Your view: It's a new age

What Mike Jensen said in his editorial on new legislation for elections hit the nail on the head, but I feel there are some other concerns.

It's true that the days of knowing the results of an election by 7 p.m. are long gone. The election of 2000 set a precedent for all future elections that I'm sure will be followed faithfully by whining politicians from now until the end of time. However, I'm not convinced that showing identification before you step into the booth is the answer.

While it would be a good measure to help boost voter confidence in the results as reported, no matter what measures we take they will never be foolproof. Whenever there is such high power at stake as in Presidential or Congressional elections there will always be those who manage to break the rules.

The problem is that this issue is not just isolated to major elections, but even to gubernatorial and local elections. In this day and age, I wouldn't have put it past Walter Mondale to have contested the smearing that incumbent President Reagan dished out in 1984.

These are still just children fighting on the playground in second grade, only now they have lawyers and millions of dollars to back there proverbial thrashing of a system that has worked for over 200 years.

There is no solution to the issue of voter fraud and as technology and greed continue to grow so will the desire to bend the rules to work in your favor. While the proposal to show identification is a step in the right direction, isn't that something we should have been doing all along? To say that it is intimidating to prove your legal residence and identification is absolutely ludicrous. You have to show proof of citizenship when you are hired to work so why is it so ridiculous to expect to do the same at the voting booth. As long as there are people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are out there trying to turn every event into a racial issue our country will never get past this "us and them" mentality. It's time for people to stand up and respect one another as Americans. Not every piece of legislation is designed to suppress minorities.

The young people of today come from a different generation. Like in Dr. King's dream, blacks and whites are able to walk hand in hand, play together, eat together and do whatever they wish with one another. It's time for people to stand up and look each other in the eyes as brothers, not enemies.

If the minorities of this country feel like having to show identification to vote is in some way discrimination then this country is in no better shape than it was in August of 1964 when Dr. King stood at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and told then nation of his dream.

Corey Noles