Blue Byline » Minority vote http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:35:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Voter ID legislation requires a carrot not a stick http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/08/28/voter-id-legislation-requires-a-carrot-not-a-stick/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/08/28/voter-id-legislation-requires-a-carrot-not-a-stick/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:22:05 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=2071

Chances are good that the first words most people will hear when meeting a police officer will be, “Identification, please.” There are many reasons for this requirement, including the need to protect the officer’s safety or to locate wanted subjects, to name but two. Likewise, there are also a number of reasons why proper credentials are essential for legitimate business and government functions.

One might think that legislation mandating proper identification would be a protective measure easily embraced by everyone. However, when said mandate has political strings attached, one would be wrong. The political strings attached to  …

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