No Match, No Vote

TALLAHASSEE — State elections officials will resume enforcement of a controversial state law that requires Floridians to have their identification match up with a state or federal database in order to register to vote.

Secretary of State Kurt Browning sent notice to the state's 67 supervisors of elections on Friday that the 2006 law, which has been on hold for the last year pending court rulings, would take effect again Sept. 8.

The result is that voters whose identification doesn't match with state files on Election Day will be given a provisional ballot and two days to prove their identity for their ballot to count.

Voting rights activists, who had unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the law, blasted the decision, saying it allows the state to rely on what they consider error-prone databases in the month before voter registration ends on Oct. 6.

This does a lot to head off the problem caused by ACORN and other vote fraud groups with packing the ballot box. No ID match, no vote, and it has to be a current photo ID. Florida is slipping out of ACORN's grasp.

If you can't vote properly, should you vote at all? I think not, if you can't follow basic rules and read and write, then you should stay home. You simply do not understand the issues enough to vote intelligently. Of course that is what the Democrats want, ignorant voters, voting for them.