'Democrats Demand ID To Get Into Their Convention But Not To Vote For
President'

<https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/20/democrats-demand-id-to-get-into-their-convention-but-not-to-vote-for-president/>

'The Biden-Harris administration has called voter photo identification
laws “burdensome” and “unnecessary.” The administration has let hundreds
of thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants pour across the border with
no questions asked about who they are. But the administration’s
political party has implemented identification requirements for anyone
who wants to attend the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

Individuals seeking to get into the DNC must show proof of identity “for
security screening” to pass through a security perimeter and physical
barriers, NewsNation reported. In fact, Chicagoans who live in the
“areas around the United Center and McCormick Place” where roads will be
closed for the convention “will still be able to go in and out of their
homes” but they are only “allowed guests as long as those guests have
photo ID.”

This is all done under the guise of protecting attendees. “Security” is
suddenly important to Democrats. So why not protect and secure our
elections?

Eighty-one percent of Americans support requiring voters to show a
“government-issued photo identification” in order to cast a vote,
according to a Pew Research study. A 2022 Gallup poll found 79 percent
of Americans support requiring a voter to prove his identity.

Yet Democrats have long challenged voter ID requirements, alleging such
requirements are tantamount to racism, suppression, and Jim Crow
apartheid. But voter ID requirements serve the same purpose as security
screenings at the DNC: they prevent ineligible persons from
participating — think felons, illegal immigrants, non-citizens,
teenagers, even dead people.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris understands the importance
of securing an event so much so that, during a recently held event in
Arizona, attendees were required to submit government-issued photo
identification to be admitted, according to KTAR. Yet Harris panned
identification requirements in an op-ed in The Washington Post four
years ago, falsely accusing Republicans of “deploying suppressive voter
ID laws” that are “laser-targeted toward communities of color…”

President Joe Biden, while serving as vice president, accused those who
support voter ID laws of harboring “hatred” toward minorities.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a 2018 X post that voter ID
laws are “racist” and amount to “voter suppression.”

Biden, Warren, and Harris have yet to release statements condemning the
“racist” photo identification requirements to enter the DNC. Maybe it’s
because photo identification requirements aren’t racist — they’re just
not politically advantageous for Democrats when used in elections.