Photo ID Now Required For Voting In Texas

Go Away, Tonks and Serial Voters

Today, the Texas legislature passed a Voter Photo ID law (story here).  Tomorrow, Governor Rick Perry will sign it.  This places Texas in company with South Carolina and Wisconsin in the attempt to remove one more avenue for voter fraud to drive upon.

When Lyndon Baines Johnson was a U.S. Representative from Texas, the standing joke among residents of Starr County was that even folks in the cemetery were voting for him.  Many refinements have been made to that old fraud (not Johnson - he was unexcelled in that respect) since then.  It is apparently much easier for unqualified people to vote in our larger cities than it is in places where most voters and poll watchers know each other.  How else could one explain the tendencies for larger cities to keep electing Democrats and otherwise good Southrons to elect Machine Republicans?

I know ... the answer is "herd mentality and intellectual vacancy".