Jesse Jackson At It Again

The Reverend Jesse Jackson is at it again. This time he's complaining about voter ID laws and comparing them to Jim Crow laws.

Addressing members of the National Association of Black Journalists, whose
annual meeting continues here through Sunday, Jackson said the growing number of
such laws nationwide are the modern-day equivalent of Jim Crow-era poll taxes
and restrict access to the ballot.

Now Ol' BC fails to see how this is going to restrict access. It may make a person's second or third vote more difficult, but isn't that the whole idea? One's initial vote, which by the way is really one's only legal vote, should be unchanged not at all like poll taxes which did in fact inhibit the exercising of one's right to vote.

This article describes Jackson's speech in Indianapolis and the proposed Indiana law, which by the way has provisions for the poor to obtain ID cards at no charge and the Amish and others who wish not to be photographed to vote. But, that won't satisfy Jesse Jackson. Actually, not much seems to satisfy Jesse Jackson.

Just a thought.