Wednesday, a coalition (including the NAACP) filed a federal lawsuit opposing a voter identification bill. I have never understood the objection to this type of law.

Yes, bigots and racists once sought to prevent minority voting. However, this country has aged forty years. We have advanced past Mississippi Burning, Jim Crow, and George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door.

We now live in a twenty-four hour cable news world. If any group advocated voter discrimination, they would be lambasted on every newscast from Katie Couric to Catherine Crier.

In America, you must show identification to purchase beer, cigarettes, and cold medication. Why is voting, the most important of these activities, the only one where identification is not required? With most families owning multiple cars, a driver’s license is more likely owned than cable television.

I am not a racist. I assume that the vast majority of our lawmakers are not either. In this age of theft and fraud, we merely wish to match the voter with the voting role. It has nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with common sense.