Republican state Sen. Matt Pouliot of Augusta apparently thinks Maine’s system of voting is not to be entirely trusted. Thus he is sponsoring L.D. 34, a bill requiring all Maine voters, including the disabled, elderly living in rural areas to get a picture voter ID card from the Secretary of State’s Office in Augusta.
The added bureaucracy to produce the free ID cards would be born by the taxpayers.
Worse, Maine has a major population of elderly who do not have ready access to transportation. Many are too sick or disabled to go through the process of getting a picture voter ID and thus would be blocked from voting.
Bills to restrict people’s access to polls seems to me un-American and certainly not something people living in a Democracy should support.
Patrick Eisenhart
Lewiston
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