats, and millions to fight fruit flies in France.

We waste too much money on pork barrel and not enough on real problems. Make America better. Please!

Blame Russia for election problems instead of illegals — it’s not politically correct to blame illegals.

Calvin Fatchet

Freeport