The Biden-Harris administration has called voter photo identification laws “burdensome” and “unnecessary.” The administration has let hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants pour across the border with no questions asked about who they are. But the administration’s political party has implemented identification requirements for anyone who wants to attend the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
Individuals seeking to get into the DNC must show proof of identity “for security screening” to pass through a security perimeter and physical barriers, NewsNation reported. In fact, Chicagoans who live in the “areas around the United Center and McCormick Place” where roads will be closed for the convention “will still be able to go in and out of their homes” but they are only “allowed guests as long as those guests have photo ID.”
This is all done under the guise of protecting attendees. “Security” is suddenly important to Democrats. So why not protect and secure our elections?
Eighty-one percent of Americans support requiring voters to show a “government-issued photo identification” in order to cast a vote, according to a Pew Research study. A 2022 Gallup poll found 79 percent of Americans support requiring a voter to prove his identity.
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Yet Democrats have long challenged voter ID requirements, alleging such requirements are tantamount to racism, suppression, and Jim Crow apartheid. But voter ID requirements serve the same purpose as security screenings at the DNC: they prevent ineligible persons from participating — think felons, illegal immigrants, non-citizens, teenagers, even dead people.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris understands the importance of securing an event so much so that, during a recently held event in Arizona, attendees were required to submit government-issued photo identification to be admitted, according to KTAR. Yet Harris panned identification requirements in an op-ed in The Washington Post four years ago, falsely accusing Republicans of “deploying suppressive voter ID laws” that are “laser-targeted toward communities of color…”
President Joe Biden, while serving as vice president, accused those who support voter ID laws of harboring “hatred” toward minorities. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a 2018 X post that voter ID laws are “racist” and amount to “voter suppression.”
Biden, Warren, and Harris have yet to release statements condemning the “racist” photo identification requirements to enter the DNC. Maybe it’s because photo identification requirements aren’t racist — they’re just not politically advantageous for Democrats when used in elections.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
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