Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha ridiculed how some Democrats oppose requiring identification to vote, even as New York City requires multiple IDs to shovel its snow.
The Big Apple is one of many areas in the Northeast hit with blizzard conditions, with New York City and Philadelphia having massive snowfall overnight on Sunday. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said those who want to help their neighbors can become “an Emergency Snow Shoveler” if they show up to their local sanitation garage with “your paperwork,” including “two small photos, two original forms of ID, plus copies, and a Social Security card.”
Mamdani’s paperwork requirement comes after several prominent Democrats, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have publicly spoken against the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, with the latter describing the voter identification bill as “Jim Crow 2.0.” Concha joked that New York City’s requirements to become an emergency snow shoveler aren’t just Jim Crow 2.0, but “Jim Snow 3.0.”
“It’s just unbelievable that Democrats, in this case a Democratic socialist, would put forth a requirement that obviously will make it impossible for women to apply, because apparently, as many Democrats have been saying on TV all weekend, it’s really, really, hard to find your birth certificate apparently, and therefore, that suppresses the vote when it comes to voting in elections,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. Monday.
Concha added that the “irony” of this ID requirement is “so thick,” one could cut it “with a knife.” He concluded that voter ID is necessary, and “90% of Americans support it.”
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