Letter: Who will benefit from voter ID?

Do you remember learning Blackstone's formulation? Better that 10 guilty people escape than that one innocent suffer. It is foundational to our system of jurisprudence.

Regarding voting rights, our newly elected legislators seem to be turning that around. Better that 10 actual voters be disenfranchised than one ineligible person vote. At first glance, voter ID may seem reasonable, but please ask yourself who benefits from this?

Let's say that I make it a requirement that in order to register, you must show a letter from your gynecologist. Ridiculous? Of course, but you know who would be targeted by this action; it is not that a man couldn't get a letter, it just makes it harder. It is the poor, the elderly, the student who will have a harder time voting. Contact your representative and demand that any new legislation would not disenfranchise any voter. The burden is with the state. It is foundational to democracy.

Carolyn L. Stucker

Springville