By Dennis Brent Melby

It’s Presidents' Day.

I worked for Jimmy Carter. I’m a MoCo native, plenty of us work or have worked in DC, and I was transferred from Rockville to work at the White House as a low-level clerk for the Three Mile Island Commission, and stayed at various posts until the day after he left. As a person he was a brilliant man, very moral - but also usually very wrong on almost every decision. Up until Biden he was the worst President of my lifetime.  Except after he was booted from office – he and Secretary of State James Baker later co-chaired the Commission on Federal Election Reform, a task force that recommended we limit mail-in voting to the Military and overseas personnel. He said “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” I have to agree.

Even President Carter at 100, just before he passed, voted in-person in Georgia. He felt it was so important. Fast forward to today, our "almost" President Hillary Clinton, is stating that with voter ID requirements married women won't be able to vote. Do you believe it? Do you know a woman who would accept being turned away at the polls because of a change of name on their driver’s license? I sure as heck don’t. It’s ridiculous. Recent polls say both sexes (yep - there're just two) and folks of every skin color say they already have an ID to vote. Furthermore almost every other democratic country on earth today requires an ID to vote – they only want vested citizens controlling their governments – not a bad idea don’t you think?

So what should we do as Republicans? It’s kind of straight forward, we have to play their game (the Democrats have total control of the Maryland government right now) and make sure as many of us vote as possible – either by mail or in person - we have to turn things around before we’re taxed through the roof and legislated into oblivion. Higher taxes, fewer services, deteriorating public schools, limits on police and security . . . it goes on and on.

In the meantime, we need to move to the point where everyone legally permitted to, and who has the desire to, gets to vote. (I'm one of the rare politicians who says "...if you don't care don't vote!") If they’re here they vote in person, with an acceptable ID. And yes ONLY US CITIZENS should vote in US elections. Jimmy Carter would approve – maybe that guy from Guyana who lived in PG County, got great jobs on the taxpayer dime, lied about his citizenship and credentials and lied to get on the voter rolls would not. (Yes – I think he’s still on the Maryland rolls.)

What do you think? Are women unable to get appropriate IDs? I know most other folks can easily get IDs, everyone but the disingenuous Democrat Lawmakers like Schumer and the wealthy stock trader Pelosi know that all our citizens, including women, people of color and legal immigrants can get IDs to show they’re US Citizens. Should non-citizens be able to vote? Is voter ID (Jim Crow 2 point Oh) as the Democrats say it is?

Share your thoughts on mail in voting, getting an ID, and who should vote. Tell me at [email protected]

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