Why is it discrimination to require ID to vote?
Please explain to me how requiring an ID to vote is discriminating? Having secured voting places to leave your absentee ballot instead of some unsecured place to leave your ballot, and a copy of your ID on these ballots protects the accuracy of elections.
Why is this against minorities? It sounds like the Democrats and certain liberal groups are telling us that they are not intelligent enough to prove who they are. What a slap in the face.
Most transactions requires an ID whether banking, traveling, credit cards, etc. We now have early voting and absentee ballots for all. When I was younger you had to show up to vote on election day ... now we make it so much easier but you still need to prove who you are and still have many options to vote.
KEVIN COYLE, BETHLEHEM
It’s no wonder we are seeing violence escalate
It is horrifying to see the spike in gun violence in the heart of our cities around the Nation.
One should not be too surprised , however. The toxic mixture of stolen guns, this nation’s obsession with guns, combined with aimless unemployed youth with “PCRS” (“poor conflict resolutions skills,”) is like dispensing matches to a group afflicted with pyromania.
In addition, the City of Atlanta is desperately in need of many more police officers. But we have the ‘catch-22’ situation of police officers shying away from working in the heart of cities because their job is much more risky there. If a young police officer has a family, would it not be natural for him or her to want to work in the ‘safer’ suburbs, rather than in crime-infested downtown areas?
Add to the above, the challenge of climate change - the ever increasingly hot summers and the ‘heat islands’ of downtowns where there is little green space, and we see how this escalates violent human behavior.
I pray that our civic leaders will begin to work on solutions to this crisis.
SALPI ADROUNY, JOHNS CREEK
