To the editor:
This is a response to “Offended voter” (Public forum, April 11). Your letter undeservedly laid into an “officious woman protecting us from voter fraud,” who was working the polls when you went to vote. You continue to relate how she asked for your photo ID before you could vote. Then, when you obviously didn’t provide one, she required you to vote provisionally. Note, she did not deny you the right to vote. I know she explained the provisional voting process to you and what you would need to do to follow through. You further relate just how upset you were when the County Clerk’s Office called to remind you to come downtown and provide a picture ID in order for your vote to be counted.
Further into your letter you complain about Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s law and its blatant attempt at voter suppression, which was obviously the real focus of your letter. If that were, in fact, the case, then why did you attack the poll worker and the county clerk for following the law — as they are required to do? If you want the law changed then start campaigning for a change in the law.
I probably agree with you about most of Kobach’s actions, but I find your attack on those required to follow the law unjustified.
A question I saw asked online deserves repeating. Did you go to the County Clerk’s Office and present your ID? If you didn’t, your protest was fruitless as all you did was deny yourself the right to vote.