To the editor:
Last month, I asked Seth Moulton’s office what was his rationale for voting against the SAVE ACT. According to the Pew Research Center, 84% of US adults support VOTER ID. Seth is more concerned with political gamesmanship than serving his constituency. Not only is he not serving us by voting for what he was sent to congress to do, but he adds the irony of this statement with his recently proposed safe election legislation, “Election security is vitally important.” His primary objective is to serve us and legislate; not fight the administration. We deserve better than politicians that choose partisanism over effectiveness as a legislator.
I dislike Trump and much of what he says and does, and even the things that he does that behoove every one of us, I still usually disapprove of his methodologies in accomplishing those tasks, but Seth’s continuous partisan games and rhetoric serve no one, certainly not the 6th District.
That being stated, the rationale for voting against what large swaths of countries in our world do well (Great Britain, Mexico, Canada, Italy, France, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala, Iran, India, etc.) is unsound, as it is not a difficult task to present ID, after all, we do it for almost everything that we need do in our world. If the most populous nation in the world, India, with 1.47 billion people can do it, why can’t we?
In the brief response that I received, the two reasons presented for his voting against SAVE was that obtaining a $130 passport is cost prohibitive and that people whose name has changed will have a difficult time verifying their identification! A passport is not the only method to prove citizenship; a birth certificate and some other documents work fine; so why does Seth present as if that is the only method?
We have requirements to provide ID for almost all that we do in our world and Seth is telling us that this daily reality of our existence is difficult, and that it creates voter suppression. We need to all realize that this is an obvious ploy for ulterior motives.
In 1996, then Congressman Chuck Schumer spoke to the House on preventing benefit fraud and said, “Let’s admit the truth. Everywhere people go they’re asked for a Social Security card. In fact, one way to prove you’re a bona fide person who can have a job is to ask for a driver’s license and a Social Security card.”
So, what has changed for the Democratic party? I think we are perceptive enough to see exactly what is going on here. Democrats now say that married women will be disenfranchised by having to verify their names, so to vote. My logic tells us that is bunk and that the real disenfranchisement is that I voted for Seth and he refuses to exact the will of his constituency.
Don’t we deserve someone that votes for the will of the people, based on merit, and not on partisanship? Please stop the rancor, the political rhetoric and the divisiveness. How about some real inclusion, not just inclusion for those that think exactly like you do. Where are we headed as a society when our elected representatives foment this?
We need all consider reality: the majority of Americans believe that voter ID and the SAVE Act is sound legislation, yet Moulton decides to not fulfill his responsibility as our representative and instead prioritizes appeasement of his political party and extreme elements of his base for personal gain.
These elected officials think that they can misrepresent the realities of our existence with their lies and we’ll accept it. I believe our state elected officials have the support of the media, our educational system and the majority of our judicial, state and government systems with their singular messaging; it is not unlike communist methodology where control of those systems all preaching the same message, and vilifying all those that seemingly oppose them, begets the control that they desire. We need to tell Seth to stop playing this game; call his office at 978-531-1669 and tell him.
Kevin Maguire
Auburndale Road
