1) If you’re going to require photo ID, then you have to make it available to everyone at no cost to the individual. Currently, state-issued photo id is available through the DMV and carries a fee just like a drivers’ license.

2) If you’re already requiring a photo ID, and if the whole thing is handled electronically, then there shouldn’t be anything wrong with registering and voting on the same day. Keep them at separate places and you aren’t adding to the confusion at the polling site.

3) The instantly-assigned ID number is good, but I’d prefer that the entire paper receipt is duplicated to I can take one home for my own records.

4) I have to disagree about not encouraging everyone to vote. It’s not only a right, it’s a duty. If we don’t require our candidates to know anything about the issues (Hello, Fred Thompson), then there’s no reason to require it of the ordinary citizen.

5) The Judeo/Christian heritage is not universal throughout our citizenry. Nor does it have a patent on honesty (or the lack thereof). Politics, despite what you might have gathered from Leave It To Beaver, has always attracted liars and thieves. We just know more about it in latter years.

Overall, not a bad job, Grimmy. If you could just leave behind your prejudices, we could make a liberal out of you yet.