VOTE!

This post won’t tell you who to vote for, where your polling place is, or what identification you will need to carry out the task.

But since there is such a furor over voter identification –

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday blocked Pennsylvania’s divisive voter identification requirement from going into effect on Election Day. . . Earlier this year, a federal court panel struck down Texas’ voter ID law, and a state court in Wisconsin has blocked its voter ID laws for now. A federal court is reviewing South Carolina’s law. (Yahoo News) —

I thought it might help if someone like me, who is absolutely neutral in my political persuasions, well, in this post anyway, would make a workable suggestion.I am concerned that voter identification would be a problem when I read, “opponents said it would make it harder for young adults, minorities, the elderly, poor and disabled to vote. (Ibid.)

Obviously the young adults without photo I. D.s can’t get a driver’s license, enroll in college, cash a check, get a job, use a credit card in most places, and sundry other things. Minorities are evidently considered to be too uninformed to figure out how to get an I. D. and are stuck in the same boat,while the elderly, who have evidently had the problems listed above all of their lives, are too infirm to make it to the polls (they need to vote from home), ditto for the disabled, and the poor, well, I don’t know why they can’t get an I. D. (I thought State I. D.s were  free).

Anyway, here’s the deal. Voting in Federal Elections will be handled exactly like the voting on American Idol. You just call the number (but you cannot vote more than 10 times) during the hours allotted (we could allow a couple of weeks, surely), and vote for the politician you want to elect. Each of them would be assigned a number (corresponding to when they entered the race) which would be matched with a picture continuously displayed on TV (everyone has a TV – they are easier to afford than an I. D.), and you just “punch in the number” bada bing, bada boom, we’re done. No remembering names, no concerns about “party affiliation, platforms, and  politics,” no hassle, no problem, issue solved.

Send your thanks for my marvelous idea to the address above! God lloves me, and surely you will too.